New Ethnographies – serie
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42 produkter
Into the Woods
An Epistemography of Climate Change
Inbunden, 2019
1898 kr
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This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. For four years, the author joined these scientists in their sampling expeditions into the Caledonian forests, …
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance
Inbunden, 2011
1123 kr
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This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise …
Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
Years in the Making
Inbunden, 2012
1188 kr
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Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South …
Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the Uk
Forced Displacement and Onward Migration
Inbunden, 2011
1227 kr
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The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It thus …
Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading
A Study of the Henry Williamson Society
Av Adam Reed
Inbunden, 2011
1411 kr
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This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. These men and women celebrate the works of the now often …
Performing Englishness
Identity and Politics in a Contemporary Folk Resurgence
Av Trish Winter, Simon Keegan-Phipps
Inbunden, 2013
1236 kr
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Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the only study of its kind, the authors explore how the folk resurgence speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the subject of English national and …
Ethnography of English Football Fans
Cans, Cops and Carnivals
Inbunden, 2012
1227 kr
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This book is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years' of participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporter – the ‘carnival fan’ – who dominated the travelling support of the three teams observed - Manchester United, Blackpool and …
Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector
The Path to Economic Crisis in Scotland
Inbunden, 2017
1263 kr
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This book is based on ethnographic research from 2001-2, during Bank of Scotland's first year of merger with Halifax to form HBOS. The research is revisited from the present perspective in the wake of the global banking and financial crisis that undermined HBOS in 2008. This historical perspective …
International Seafarers and Transnationalism in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2013
1227 kr
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Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological Association This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant …
Iraqi Women in Denmark
Ritual Performance and Belonging in Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2014
1123 kr
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Iraqi women in Denmark is an ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen. The book explores how Iraqi women construct a sense of belonging to Danish society through ritual performances, and investigates how this process is interrelated with …
South Korean Civil Movement Organisations
Hope, Crisis, and Pragmatism in Democratic Transition
Av Amy Levine
Inbunden, 2016
1227 kr
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This highly engaging book invites the reader to learn about how South Korean activists, intellectuals and various reformers approach the role of civil society in a post-colonial, post-Cold War, post-dictatorship, and post-IMF neoliberal democracy. In particular, it provides a detailed description …
ethnography of English football fans
Cans, cops and carnivals
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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This book, available in paperback due to popular demand, is an ethnographic account of English football fans, based upon sixteen years' participant observation. The author identifies a distinct sub-culture of supporter – the ‘carnival fan’ – who dominated the travelling support of the three teams …
International seafarers and transnationalism in the twenty-first century
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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Winner, 2014 BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed inaugural award for ethnography, in association with the British Sociological Association This ethnographic account of seafarers considers issues of transnationalism in the twenty-first century and discusses the detailed life experiences of migrant …
British in Rural France
Lifestyle migration and the ongoing quest for a better way of life
Häftad, 2014
364 kr
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The British in rural France, available at last in paperback, is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates …
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives
Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance
Häftad, 2014
364 kr
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This highly readable book, is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as party political activism more generally. Available in paperback for the first time, it explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish …
Performing Englishness
Identity and Politics in a Contemporary Folk Resurgence
Av Trish Winter, Simon Keegan-Phipps
Häftad, 2015
446 kr
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Now available in paperback, Performing Englishness examines the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the only study of its kind, the authors explore how the folk resurgence speaks to a broader explosion of interest in the …
Integration in Ireland
The everyday lives of African migrants
Häftad, 2015
371 kr
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The integration of new immigrants is one of the most important issues in Europe, yet not enough is known about the lives of migrants. This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers. Against the widespread …
Immersion
Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity
Inbunden, 2016
1227 kr
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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this …
Exoticisation Undressed
Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Emberá Clothes
Inbunden, 2016
1192 kr
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Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. The book focuses in detail on the clothing practices of the Emberá in Panama, …
Enduring Violence
Everyday Life and Conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka
Häftad, 2016
433 kr
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Located in the war-torn eastern province of Sri Lanka, this book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. The core of the book comes from the author’s two-year close interaction with a …
Religion of Orange Politics
Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland’s largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the …
Religion of Orange Politics
Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland
Häftad, 2022
292 kr
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The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland’s largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the …
Religion of Orange Politics
Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland
E-bok, 2020
277 kr
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The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland’s largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the …
Religion of Orange Politics
Protestantism and Fraternity in Contemporary Scotland
E-bok, 2020
279 kr
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The religion of Orange politics offers an in-depth anthropological account of the Orange Order in Scotland. Based on ethnographic research collected before, during, and after the Scottish independence referendum, Joseph Webster details how Scotland’s largest Protestant-only fraternity shapes the …
Factories for Learning
Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy
Av Christy Kulz
Inbunden, 2017
1155 kr
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Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated …
Factories for Learning
Making Race, Class and Inequality in the Neoliberal Academy
Av Christy Kulz
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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Over half of England’s secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has received less scrutiny. This book draws on original research based at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated …
Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England
Years in the Making
Häftad, 2017
371 kr
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Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people’s relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South …
Exoticisation Undressed
Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Emberá Clothes
Häftad, 2018
371 kr
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Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. The book focuses in detail on the clothing practices of the Emberá in Panama, …
Disciplined Agency
Neoliberal Precarity, Generational Dispossession and Call Centre Labour in Portugal
Inbunden, 2020
1227 kr
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Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human agents endure repetitive telephone conversations with abusive clients under invasive modes of …
Immersion
Marathon Swimming, Embodiment and Identity
Häftad, 2019
433 kr
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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this …
