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Security and Development
Av John-Andrew McNeish, Jon Harald Sande Lie
Häftad, 2010
229 kr
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Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and international institutions that view the merging of …
Migration, Development, and Transnationalization
A Critical Stance
Av Nina Glick Schiller, Thomas Faist
Häftad, 2010
234 kr
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The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals – analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance – are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current …
War, Technology, Anthropology
Häftad, 2011
234 kr
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Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. …
Arab Spring
Uprisings, Powers, Interventions
Häftad, 2014
241 kr
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The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and …
Event of <em>Charlie Hebdo</em>
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Häftad, 2015
234 kr
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The January 2015 shooting at the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and the subsequent attacks that took place in the Il-de-France region were staggeringly violent events. They sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals from around Europe and beyond. By …
Moral Anthropology
A Critique
Av Bruce Kapferer, Marina Gold
Häftad, 2018
234 kr
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A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. …
Global Life of Austerity
Comparing Beyond Europe
Häftad, 2018
234 kr
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Austerity and structural adjustment programs are just the latest forms of neoliberal policy to have a profoundly damaging impact on the targeted populations. Yet, as the contributors to this collection argue, the recent austerity-related European crisis is not a breach of erstwhile development …
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Av Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Häftad, 2019
234 kr
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Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?Bringing together different …
Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Av Atreyee Sen, Johan Lindquist m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
161 kr
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Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and …
Extremism, Society, and the State
Crisis, Radicalization, and the Conundrum of the Center and the Extremes
Häftad, 2021
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Extremism does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, extremism is a relative concept that often emerges in crisis situations, taking shape within the tense and contradictory relations that tie marginal spaces, state orders, and mainstream culture. This collected volume brings together leading …
Crypto Crowds
Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain
Häftad, 2024
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Ownership of cryptocurrencies features contrasting forms of mobilization. On one hand, it denotes association with a global crowd of unrelated individual investors, which expands as it attracts more members. On the other hand, it includes participation in grassroots communities, which are generally …
World Trade Center and Global Crisis
Some Critical Perspectives
Häftad, 2004
234 kr
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Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces …
Globalization
Some Critical Issues
Av Allen Chun
Häftad, 2004
234 kr
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The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income …
Corporate Scandal
Global Corporatism against Society
Häftad, 2004
227 kr
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When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a “failure of regulatory institutions” that can be corrected and may possibly even be a purely North …
State, Sovereignty, War
Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities
Häftad, 2004
241 kr
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The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it. This volume represents …
Oligarchs and Oligopolies
New Formations of Global Power
Häftad, 2005
234 kr
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As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political organizations and institutions by close-knit …
Retreat of the Social
The Rise and Rise of Reductionism
Häftad, 2005
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The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no …
Nationalism's Bloody Terrain
Racism, Class Inequality, and the Politics of Recognition
Av George Baca
Häftad, 2006
234 kr
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As many scholars have argued, racism and its passions are created by and subordinated to the nation. This volume places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi cultural nation-states. This way, each contributor analytically treats racism and its related …
Identifying with Freedom
Indonesia after Suharto
Av Tony Day
Häftad, 2007
241 kr
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Indonesia, a huge secular, archipelagic nation-state in Southeast Asia, is one of the world's newest democracies. Yet little is known to outsiders about this complex and fascinating country, the home of the world's largest Muslim community and the scene of recent natural disasters and violent …
Global Idea of ‘The Commons’
Häftad, 2007
234 kr
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During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists and universities, national and regional governments, and international financial institutions have, through a variety of mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to dispossess large proportions of the world’s …
