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71 produkter
Global Life of Mines
Mining and Post-Mining in Comparative Perspective
Av Antonio Maria Pusceddu, Filippo M. Zerilli
Inbunden, 2024
1649 kr
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Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as interrelated and coexisting features within …
Blood and Oranges
Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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A compelling account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union, where increased prosperity and social …
Struggles for Home
Violence, Hope and the Movement of People
Av Stef Jansen, Staffan Löfving
Häftad, 2011
454 kr
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Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often …
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Av Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1921 kr
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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude …
Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century
Av David O'Kane, Tricia Redeker Hepner
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once …
Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
Av Winnie Lem, Pauline Gardiner Barber
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not …
When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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“Peasants tell tales,” one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated …
Communities of Complicity
Everyday Ethics in Rural China
Inbunden, 2013
1318 kr
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Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei …
Elusive Promises
Planning in the Contemporary World
Av Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise …
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Av Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude …
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Essays in Historical Realism
Av Gavin Smith
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make …
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Av Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella
Inbunden, 2014
1921 kr
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Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement …
Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Av Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam. By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to …
Yearnings in the Meantime
'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Av Stef Jansen
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a …
Where Are All Our Sheep?
Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena
Av Boris Petric
Inbunden, 2015
1921 kr
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After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization. Only a few years later, however, the country ceased producing anything of worth and developed a dependence on the outside world, particularly on international aid. Its principal industry, sheep …
Communities of Complicity
Everyday Ethics in Rural China
Häftad, 2015
527 kr
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Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei …
Enduring Uncertainty
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2016
1768 kr
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Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. The author presents a rich and innovative ethnography of deportation and deportability experienced by …
Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Av Catherine Dolan, Dinah Rajak
Inbunden, 2016
1472 kr
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, …
Elusive Promises
Planning in the Contemporary World
Av Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise …
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Essays in Historical Realism
Av Gavin Smith
Häftad, 2016
527 kr
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Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make …
Indigenist Mobilization
Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
Av Luisa Steur
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question …
Indigenist Mobilization
Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
Av Luisa Steur
E-bok, 2017
300 kr
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In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question …
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Av Joe Trapido
Inbunden, 2016
1916 kr
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Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and …
Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Av Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
527 kr
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Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam. By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to …
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Av Sharryn Kasmir, August Carbonella
Häftad, 2017
516 kr
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Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement …
Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Av Catherine Dolan, Dinah Rajak
Häftad, 2017
527 kr
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, …
Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Inbunden, 2018
1880 kr
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Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization …
Yearnings in the Meantime
'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Av Stef Jansen
Häftad, 2018
511 kr
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Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a …
Frontiers of Civil Society
Government and Hegemony in Serbia
Av Marek Mikuš
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society …
Revolt of the Provinces
Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade. It explains the spread of racist sensibilities in depressed rural areas, shows how activists, …
