New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations – serie
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23 produkter
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Inbunden, 2021
1665 kr
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Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories …
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Inbunden, 2021
1701 kr
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What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly …
Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Inbunden, 2021
2464 kr
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Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated …
Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Av Jasmijn Rana
Inbunden, 2022
1318 kr
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In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the …
Feeding Anxieties
The Politics of Children's Food in Poland
Av Zofia Boni
Inbunden, 2023
1318 kr
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Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children in Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, …
Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Häftad, 2023
454 kr
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Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories …
Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Häftad, 2023
440 kr
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What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly …
Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Häftad, 2024
490 kr
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Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated …
New Anthropologies of Italy
Politics, History and Culture
Inbunden, 2024
2056 kr
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Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their …
Tactical Citizenships
Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus
Inbunden, 2024
1648 kr
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The idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts—in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday exercises or refusals of citizenship rights, in the …
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro
Inbunden, 2024
2123 kr
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The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an ‘ontology of simultaneity’ as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners in Madrid. This makes the Spanish Romani be considered as both a part of and apart from mainstream society. This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and …
Haunting Futures
Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland
Av Marek Pawlak
Inbunden, 2024
1921 kr
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The 2008 economic collapse in Iceland sent its residents into a destabilising crisis with far-reaching, temporal and affective consequences. Haunting Futures explores how the complex relationships of this unstable past and the anticipatory modes of the ongoing present keep Icelanders and the Polish …
Afterlife of Evictions
The Social Impact of Urban Displacement in Rome
Inbunden, 2026
1649 kr
Kommande
Across the world, states use demolitions and displacement to reorganize cities according to particular visions of society. Through the voices and experiences of former slum dwellers evicted in the 1970s from a self-grown settlement beneath a Roman aqueduct, this book examines the social …
Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion
The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro
Häftad, 2025
371 kr
Kommande
The Gitanos of el Rastro carry an ‘ontology of simultaneity’ as self-employed traders and Pentecostal practitioners in Madrid. This makes the Spanish Romani be considered as both a part of and apart from mainstream society. This book is an anthropological account of a group of middle and …
Rethinking a Radical Reputation
An Athens Neighbourhood between Media Hype and Social Experience
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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Known for its anarchist and leftist movements, its uprisings and its vibrant counterculture, Exarcheia has long been a symbol of resistance and political activism in Greece. Through the voices and experiences of those who live, work and move through Exarcheia, this book delves into Athens’ most …
Spectral Within
Fascism, New Towns and their Contemporary Lives
Inbunden, 2025
1979 kr
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Latina was founded in 1932 by the Fascist Regime and is often described by its inhabitants through its absences, as a place where there is ‘nothing’. The book examines the role of absence in place-making and delves into the lived experience of Latina. Through the analytical lens of haunting, this …
Lurking Cold War
Life Through Historical Communion
Inbunden, 2025
1697 kr
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Lasting traces of the Cold War continue to shape the social landscape in Italy and Greece. Lurking Cold War critiques the connections between global categories and individual experiences, foregrounding Cold War resonances through materiality, imagination, speculation, and affect – in literature, …
Where Saints Show Respect
Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power
Inbunden, 2026
1921 kr
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Where Saints Show Respect reveals the penetration of mafia values in Sicilian society. Instead of focusing on sensational criminality, this study considers rituals through which local society learns deep respect – sometimes fearful, but often playful or pious – for those values and their enforcers. …
Border Island on the Crossroads of History
Lampedusa and the Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2026
1861 kr
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Lampedusa evokes the crossings made by migrants and refugees and its name is associated with the sad sequence of shipwrecks and deaths in the central Mediterranean. For several centuries, Lampedusa has been an uninhabited land at the frontier of two conflicting worlds: between Africa and Europe and …
Jewish Maghreb
North African Experiences in Greater Paris Since 1981
Inbunden, 2026
1921 kr
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Homogenization, monochromatic rendering, and the process of schematic imposition is readily apparent in modern mainstream Jewish French politics. The Jewish Maghreb explores complex self and communal understandings of Maghrebi Jewish populations and their descendants in France through ethnography …
Europe’s Disappearing Waste
Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening
Av Daniel Sosna
Inbunden, 2026
2047 kr
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Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear. Waste streams give rise to underflows that provide …
Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Av Jasmijn Rana
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the …
Crafting Co-Ops in Denmark
Reworking Craftmanship, Construction and Capitalism in a Cooperative Realm
Av Maia Ebsen
Inbunden, 2026
1921 kr
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Craft and cooperative practices are resurgent across many European and North American societies. This book explores the revival of cooperative craftwork in Denmark, venturing onto construction sites and into political assemblies to reveal the dreams, drives, and desires of a diverse group of …
