Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories – serie
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14 produkter
Magpie's Tale
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
Inbunden, 2023
1585 kr
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Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region. It looks at the position of the Kazakh over time in relation to Tsarist Russian, Soviet, …
Individually Ourselves
Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
Inbunden, 2023
1648 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school, Individually Ourselves demonstrates how young people elaborate notions of individual personhood through their friendships, and pervasive peer ethics, shaped in and through relations of power and inequality. By examining the interplay …
Compliance
Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
Inbunden, 2023
1880 kr
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Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of …
State Intimacies
Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India
Av Eva Fiks
Inbunden, 2024
1979 kr
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The public healthcare system in rural India is chronically under-resourced. It embodies and often perpetuates the wider politics of the Indian state towards its rural communities with provisions of care that are deeply entangled with violence and disgust. For rural women, such care deepens …
Boaters of London
Alternative Living on the Water
Av Ben Bowles
Inbunden, 2024
1861 kr
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London and the Southeast of England is home to an alternative community of people called 'boaters': individuals and families who live on narrowboats, cruisers and barges, along a network of canals and rivers. Many of these people move from place to place every two weeks due to mooring rules and …
Governing Migration Through Paperwork
Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation
Av Sophie Andreetta, Lisa Marie Borrelli
Inbunden, 2024
1643 kr
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To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, …
Becoming Good Women
Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2024
1648 kr
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For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base for cultural production, particularly in reproducing ethno-religious hegemony under the guise of ‘good’ Buddhist girls. It illustrates that tuition space acts as …
Koya Connections
An Ethnography of Family Life and Adivasi Identity in Southeast India
Inbunden, 2026
1649 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic research in the Koya adivasi community of Andhra Pradesh, this book examines the intergenerational experience of sweeping socio-economic change across adivasi India. Following a literary trajectory, it begins with the oral history of a single hilltop village and traces the …
Following the Path of the Martyrs
Death and Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Av Axel Rudi
Inbunden, 2027
1613 kr
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Providing a novel, ground-up perspective on the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s revolutionary struggle, this book explores supporters’ political commitments and practices in Turkish, Iraqi, and Syrian Kurdistan as well as in the German diaspora. Binding the movement together across all these sites, it …
Compliance
Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
Häftad, 2027
339 kr
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Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of …
Dreams, Gender, and Artisanal Mining in Papua New Guinea
An Ethnography of Value
Av Dan Moretti
Inbunden, 2025
1880 kr
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Up to 200,000 Melanesian men, women, and children work as artisanal miners, yet their lifeworlds are seriously under-researched. This ethnography of a multigenerational community of migrant miners in Papua New Guinea shows that dreaming mediates how they experience and manage gold mining. Men argue …
Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility
Uncertain Futures for Rural Youth in India
Inbunden, 2025
1921 kr
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Informed by over two decades of anthropological research in Chhattisgarh, Education, Aspiration and Social Mobility brings ethnographic nuance to the contradictory ways in which education represents both a strategy for social mobility and a very tangible risk, whose transformative potential is not …
Reconstruction of the Pakhtun Code of Life in a Changing Pakistan
Av Adnan Khan
Inbunden, 2026
1880 kr
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Since the 1970s, the transformation of Pakhtun areas has brought far-reaching changes to all aspects of society. This book investigates evolving patterns of social relations among Pakhtuns, focusing on the practice of gham khadee (participation in sorrows and joys) as a key mode of social and …
Authoritarianism, Displacement and Syrian Family Life
Reckoning with the State
Inbunden, 2026
1701 kr
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Syrians living in refuge in Lebanon and Turkey during the war in Syria continued to reckon with the Syrian State as a direct and indirect force in their lives. Through an ethnographic account of everyday life in Syrian families with a variety of political standpoints, this book demonstrates how the …
