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20 produkter
Development beyond Politics
Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana
Inbunden, 2011
551 kr
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Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted.
Development beyond Politics
Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana
E-bok, 2011
779 kr
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Is ''development'' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted.
Electrifying Anthropology
Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures
Av Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
707 kr
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What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This …
Detachment
Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking
Av Thomas Yarrow, Matei Candea m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1298 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of engagement, this book challenges us to re-think the relational basis …
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Av Soumhya Venkatesan, Thomas Yarrow
Inbunden, 2012
1880 kr
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Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates …
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Av Thomas Yarrow, Soumhya Venkatesan
E-bok, 2012
326 kr
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Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates …
Electrifying Anthropology
Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures
Av Thomas Yarrow, Brit Ross Winthereik m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
831 kr
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What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This …
Electrifying Anthropology
Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures
Av Thomas Yarrow, Brit Ross Winthereik m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
813 kr
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What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This …
Meetings
Ethnographies of Organizational Process, Bureaucracy and Assembly
Av Hannah Brown, Adam Reed m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
287 kr
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This book is an exploration of how this remarkably efficient and familiar form of gathering operates, in different times and places, and how it comes to be recognised by those who experience or deploy it. Throws the spotlight on the epistemological and ontological basis of coming together through …
Object of Conservation
An Ethnography of Heritage Practice
Häftad, 2022
634 kr
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The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account of a national heritage agency. How are …
Object of Conservation
An Ethnography of Heritage Practice
Inbunden, 2022
2596 kr
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The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account of a national heritage agency. How are …
Object of Conservation
An Ethnography of Heritage Practice
E-bok, 2022
750 kr
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The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account of a national heritage agency. How are …
Object of Conservation
An Ethnography of Heritage Practice
E-bok, 2022
767 kr
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The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account of a national heritage agency. How are …
Development beyond Politics
Aid, Activism and NGOs in Ghana
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through which ideas of development are concretely enacted.
Electrifying Anthropology
Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures
Av Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2141 kr
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What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This …
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Häftad, 2019
212 kr
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What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow …
Detachment
Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking
Av Thomas Yarrow, Matei Candea m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
443 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of engagement, this book challenges us to re-think the relational basis …
Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Av Soumhya Venkatesan, Thomas Yarrow
Häftad, 2014
516 kr
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Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of 'development' as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debates …
Archaeology and Anthropology
Understanding Similarity, Exploring Difference
Av Duncan Garrow, Thomas Yarrow
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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This book focuses on the relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Both disciplines arose from a common project: a desire to understand human social and cultural diversity. However, in recent years, archaeologys interest in anthropology has remained largely …
