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Doing Identity in Luxembourg
Subjective Appropriations -- Institutional Attributions -- Socio-Cultural Milieus
Av IPSE-Identites Politiques Espaces
Häftad, 2011
457 kr
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Luxembourg – international financial center, European administrative center, destination country for immigration? This empirical study provides insights about a society that has hitherto largely eluded scientific investigation and observes the processes of identity construction in globalised …
Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms
Can Tourism Make a Better World?
Av David Picard, Sonja Buchberger
Häftad, 2013
391 kr
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The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, …
Silence About Race?
Reconfigurations of Racism in Contemporary Europe
Av Frank Peter
Häftad, 2026
486 kr
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Racism has become difficult to name in Europe. Racial semantics are shifting, race is coded in multiple ways and the defense of naturalized privilege is today regularly argued so as to preempt accusations of racism. The possibility to address racism as a particular kind of power formation has …
Spaces and Identities in Border Regions – Policies – Media – Subjects
Av Christian Wille, Rachel Reckinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
447 kr
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Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity …
Bounded Mobilities
Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies and Global Inequalities
Av Miriam Gutekunst, Andreas Hackl m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
603 kr
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Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalized. Boundaries are created, modified and …
Transboundary Cooperations in Rwanda
Organisation Patterns of Companies, Projects, and Foreign Aid Compared
Av Robin Pohl
Häftad, 2016
603 kr
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How is transnational cooperation practically conducted in the East African country of Rwanda, and how is it organised? Can the worlds of development aid and private business be compared?In this ethnography, Robin Pohl identifies the organisational patterns used by Rwandan, European and Indian …
Migration - Networks - Skills
Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation
Av Astrid Wonneberger, Mijal Gandelsman-Trier m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
435 kr
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Migration, networks, skills: these keywords not only denote three popular and important fields of current investigation in Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, they also mark the wide range of interests of cultural and social anthropologist Waltraud Kokot, who is to be honoured in this …
Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
An Ethnography of Coastal Protection
Häftad, 2016
590 kr
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Working with nature – and not against it – is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" protection to the Aotearoa New Zealand coast. Friederike Gesing analyses a political controversy over hard and soft …
European Mobility in Times of Crisis
The New Context of European South-North Migration
Av Birgit Glorius, Josefina Domínguez-Mujica
Häftad, 2017
669 kr
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The global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear of brain drain back home.This volume compiles recent research results on European south-north migration, addressing …
Politics, Piety, and Biomedicine – The Malaysian Transplant Venture
Häftad, 2021
669 kr
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The discourse on transplantation and brain death has become emblematic of conflicts between certain perspectives on adequate medical care, death and dying. Scientific and religious, modernising and traditional as well as academic and popular voices debate on how to approach these topics. This work …
Trusting the Police – Comparisons across Eastern and Western Europe
Häftad, 2021
523 kr
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The police can be seen as a governmental institution or as an organizational body, where especially the work – effectiveness, or fairness in encounters – is valued. Through the combination of these approaches and the inclusion of social trust and criminal victimization, Silvia Staubli offers an …
Caste and Equality – Friendship Patterns among Young Academics in Urban India
Häftad, 2021
603 kr
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Caste hierarchy has frequently been singled out as the overriding principle of Indian society. This book examines its significance among the highly-educated middle class in the Tamil town of Madurai. As part of their distinctive status as `educated persons', young graduates form egalitarian …
Mistrust – Ethnographic Approximations
Av Florian Mühlfried, Florian Mühlfried
Häftad, 2021
374 kr
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Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever …
Dealing with Elusive Futures – University Graduates in Urban Africa
Av Elísio Macamo, Michelle Engeler m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
364 kr
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The time to come – as well as the exploration thereof – remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike.The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and women's future-creating activities in urban contexts of sub-Saharan Africa. Very consciously, they study young …
EU–Space and the Euroclass – Modernity, Nationality, and Lifestyle Among Eurocrats in Brussels
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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How are prestige and power anchored in EU-Brussels? Which performances are valued and which are not? Pawel Lewicki's ethnographic analysis gives an insight into how different understandings of modernity and class structures reproduce national performances and stereotypes among EU civil servants. …
Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? – Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany
Av Mahmoud Arghavan, Nicole Hirschfelder m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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Ethnic diversity, race, and racism have been subject to discussion in American Studies departments at German universities for many years. It appears that especially in the past few decades, ethnic minorities and 'new immigrants' have increasingly become objects of scholarly inquiry. Such research …
Blogging in Beirut – An Ethnography of a Digital Media Practice
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of …
Framing Prior Consultation in Brazil – Ethnographic Perspectives on Limits of Participation and Multicultural Politics
Häftad, 2021
770 kr
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This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regulation of ILO Convention 169, Charlotte Schumann critically examines the dynamic conflicts over competence and interpretation of this paramount …
Migration and (Im)Mobility – Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada
Häftad, 2021
770 kr
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In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data …
Decline of Marriage in Namibia – Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
Av Julia Pauli
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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In Southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of marriage when only few marry. Although marriage rates have dropped sharply, the value of weddings and marriages has not. To …
Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research – Ethnographic Insights
Häftad, 2021
528 kr
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Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research projects in the fields of digital musical instrument design and responsive environments. How are individual research …
Youth and the State in Guinea – Meandering Lives
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this research monograph introduces the perspective of »meandering lives« to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, …
Contested Properties – Peoples, Plants, and Politics in Post–Apartheid South Africa
Häftad, 2021
621 kr
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This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Bioprospecting, the use of genetic or biological resources for commercial purposes, is a profit-oriented enterprise facing new challenges with the rise of …
Being a Parent in the Field – Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
Av Fabienne Braukmann, Michaela Haug m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
890 kr
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How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge?Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork. The authors show how …
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia – Actors, Challenges and Solutions
Av Susanne Epple, Getachew Assefa m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
486 kr
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Being a home to more than 80 ethnic groups, Ethiopia has to balance normative diversity with efforts to implement state law across its territory.This volume explores the co-existence of state, customary, and religious legal forums from the perspective of legal practitioners and local justice …
Traversing Transnational Biomedical Landscapes – An Ethnography of the Experiences of Nigerian–Trained Physicians Practicing in the US a
Häftad, 2021
683 kr
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In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts of this transnational biomedical landscape have yet to receive their due attention. Situated at the intersection of contemporary debates as well as …
Plurinational Afrobolivianity – Afro–Indigenous Articulations and Interethnic Relations in the Yungas of Bolivia
Av Heck, Moritz
Häftad, 2021
592 kr
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In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational …
Bureaucratic Production of Difference – Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations
Av Julia M. Eckert, Julia M. Eckert
Häftad, 2021
350 kr
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In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of …
Towards Shared Research – Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments
Av Tobias Haller, Claudia Zingerli m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
411 kr
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Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and …
Postmigrant Counterpublics
Racialized Leisure and Sexual Dissidence in Urban Europe
Av Kira Kosnick
Häftad, 2025
889 kr
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Can we move beyond the politics of community when it comes to understanding minoritized life in postmigrant, sexually diverse societies marked by racism? In a set of interconnected essays, Kira Kosnick explores the conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and …
