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Book SynopsisDrawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi’an: a grassroots gay men’s HIV/AIDS organization called Tong’ai and a lesbian women’s group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from “the circle,” a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society. The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives.Trade Review"There are many meaningful contributions throughout Inside the Circle, from its central findings to its smaller observations. The discussion of romantic/passionate versus companionate/familial love; the inclusion of Buddhist faith perspectives that are still rare in studies of queer China; the compassionate and critical analysis of how an organization grew, deteriorated, and was rebirthed/reimagined– these and more will stick with me long after reading this work." -- Amy Brainer * author of Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan *"Inside the Circle challenges understandings of queer personhood in China. Tracing the struggles of queer activists in northwest China to reconcile their sexual identities with their deeply held beliefs about what it means to be a moral person, Miller convinces the reader with his rich ethnography that in postsocialist China, queer activism from the margins challenges reductive ideas about homonormativity, expands the public sphere without directly opposing state power, and helps us to imagine new forms of transnational solidarity." -- Lisa Rofel * author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction: Queer Stories, Chinese Stories 2 The View from Inside the Circle: Queer Gender and Sexuality in Northwest China 3 “Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots”: Queer Love, Kinship, and Personhood 4 “Living in the Gray Zone”: Queer Activism and Civil Society 5 “Dying for Money”: Conflict and Competition among Queer Men’s NGOs 6 From Rainbow Flags to Mr. Gay World: Transnational Queer Culture and Activism Conclusion List of Names Glossary of Chinese Characters Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBlack Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives employs an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach to examine Black cisgender women’s social, cultural, economic, and political experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean. It presents critical empirical research emphasizing Black women’s innovative, theoretical, and methodological approaches to activism and class-based gendered racism and Black politics. While there are a few single-authored books focused on Black women in Latin American and Caribbean, the vast majority of the scholarship on Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean has been published as theses, dissertations, articles, and book chapters. This volume situates these social and political analyses as interrelated and dialogic and contributes a transnational perspective to contemporary conversations surrounding the continued relevance of Black women as a category of social science inquiry. Many of the contributing authors are from Latin American and Caribbean countries, reflecting a commitment to representing the valuable observations and lived experiences of scholars from this region. When read together, the chapters offer a hemispheric framework for understanding the lasting legacies of colonialism, transatlantic slavery, plantation life, and persistent socio-economic and cultural violence.Trade Review"This exciting new volume foregrounds Latin American and Caribbean women’s core contributions to a hemispheric Black radical tradition. The collection lovingly captures the brilliance and power of women’s African diasporic politics and thought in the face of unrelenting violence against them. Essential reading for all people who care about liberation." — Jennifer Goett, author of Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism "Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean is a key intervention against the citational erasure of Afro-Latin American women intellectuals that simultaneously highlights their intellectual contributions and political activism. At a historical moment when Black women are taking on prominent roles as elected national leaders in countries such as Costa Rica and Colombia, this edited volume brings together excellent, rigorously researched essays on the transnational feminist activism of black women in multiple Latin American countries, including Brazil, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru. In so doing it broadens the geographic and conceptual boundaries of Black Studies, Latin American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies." — Juliet Hooker, author of Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and VasconcelosTable of ContentsForeword Reconfiguring the Politics of Knowledge: Writing Transnational Black Feminism from the South CHRISTEN A. SMITH Introduction 1 KEISHA-KHAN Y. PERRY AND MELANIE A. MEDEIROS 1 Reclaiming a Legacy: Black Women’s Presence and Perspectives in the Brazilian Social Sciences EDILZA CORREIA SOTERO 2 Beyond Intercultural Mestizaje: Toward Black Women’s Studies on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua MELANIE WHITE 3 The Significance of “Communists Wearing Panties” in the Jamaican Left Movement (1974–1980) MAZIKI THAME 4 Exercising Diversity: From Identity to Alliances in Brazil’s Contemporary Black Feminism JULIA S. ABDALL A 5 “This Isn’t to Get Rich”: Double Morality and Black Women Private Tutors in Cuba ANGELA CRUMDY 6 A “Bundle of Silences”: Untold Stories of Black Women Survivors of the War in Colombia CASTRIELA E. HERNÁNDEZ-REYES 7 The Burden of Las Bravas: Race and Violence against Afro-Peruvian Women ESHE L. LEWIS 8 A Creole Christmas: Sexual Panic and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua ISHAN GORDON-UGARTE 9 Digital Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Toward a Repoliticization of Aesthetics and Romantic Relationships BRUNA CRISTINA JAQUETTO PEREIRA AND CRISTIANO RODRIGUES Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. Optimizing nutrition during this time not only prevents childhood malnutrition but also determines future health and potential. The Politics of Potential examines early life interventions in the first one thousand days of life in South Africa, drawing on fieldwork from international conferences, government offices, health-care facilities, and the everyday lives of fifteen women and their families in Cape Town. Michelle Pentecost explores various aspects of a politics of potential, a term that underlines the first one thousand days concept and its effects on clinical care and the lives of childbearing women in South Africa. Why was the First One Thousand Days project so readily adopted by South Africa and many other countries? Pentecost not only explores this question but also discusses the science of intergenerational transmissions of health, disease, and human capital and how this constitutes new forms of intergenerational responsibility. The women who are the target of first one thousdand days interventions are cast as both vulnerable and responsible for the health of future generations, such that, despite its history, intergenerational responsibility in South Africa remains entrenched in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.Trade Review"The Politics of Potential examines a powerful new intervention that seeks to alter the future by tinkering with the present conditions of the unborn. Pentecost provides a riveting and at times dystopian account of how epigenetic interventions layer on to other global health interventions in disadvantaged communities in post-apartheid South Africa. From this laboratory of poverty, will it indeed be possible to finally break the cycle of violence and deprivation into which such communities seem locked?" -- Vinh-Kim Nguyen * author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS *"This nuanced ethnography of South Africa’s First 1000 Days program offers brilliant insights about how global health’s long-standing obsession with maternal-child health is being reinvented under new scientific demands for epigenetic modeling and their temporal gymnastics in a place with a particularly fraught history of social injustice. Pentecost troubles the simplistic assessment of intervention success and failure by reminding readers of how recognition of a responsibility toward historic injury unveils the individualizing, situated, and justice-effacing effects of such programs." -- Vincanne Adams * editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson Introduction 1 The First 1000 Days: Origin Stories 2 Situated Biologies: The View from Khayelitsha 3 The Traveling Technology of Mother and Child 4 Life Between Protocols 5 Intergenerational Transmissions: The Work of Time 6 Ambivalent Kin: On Gender and Violence Conclusion: The Politics of Potential Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book defies long standing assumptions about indigenous societies in the Americas and shows that non-heteronormative sexualities were already present among native peoples in different regions of what is now Latin America before the arrival of European colonizers. Presenting data collected from both literature and field research, the authors give examples of native queer traditions in different cultural regions, such as Mesoamerica, the Amazon and the Andes, and analyze how colonization gradually imposed the models of sexuality and family organization considered as normal by the European settlers using methods such as forced labor, physical punishments and forced marriages.Building upon post-colonial and queer theories, Queer Natives in Latin America: Forbidden Chapters of Colonial History reveals a little known aspect of the colonization of the Americas: how a bureaucratic-administrative, political and psychological apparatus was created and developed to normalize indigenous sexuality, shaping them to the colonial order. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Taking a closer look at “Queer Natives”.- Chapter 2. Mesoamerica.- Chapter 3. The Andes.- Chapter 4. The Amazon.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: What does it mean to be native and queer in Latin America today?.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology examines how immigrants and their US-born children use media to negotiate their American identity and how audiences engage with mediated narratives about the immigrant experience (cultural adjustments, language use, and the like). Where this work diverges from other collections and monographs is the area is its intentional focus on how both first- and second-generation Americans’ complex identities and hybrid cultures interact with mediated narratives in general, alongside the extent to which these narratives reflect their experience. In a three-part structure, the collection examines representations, “zooms in” to explore the reception of these narratives through autoethnographic essays, and concludes in a section of analysis and critique of specific media. Table of Contents1. Becoming Black: An introduction to Immigrant Generations, Media Representation, and AudiencesPart I: Representation: Foreign Realities Onscreen2. Stages of Being Foreign as Portrayed in The Citizen and Moscow on the Hudson3. First-generation Korean American Women’s Mobility: Intersections of Ethnicity/Race, Class, and Gender4. “Then We Show Ourselves:” Resisting Immigration in Party of Five Reboot5. Contested Citizenship: The Representation of Latinx Immigration Narratives in One Day at a Time6. Immigrants Make America Great: An Analysis of Bob Hearts AbisholaPart II: Content Creation: Industry Concerns and Constraints7. Ambivalence & Contradiction in Digital Distribution: How Corporate Branding and Marketing Dilute the Lived Experiences in Ramy8. Un Puente a la Mesa: The Role of Cultural Translators in the Production of Disney/Pixar’s CocoPart III: Audience Reflections and Responses9. Yvonne Orji's Docuseries, First Gen: First-Generational Narratives and the Impact on Audiences' Community Cultural Wealth10. Am I an All-American Girl? An autocritography of ethnicity, gender, and acculturation via Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl (1994-1995)11. Between a Banana and a Coconut: Reflections on Being Second-Generation American on the Periphery12. Language, telenovelas, and citizenship: A Mexican immigrant’s exploration of first generation American narratives in Jane The Virgin13. Mixing and re-making: the identity of second-generation Bangladeshis in the United States.14. “Strega Nona: The Spell On Identities” 15. Rebuilding the American Dream.

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Book SynopsisWhen the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category.Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary AfricaPart 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial StateChapter 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in TanzaniaChapter 3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma ChieftainciesPart 2. Contested Authorities and State PowerChapter 4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in MalawiChapter 5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern EthiopiaChapter 6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea – Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and UneaseChapter 7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African SettingChapter 8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in NamibiaPart 3. Power and Authority over SpaceChapter 9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the !Xun of North-central NamibiaChapter 10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in NamibiaChapter 11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, ZimbabwePart 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies Chapter 12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, MadagascarChapter 13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in BaragoiChapter 14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee CampsPart 5. Secret Authority and the StateChapter 15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africa’s 20th CenturyChapter 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia

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Book SynopsisThe authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social, cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this transnational geographical space since the beginning of the colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key concepts—creativity, resistance and transgression—that form a threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers (re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural, symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender, sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Ibero-American Youth Street Cultures in the 21st century: an introductionPART I – CITIZENSHIP AND ACTIVISMChapter 2. The urban youth actions for the peace in a connected worldChapter 3. Global Marijuana March: youth, justice and inequality in the city of São PauloChapter 4. LGBTQIA+ youth, families and street protests in Brazil: facing and fighting Chapter 5. When the zombies go marching in. Performances in public space, forms of youth organization and mimetic pleasures in Córdoba (Argentina)Chapter 6. The street as a youth recognition place to adult-centric expulsionsPART II – LIMINALITIES AND TRANSGRESSIONSChapter 7. Transnational gangs and their rituals of passage: inhabiting another worldChapter 8. Violence, urban art, and youth in the periphery of MedellínChapter 9. Making-city through corporalities: youth agencies and resistances in São PauloPART III – CONSUMPTION, SOCIABILITY AND LUDIC SPACESChapter 10. HEM 26: Youth representations and cultural productions against stigmatizationChapter 11. Between the street to the gallery. Trajectories of “pixadores” and graffiti writers in Lisbon and São PauloChapter 12. From El barrio to La Condesa and back again. Mexico City’s Bar staff as youth cultureChapter 13. Adolescents in Barcelona: exploring places, exploring nightlifePART IV – CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONChapter 14. ‘Not Just Holidays in the Sun’. Mapping, measuring and analysing DIY culture’s impact across cities in the Global South, by Paula Guerra & Carles FeixaChapter 15. K-Popping urban space. Or the uses of the public urban spaces in Santiago de Chile as a way of colonising, exploring and transgressing the cityChapter 16. Peripheral Urban Cultures in the City of Rio de Janeiro: Survival ArtsChapter 17. DJs from the Ghetto, Lisbon's “Batida Negra”: Music, Trajectories and Resistances Chapter 18. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be successful in the end. Contributors analyze the seeds of change at their very inception in diverse cultural contexts across four continents. How do small groups of ordinary and often also disenfranchised people design, suggest and implement ideas of change? How do they use and remake small urban spaces to better suit their purposes, voice claims to the city, create opportunities, and design better urban lives and futures? The emphasis of this volume is not on the nature of activities and change, but on the minute processes of initiating change. Table of ContentsIntroduction I. MIGRANTS, PLACE-MAKING, AND CLAIMS TO THE CITY Chapter 1. Peripheral Citizenship: Immigration and City-Making in Santiago, Chile Chapter 2. Spaces of Social Reproduction and Emergent Change in Small Town America Chapter 3. Practice, Perception, and the Plaza: Situating Migration in Santiago, Chile Chapter 4. The Free Trade Zone and the Ethnic Restaurant: South Asian Emergent Space in a Chilean City of Labor Migrants II. RELIGION, URBAN INNOVATION, AND URBAN SPIRITUAL GEOGRPAHIES Chapter 5. “God Loves Taxi Drivers”: Christian Publics and Emergent Spaces in Shanghai, China Chapter 6. The Good Tree Institute (GTI): Muslim Self-Making and Place-Making in Metropolitan Phoenix Chapter 7. Building Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan III. POPULAR CULTURE, LIFESTYLES, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND INFRASTRUCTURES Chapter 8. $5 Gets you Soup, Bread and a Vote: Microgranting Dinners for Transforming Detroit Chapter 9. Belonging through Bohemia: Maintaining Queer Space and Possibility in Teresina, Brazil Chapter 10. Sustainability, Green Businesses and Alternative Economies in Stuttgart, Germany Chapter 11. "Punk rock DIY belly feeding”: ephemerality in authentic space-making in Barcelona and Vancouver Chapter 12. You Can’t Fight City Hall? Philadelphia’s Advocates for the Homeless and Community Activists Engage in the Battle of Love Park Chapter 13. Never-ending Beginnings: Spaces of Infrastructural Labor in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern Patagonia. It presents an analysis of the archaeological investigations carried out during three decades by an interdisciplinary team that involved archaeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists and specialists in pollen and diatoms. The database yielded was recovered from systematic survey and excavations from the Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic layers of the rockshelter known as AEP-1, Piedra Museo Locality, situated in the central plateau of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Piedra Museo is a unique place in the world of high academic interest with some of the earliest archaeological remains in the Americas. Researchers defined two strata and several Stratigraphic units in the site based on the sedimentological and pedological characteristics. The depositional zones contain archaeological remains that are interpreted as hunting events corresponding to two main different occasions in the human colonization of the region, and a third human occupation during the Middle Holocene. Last one occurred then of the massive rockshelter roof colapse. The faunal remains led to a new approach to the palaeoenvironmental evolution of this enclosed basin. This volume describes the management of lithic raw materials and social networks from first human occupation of the Patagonian region to territorial consolidation of hunter-gatherer societies.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Piedra Museo, a place and a history of the peopling of Patagonia(Laura Miotti).- PART I. PALAEOENVIRONMENTS and PALEOECOLOGY.- Chapter 2. Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial and Holocene of Patagonia(Jorge Rabassa, Andrea Coronato, Oscar Martínez, Agustina Reato).- Chapter 3. Geoarchaeology of Piedra Museo locality(Marcelo Zárate, Bruno Mosquera, Adriana Blasi, Florencia Lorenzo).- Chapter 4. Radiocarbon Chronology at the AEP-1 rockshelter in Piedra Museo Locality: update and discussion of the datings(Laura Miotti, Bruno Mosquera, Mónica Salemme, Jorge Rabassa).- Chapter 5. Quaternary fossil vertebrates of Tierra del Fuego and southernmost Patagonia(Germán Gasparini, Eduardo Tonni).- Chapter 6. Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeovegetational changes at Alero El Puesto (AEP-1) archaeological site in the northern Deseado Massif. Regional palaeoenvironmental implications and Early human occupation(Ana Borromei , Lorena Musotto).- Chapter 7. Diatom analysis of Piedra Museo paleolake, Santa Cruz, Argentina(Marilén Fernández).- PART II. ARCHAEOFAUNAS, LITHIC MATERIALS AND ROCK ART.- Chapter 8. The archaeofauna of Piedra Museo. Archaeological and taphonomic study of the AEP-1 site (Argentine Patagonia)(Laura Marchionni, Martín Vázquez, Laura Miotti).- Chapter 9. The Rheids as a Palaeoenvironmental and Consumption Indicators during the Latest Pleistocene and the Middle Holocene(Mónica Salemme, Laura Miotti).- Chapter 10. An Isotopic Perspective of the Alero El Puesto 1 Zooarchaeology: Environmental Changes, Extinct Fauna and the First Human Occupations of Southern Patagonia(Augusto Tessone).- Chapter 11. About humans and rocks at the end of the Southern Cone. A lithic technology overview at Piedra Museo locality(Roxana Cattáneo).- Chapter 12. Stone Tools Production and use in AEP-1 site of Piedra Museo locality, Patagonia(Virginia Lynch).- Chapter 13. The retouched tools of the lower componente of AEP-1 (Piedra Museo, Argentina) from a perspective of design(Darío Hermo).- Chapter 14. Back to a time perspective: new insights for the study of Piedra Museo’s ancient rock art, Patagonia, Argentina(Natalia Carden).- PART III. PIEDRA MUSEO IN THE XXI CENTURY.- Chapter 15. Challenges for the 21th. Century: The Patrimonialization of Piedra Museo(Laura Miotti, Lucía Magnin, Enrique Terranova).- Chapter 16- To the End of the World: Southern Patagonia in Models of the Initial Peopling of the Western Hemisphere(Ruth Gruhn).- Chapter 17. Opposites Attract: Why a Bi-polar, Hemispheric Perspective to the Peopling of the Americas is Needed(Ted Goebel).- Chapter 18. Concluding Remarks and New agenda(Laura Miotti, Darío Hermo, Mónica Salemme).

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Book SynopsisThis volume, written in a readable and enticing style, is based on a simple premise, which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited volume with dedicated chapters, this book thus offers a new format wherein authors write several, distinct dispatches, each short and compact, allowing each writer's perspectives and stories to grow, in tandem with the pandemic itself, over the course of the book. Leaving behind the trope of the lonely anthropologist, these authors come together to form a collective of ethnographers to ask important questions, such as: What does it mean to live and write amid an unfolding and unstoppable global health and economic crisis? What are the intensities of the everyday? How do the isolated find connection in the face of catastrophe? Such first-person reflections touch on a plurality of themes brought on by the pandemic, forces and dynamics of pressing concern to many, such as contagion, safety, health inequalities, societal injustices, loss and separation, displacement, phantasmal imaginings and possibilities, the uncertain arts of calculating risk and protection, limits on movement and travel, and the biopolitical operations of sovereign powers. The various writings—spun from diverse situations and global locations—proceed within a temporal flow, starting in March 2020, with the first alerts and cases of viral infection, and then move on to various currents of caution, concern, infection, despair, hope, and connection that have unfolded since those early days. The writings then move into 2021, with events and moods associated with the global distribution of potentially effective vaccines and the promise and hope these immunizations bring. The written record of these multiform dispatches involves traces of a series of lives, as the authors of those lives tried to make do, and write, in trying times. A timely ethnography of an event that has changed all our lives, this book is critical reading for students and researchers of medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, contemporary anthropological theory, and ethnographic writing.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1. First WavePart 2. Second WavePart 3. Images for the New YearPart 4. CalculationsPostscript

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Book SynopsisThis open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in sports and society, Broch uncovers this hairstyle’s polyvocality and argues that it is a total social phenomenon. By separating his approach from the cultural studies tradition, Broch highlights how hair is imbued with codes, narratives, and myth that allow its wearers to understand, maneuver, and criticize social gender relations in deeply personal ways. Using multiple theories about hair, bodies, myths, and icons, he creates a multidimensional method to show how icons are imitated and used. As women navigate their practical lives, health issues, and gendered expectations, the ponytail materializes their dynamic maneuvering of cultural and social environments. Sporting a ponytail—itself an embodiment of movement—is filled with a performativity of social movements: a cultural kinetics that is never apolitical. Table of Contents​Introduction: Imagining the PonytailObjectExpectationsHealthPracticalitiesMovementsExperienceCharge

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the Gitano community of Mexico City. The ethnographic study showcases the interplay between cultural reproduction, economic reproduction, and the Gitano / non-Gitano opposition. The first part of the book discusses how the cultural identity of this community is reproduced based on migratory processes, social relations and the dynamics of kinship and gender roles to understand the contradiction between value systems and practices in a patriarchal society. In the second part, emphasis is placed on the economic dynamism of this group in its interactions with the majority society in the context of informal economy and the group’s articulation with space and mobility in the territory. The analysis problematizes territorial mobility and circulation regimes based on fieldwork carried out in the process of active participation with Gitano families selling textile clothes and accessories through the country.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The American Utopia: Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism.- 3. The Social Rhythms of Life.- 4. A Family Culture: Kinship, Gender and Morality.- 5. The Enigma of Circulation.- 6. The Magic of Words.- 7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from early modern times to the present. It illustrates the close integration of nature and culture through historical processes of environmental change in North, Central, and South America and the nurturing of local knowledge through ancestral languages and oral traditions. This volume fills a unique space by bringing together the issues of environment, language and cultural integrity in Latin American historical and cultural spheres. It explores the reciprocal and necessary relations between language/culture and environment; how they can lead to sustainable practices; how environmental knowledge and sustainable practices toward the environment are reflected in local languages, local sources and local socio-cultural practices. The book combines interdisciplinary methods and initiates a dialogue among scientifically trained scholars and local communities to compare their perspectives on well-being in remote and recent historical periods and it will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including sociolinguistics, (ethno)history, linguistic anthropology, cultural studies and cultural anthropology, environmental studies and Indigenous/minority studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction Justyna Olko & Cynthia Radding 2. Flexible borders, permeable territories and the role of water management in territorial dynamics in Pre-Hispanic and Early Hispanic Peru Patrycja Prządka-Giersz , Miłosz Giersz & Julia M. Chyla 3. Ihuan yehhuan tlacuauh tlamauhtiah in ichcapixqueh. “And the shepherds are inspiring great fear”. Environment, control of resources and collective agency in colonial and modern Tlaxcala. Justyna Olko 4. Ñudzahui Custom, Contracts, and Territoriality in Eighteenth-Century Oaxaca Yanna Yannakakis 5. The Yoreme creation of itom ania in northwestern Mexico: histories of cultural landscapes. Cynthia Radding 6. Gender Disparities in Guaraní Knowledge, Literacy, and Fashion in the Ecological Borderlands of Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century Paraguay Barbara A. Ganson 7. Combining Visions of Well-Being through the Generational Gap: The Views of Tlaxcala Old and Young on Environment, Tradition and Language Gregory Haimovich 8. “Amo kitlapanas tetl!”: Heritage language and the defense against fracking in the Huasteca Potosina, Mexico Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak 9. The Interrelation between Language, History and Traditional Ecological Knowledge within the Nahuat-Pipil context of El Salvador Ebany Dohle 10. Cenotes and placemaking in the Maya world: biocultural landscapes as archival spaces Khristin N. Montes, Dylan J. Clark, Patricia A. McAnany & Adolfo Iván Batún Alpuche 11. Nakua nukuu ini Ñuu Savi: Nakua jíno, nakua ka’on de nakua sa’on ja kuatyi Koo Yoso. Memory and cultural continuity of the Ñuu Savi People: Ancestral knowledge, language and rituals around Koo Yoso deity Omar Aguilar Sánchez 12. Tlaneltoquilli tlen mochihua ica cintli ipan tlalli Chicontepec: tlamantli chicahualiztli ipan tochinanco. Ceremonial practices relating to corn in the region of Chicontepec: local aspects of wellbeing Eduardo de la Cruz

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introducing conviviality: Ebru-like Living in Burgaz.- Chapter 2: Embodying Diversity as a Burgaz Islander: Sharing Space, Senses, Memory and Labour.- Chapter 3: Ebru: The Islanders' Representation of Conviviality.- Chapter 4: Testing the Strength of Conviviality: Love, Intermarriage and Solidarity in a Homogenising Turkish context. Chapter 5: Performance of Pluralism and Labour of Peace: In Between Conviviality and Coexistence/toleration.- Chapter 6: Conviviality and Politics of Recognition: Fixing Ambiguity, Losing Heterogeneity.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Wilderness of Creation(preface) Fiona Murphy and Eva van Roekel.- Drowning in Blue Light (flash fiction) Susan Wardell.- Waves (poetry) Maruška Svašek.- A Family Annihilation Tour (essay) Susanna M. Hoffman.- Early Grey (short story) Fiona Murphy.- Etranger. Est le nom d'une frontière(poetry) Ana Ivasiuc.- The Story of the Man with Three Braids (short story) Michael Jackson.- Observations (short story) Alisse Waterston.- Roots (short story) Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Ariaga.- Rivers of (Im)possibility (graphic novel) Charlie Rumsbyand Ben Thomas.- Ordinary Art (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola and Fiona Murphy.- Worlds Apart? (poetry) Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.- Insurrection Day (flash ethnography) Carole McGranahan.- Some Divine Phenomena (poetry) Hilary Morgan V. Leathem.- what remains (short story) Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Urmilla Deshpande 4.- Hey! Give Me Back My Saviour Complex (theatre) Richard Thornton.- Love in Ghana (poetry) Dilys Asamoah Amoabeng.- Where Wild StrawberriesGrow (short story) Helena Wulff.- Get Me Oot this Pleiter!' (poetry) Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon.- Water/Sail-e-aab (essay) Aleeha Ali.- A writer and artist; an ethnographer and research participant; a mother and daughter (watercolor painting) Priyanka Borpujari.- Jabès amongst Songhay Sorcerers (essay) Paul Stoller.- A Stranger to the Weave (short story) Anand Pandian.- Game Over (short story) Nikki Mulder.- Never Buried, That War- (poetry) Darcy Alexandra.- Lucinda (song) Kristina Jacobsen.- Threshold (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola.- Four Musicians and the Fates (short story) Kayla Rush.- Hubris (song) Ioannis Tsioulakis with Pro/Schema Ensemble.- Pigs (short story) Horacio Esber.- The Púca(short story) James Cuffe.- My Visit to the University of Negative Capability (short story) Derek Moss 5.- War Game and Other Poems (poetry) Nomi Stone.- The Debt (short story) Veronika Groke.- Afterword. Reading and Writing in the Company of Anthropologists (short story) Alisse Waterston

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Book SynopsisA journey through the United Fruit Company’s photo archive and its documentation of corporate expansion into the Caribbean. The establishment of the United Fruit Company as a global political agent with its banana plantations was met with considerable resistance. Now the company’s photographic records are the focal point of Archive Matter as it examines photography’s historical and political impact through the argument that this overlooked, but important, archive made capitalist expansion into the Caribbean possible. Author Liliana Gómez examines the images from within their “optical unconscious” and via the archive’s silences and omissions. The implication of these silences, Gómez argues, is the attempt to conceal the violence embedded within the realities of the plantations’ daily operations and corporate efforts to “modernize” the Caribbean. Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSForward by Jens AndermannAcknowledgmentsIntroductionArchive matter and photographyModern visual economy and agricultureThe chapters1. Camera and Capitalism: The United Fruit CompanyThe corporation and its photographic archiveCamera and capitalismSlow violence: capital, labor, technologyThe archive’s chronotope2. The Crossroads of Science and Discourse NetworksThe crossroads of scienceColonialism and landscapingDiscourse networksCompany townsImperial debris3. ‘The World Was My Garden’The world as gardenPhotography and botany’s modern materialitiesThe political economy of agricultureVisual epistemology and botanical matter4. Ethnographic Eyes and Archaeological ViewsThe archaeological expeditions to QuiriguaThe Keith collection or the magic of the Company’s Pre-Columbian objectsFoundational images: "The Maya Through the Ages "(1949)Animated materialityEpilogue. Upheavals and the Resurgent Photographic ArchiveCivil contract and the materiality of the imageThe banana massacre and "One Hundred Years of Solitude"The resurgent photographic archive or the ethics of seeingThe struggle for human rights

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. Over the course of the past fifteen years, scholars across a range of disciplines have found new ways to examine the changing notions of Heimat – its multifaceted cultural, literary, and visual history, its gendered connotations, and its national and ideological appropriations. This anthology is the first to examine cultural manifestations of Heimat by giving special consideration to issues of memory and space. The contributions to this volume challenge static notions of place often associated with Heimat. Instead, they explore the social and cultural production of places of belonging as they emerge in literary and visual narratives ranging from 1800 to 2000 and beyond. Although the anthology includes historical perspectives on Heimat, its overall objective is not to trace its cultural or literary history, but to place this complex term into new conceptual contexts. Drawing attention to manifestations of Heimat within German literary and cultural studies provides a rich ground for exploring the transformation of locality in trans/national contexts.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the ‘crisis of identity’ was and continues to be the conflict surrounding the socialisation of young people. In turn, the politicisation of this conflict provides a terrain on which the Culture Wars and the politicisation of identity can flourish. Through exploring the interaction between the problems of socialisation and identity, this study offers a unique account of the origins and rise of the Culture Wars.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies.

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Book SynopsisBei dieser „Kleinen (Heimat)Geschichte des Rassismus“ handelt es sich um das erste Buch überhaupt, das die Entwicklung des Rassismus gezielt aus deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet. Der Herausbildung des an Hautfarben orientierten Rassismus wird dabei ebenso nachgegangen, wie dem Antisemitismus, Antiislamismus, Antislawismus, Antiziganismus und eugenischem Denken. Erst im Verlauf des europäischen Kolonialismus entstanden Formen der Herabminderung, die mit bestimmten Hautfarben verknüpft waren. Sie mündeten schließlich in die von der Aufklärung entwickelte Rassentheorie, wobei deutsche Denker eine bedeutende Rolle spielten. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde das Rassedenken durch antikoloniale Bewegungen, Bürgerrechtskämpfe und schließlich durch Vernetzungen im Rahmen der Globalisierung zwar diskreditiert, die Entwicklung des Antisemitismus, der als Fremdenfeindlichkeit bezeichnete Rassismus gegen Migranten und schließlich der Antiislamismus zeigen jedoch, dass damit der Rassismus nicht am Ende ist, sondern sich wieder verstärkt jener kulturellen Elemente der Diskriminierung bedient, die er schon in seinen Anfängen benutzt hatte.Trade Review“... Das Buch bietet einen reichen Fundus an Zitaten ... und Bildern aus dem deutschen und westeuropäischen Raum rund um Hautfarben, Rassismus und Macht. Es ist anschaulich geschrieben und stellt interessante Bezüge zu Antisemitismus, Antislawismus und Antiziganismus her.” (Anke Schwarzer, in: analyse & kritik, akweb.de, Heft 634, 23. Januar 2018)“... In seinem Buch erzählt Wulf D. Hund die Geschichte des Rassismus anhand berühmter Gemälde in anschaulicher Sprache.Ich habe sein Buch als ein praxisbezogenes Nachschlagewerk wahrgenommen, das man durch seinen erzählerischen Schreibstil wie einen Roman lesen kann ...” (Muhammet Mertek, in: islam-aktuell.de, 3. Januar 2018)Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Vorspiel auf dem Theater. Weis[s]e Braut mit Kammermohr.- 3. Die Farben der Sünde. Antisemitismus seit den Kreuzzügen.- 4 Schwarze Ritter und Heilige Schwarze. Ethnische Ökumene gegen Ungläubige.- 5 ›Schwarzes Volk‹ als ›faules Gesindel‹. Facetten des Zigeunerstereotyps.- 6 Rassen© made in Germany. Der Rassismus der Aufklärung.- 7 ›Völkerschau‹ mit ›Kolonialwaren‹. Die Popularisierung des Weißseins.- 8 ›Gelbe Gefahr‹ und ›Schwarze Schmach‹. An den Grenzen des Weißseins.- 9 Weiße ›Untermenschen‹. Rassenkampf im rassistischen Reich.- 10 Vom ›Persilschein‹ zum ›Weißen Riesen‹. Deutschland wäscht sich weiß.- 11 Anmerkungen.- 12 Literaturverzeichnis.- 13 Abbildungsverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisDer zweite Band stellt die Geschichte und Entwicklung musikalischer Institutionen und Medien dar und zeigt den großen Einfluss,den sie auf die Entwicklung der musikalischen Interpretation haben. Konzert- und Opernhäuser, die Musikerausbildung, die musikalischen Akteure in allen Sparten sind ebenso Thema wie Editionen und Aufführungsmaterialien, Repertoire und Programmgestaltung, Auftrittsgepflogenheiten und Publikumsverhalten, Kritik und Marketing sowie die technischen Medien der Musikreproduktion seit der Schallplatte. Darüber hinaus geht es um Interpretation in den verschiedenen Musikgattungen von der Symphonik bis zur Kammermusik und der Oper bis zur Chor- und Kirchenmusik.Trade Review“… ist vor allem auch angehenden Musikstudierenden als grundlegende Lektüre zur Musikästhetik zu empfehlen.” (Norbert Meurs, in: Forum Musikbibliothek, Jg. 43, Heft 3, November 2022)“... Die Herausgeber … haben Beiträge von insgesamt 19 Autoren berücksichtigt, die sich sehr unterschiedlichen Themen zuwenden. Allein der Buchtitel lässt vermuten, um welch' ungeheure Vielfalt es sich dabei handelt. … Ungeachtet recht unterschiedlicher Schreibstile ergibt sich ein hoher Informationsgehalt, und auch der Praxisbezug ist immer wieder erkennbar … ” (Wolfram Seidner, in: Vox Humana, Oktober 2021)Table of ContentsÖffentliches Konzert und Oper.- Orte und Formen der Aufführung.- Repertoire and Programming.- Praktiken des Auftritts und des Publikums. Zur Aufführungsdimension in Konzert und Oper.- Kritik und Marketing.- Technische Medien I: Produktion von Tonträgern.- Technische Medien II: Rezeption von Aufnahmen.- Noteneditionen und Aufführungsmaterialien als Quellen der Interpretationsgeschichte.- Interpretation und Musik-(Aus-)Bildung. Zwischen Institutionalisierung, Systematisierung und Individualisierung.- Der Dirigent als Interpret.- Orchester, Orchestermusiker, Orchestertraditionen.- Zwischen Selbstinszenierung und Werkinterpretation: Solistinnen und Solisten.- Lied- und Kammermusikkultur.- »Widerstand der Materie«? Oper und Musiktheater.- Chorwesen.- Kirchenmusik.- Interpreten und Interpretinnen – in der Genderperspektive.- Personenregister

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Book SynopsisDas Lexikon erläutert die zentralen Leitideen, Methoden und Hilfsmittel der Kunstgeschichte bis hin zu jüngsten Forschungsansätzen. In etwa 150 Stichwörtern, z.B. Original, Fälschung, Repräsentation, Kunsthändler, Kunstmarkt, Manierismus, Ende der Kunst, wird dabei auch die wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Entwicklung der Disziplin ausführlich dargestellt. Damit steht das Werk außer Konkurrenz. Die Autoren erläutern Begriffe und Theorien aus der Zeit vor der eigentlichen Begründung der Kunstwissenschaft im 19.Jahrhundert, beginnend mit der Antike. Auf diese Weise erfährt der Leser mehr über die historischen Voraussetzungen heutiger Diskussionen über Kunst und erkennt zugleich die Andersartigkeit der damaligen Kunstbetrachtung. Damit unterscheidet sich das unter Mitarbeit von 50 renommierten Kunsthistorikern entstandene Handbuch wesentlich von bisherigen, großenteils personen- und sachkundlich orientierten Nachschlagewerken.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisDiese Open-Access-Publikation mit dem Titel "Affe und Affekt" untersucht anhand populärwissenschaftlicher Forschungsmemoiren die Form und Funktion von Emotionen, Affekten und Gefühlen in der Feldforschung mit Affen – und wie gerade Literatur und Film das Verhältnis von Mensch, Affe und Affekt für die Wissenschaft produktiv reflektieren und analysieren. Der Mensch ist evolutionär betrachtet ein Affe unter anderen. Doch nennt er sich selbst homo sapiens, die anderen Affen im besten Fall die ‚Menschenaffen‘ - sonst aber pans, pongos oder papios. Diese Unterscheidung ist nur ein kleines Puzzlestück in einer emotionsgetriebenen Rhetorik der Primatologie, der Wissenschaft von den Affen. Table of Contents1. Einleitung: Affen, Menschen, Affekte.- 2. Affektive Epistemologien des Feldes.- 3. Affektpoetik der Forschungsmemoiren.- 4.Affektregime der Primatologie.- 5. Fazit: Klappe zu, Affe(kt) tot?.

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Book SynopsisUm einen Einblick in die Selbstsicht von Patienten am Lebensende zu erlangen, wurden die Patienten gebeten, mit Studierenden zu sprechen. Es zeigte sich, dass Palliativpatienten die Möglichkeit zu Gesprächen mit Studierenden schätzen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Gespräche wurden mit der Methode der Qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Philip Mayring ermittelt. Entsprechende Daten lieferten dabei die Texte von semistrukturierten Tiefeninterviews, die durch die Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse induktiv kodiert worden sind. Die AutorInnen stellen die Methode vor, reflektieren sie und beobachten sie abschließend bei der Durchführung. Table of Contents​Die Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse im Licht der Wissenschaftstheorie.- Was ist "Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse"?.- Studie: Die Begegnung zwischen sterbenden Patienten und Medizinstudenten: eine Annäherung an die Perspektive des Patienten.- Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse: eine kommentierte Literaturliste.

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Book SynopsisLooking at cultural appropriation from around the world, this volume uses the field of cultural studies - heavily influenced by both economics and sociology - as a lens through which to view the paradigm of transcultural consumption. The editors present a variety of consumptive phenomena, including the introduction of Chinese foods to the United States, Ford cars in Germany, and American schoolbooks in the Philippines. Rejecting the idea that these interactions were simply forms of "Americanization," "Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods" fills a gap in consumer studies and enriches the debate about cultural transfer.

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Book SynopsisThis book reexamines the trope of the machine in the garden first laid out by Leo Marx fifty years ago. Contributors explore the lasting influence of this concept on American culture and the arts, rereading it as a dialectic wherein nature is as much technologized as technology is naturalized. Extending the relevance of Marx's theory from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, they examine filmic and literary representations of industrial, bureaucratic, and digital gardens; explore its role in the aftermath of the Civil War and of rural electrification during the New Deal; its significance in landscape art as well as in ethnic literatures; and discuss the historical premises and continued impact of Marx's study.

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Book SynopsisHow did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? Producing Cultural Diversity investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the negotiations that produced the recent UNESCO convention on cultural diversity. Taking an ethnographic approach, Ulrike Niedner-Kalthoff highlights how officials first framed the policy issue of cultural diversity and then negotiated an authoritative text, mobilized support, and organized legitimate representation. A significant contribution to the anthropology of contemporary statehood and global governance, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of international relations.

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Book SynopsisStates in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on the extent to which the public has become involved in policy making and whether the state regulations that have been produced have proven publicly beneficial. Offering a new anthropological perspective, Competing Norms fills that gap by exploring how people in sub-Saharan Africa view new regulations in the light of preexisting local norms with which new regulations often compete. A collection of international, interdisciplinary contributors discusses the competing local, state, and international norms as they have evolved over time, unfolding the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize state regulations.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography on early-career workers facing job insecurity at the United Nations. This ethnography focuses on the work and lifeworld at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna. By emphasizing the perspectives of entry-level workers, this book addresses the increasing flexibility and job insecurity for those at the beginning of their potential UN careers. It explores questions such as: How do career aspirants reconcile their narratives with the organization’s image built over the past decades? How can we understand institutional power and individual agency through the lens of ritual theory and the theory of social orders? This study finally examines the entangled discourses around privilege and prestige on the one hand and the precarity and vulnerability of a growing number of UN workers on the other hand. It shows that these phenomena are not contractionary but two sides of the coin. Using the UN as an example, the study considers mechanisms of flexible and unstable work environments in times of cognitive and affective capitalism.

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Book SynopsisMit der Einführung des AFG 1969 wurde die aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland nicht nur als Instrument des Marktausgleichs kodifiziert, sondern diese als ein ‚emanzipatorisches Projekt’ in den sozialpolitischen Kontext der Bundesrepublik eingeführt. Seitdem hat sie - in mehreren Etappen - einen tief greifenden Gestaltwandel erfahren, bis hin zur jüngsten Revision ihres Instrumentariums und ihrer Leistungsseite. In 24 Kapiteln bietet dieser Band eine Analyse der Grundprinzipien der deutschen Arbeitsmarktpolitik, analysiert die einzelnen Teilbereiche unter dem Aspekt einer veränderten Grundlogik, hinterfragt die veränderten Steuerungslogiken und die Rolle der beteiligten Akteure und thematisiert Herausforderungen, auf die die Arbeitsmarktpolitik zukünftig reagieren muss.Table of ContentsGrundzüge der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland im Wandel.- Das Instrumentarium der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zwischen Universalismus und Zielgruppenorientierung.- Akteure der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zwischen Aufgabenerfüllung und Steuerungswandel.Mit Beiträgen von Claudia Bogedan, Silke Bothfeld, Werner Sesselmeier, Gabriele Wydra-Somaggio, Sigrid Gronbach, Katrin Mohr, Matthias Knuth, Frank Oschmiansky, Mareike Ebach, Gerhard Bosch, Peer Rosenthal, Oliver Nüchter, Alfons Schmid, Karen Jaehrling, Josef Schmid, Harald Kohler, Hans Fricke, Susanne Koch, Peter Kupka, Holger Schütz, Volker Hielscher, Peter Ochs, Petra Kaps, Tanja Klenk, Wolfgang Schroeder, Andreas D. Schulz, Stefanie Kremer, Manon Irmer, Aysel Yollu-Tok.

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Book SynopsisParteien stellen das wesentliche Bindeglied zwischen Zivilgesellschaft und Staat dar. Sie sind einerseits als vereinsartiger Mitgliederverband in der Gesellschaft verankert und andererseits als Partei im Parlament und in der Regierung zentraler Akteur des politischen Systems. Aus dieser Doppelrolle ergibt sich ein Spannungsverhältnis, das im vorliegenden Buch analysiert wird. Die Analysen stehen in der Tradition der Debatten um Parteienstaat, Parteiendemokratie und Kartellparteien. Durch eine interdisziplinäre Herangehensweise sowie aktuelle empirische Analysen liefert der Band neue Perspektiven, wobei vier Dimensionen des Spannungsverhältnisses vorrangig untersucht und diskutiert werden: Parteienstaat oder Parteien im Staat; Parteiorganisationen im rechtlich-institutionellen Kontext; Parteien und Parteienwettbewerb; Regierung und Verwaltung im Parteienstaat.Table of ContentsTheoretisch-konzeptionelle Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Parteien, Staat und Gesellschaft.- Analysen zur konkreten Ausgestaltung der Rollen von Parteien im Staat.- Politik- und rechtswissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Parteienstaat und Parteiendemokratie.- Empirisch gehaltvolle Analysen zur innerparteilichen Demokratie und zur parteilichen Durchdringung von Bundesrat und Bundesregierung.

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Book SynopsisKulturbetriebe und Tourismusakteure teilen die Aufmerksamkeit für das wachstumsstarke Marktsegment Kulturtourismus – wer aber sind die Kulturtouristen? Yvonne Pröbstle geht dieser Frage nach. Auf der Grundlage einer qualitativen Untersuchung der kulturellen Einstellungen von Kulturtouristen entwirft die Autorin eine Typologie. Analysiert werden das Kulturverständnis, Reise- und Besuchsmotive, kulturelle Aktivitäten sowie Rezeptions- und Aneignungsmuster im Alltag und auf Reisen. Das Ergebnis ist eine differenzierte Sicht auf die kulturtouristische Nachfrage, die Kulturbetrieben und Tourismusakteuren eine Orientierungshilfe für strategische und operative Entscheidungen im Handlungsfeld Kulturtourismus bietet.Trade Review“… liefert erstmalig umfangreiche Erkenntnisse über Kulturtouristen und bietet damit Wissenschaftlern, Experten, Politikern und Praktikern aus Kultur und Tourismus fundiertes Fachwissen und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen. Eine Pflichtlektüre für alle Akteure im Themenbereich!” (Lara Buschmann, in: Wort und Antwort, Jg. 57, Heft 3, Juli-September 2016)“ ... sehr guten, systematischen Überblick zum empirischen Forschungsstand und den zentralen Ergebnissen zum Thema Kulturtouristen ... bieten sehr aufschlussreiche Erkenntnisse sowohl für die Kulturmanagementpraxis wie auch für weitere Forschungen ...“ (Birgit Mandel, in: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, Heft 3, 2014)Table of Contents​Kulturtourismus als Handlungsfeld.- Konzeption einer qualitativen Untersuchung.- Empirische Ergebnisse und Typlogie.- Implikationen für die Praxis und Forschung.

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Book SynopsisMit dem vorliegenden Band wird das Ziel verfolgt, Lernen und Bildung unter Bedingungen kultureller Pluralität zu untersuchen. Abseits einer interkulturellen Bildungsforschung, welche sich ausschließlich auf Migrationsphänomene beschränkt, wird davon ausgegangen, dass mit kultureller Pluralität Erfahrungsansprüche einhergehen, die potentiell für alle Mitglieder moderner Gesellschaften Anlässe für Lernen und Bildung bereitstellen können. Wie solche Lern- und Bildungsprozesse beginnen, sich fortsetzen und stabilisieren, wird in einem Wechselspiel aus empirischen Rekonstruktionen und theoretischen Reflexionen erschlossen.Table of ContentsErfahrungshorizont: Auf dem Weg zu einer empirisch fundierten Theorie von Lernen und Bildung im Kontext kultureller Pluralität.- Studien zu kultureller Pluralität I: Lern- und Bildungsprozesse bei Diffenzsuchenden.- Studien zu kultureller Pluralität II: Lern- und Bildungsprozesse bei Differenzmarkierten.- Lern- und Bildungsprozesse in Kontexten kultureller Pluralität: Zwischen Negativität, Fremdheit, Delegitimation und Grenzparametern.

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Book SynopsisDie globalen Krisen seit dem Jahr 2008 haben eines sehr deutlich werden lassen: Das Vertrauen der Menschen in Wirtschaft und Politik ist signifikant gesunken. Die Wiedererlangung von Vertrauen gilt daher als oberste Prämisse für ein sozial ausgeglichenes Gesellschaftssystem und für nachhaltige Stabilität. Damit steht Unternehmenskommunikation vor einer strategischen Herausforderung: Reputation und Image müssen möglichst mit nachweisbaren Return wiederhergestellt werden. Zwar gilt die Übernahme gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung – Glaubwürdigkeit vorausgesetzt – als konstituierender Faktor für Vertrauen und Erfolgskontrolle, Kultur scheint dabei aber eine untergeordnete Rolle zu spielen. Corporate Citizenship ist das diskutierte Modell der Stunde und Corporate Social Responsibility ein wiederentdecktes Konzept: Innerhalb dessen muss sich nun eine Corporate Cultural Responsibility (CCR) als dramaturgischer Handlungsstrang zum Nutzen des Unternehmens beweisen. Wolfgang Lamprecht bietet eine Einführung in das Thema CCR.Table of ContentsCorporate Citizenship.- Corporate Cultural Responsibility.

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Book Synopsis​In der vorliegenden Fallstudie untersucht Simon Wiegand die Positionen, Einflussstrategien und Funktionen von Landesregierung und Landtagsfraktionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Politikprozess zum „Europäischen Energie- und Klimapaket“ in der Regierungszeit von CDU/FDP von 2005 bis 2010. Lassen sich die in der politikwissenschaftlichen Diskussion oftmals vertretenen Thesen vom Bedeutungsverlust der deutschen Länder durch die europäische Integration und von der Entparlamentarisierung subnationaler Politik bestätigen? Die vorliegende Studie geht diesen und weiterführenden Fragen nach und untersucht dabei das Verhältnis von Europäisierung und Landespolitik. Die Europäisierung der Energie- und Klimaschutzpolitik Nordrhein-Westfalens hat in der 14. Wahlperiode nicht zur Ausgrenzung des Landes im europäischen Mehrebenensystem und nicht zur Entparlamentarisierung subnationaler Politik geführt.Table of Contents Energie- und Klimaschutzpolitik der Landesregierung von Nordrhein-Westfalen (14. WP).- Energie- und Klimaschutzpolitik der Fraktionen im Landtag von Nordrhein-Westfalen (14. WP).- Energie- und Klimaschutzpolitik im europäischen Mehrebenensystem.

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Book SynopsisWas ist kompetentes und professionelles Beratungshandeln? Zur Klärung dieser Frage hat Tanja-Vera Herking im Rahmen von tiefenanalytischen Interviews mit Unternehmensberatern die Kompetenz- und Professionalitätsstrukturen sowie deren Entwicklungsprozesse innerhalb ihrer Beraterbiographien erhoben. Hierdurch werden die spezifischen Strukturen u.a. der Beratungsinteraktion, Wissensgenese und -applikation, aber auch Inszenierungserfordernisse und paradoxe Handlungsanforderungen deutlich, welche die Autorin in einem Strukturmodell von Beratungskompetenz und -professionalität zusammenfasst. Ausgehend von diesem Modell arbeitet sie Parameter der Kompetenzentwicklung und Professionalisierung von Unternehmensberatern heraus. Die aufgezeigten Prozesse lassen sich in einem Stufenmodell mit spezifischen Entwicklungsaufgaben darstellen, die Unternehmensberater auf ihrem Karriereweg zu lösen haben. Dabei werden Ansätze einer sogenannten Meta-Beratung erkennbar, welche die Entwicklungsprozesse der Unternehmensberater sowie der Unternehmensberatung als Eliteschmiede befördern können.Table of ContentsBeratungskompetenz und Professionalität von Unternehmensberatern.- Handlungslogik kompetenten und professionellen Beratungshandelns.- Struktur- und Entwicklungsmodell von Beratungskompetenz und -professionalität.- Kompetenzentwicklung und Professionalisierung in der Beraterbiographie.

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Book SynopsisUnser Leben wird von Märkten bestimmt. Sie sind für die kapitalistischen Volkswirtschaften weltweit konstitutiv und haben von Anfang an viele öffentliche Debatten ausgelöst. Während Märkte für die Einen der unübertroffene Modus der Handlungskoordination sind, werden sie von Anderen als Quelle vieler gesellschaftlicher Übel eingestuft und bekämpft. Dieses Buch vereint das Wissen über Märkte von Soziologie, Ökonomie und Anthropologie und untersucht systematisch die verschiedenen Formen von Märkten, denen wir täglich in unserem Leben begegnen.Table of ContentsKoordination in der Wirtschaft.- Märkte im gesellschaftlichen Lebenszusammenhang.- Formen von Märkten.- Standardmärkte und Statusmärkte.- Schaffung und Kontrolle von Märkten.

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Book SynopsisSascha Benedetti untersucht die Bedeutung gesellschaftlichen Engagements aus der Perspektive der Engagierten. Er rekonstruiert das Spektrum bildungsbiographischer Bedeutungen, die individuelle Relation von gesellschaftlichem Engagement und Erwerbsarbeit, den individuellen Wandel der bildungsbiographischen Bedeutung des gesellschaftlichen Engagements und dessen Relation zur Erwerbsarbeit sowie die Bedeutung lebenslaufbezogener und kollektiver Kontexte für individuelles gesellschaftliches Engagement. Die Basis seiner Analyse bilden bildungsbiographisch akzentuierte qualitative Doppelinterviews, welche in zwei unterschiedlichen Wellen (1983/84 und 2006/2009) von jeweils einer Person erhoben wurden.Table of ContentsGesellschaftliches Engagement aus (bildungs-)biographieanalytischer Perspektive.- Qualitative Längsschnittstudie.- Bildungsbiographische Bedeutungen gesellschaftlichen Engagements.- Individuelle Relationen von Engagement und Erwerbsarbeit.- Dynamik, Temporalität und Kontextualität gesellschaftlichen Engagements.- Spektrum und Wandel individueller und kollektiver Kontexte.

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Book SynopsisDieser Sammelband geht der Verbreitung von Coaching im Sinne einer zunehmenden Differenzierung von Coaching in den unterschiedlichsten Handlungsfeldern (Politik, Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Arbeitsintegration, Schule etc.) nach. Grundlage für die Untersuchung dieser Entwicklung von Coaching bilden rund 40 Beiträge renommierter Coaching-Wissenschaftler und Coaching-Praktiker, in denen, basierend auf den jeweiligen Expertisen der AutorInnen, konkreter Einblick in die verschiedensten praxisfeldspezifischen Coaching-Entwicklungen gewährt wird. Beispiele dafür sind sowohl Coaching von Kindern und Jugendlichen, in der Wissenschaft oder mit dem Ziel der beruflichen Integration.Table of ContentsFührungskräfte-Coaching, Coaching in der Personalentwicklung, Gesundheits-Coaching, Coaching im Sport, von Kindern und Jugendlichen, in der Wissenschaft, in der Politik und in der beruflichen Integration.- Coaching mit modernen Medien, Coaching-Markforschung, Gendersensibles Coaching, Coaching-Psychologie u.a..- Etablierung von Coaching in Organisationen, Coaching-Pools und Coaching-Programme.

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