Tracking Globalization – serie
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Global Filipinos
Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Häftad, 2012
301 kr
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Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current …
Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border
Inbunden, 2013
856 kr
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Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific …
Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border
Häftad, 2013
287 kr
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Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific …
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things
States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization
Av Willem van Schendel, Itty Abraham
Häftad, 2005
287 kr
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Illicit Flows and Criminal Things offers a new perspective on illegal transnational linkages, international relations, and the transnational. The contributors argue for a nuanced approach that recognizes the difference between "organized" crime and the thousands of illicit acts that take place …
Generations and Globalization
Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy
Av Jennifer Cole, Deborah Durham
Häftad, 2006
273 kr
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"This volume illuminates how families and the communities in which they are enmeshed negotiate everyday lives with the social, cultural, economic, and political resources available to them. It provides an excellent example of how anthropology matters to our understanding of the contemporary world …
Youth and the City in the Global South
Häftad, 2008
273 kr
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The innovative, multi-site Youth and the City Project examined the effects of globalization and neoliberalism on the everyday experiences and future prospects of urban youth in the developing world. The economic and demographic trends that are transforming cities and widening the gap between North …
Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops
Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania
Av Brad Weiss
Häftad, 2009
273 kr
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For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip …
American War in Contemporary Vietnam
Transnational Remembrance and Representation
Häftad, 2009
296 kr
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Christina Schwenkel's absorbing study explores how the "American War" is remembered and commemorated in Vietnam today—in official and unofficial histories and in everyday life. Schwenkel analyzes visual representations found in monuments and martyrs' cemeteries, museums, photography and art …
Aging and the Indian Diaspora
Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad
Häftad, 2009
329 kr
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The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons …
Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation
Av Purnima Bose, Laura E. Lyons
Häftad, 2010
282 kr
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This book examines the stories that corporations tell about themselves—and explores the powerful influence of corporations in the transformation of cultural and social life. Six case studies draw on CEO memoirs, annual reports, management manuals, advertising campaigns, and other sources to analyze …
Global Filipinos
Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Inbunden, 2012
905 kr
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Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current …
