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Soybeans and Power
Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina
Inbunden, 2016
2581 kr
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In 1996, the Argentine government authorized the use of genetically modified (GM), herbicide-resistance soybean seeds. By the mid-2000s, GM soybeans were cultivated on more than half of the arable land in Argentina and represented one-fourth of the country's exports. While this agricultural boom …
Soybeans and Power
Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina
Häftad, 2016
730 kr
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In 1996, the Argentine government authorized the use of genetically modified (GM), herbicide-resistance soybean seeds. By the mid-2000s, GM soybeans were cultivated on more than half of the arable land in Argentina and represented one-fourth of the country's exports. While this agricultural boom …
Violence at the Urban Margins
Av AUYERO, Javier Auyero m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and …
Violence at the Urban Margins
Av Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
696 kr
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In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and …
Beyond the Case
The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography
Av ABRAMSON, Corey M. Abramson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1985 kr
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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic …
Beyond the Case
The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography
Av Corey M. Abramson, Neil Gong
Häftad, 2020
552 kr
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The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic …
Lives on the Line
How the Philippines became the World's Call Center Capital
Inbunden, 2019
1792 kr
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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's "voice capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market …
Lives on the Line
How the Philippines became the World's Call Center Capital
Häftad, 2019
455 kr
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The call center industry is booming in the Philippines. Around the year 2005, the country overtook India as the world's "voice capital," and industry revenues are now the second largest contributor to national GDP. In Lives on the Line, Jeffrey J. Sallaz retraces the assemblage of a global market …
Refugees Together and Citizens Apart
Control, Emotions, and Politics at the Palestinian Margins
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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Grounded in long-term ethnography, Refugees Together and Citizens Apart examines how dispossessed Palestinians experience and seek to resist Israeli coercive differentiation through the study of two areas with intertwined histories of forced displacement: the segregated Palestinian districts of Lyd …
Refugees Together and Citizens Apart
Control, Emotions, and Politics at the Palestinian Margins
Häftad, 2026
278 kr
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Grounded in long-term ethnography, Refugees Together and Citizens Apart examines how dispossessed Palestinians experience and seek to resist Israeli coercive differentiation through the study of two areas with intertwined histories of forced displacement: the segregated Palestinian districts of Lyd …
Narrow Fairways
Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
Inbunden, 2019
2123 kr
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and …
Narrow Fairways
Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
Häftad, 2019
481 kr
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and …
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
How the Landless Workers' Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
Inbunden, 2019
1147 kr
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Over the past thirty-five years the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), one of the largest social movements in Latin America, has become famous globally for its success in occupying land, winning land rights, and developing alternative economic enterprises for over a million landless …
The Ambivalent State
Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins
Av Javier Auyero, Katherine Sobering
Inbunden, 2019
1985 kr
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Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Yet, we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. In …
The Ambivalent State
Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins
Av Javier Auyero, Katherine Sobering
Häftad, 2019
463 kr
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Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and punishing presence. Yet, we know very little about the covert world of state action that is hidden from public view. In …
Privilege at Play
Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico
Inbunden, 2019
1985 kr
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While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways …
Privilege at Play
Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico
Häftad, 2019
530 kr
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While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways …
Burning Matters
Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana
Inbunden, 2021
1720 kr
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Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in …
Burning Matters
Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana
Häftad, 2021
392 kr
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Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in …
Occupying Schools, Occupying Land
How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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Winner of the 2020 ASA Sociology of Development Book AwardWinner of the 2020 APSA Michael Harrington Book Award Winner of the 2020 Comparative and International Education Society Globalization and Education Book Award Winner of the 2020 Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Best Book …
Delivery as Dispossession
Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City
Inbunden, 2022
1422 kr
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A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa.In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, …
Delivery as Dispossession
Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City
Häftad, 2022
406 kr
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A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa.In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, …
Policing the Revolution
The Transformation of Coercive Power and Venezuela's Security Landscape During Chavismo
Häftad, 2025
292 kr
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Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed. Much has been written about the country's turn to Chavismo but scholarship has ignored what will perhaps be the revolution's most important legacy: how Chavista …
Policing the Revolution
The Transformation of Coercive Power and Venezuela's Security Landscape During Chavismo
Inbunden, 2025
977 kr
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Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed. Much has been written about the country's turn to Chavismo but scholarship has ignored what will perhaps be the revolution's most important legacy: how Chavista …
The Garbage Economy
Casteing Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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Winner of the 2025 Joseph W. Elder Book Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies.In the race to become "world-class," the city of Delhi, India, turned to corporate partnerships and incineration technologies that promised to solve the city's garbage problem. However, these efforts exposed …
The Garbage Economy
Casteing Capitalism and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Delhi
Häftad, 2027
292 kr
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Winner of the 2025 Joseph W. Elder Book Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies.In the race to become "world-class," the city of Delhi, India, turned to corporate partnerships and incineration technologies that promised to solve the city's garbage problem. However, these efforts exposed …
The Two Faces of Fear
Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
Inbunden, 2024
977 kr
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Over the past two decades, increased criminal and state violence has profoundly transformed everyday life in Mexico. In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villarreal draws on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey, Mexico to trace the far-reaching impact of fear …
The Two Faces of Fear
Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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Over the past two decades, increased criminal and state violence has profoundly transformed everyday life in Mexico. In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villarreal draws on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey, Mexico to trace the far-reaching impact of fear …
Citizen X
Becoming Undocumented Activists on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Inbunden, 2026
1549 kr
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How do undocumented migrants become activists? How can we make sense of the fact that undocumented activists are powerful, resourceful, and hyper-visible yet vulnerable, precarious, and relatively invisible all at once? How do the personal and collective activist trajectories of undocumented …
Citizen X
Becoming Undocumented Activists on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Häftad, 2026
292 kr
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How do undocumented migrants become activists? How can we make sense of the fact that undocumented activists are powerful, resourceful, and hyper-visible yet vulnerable, precarious, and relatively invisible all at once? How do the personal and collective activist trajectories of undocumented …
