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Indigenist Mobilization
Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question through...
Compensation in Practice
The Foundation 'Remembrance, Responsibility and Future' and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Founded in 2000, the German Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in history: in cooperation with its international partner organizations, it has to date paid over 4 billion euros to nearly 1.7 million survivors of forced labour...
The Discipline of Leisure
Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the daily news and the sexual economy of luxury goods); its contemporary evolution (banking the unbanked...
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Reflections on Research in and of Corporations
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Businesses and other organizations are increasingly hiring anthropologists and other ethnographically-oriented social scientists as employees, consultants, and advisors. The nature of such work, as described in this volume, raises crucial questions about potential implications to disciplines of critical...
The Political Economy of Germany under Chancellors Kohl and Schröder
Decline of the German Model?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982. This essentially neo-liberal pattern can be seen to have dominated the...
Made In Egypt
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers – emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain – and the local daily-life realities...
The Decolonial Mandela
Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies, this concise and forcefully argued volume lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” Contrary to a neoliberal social model that privileges adversarial criminal justice and a rationalistic approach...
Parliament and Parliamentarism
A Comparative History of a European Concept
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation,...
China in Oceania
Reshaping the Pacific?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
It is important to see China’s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing’s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China’s policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing...
Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance...
Berlin, Alexanderplatz
Transforming Place in a Unified Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global...