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Book SynopsisThe future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years. In The Ends of Paradise, Christopher A. Loperena examines the Garifuna struggle for life and collective autonomy, and demonstrates how this struggle challenges concerted efforts by the state and multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, to render both their lands and their culture into fungible tourism products. Using a combination of participant observation, courtroom ethnography, and archival research, Loperena reveals how purportedly inclusive tourism projects form part of a larger neoliberal, extractivist development regime, which remakes Black and Indigenous territories into frontiers of progress for the mestizo majority. The book offers a trenchant analysis of the ways Black dispossession and displacement are carried forth through the conferral of individual rights and freedoms, a prerequisite for resource exploitation under contemporary capitalism. By demanding to be accounted for on their terms, Garifuna anchor Blackness to Central America—a place where Black peoples are presumed to be nonnative inhabitants—and to collective land rights. Steeped in Loperena's long-term activist engagement with Garifuna land defenders, this book is a testament to their struggle and to the promise of "another world" in which Black and Indigenous peoples thrive.Trade Review"In this careful and rich ethnography, Christopher Loperena offers an incisive study of the courageous activism by Garifuna land defenders aiming to enact alternative futures based on notions of mutuality, not appropriation."—Juliet Hooker, Brown University"The Ends of Paradise brilliantly analyzes the racial logics of on-going settler capitalist extractivism while showing the beauty and strength of the Garifuna struggle. Christopher Loperena provides a grounded look at the contemporary dilemmas facing Black and Indigenous peoples throughout much of the world."—Shannon Speed, UCLA"An illuminating analysis of Garifuna activism. Crucial for understanding how extraction, race, and activism are unfolding around the world, The Ends of Paradise is a must read."—Lynn Stephen, University of Oregon"Loperena provides a microhistory of individuals and organizations, sometimes in competition, navigating the pressures of land access and control, economic development, and cultural identity.... Recommended."—J. M. Rosenthal, CHOICE"The Ends of Paradise is a powerful history of the present, one that captures and participates in the struggle of a Black Indigenous people to maintain a degree of economic and cultural autonomy in the face of development projects that are marketed as sustainable ecotourism."—Kevin Coleman, Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Imagining Black Indigenous Futures chapter abstractThe introduction establishes how Black and Indigenous struggles for territorial autonomy in Honduras interact with larger social and economic forces, including the global resurgence of resource extraction that is slowly eroding the customary rights of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. Although the government of Honduras has presented tourism as a sustainable alternative to extractive industries, this chapter argues that tourism is an extractivist enterprise premised on environmental dispossession and racial violence against rural communities of color. It also shows how Garifuna—a Black Indigenous people of African, Arawak, and Carib descent—fight back against the extractivist mandate of the Honduran state and multinational capital on the Caribbean Coast. 1The Extractivist Logics of Progress chapter abstractChapter 1 traces the historical genealogy of extractivism in Honduras. From the banana enclaves of the early twentieth century to sumptuous coastal tourism resorts and the contemporary bid to establish semiautonomous charter cities in purportedly unpopulated areas of the country, the state has tried to enact various visions of progress. All these visions, though, are intimately tethered to extractivism, particularly racial extractivism. 2The Garifuna Coast: The Inclusionary Politics of Expulsion chapter abstractChapter 2 analyzes how the tourism economy facilitates racialized extraction. The advent of multicultural rights unfolded alongside state programs designed to transform Garifuna people into subjects of development. But the inclusion of Black and Indigenous communities seems inseparable from the commodification of those communities; the government's policies all seem to render Garifuna lands and culture as tourism products. These policies are presented as a win-win for everyone, equally beneficial to Garifuna and working-class non-Indigenous Hondurans who remain stymied by poverty and the legacy of "underdevelopment." The only clear winner is not either one of these groups, but rather the mestizo elite. Garifuna resistance to government policies exposes the inner workings of supposedly inclusionary politics and how those efforts ultimately advance not inclusion, but racial and spatial expulsion. 3Tensions of Autonomous Blackness chapter abstractChapter 3 examines how statist development objectives seep into the lives of Garifuna in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras. Neoliberal economic paradigms emerged in tandem with morally saturated development discourses that tout poverty reduction, inclusion, and sustainability, and also imagine Garifuna as stakeholders with the capacity to benefit from and contribute productively to Honduras's tourism economy. Policies that promote participation in the tourism economy are entangled with contests over land and belonging. Conflicts over the fate of the community figure prominently in daily life, as community members—for and against government-sponsored development—reckon with the dispossession that inevitably come with development and debate how to negotiate with and when to protest against these forces. Garifuna land defense strategies are articulated through the practice of Black autonomy: an ethico-political proposal that refuses dominant narratives of progress and instead asserts a notion of autonomy as collective action and social good. 4Rescue the Land, Defend the Future chapter abstractChapter 4 theorizes the spatial and temporal dimensions of Garifuna political subjectivity through an analysis of the movement to recuperate or "rescue" communal lands from privatization. The chapter examines how Garifuna women lead the lucha (struggle) in defense of their territory with their bodies, and how that defense is bound up with gendered narratives of ancestrality and the praxis of territorial mothering. To live ancestrally is a way of being in relation with the land, which is crucial to Garifuna autonomy and a key feature of the struggle to contest the destination-making strategies of multinational capital on the Caribbean coast. 5The Limits of Indigeneity: Pueblo Garifuna v. Honduras chapter abstractChapter 5 examines the public hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Garifuna Community Triunfo de la Cruz and Its Members v. Honduras. During court proceedings, Honduras's deputy attorney general argued that Garifuna should not be considered an "original people" (indigenous to Honduras) and thus Garifuna claims to national territory were not legitimate. State officials not only undermined the possibility of Black Indigeneity but also exalted the rights of officially recognized Indigenous peoples to defend mestizo property rights in the zone. This politics of (mis)recognition tethers Indigenous subjectivity to the mestizo nation-building project and ideologies of whitening. It reinforces the perception that Black people are foreigners in Honduras. The court's judgment in favor of the community established an important legal precedent for the recognition of Black territorial rights but also served to buttress state sovereignty over natural resources deemed to be of "public use." Conclusion: Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion to this book begins with the violent murder of the Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres. At the time of her death, Cáceres was leading a daring community uprising against the development of a large hydroelectric project slated to be built on the Gualcarque River in the Lenca community of Río Blanco. Her death marked the beginning of a new wave of repression against Indigenous and Black activists that reached its apex on July 18, 2020, with the kidnapping of four community leaders in Triunfo de la Cruz. This worrisome pattern demonstrates deep-seated racial animus toward Black and Indigenous peoples and the rights they fought so hard to obtain during the preceding decades. In spite of the devastating and racist violence they face, Black and Indigenous peoples continue to mobilize in defense of life. chapter abstract

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Book SynopsisFor decades, the outside world mostly knew Myanmar as the site of a valiant human rights struggle against an oppressive military regime, predominantly through the figure of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. And yet, a closer look at Burmese grassroots sentiments reveals a significant schism between elite human rights cosmopolitans and subaltern Burmese subjects maneuvering under brutal and negligent governance. While elites have endorsed human rights logics, subalterns are ambivalent, often going so far as to refuse rights themselves, seeing in them no more than empty promises. Such alternative perspectives became apparent during Burma's much-lauded decade-long "transition" from military rule that began in 2011, a period of massive change that saw an explosion of political and social activism. How then do people conduct politics when they lack the legally and symbolically stabilizing force of "rights" to guarantee their incursions against injustice? In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma, covering not only the so-called "democratic transition" from 2011-2021, but also the February 2021 military coup that ended that experiment and the ongoing mass uprising against it. Taking the reader from protest camps, to flop houses, to prisons, and presenting practices as varied as courtroom immolation, occult cursing ceremonies, and land reoccupations, Rights Refused shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere.Trade Review"A combination analytical breadth, sparkling playfulness, ethnographic granularity, and deep sympathy for the heroic resistance of the Burmese democratic movement. Take a deep breath and dive in at the deep end; you'll be glad you did."—James C. Scott, Yale University"In this thoughtful exploration of the brutal political realities of present-day Myanmar, Elliott Prasse-Freeman unpacks the various understandings of human rights that both direct and bedevil attempts to instigate democratic reform. Noting that external observers have repeatedly misread Burmese conceptions of the very concept of rights, he offers an incisive corrective to such cultural tone-deafness with his nuanced analysis of Burmese activism and its often surprisingly diverse goals. His argument is a valuable lesson for all those who blithely assume that all meanings and values are inherently universal and thereby run the risk, in Prasse-Freeman's telling phrase, of "mocking the miserable.""—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"Rights Refused is a theoretically ambitious and ethnographically rich study of social activism, refusal and resistance in Myanmar. Prasse-Freeman lucidly captures how activists in specific local contexts reconfigure human rights discourses to challenge oppressive state power, and his insightful analysis reshapes our understanding of rights are operating in the contemporary world."—Shannon Speed, University of California, Los Angeles"Rights Refused transcends the confines of a mere book; it serves as a vital expedition, inviting readers to engage in a profound journey of empathy and introspection. Prasse-Freeman's humanisation of the activists and individuals at the heart of the struggle invites readers to step into their shoes and comprehend the immense challenges they face."—Thanapat Chatinakrob, London School of Economics Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Variegated Violence 2. Living Refusal 3. Plow Protests 4. Cartoons, Curses, and the Corpus 5. Taking Rights, Seriously 6. Rights in Desperation Conclusion: Rights Erosion and Refusal beyond Burma

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Book SynopsisThe United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized model of aid has become normalized across donor intervention in Palestine. Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed—this book tells the story of how aid has also become war. Drawing on extensive research conducted in Palestine, Elastic Empire offers a novel accounting of the US security state. The US war chronicled here is not one of tanks, grenades, and guns, but a quieter one waged through the interlacing of aid and law. It emerges in the infrastructures of daily life—in a greenhouse and library, in the collection of personal information and mapping of land plots, in the halls of municipal councils and in local elections—and indelibly transfigures lives. Situated in a landscape where the lines between humanitarianism and the global war on terror are increasingly blurred, Elastic Empire reveals the shape-shifting nature of contemporary imperial formations, their realignments and reformulations, their haunted sites, and their obscured but intimate forms.Trade Review"Elastic Empire is an utterly brilliant piece of research. Lisa Bhungalia fluently and beautifully uses theoretical elaborations of plasticity and malleability of empire to show the interconnections between the aid industry and settler colonial and imperial violence."—Laleh Khalili, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies"Into the well-studied terrain of contemporary Palestine and Israel, Lisa Bhungalia has produced a book of stunning originality. Through wide-ranging and incisive analysis, she explains how ever more highly securitized models of foreign aid adversely affect Palestinians. Aid, she argues, is war by other means."—Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture"Elastic Empire offers a riveting portrait of the quiet administration of violence. Lisa Bhungalia maps US shadow wars carried out through the daily work of aid and state terror in Palestine. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the intimacies of US empire and the topological tentacles of counterterrorism law."—Alison Mountz, author of The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement ArchipelagoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. War Through Law 2. Elastic Sovereignty 3. Work of the List 4. Afterlives and Reverberations 5. Asphyxiatory Violence Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDespite its pervasive reputation as a place of religious extremes and war, Afghanistan has a complex and varied religious landscape where elements from a broad spectrum of religious belief vie for a place in society. It is also one of the birthplaces of a widely practiced variant of Islam: Sufism. Contemporary analysts suggest that Sufism is on the decline due to war and the ideological hardening that results from societies in conflict. However, in Sufi Civilities, Annika Schmeding argues that this is far from a truthful depiction. Members of Sufi communities have worked as resistance fighters, aid workers, business people, actors, professors, and daily workers in creative and ingenious ways to keep and renew their networks of community support. Based on long-term ethnographic field research among multiple Sufi communities in different urban areas of Afghanistan, the book examines navigational strategies employed by Sufi leaders over the past four decades to weather periods of instability and persecution, showing how they adapted to changing conditions in novel ways that crafted Sufism as a force in the civil sphere. This book offers a rare on-the-ground view into how Sufi leaders react to moments of transition within a highly insecure environment, and how humanity shines through the darkness during times of turmoil.Trade Review"An engaging, compelling, and beautifully-written ethnography that traverses the heterogeneous Sufi sociosphere of contemporary Afghanistan. Schmeding documents, in arresting detail and acute sensitivity, the dexterity of Sufi adepts in creating and maintaining civil communities amidst violence and ruptures. At once profound, riveting, and timely, the book is a vital contribution to the study of religion and civil society."—Ismail Fajrie Alatas, New York University"Sufi Civilities opens the door to a marvelous world of faith that lies hidden in plain sight. Schmeding's path breaking ethnographic account of diverse Sufi communities in contemporary Afghanistan is both new and exciting. Over the past half century they have outlasted every radical political regime that failed to appreciate just how deeply Sufism is embedded in Afghanistan's Islamic culture."—Thomas Barfield, Boston University"Afghan Sufis have been hidden from view by attention to mujahidin, Taliban, and al-Qaida. Through astute anthropological observation, Annika Schmeding shows how Sufis became important players in the contests for religious authority that emerged from the cultural whirligig of a NATO-supported Islamic Republic. This is a major contribution to the study of modern Afghanistan."—Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisRevealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical marketsWhat happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory Futures follows these implants from development to domestication and their unequal distribution in India, Michele Ilana Friedner explores biotechnical intervention in the realm of disability and its implications for state politics in the Global South. A signing and speaking deaf bilateral cochlear implant user, Friedner weaves personal reflections into this fine-grained ethnography of everyday negotiations, activist aspirations, and the space of the family. She places sensory anthropology in conversation with disability studies to analyze how normative sensoria are cultivated and the pursuit of listening and speaking capability is enacted. She argues that the conditions of potentiality that have emerged through cochlear implantation have, in fact, resulted in ever narrower understandings of future life possibilities. Rejecting sensory hierarchies that privilege audition, Friedner calls for multisensory, multimodal, and multipersonal ways of relating to the world. Sensory Futures explores deaf people’s desires to create habitable worlds and grapple with what their futures might look like, in India and beyond, amid a surge in both biotechnical interventions and disability rights activism. With implications for a broad range of disability experiences, this sensitive, in-depth research focuses on the specific experiences of deaf people, both children and adults, and the structural, political, and social possibilities offered by both biotechnological and social “cures.”Trade Review"Michele Friedner’s book is a gem—I can’t think of anything else like it. Scaling from the pronunciation of 's' by a deaf American child who will someday become an ethnographer to Indian state partnerships with biotech corporations, we encounter many ways to be hearing and deaf. And we see this communicative abundance whittled away by repressive transnational infrastructures as well as local rules, tests, and disability bureaucracies. To my mind, Sensory Futures is the union of medical anthropology, STS, and disability studies at its finest."—Mara Mills, cofounder and codirector, NYU Center for Disability Studies"Sensory Futures compels us to question what it means to live with disability as an ongoing process of becoming. Michele Friedner excels at describing the everyday demands of disability and normality in India. Engaging, insightful, and careful, this extraordinary book spotlights the reshaping of state power and technological promise through the everyday intimacies of multisensory life."—Harris Solomon, author of Lifelines: The Traffic of TraumaTable of ContentsNote on Transliteration and AnonymizationIntroduction: Sensory, Modal, and Relational Narrowing through Cochlear Implants1. Disability Camps and Surgical Celebrations: Indian Disability Interventions and the Creation of Complex Dependencies2. Becoming Unisensory: Creating a Child’s Social Sense through Auditory Verbal Therapy and Total Communication3. Mothers’ Work: Intersensing and Learning to Talk like a Cricket Commentator4. (Non-)Use: Maintaining Devices, Relationships, and Senses5. Becoming Normal: Potentiality Beyond PassingConclusion: Beyond the Bad S: Making Space for Sensory UnrulinessAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Five Indian Cochlear Implant TrajectoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 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 lives of its members and the communities in which they live. Within this Masonic-inspired 'society with secrets', Scottish Orangemen learn how transform themselves and their fellow brethren into what they regard to be ideal British citizens. It is from this ethnographic context – framed by ritual initiations, loyalist marches, fraternal drinking, and constitutional campaigning – that the key questions of the book emerge: What is the relationship between fraternal love and sectarian hate? Can religiously motivated bigotry and exclusion be part of human experiences of ‘The Good?’ What does it mean to claim that one’s religious community is utterly exceptional – a literal ‘race apart’?Trade Review'Joseph Webster here confirms his reputation as an anthropologist of the hidden orders of power, prophecy, and secrecy that lie behind the everyday world. The religion of Orange politics is a timely reminder that religion, politics, and nationalism are intertwined in our identities in complex historic knots. Above all, it is a book about people, in all their flawed and noble humanity.'David G. Robertson, The Open University'Joseph Webster’s fascinating book is the most insightful, balanced and convincing study of the Orange Order in modern Scotland yet published. It deserves a wide readership.'Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Orangeism, Protestantism, anthropology1 Situating Scottish Orangeism2 The menace of Rome3 A society with secrets4 Fraternity and hate5 British togetherConclusion: ‘The Good’ of Orange exceptionalismBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisOver 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 flagship secondary school in a large English city, to show how the accelerated marketization and centralization of education is reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. The book also examines the complex stories underlying Dreamfields’ glossy veneer of success and shows how students, teachers and parents navigate the everyday demands of Dreamfields’ results-driven conveyor belt. Hopes and dreams are effectively harnessed and mobilized to enact insidious forms of social control, as education develops new sites and discourses of surveillance.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality educationTrade Review'Kulz's brilliant and chilling ethnography of Dreamfields Academy shows that students no longer merely learn to labour, as Paul Willis once put it, but rather education itself becomes a factory. Schools do not foster critical intelligence but rather make, shape and discipline young people in the doctrine and dream world of neoliberal capitalism. The book reveals the cruel hopes and authoritarian aspects of a modern urban academy schooling. It left me with a sense of outrage because these black, white and Asian working-class students, and every student for that matter, deserve so much more from education than this. This book outlines with sociological precision and keen attentiveness the shape of that educational betrayal.'Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London'This book is a ‘must read’ for all, particularly for teachers and parents. Christy Kulz’s ethnographic study unmasks how education practice within an urban academy school is raced, classed and gendered. This timely and exceptional book reveals how inequity is sedimented within the academies policy. It reveals a complex picture of how this academy is led and managed; how the relentless pursuit of better outcomes drives the ambitious aspirations of the headteacher and how the ethos of “structure liberates” reflects the zealous drive to educate and civilise ‘urban’ children to become units of economic productivity to attain social mobility. The headteacher’s evangelistic zeal is realised through disciplinary and regimented processes which subjugate teachers and pupils.Christy Kulz shows how inequality is perpetuated in the school through the panoptic architecture of the school buildings, the stark surveillance of pupils and the enforcement of draconian rules which re-inscribe gender, race and class stereotypes within a regimen that serves to ‘normalise’ or whiten pupils’ identities. She shows how this results in symbolic violence on Black and minority ethnic bodies and how, for some pupils, the promise of social mobility remained an unrealised aspiration given the insurmountable structural inequalities they encountered every day.This book will be a seminal text documenting the effects of the academies policy on schools, teachers and a generation of young people.'Professor Vini Lander, Edge Hill University'Christy Kulz has produced an incendiary and detailed account of the reality of life in an Academy school. Kulz’s ethnographic research, using a single school case study to explore wider issues of education reform, control and the creation of inequity, is in the best traditions of British sociology of education. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the grim reality of education on the conveyor belt that lies behind the shiny deceitful rhetoric of aspirations and social mobility.'Professor David Gillborn, University of Birmingham‘Kulz writes well and engagingly, and the book offers an intelligent and sensitive reflexivity—the student researcher could learn a lot here about good writing, and the possibilities of a diverse and lively form of presentation “which seeks to blend theory with rich pictures of the social world”. Interviews, observations, pictures, and other data are set alongside one another to produce a vibrant sense of what Dreamfields is like and how it is experienced by the students and teachers…This book is the most exciting and engaging example of sociology of education that I have read for a long time. It works on a variety of levels. Its blend of traditional methods and contemporary problems, its historical sensibilities and theoretical sophistication, make it a very satisfying, provocative, and pertinent read.’Stephen J Ball, University College London, Social Forces, Vol 97, Issue 1, September 2018‘This is a book about an academy, but it is also a book about authority and discipline; about neoliberal education; about new incarnations of racism; and about how people make sense of living under an oppressive regime. The polemic of the title, describing academies as ‘factories for learning’, makes sense after reading it. Overall, this book serves as a powerful and convincing rebuttal to the ‘celebratory imperial histories' of Conservative education policy (2017, 15), all the while retaining a vivid sense of the humour and energy of the young people that it describes.’Anna Bull, University of Portsmouth, The Sociological Review'The book is provocative, emotionally affecting, and a noteworthy read to sociologically understand the education system in the UK. During my first reading as an undergraduate, and in re-reading as a doctoral student, it is inspirational to see how the blood, sweat and tears that go into a thesis can create an important and engaging work.'Luke Zavrou-Blackstock, Educational Review (Feb 2022) -- .Table of Contents1 Building new narratives: academies, aspiration and the education market2 Research frameworks: historical representations and formations of race and class meet neoliberal governance 3 Disciplining Dreamfields Academy: a ‘well-oiled machine’ to combat urban chaos 4 Cohering contradictions and manufacturing belief in Dreamfields’ ‘good empire’ 5 ‘Urban children’ meet the ‘buffer zone': mapping the inequitable foundations of Dreamfields’ conveyor belt6 Students navigating and negotiating the conveyor belt: aspiration, loss, endurance and fantasy7 Urban chaos and the imagined other: remaking middle-class hegemony8 Remaking inequalities in the neoliberal institutionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world. The book brings together leading scholars in the social sciences who have been interrogating and collaborating with data scientists working in a range of different settings. The book explores how a repurposed form of ethnography might illuminate the kinds of knowledge that are being produced by data science. It also describes how collaborations between ethnographers and data scientists might lead to new forms of social analysisTrade Review'Ethnography for a Data Saturated World is a must-read for researchers, students and professionals outside academia wishing to understand what digital data means for our contemporary world. It brings our attention to a burgeoning field of research and practice which unites ethnography and data science on a number of levels. This book takes us into the world of digital data in a mode and depth that only the particular sensibilities of ethnographic research can offer. Its editors and authors collectively provide a new and global vision through ethnographic studies of how the worlds of data scientists are constituted, the ways of knowing and forms of expertise that digital data analysis involves, and the methodological challenges and achievements of work that has created new modes of collaboration between ethnography and digital data analysis. Ethnography for a Data Saturated World is at once a substantive, theoretical and methodological book. It is brimming with significant ethnographic insights and findings about the worlds it examines, it offers an array of different and disciplinary specific modes of thinking theoretically about digital data from anthropology and sociology, and it interrogates the modes of knowing that are implicated in both digital data collection and analysis and in ethnographic practice, as well as the possible connections between them.'Sarah Pink, Professor of Design and Media Ethnography, RMIT University -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction: ethnography for a data-saturated world – Hannah Knox and Dawn NafusPart I: Ethnographies of data science2 Data scientists: a new faction of the transnational field of statistics – Francisca Grommé, Evelyn Ruppert and Baki Cakici3 Becoming a real data scientist: expertise, flexibility and lifelong learning – Ian Lowrie4 Engineering ethnography – Kaiton WilliamsPart II: Knowing data 5 ‘If everything is information’: archives and collecting on the frontiers of data-driven science – Antonia Walford6 Baseless data? Modelling, ethnography and the challenge of the anthropocene – Hannah Knox7 Operative ethnographies and large numbers – Adrian MackenziePart III: Experiments in/of data and ethnography 8 Transversal collaboration: an ethnography in/of computational social science – Mette My Madsen, Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen9 The data walkshop and radical bottom-up data knowledge – Alison Powell10 Working ethnographically with sensor data – Dawn Nafus11 The other ninety per cent: thinking with data science, creating data studies – Joseph Dumit interviewed by Dawn NafusIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough the centre of China’s historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under Communist rule. To walk the street is to travel through the story of China’s recent past, wandering among its physical relics and hearing echoes of its dramas. Long Peace Street recounts a journey in modern China, a walk of twenty miles across Beijing offering a very personal encounter with the life of the capital’s streets. At the same time, it takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, telling the story of how the present and future of the world’s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through to the present day.Trade Review‘Filled with insights, observations and anecdotes, Chatwin brings to life the past – and present – of one of the world’s great cities in an account that is as thoughtful as it is informative.’Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History, Worcester College, Oxford'Bringing together past and present, personal and political, Jonathan Chatwin gives readers a thoughtful and deeply-informed account of modern China through the marvellous device of a stroll down Beijing's longest avenue - and all in lucid and compelling prose.'Rana Mitter, Director of the University China Centre, University of Oxford'Even the most dedicated flâneur has to work hard to find the charm in Chang’an Avenue, the main thoroughfare of, as Jonathan Chatwin rightly describes it, the "glorious mess of Beijing". Industrial relics, bankrupt theme parks, rabbit hutch housing, paranoid Communist Party elite boltholes and Tiananmen’s ghosts all loom large. But Chatwin walks the walk and, along the way dissects the street, its denizens and its enduring role in China’s history and collective modern traumas. 'Paul French, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking and City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir'Jonathan Chatwin offers a distinctive window onto Beijing's past and present by taking readers along with him on a long trek down an important thoroughfare. An appealing mix of anecdotes from a journey and digressions backward in time make Long Peace Street a novel addition to the rich literature on China's sprawling capital.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, coauthor of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know'This three-dimension, moving timeline along the heart of imperial and contemporary Beijing made me want to head out the door and follow Chatwin's flaneur footsteps. "Long Peace Street" seamlessly blends history and reporting, shining a light on both the capital's neglected bookends and its dense core. I couldn't put it down.'Michael Meyer, author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, In Manchuria, and The Road to Sleeping Dragon'Long Peace Street is a brilliant achievement. To read this book is to travel with an engaging writer as he explores the China of today and the raw pathos of its past. Long Peace Street gives its readers an insight essential for a sophisticated understanding of Chinese society today.'M. A. Aldrich, author of The Search for a Vanishing Beijing: A Guide to the Capital of China through the Centuries'As a dive into Beijing’s history and an excursion through its present, Long Peace Street is entertaining, informative, well-written and companionable.'Post Magazine -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionDay one: Shougang Iron and Steel to Tiananmen1 Capital Iron and Steel – origins – the Great Leap Forward – a bad neighbour – future plans2 New suburbia – the city in history – the hutong – Shijingshan Amusement Park3 Change – ring roads and the New Beijing – Great Olympics4 Babaoshan ghosts – the cemetery – the life of Peng Dehuai – return to Hunan5 A diversion – straightness – the road as metaphor6 Military markings – Tomb of the Princess – new regime, new capital? – the Military Museum7 Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – December 1980 – ‘To Rebel is Justified’ – Chairman Mao’s dog8 Big roofs – Capital Museum – pailou – some history9 Muxidi Bridge – petitions and protests – May Fourth – Democracy Movement – 1976 – 1978 – 1989 – the aftermath10 Rainbows – walls, walls, and yet again walls – breaches – New Year’s Day in Xi’an – demolition – socialist core values11 A hungry refrain – little grey streets – reform and opening-up – state owned enterprises12 An assassination – Middle and Southern Seas – imperial pretensions – Xinhuamen – paranoia – hidden places – Mao at ZhongnanhaiDay two: Tiananmen to Sihui Dong subway station13 The middle of the Middle Kingdom – hidden tales of Tiananmen – the Great Helmsman14 A walk to Tiananmen – into the Forbidden City – intruders15 Four days in the Forbidden City16 Out of the Forbidden City – scholar trees – dislocation – destruction – impressions of Beijing – going native – Legation Street today – fireworks over Tiananmen17 The man who died twice – Wangfujing – a literary traveller – the end of the Qing – Morrison and Yuan Shikai – a sad coda – Palm Sunday in Sidmouth18 Oriental Plaza – walking in cities – the Imperial Observatory – origins of the Chinese calendar – the Jesuits – the Republican calendar – time in modern China19 Outside the wall – the Grand Canal and the eastern suburbs – 22nd August 1967 – all palaces are temporary palaces – Forsan et haec olim – red20 One city – the east is rich – weird architecture – mall life – underground21 G103 – the story of a nation – the endEpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a provincial English city, Rogaly asks what that city (and indeed England as a whole) stands for in the Brexit era. Stories from the city’s homes and streets, and from its warehouse and food factory workplaces, challenge middle-class condescension towards working-class cultures. They also reveal a non-elite cosmopolitanism, which contrasts with the more familiar association of cosmopolitanism with elites. The book combines critique with resources for hope. It is aimed at general readers as well as students and lecturers in geography, sociology, migration studies and oral history.Trade Review'Stories from a migrant city is a beautifully written book mapping the consolidation of a complex culture of multi-ethnic working class cosmopolitanism amid the rise of reactionary populisms.Drawing on a decade of painstaking research on local workplaces and neighbourhoods, Rogaly uncovers the shared histories of mobility and fixity as well as how they continue to be disrupted by class inequalities and racisms. He should be applauded for not only producing an analytically sophisticated book but one which provides us with some of the resources of hope that might one day help to plot a path towards a more open and democratic future for all.'Professor Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow 'A powerful, thoughtful and much needed contribution'Fatima Manji, Correspondent, Channel 4 News 'In the face of the most ugly uses of ‘place’ as a code for racialised exclusivity, this poignant and necessary book encourages us to think more expansively - of varieties of inclusion and exclusion, of unexpected conviviality and cosmopolitanism from below, of tactics of racial capitalism that set us against each other and spaces of imagination that can bring us together. All in the form of a kind of love-song to... Peterborough.'Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London'In this extraordinary book Ben Rogaly shows us that we need to rethink who is considered a ‘migrant’ and who is a ‘local.’ The urgent lesson contained in these pages is that any step towards challenging the racism that distorts and confines the immigration debate needs to listen out for what is emerging in the ordinary life of cosmopolitanism from the bottom-up.'Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London'Ben Rogaly succeeds in dissolving the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘migrant’ to illuminate everyday forms of working-class multicultural interaction and conviviality. A ‘must-read’ book in an age of Brexit uncertainty, changing global macro-economic processes and the rise of nationalist nostalgia.'Professor Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University'This book is for anyone interested in British identity. You don’t need to have spent your Saturdays as a teenager hanging around the Queensgate shopping centre to find it informative and compelling. But Rogaly also resists using the city merely as a way to explain something bigger, as a stand-in for other provincial places.In Stories From a Migrant City, Peterborough exists, in and of itself, as a distinct place. We need more books that do the same for other cities and towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world.'Charlotte L. Riley, New Humanist'Rogaly’s Stories from a Migrant City challenges contemporary understandings of immigrant inclusion and exclusion and xenophobic antipathy in the aftermath of Brexit. Rogaly (Univ. of Sussex, UK) criticizes common analyses of Brexit as a clash between open-minded, cosmopolitan elites and racist, native-born, working-class whites. Instead, using a politics of place in Peterborough (a small, provincial city outside of London), coupled with illuminating oral history data drawn from "locals," "newcomers," "immigrants," and "elites," he reveals that the politics that put Brexit into play are more complicated than the superficial images presented in the media and in much academic discourse. Rogaly demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is regularly practiced in the everyday lives of Peterborough’s working- and middle-class inhabitants. Late-stage capitalism and neoliberalism have put everything in flux so that the terms "native" and "migrant" do not adequately reflect who lives in Britain and whose "authentic" British lifestyle is at stake from the promises and threats of Brexit. Disruption of continuity of place magnifies changes, making them seem more threatening to the national and local projects. Rogaly provides glimmers of hope highlighting historical moments of opportunities for unity.--R. A. Harper, York CollegeSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction: Non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era2 ‘India’s my heart, and I know I’m an Indian’: histories of mobility and fixity3 ‘If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place’: racial capitalism and workplace resistance 4 ‘We’re not just guardians of the area but of the whole city’: urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider5 ‘And then we just let our creativity take over’: cultural production in a provincial city6 Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous timesAcknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHow do interstate actors negotiate their interests? What do ‘common interests’ look like from their historically and culturally contingent perspectives? What happens when actors work for their private, professional, public, personal or institutional interests? Honing in on the role of diplomats and lobbyists during negotiations for Turkey’s contentious EU membership bid, this book presents intricate, backstage conflicts of power and interests and negotiations of compromises, which drove this candidate country both closer to and farther apart from the EU. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Brussels, this first book-length account of Turkish Europeanisation argues that public, private and corporate actors voicing economic, political and bureaucratic interests from all corners of Europe sought access to markets and polities through the Turkish bid instead of facilitating Turkey’s EU accession, earning recognition & power.Trade Review"Firat has been hanging with the Eurocrats, the diplomats and the lobbyists of Brussels and comes back with a story that throws new light on their actual everyday give and take. The book offers that rare thing: new knowledge."Iver B. Neumann, author of At Home with the Diplomats -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresPrefaceAcknowledgementsPart I: Inside the private life of politics 1 The elephant in the room2 Fieldwork among the no(ta)blesPart II: Framing EU membership3 The accession pedagogyPart III: Arts of diplomacy and lobbying in the EU institutions4 Enlargement, twice a week5 Dramas of statecraft, mistrust and the politics of non-membership6 Political documents and bureaucratic entrepreneursConclusion: lessons from an anti-caseReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe art of the observer is a personal guide to documentary filmmaking, based on the author’s years of pioneering work in the fields of ethnographic and documentary cinema. It stands in sharp contrast to books of academic film criticism and handbooks on visual research methods, being based extensively on concrete examples from the author’s own filmmaking experience. The book places particular emphasis on observational filmmaking and the ways in which this approach is distinct from other forms of documentary. It offers both practical insights and reflections on what it means, in both emotional and intellectual terms, to attempt to represent the lives of others. The book makes clear that documentary cinema is not simply a matter of recording reality, but of artfully organising the filmmaker’s observations in ways that reveal the complex patterns of social life.Trade Review'Particularly gratifying are the author's explorations of the work of his amateur collaborators, as in the chapter on films children in his video workshops made between 2011 and 2016. He respects their work and points of view and seems to have genuinely meditated on their insights without being patronizing. Mixing memory and analysis, this engaging book helps readers see the filmmaker and his craft anew.'ChoiceReprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .Table of ContentsPart I1: The practice of documentary 2: How the visual makes sense 3: Observational Cinema: A Unique Practice4: Ethnographic film: evolution of a conceptPart II5: Structuring nonfiction films6: Filming in a closed community7: Seven types of collaboration8: Microstructures of film editingPart III9: Films and feelings10: The life of others11: The strangers within us12: How children seePart IV13: An encounter with Robert Gardner 14: The percentage of disaster15: Clearing customsFilmography BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow to deal with differences based on culture, ethnicity and race, has become a key issue of policing. This edited collected explores everyday, often mundane interactions between police officers and migrantised actors in European countries and asks how both sides deal with perceived differences. The contributions reflect that such differences are not just ‘out there’ but are being situationally (re-)produced in police-citizen encounters. By taking a comparative approach, the book develops a distinctly European perspective on these questions. The book contains 12 ethnographies from ten European countries, based on new and often innovative empirical research, two theoretical contributions, an introduction and a postface.Trade Review'This book is a recommended study that nicely incorporates anthropology, criminology, history, linguistics, and sociology.'Ryan Shaffer, Ethnic and Racial Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction Policing differences: perspectives from Europe – Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk and Annalena Kolloch Part I: Categorizations of difference in police work 1 Police racism in France and Germany: occupational socialisation and institutional guidelines – Jérémie Gauthier and Jacques de Maillard2 Policing order: ethnicity in statistics and the functions of nationalism – Rebecca Pates3 Predictively policed: the Dutch CAS case and its forerunners – Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen 4 The social construction of parallel society in Swedish police documents – Ida NafstadPart II: Doing differences in everyday policing5 Dirty Harry gone global? On globalising policing and punitive impotence – David Sausdal 6 Instrumentalising racism in Russian policing: everyday interactions between police officers and migrants – Ekaterina Khodzhaeva 7 Negotiating with ethnic diversity: perceptions and patterns in everyday police work in Germany – Nina Müller 8 ‘Do you understand? Yes, you understand.’: bureaucratic translations of difference during deportation talks in Switzerland – Lisa Marie BorrelliPart III: Policing as translation 9 Inclusive and non-inclusive modes of communication in multilingual operational police training – Annalena Kolloch and Bernd Meyer 10 Talking with hands and feet: language differences and translation in German policing – Jan Beek and Marcel Müller 11 The Portuguese police and colonial legacies: when language divides – Susana DurãoPart IV: Police officers and ethnographers 12 Albanian culture and major crime: challenging culturalist assumptions among investigating UK police – Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers13 Approaching foreign milieus: experiences from a joint seminar with police trainees and anthropology students – Gisela Pauli Caldas and Thomas Widlok PostfaceAuthorizing race: on police reproduction of difference – Ian Loader

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Book SynopsisThe soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with it? This book tells the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividly to life for the first time through aural ethnography. Kate Herrity’s sensory criminology challenges current thinking on how power is experienced by the imprisoned and the lasting effects of incarceration for all who spend time in these environments.Table of Contents1. Just Landed 2. What Are You Hearing, Right Now? 3. Warp and Weft 4. “He’s Never Even Had a Magnum!” 5. Weft and Warp 6. A Night Inside 7. Talk to Me 8. Kackerlackas 9. A Kettle, a Penguin and a Word Arrow 10. Emotional Contagion 11. Arrhythmia 12. Polyrhythmia 13. Jingle Jangle 14. Disentangling Power and Order 15. Learning the “Everyday Tune” 16. Listening To Power 17. Singing Frogs, Looping the Slam 18. The Auld Triangle 19. The Hustle and Bustle 20. Phasing 21. Polyrhythmia Revisited 22. Bells, Whistles, Ships and Prisons 23. Shipping Out 24. References

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the intersection of miracle cures and technology with a unique methodology. Unravelling the intricate connections between social, technological, biomedical and non-biomedical spheres, it makes a significant contribution to debates on technology and health.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction to Cognitive Ethnography and Systematic Field Work by G. Mark Schoepfle provides a guide to the fundamentals of cognitive ethnography for qualitative research. A focus of this technique is collecting data from flexible but rigorous interviews. These interviews are flexible because they are designed to be structured around the semantic knowledge being elicited from the speaker, not around some pre-conceived design that is based on the researcher’s background, and they are rigorous because the basic linguistic and semantic structures are shared among all cultures. Written by one of the founders of this technique, this text provides a wealth of concentrated knowledge developed over years to best suit this collaborative and participant-centric research process. Eight chapters show how intertwined data collection and analysis are in this method. The first chapter offers a brief history and overview of the cognitive ethnography. Chapter 2 covers planning a research project, from developing a research question to ethics and IRB requirements. The next two chapters cover interview background, techniques, and structures. Chapter 5 addresses analysis while Chapter 6 covers transcription and translation. Chapter 7 covers observation, while a final chapter address writing a report for both consultants and outside audiences.Trade ReviewThis is an exceptional text that manages to cover topics and materials that many students approach with a degree of trepidation in manner that is student friendly, while at the same time providing them with a solid theoretical foundation to build on. -- Jason R. JolicoeurTable of ContentsPreface CHAPTER 1 • Orientation to Ethnography and Cognitive Ethnography Ethnography Material Culture and Cultural Durability Kinds of Ethnography Abductive Reasoning in Cognitive Ethnography How Ethnography Differs From Journalism Everyone Is Biased and Must Cope With the Fact Preparation for an Ethnographer’s Career: Ethnographer as Expert Witness CHAPTER 2 • Planning and Proposing a Research Project The Proposal The Parties Involved: Peer Review and Institutional Review Boards CHAPTER 3 • The Semantic Unity of the Ethnographic Interview The Lexical-Semantic Field Theory and the MTQ Schema Specialized MTQ Interview Techniques CHAPTER 4 • The Natural History of the Ethnographic Interview The Natural History of the Interview Grand-Tour and Mini-Tour Questions About People Through Personal Networks: The Crystalized Structure of a “Snowball Sample” CHAPTER 5 • Ethnographic Analysis With Complex Logical-Semantic Relationships Enhancing MTQ Analyses Analysis of Complex Semantic Relationships Ethnographic Decision Models: Entering Choice Into VAPs Applying Decision Models in Cognitive Ethnography CHAPTER 6 • Language Transcription and Translation Interview Transcription Interview Translation CHAPTER 7 • Observation Proposed Justifications for Sole Reliance on Observation Kinds of Observation The Application of Photography to Interview and Observation Observation and Evidence CHAPTER 8 • Writing the Ethnographic Report Four Major Report-Writing Styles: Descriptive, Analytical, Synthetic, and Case Study When Schema Are Not Available or Have Not Been Generated Organizing the Report A Final Word on Native Coresearchers References

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Book Synopsis Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More than just a critique of existing taboo theories, as it has often been seen, this study offers a profound analysis of danger behavior and pollution in "non-civilized" societies. This provided an important starting-point for Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger. A key aspect of Steiner's achievement lies in his attempt to reconcile detailed, faithful ethnographic analysis with anthropological comparison. His analysis of taboo thus provides a case study with wide-ranging ramifications. This new edition makes a classic text available once again to students and general readers. A major new introduction based on archival research offers, for the first time, a biography and critical study of Franz Steiner; it not only places him in the context of British and European thought but also shows his importance for contemporary debates, among them deconstruction and Orientalism.Trade Review “These works… must be read and reread for their brilliance as individual pieces, but reading them as a collectivity makes the experience all the more richer and intellecutally challenging.” • American AnthropologistTable of Contents List of Illustrations Contents of Volume II Acknowledgements A Note on Quotations PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Franz Steiner. A Memoir Mary Douglas An Oriental in the West: The Life of Franz Baermann Steiner Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon PART II: TABOO Chapter 1. The Discovery of Taboo Chapter 2. Taboo in Polynesia (I) Chapter 3. Taboo in Polynesia (II) Chapter 4. A Victorian Problem: Robertson Smith Chapter 5. Taboo and Contagion Chapter 6. Taboo and the 'Holy' Chapter 7. The Hebrew Bible: Snaith and Frazer Chapter 8. Frazer and His Critic, Marett Chapter 9. Taboo as Negative Mana Chapter 10. Van Gennep and Radcliffe-Brown Chapter 11. Wundt and Freud Chapter 12. The Problem of Taboo Bibliography. Reviews of Taboo PART III: RELIGIOUS TRUTH How to Define Superstition? Enslavement and the Early Hebrew Lineage System: An Explanation of Genesis 47: 29-31, 48: 1-16 Chagga Law and Chagga Truth Bibliography and References to Volumes I and II Name Index to Volume I Subject Index to Volume II

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Book SynopsisFrom large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat— more than any other food—has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, Americans have been among the most avid meat-eaters in the world, but long before that meat was not even considered a key ingredient in most civilizations’ diets. Labor historian Wilson Warren, who has studied the meat industry for more than a decade, provides this global history of meat to help us understand how it entered the daily diet, and at what costs and benefits to society.Spanning from the nineteenth century to current and future trends, Warren walks us through the economic theory of food, the discovery of protein, the Japanese eugenics debate around meat, and the environmental impact of livestock, among other topics. Through his comprehensive, multifaceted research, he provides readers with the political, economic, social, and cultural factors behind meat consumption over the last two centuries. With a special focus on East Asia, Meat Makes People Powerful reveals how national governments regulated and oversaw meat production, helping transform virtually vegetarian cultures into major meat consumers at record speed.As more and more Americans pay attention to the sources of the meat they consume, Warren’s compelling study will help them not only better understand the industry, but also make more informed personal choices. Providing an international perspective that will appeal to scholars and nutritionists alike, this timely examination will forever change the way you see the food on your plate.

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Book SynopsisCelebrities depend upon fans to sustain their popularity and livelihood, and fans are happy to oblige. With social media they can follow their favorite (or least favorite) celebrities’ every move, and get glimpses into their lives, homes, and behind-the-scenes work. Fans interact with celebrities now more than ever, and often feel that they have a claim on their time, attention, and accountability. In Fame and Fandom, the contributors examine this tumultuous dynamic and bring together celebrity studies and fan studies like never before. In case studies including Supernatural, Harry Styles, YouTube influencers, film location sites, Keanu Reeves, and celebrities as fans, readers find new approaches to fan/celebrity encounters and parasocial relationships. This is the go-to volume on the symbiotic relationship between fame and fandom.

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Book SynopsisFor such simple garments, hats have had a devastating impact on wildlife throughout their long history. Made of wild-caught mammal furs, decorated with feathers or whole stuffed birds, historically they have driven many species to near extinction.By the turn of the twentieth century, egrets, shot for their exuberant white neck plumes, had been decimated; the wild ostrich, killed for its feathers until the early 1900s, was all but extirpated; and vast numbers of birds of paradise from New Guinea and hummingbirds from the Americas were just some of the other birds killed to decorate ladies’ hats.At its peak, the hat trade was estimated to be killing 200 million birds a year. At the end of the nineteenth century, it was a trade valued at £20 million (over $25 million) a year at the London feather auctions. Weight for weight, exotic feathers were more valuable than gold. Today, while no wild birds are captured for feather decoration, some wild animals are still trapped and killed for hatmaking. A fascinating read, Hats will have you questioning the history of your headwear.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of animal resistance is now reaching a wide audience across the social media landscape. This book offers an overview of how animals resist human orderings in the context of capitalism, domestication, and colonization.Exploring this understudied phenomenon, this book is attentive to both the standpoints of animal resisters and the ways they are represented in human society. Together, these lenses provide insight into how animals’ resistance disrupts the dominant paradigm of human exceptionalism and the distancing strategies of enterprises that exploit animals for profit. Animals have been relegated to the margins by human spatial and ideological orderings, but they are also the subjects of their own struggle, located at the centre of their liberation movement.Well-researched and accessible, with over fifty images that aid in understanding both the experiences of and responses to animals who resist, Anithis book is an important contribution to scholarship on animals and society. The text will appeal to a broad audience interested in the relationships between humans and the other animals with whom we share this planet.

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Book SynopsisThe politics and governance of Jordan’s Azraq camp for Syrian refugeesAzraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp investigates the relationship between time and power in Azraq, asking how a politics of time shapes, limits, or enables everyday life for the displaced and for aid workers.Based on ethnographic fieldwork, carried out during 2017–2018, the book challenges the perceptions of Azraq as the ‘ideal’ refugee camp. Melissa Gatter argues that the camp operates as a ‘nine-to-five emergency’ where mundane bureaucratic procedures serve to sustain a power system in which refugees are socialized to endure a cynical wait—both for everyday services and for their return—without expectations for a better outcome.Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp also explores how refugees navigate this system, both in the day-to-day and over years, by evaluating various layers of waiting as they affect refugee perceptions of time in the camp—not only in the present, but the past, near future, and far future. Far from an ‘ideal’ camp, Azraq and its politics of time constitute a cruel reality in which a power system meant to aid refugees is one that suppresses, foreclosing futures that it is supposed to preserve.Trade Review"How does time pass in a refugee camp? This seemingly straightforward question is at the heart of Melissa Gatter’s wonderful ethnography of refugee lives and aid regimes in Azraq camp in Jordan. Her focus on tempo, pace, and time opens up the multi-faceted world of street-level-humanitarian bureaucracy, hope and despair in ongoing displacement, and people’s desires for ordinary futures."—Ilana Feldman, George Washington University"Encompasses wide-ranging ethnographic material with excellent, equally outstanding theoretical analysis. I have rarely been so immediately and deeply taken by a book as this one."—Sophia Hoffmann, University of Erfurt"In this detailed ethnography of temporal bordering practices in the Azraq Refugee Camp, Melissa Gatter offers valuable insights into the everyday bureaucracy, affects, future imaginaries, and resilience among exiled Syrians. Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp is a notable contribution to contemporary studies on forced displacement, camps, and temporality. Gatter’s book is also a contribution to the growing literature on forced migration in Western Asia."—Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Why Time? 1. Azraq’s Emergency2. A Humanitarian Bureaucracy3. Preserving Order4. Waiting for What?5. Ordinary FuturesConclusion: Azraq in the Past TenseBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs.Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.

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Book SynopsisAyahuasca often yields transformative experiences that merge such familiar categories as the sacred and the secular, transcendence and immanence, subject and object, and the human and the nonhuman. However, such experiences are interpreted differently by Western and indigenous discourses. Using the work of French philosopher Bruno Latour, André van der Braak asks fundamental ontological questions in order to reimagine ayahuasca as liquid divinity, shifting the focus from ayahuasca experiences to ayahuasca-based ritual practices that aim to cultivate relationships with more-than-human powers, described by Latour as "beings of transformation and religion." Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity: An Ontological Approach describes Santo Daime practices as a contemporary form of “theurgy” (god-work), as defined by the third-century Platonic philosopher and mystagogue Iamblichus. Theurgical practices aim at drawing down divine action through ritual procedures, using the imagination as an active faculty. Van der Braak argues that ayahuasca religiosity is ultimately not about individual recreation or healing, or even personal visions, but rather about engaging in communal transformative ecodelic practices that let us work as companions of the gods in order to practice solidarity with all sentient beings.Trade ReviewThis compelling book delves into the still underexplored territory of what ayahuasca can mean for human beings and the challenge this beverage poses for interfaith religious studies. Throughout this lucid and thoughtful text, André van der Braak analyses the ontology of ayahuasca as a liquid object/subject relative to social contexts of ayahuasca traditions like Santo Daime, expertly integrating his philosophical observations with references to the anthropological literature. The result is a text that is a pure joy to read while at the same time offering new questions upon which future scholars can build. -- Marc Blainey, author of Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing (2021)In this clear-headed, thoughtful, and groundbreaking text, the comparative philosopher André van der Braak grapples with the “ontological shock” that can emerge in those who engage, in an ongoing and overtly religious way, with ayahuasca – a mind-altering brew originally found in indigenous contexts in the Amazonian rainforest, and which is now the sacramental center of a variety of religious traditions found across the globe. Van der Braak, drawing upon the “experimental metaphysics” of the French thinker Bruno Latour, argues that the often earth-shattering experiences and transformative practices linked to ayahuasca religiosity should encourage us to create a more “fluid” ontology that makes room for “more than human” entities or powers, even while he refuses to endorse any particular substantive ontology. This wide-ranging, courageous, and self-reflexive text not only directly addresses the philosophical ramifications of the relatively recent encounter between Amazonian ayahuasca religiosity with the secular assumptions of the modern Western worldview, but also underscores the societal relevance of this newly emerging contemplative tradition for a “Gaian” religiosity in which human beings become interconnected participants with the natural world. Read this text and emerge with your own ontological assumptions profoundly shaken. -- G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: AyahuascaChapter 1: Making Sense of Ayahuasca in the WestChapter 2: Latour’s Experimental MetaphysicsChapter 3: Reimagining AyahuascaPart 2: Ayahuasca ReligiosityChapter 4: Religiosity as Engaging with Beings of ReligionChapter 5: Santo Daime Religiosity as TheurgyChapter 6: Facing Gaia Through Ayahuasca

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Book SynopsisIn precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the nation-state frame of membership that such schemes depend on is becoming evermore evident, as non-citizens form a growing proportion of the populations that welfare states attempt to govern. In Presence and Social Obligation, James Ferguson argues that conceptual resources for solving this problem are closer to hand than we might think. Drawing on a rich anthropology of sharing, he argues that the obligation to share never depends only on membership, but also on presence: on being “here.” Presence and Social Obligation strives to demonstrate that such obligatory sharing based on presence can be observed in the way that marginalized urban populations access state services, however unequally, across the global South. Examples show that such sharing with non-nationals is not some sort of utopian proposal but part of the everyday life of the modern service-delivering state. Presence and Social Obligation is a critical yet refreshing approach to an ever-growing way of being together. Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Part II: Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share Part III: Theoretical Commentary and Clarification

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Book SynopsisOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security and power governs us as State. Our desire for possessions governs us as Capital. Our desires imprison and rule us beings as Unbeing. Yet, from Nagaland to New Zealand, Bhutan to Bolivia, a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions has begun. Arising from assemblies of humans and other-than-humans, these revolutions replace possessive individualism with non-exploitative interdependence. Naga elders, Bhutanese herders and other indigenous communities, feminists, poets, seers, yaks, cranes, vultures, and fungi haunt this pamphlet. The original Subaltern Studies narrated how Indian peasant communities destroyed the British empire. Subaltern Studies 2.0 prophesies the multi-being demos and liberates Being from Unbeing. Re-kin, Re-nomad, Re-animate, Re-wild! The Animist Revolution has come. Table of Contentsi. Who Speaks?ii. War of Unbeing against Beingiii. A New Anti-Colonial Struggleiv. The Age of Sorrowv. The Evil Twins: Sovereignty and Propertyvi. The Subjection of Beingvii. Once When there was No State, No Capitalviii. The Monstrosity of State and Capitalix. Capital Colonizes Beingx. The Age of Deathxi. The Rise and Fall of Subaltern Studiesxii. The Failures of Global History and of Anthropologyxiii. To Arms: A New Academia for a Renewed Warxiv. Enough with Welfare-State Capitalismxv. Enough with Monstrous Abstractions!xvi. Where Marx Went Wrong!xvii. The Degeneration of Speechxviii. The Poetry of Revolutionxix. Enough of “Postmodern” Suspicion of Being! xx. The Road Back to Beingxxi. Dismantle State, Overthrow Capital!xxii. For Permanent Revolution, Permanent Community!xxiii. Enough with Atomized Individualism!xxiv. Not Universal Class, but Communities in Solidarity!xxv. Being Shines in Subaltern Consciousnessxxvi. Against Possessive Man, Being!xxvii. Difference-into-Unity!xxviii. Being a World for Othersxxix. Animals: Primal Instructors of Humansxxx. The Light of Being-Consciousnessxxxi. Once When Animals Could Speakxxxii. Animal Democracy – The World’s Oldest Politiesxxxiii. The First Imperialism: Human Colonization of Animal Politiesxxxiv. Decolonize Animal Polities!xxxv. Multi-Being Demos, Constitution to Comexxxvi. Return, Ancient Constitution – What Was, Shall Again Be!xxxvii. Fungal Organization – Being inside Beings is the Being within Mexxxviii. Fungal Democracy – Fungal Internationalismxxxix. Rooted Interdependence – Ancient Being, Return, Restore! xl. Beings in Assembly – Multi-Being Demosxli. The Vanquishing of Unbeingxlii. Beings Turn the Wheel of Lawxliii. The Constitution of the Cosmosxliv. Turn I: Rekinxlv. Turn II: Renomadxlvi. Turn III: Reanimatexlvii. Turn IV: Rewildxlviii. Being TriumphantXlix. Exhortation: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: The Next Steps: A Prefacel. Exhortation: Marisol de la Cadena: The Gift of the Anthropo-not-seenli. Exhortation: Thom van Dooren: Animal Lessonslii. Exhortation: Suraj Yengde: Supreme Subalterns

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Book SynopsisA History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present, and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. In the coming years platforms such as the iPhone and Android rise or fall depending on their treading the line between proprietary control and open innovation. The trends of the past may hold out hope for the record and newspaper industry. From the government-controlled systems of the Cold War to today's move towards cloud computing, user-driven content and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics and media of the digital future.Trade Review"Both an enormously useful work and a great read. Read it and understand what has made the Internet different."-TimWu, Columbia Law School --Tim Wu "Ryan understands the power shift that the Internet is. If you see the Internet as Ryan does, you will understand how Craigslist kills newspapers, how Facebook rises from nothing and why everything is being invented anew."--Phil Madsen, online politics pioneer (campaign manager of Jesse Ventura, 1998) --Phil Madsen "Johnny Ryan has admirably captured the sweep of the Internet's development from its earliest days, showing us how its profound impact is in part an accident of history, a phenomenon whose most interesting and liberating aspects could fade without reinforcement of its core values."- Jonathan Zittrain, author of "The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It" --Jonathan Zittrain "Thanks to the proliferation of cloud services, ubiquitous, low-cost bandwidth, and new devices like smartphones and the iPad, there are fewer obstacles to innovation than ever before. In the next decade, the 'office' need not be much more than an Internet connection. Johnny Ryan takes us through the history of the Internet to demonstrate how it has changed everything. But that's not all; he also identifies what's to come in the future.We are in a new era of transformation that has been powered by the Internet. Understanding the trends driving this revolution is pivotal to success. Consider this book your road map to getting there."-Marc Benioff, Chairman and ceo of salesforce.com --Marc Benioff "Ryan describes a fundamental shift and dispersion of power from traditional centres of power to the networked individual. This is a must-read for both governments and companies who need to fully understand this shift in power and the implications it has on how they interact with the networked individuals who represent their citizens, customers, suppliers."- Susanne Dirks, Leader, Global Centre for Economic Development(IBM Institute for Business Value) --Susanne Dirks

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Book Synopsis Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand “people without voice” but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem Assies’s best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.Trade Review “This is a fascinating body of work…I was most impressed by his balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer socio-cultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary problems).” · Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of Contents Foreword Geert Banck Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Gemma van der Haar, Salvador Martí i Puig, Ton Salman PART I: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA Introduction Geert Banck Chapter 1. Of Structured Moves and Moving Structures: An Overview of Theoretical Perspectives on Social Movements Chapter 2. Urban Social Movements, Democratization and Democracy in Brazil PART II: AGRARIAN ISSUES Introduction Cristobal Kay Chapter 3. The Agrarian Question in Peru: Some Observations on the Roads of Capital Chapter 4. From Rubber Estate to Simple Commodity Production: Agrarian Struggles in the Northern Bolivian Amazon PART III: INDIGENOUS (LAND) RIGHTS Introduction André Hoekema Chapter 5. Self-Determination and the “New Partnership”; the Politics of Indigenous Peoples and States Chapter 6. Indian Justice in the Andes: Re-rooting or Re-routing? PART IV: ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP Introduction Salvador Martí i Puig Chapter 7. The Limits of State Reform and Multiculturalism in Latin America: Contemporary Illustrations Chapter 8. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indigenous Peoples and Autonomies in Latin America PART V: POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN BOLIVIA Introduction Ton Salman Chapter 9. David versus Goliath in Cochabamba: Water Rights, Neoliberalism and the Revival of Social Protest in Bolivia Chapter 10. Neoliberalism and the Re-Emergence of Ethnopolitics in Bolivia Bibliography Willem Assies

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Book SynopsisThe Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time she resided as a squatter in four different houses, worked on two successful anti-gentrification campaigns, was evicted from two houses and jailed once. With this unique perspective, Kadir systematically examines the contradiction between what people say and what they practice in a highly ideological radicalleftcommunity. The squatters' movement defines itself primarily as anti-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian, and yet is perpetually plagued by the contradiction between this public disavowal and the maintenance of hierarchy and authority within the movement. This study analyses how this contradiction is then reproduced in different micro-social interactions, examining the methods by which people negotiate minute details of their daily lives as squatter activists in the face of a fun house mirror of ideological expectations reflecting values from within the squatter community, that, in turn, often refract mainstream, middle-class norms.Using a unique critical perspective informed by gender and subaltern studies, this study contributes to social movements literature through a meticulous analysis of the production of power and hierarchy in a social movement subculture.Trade Review'This is far and away the best ethnography of a squatters movement, or really any European anti-authoritarian movement, I have yet to come across. Nazima Kadir's bold interrogation of the concept of "autonomy" alone is well worth the ticket. But the book is much more. Combining vivid and sensitive ethnography with a willingness to ask challenging and fundamental questions about contemporary anti-authoritarian ideas, this book does everything good anthropology - the best anthropology - should do. I hope it provides a model for the ethnography of social movements in the future.'David Graeber, Professor at the London School of Economics, activist and author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011) and The Democracy Project (2014) -- .Table of Contents1. Squatter capital2. The habitus of emotional sovereignty3. 'Showing commitment' and emotional management4. Liminal adolescence or entrapping marginality?ConclusionIndex

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Book Synopsis Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms that can either hold the world together or invite doubt. Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.Trade Review “… [The text] is distinctly original in the way the research was carried out, and in its focus on the experience of uncertainty: not an easy thing to do and quite a challenge to social anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
 (JRAI) “Calkins’s Who Knows Tomorrow? is a refreshingly unconventional exploration of living with uncertainty in Sudan… while richly grounded in the ethnography and history of Sudan, the book compellingly rises to the level of an existential predicament that all people share… the book will interest those looking for fresh approaches that complement more familiar concerns in the study of African worlds.” • African Studies Quarterly “Taking French pragmatic sociology as point of departure for her analysis, Calkins comes very near the actual experiences of individual actors. Her emphasis on uncertainty about the future (including the outcome of fieldwork) and the way people deal with it through accepting, modifying or rejecting established forms (of which this book is an outstanding example) is – in any case for me – a welcome enlargement of our understanding of human behaviour.” • Social Anthropology “…a thought-provoking text for all preoccupied by theoretical, philosophical, and development-related issues regarding lived unpredictability and how its culturally diverse configurations could be translated into ‘uncertainty’.” • Anthropos “The book is a rich ethnographic and theoretical contribution to the anthropology not only of uncertainty but of the future, which is after all where much of our uncertainty lies. It substantiates the point that ‘culture’ and ‘institutions’ are not completed and stabilized products of the past but are ongoing accomplishments of the present, oriented to circumstances of imperfect knowledge, contested interests and perspectives, and open horizons." • Anthropology Review Database “This book is a sophisticated, compelling, and innovative piece of work… The analysis of forms in dealing with uncertainty is a major contribution… In exploring how people in Sudan mobilize and reflect upon these forms, [Calkins] creates a novel kind of ethnography… Fluent, intriguing, and intelligent.” • Susan Reynolds Whyte, Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University “Calkins has elegantly written an unconventional ethnography that presents new perspectives on issues of marginalization, poverty and hunger. This is a must read for everyone concerned with Sudan and the fundamental uncertainty of human existence.” • Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of KhartoumTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration List of Abbreviations and Glossary Map Introduction: Taming Unknowns in Sudan Chapter 1. Towards an Anthropology of Uncertainty Chapter 2. Contesting Forms: Translating Poverty and Uncertainty Chapter 3. Insisting on Forms: Bracketing Uncertainties in Gold Mining Chapter 4. Standardizing Forms: Uncertain Food Supplies Chapter 5. Establishing Urgent Forms: Uncertainties of Ill Health Conclusion: Uncertainty and Forms: Asking New Questions References Index

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Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.Trade Review “Each chapter in this important book, in one way or another, interrogates the slippery and shady partnerships forming between transnational corporations, international development agencies, and NGOs to further augment and implement CSR programmes…If you think critically about corporations, add this to your collection.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute “This is an insightful and original compilation of research on the novel ways in which 'market and society', and underlying dynamics of accumulation and sociality, get entangled and transformed through contemporary corporate practice. The wide range of empirical terrain traversed – in terms of the chapters' diverse ideational, social and regional settings – sets the stage for an illuminating comparative inquiry, on a timely topic of wider importance.” · Jens Kjaerulff, Aalborg University “This volume deals with what I would consider to be one of the most important issues of our time: the “ethical turn” of global capitalism, what it means, and what its possible effects might be.” · Andrea Muehlebach, University of TorontoTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility Catherine Dolan and Dinah Rajak Chapter 1. Theatres of Virtue: Collaboration Consensus and the Social Life of Corporate Social Responsibility Dinah Rajak Chapter 2. Virtuous Language in Industry and Academy Stuart Kirsch Chapter 3. Re-siting Corporate Responsibility: The Making of South Africa's Avon Entrepreneurs Catherine Dolan and Mary Johnstone-Louis Chapter 4. Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry Geert De Neve Chapter 5. Detachment as a Corporate Ethic: Materialising CSR in the Diamond Supply Chain Jamie Cross Chapter 6. Disconnect Development: Imagining Partnership and Experiencing Detachment in Chevron’s Borderlands Katy Gardner Chapter 7. Subcontracting as Corporate Social Responsibility in the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline José-María Muñoz and Philip Burnham Chapter 8. Collective Contradictions of Corporate Environmental Conservation Rebecca Hardin Chapter 9. Engineering Responsibility: Environmental Mitigation and the Limits of Commensuration in a Chilean Mining Project Fabiana Li Chapter 10. Global Concepts in Local Contexts: CSR as ‘Anti-politics Machine’ in the Extractive Sector in Ghana and Peru Johanna Sydow Afterword: Big Men and Business: Morality, Debt and the Corporation: A Perspective Robert J. Foster Index

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Book Synopsis What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.Trade Review “Overall, this edited volume illustrates the complexities of affective encounters as students and young volunteers cross borders and engage with cultural diversity. Important is the relevance of understanding, studying, and acknowledging how affect impacts subject-making as students travel. There are also important insights that allow practitioners, teachers and programme co-ordinators to think strategically about how to better direct or address affective encounters in more meaningful and productive ways.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “The volume provides us with some valuable insights … as an increasing number, if still a minority, of students take up opportunities to spend some of their education in a stay abroad. This book should, therefore, be particularly useful for students and professionals in the fields of mobility studies, international education and education more broadly.” • Anthropological Forum “This volume offers an exciting focus for scholarship, and one that definitely speaks to a growing area of interest in, and support for, study abroad as a necessary component of an undergraduate academic career… It offers tools for careful critique and consideration for study abroad at a moment when such tools are valuable and increasingly necessary.” • John Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna UniversityTable of Contents List of Tables Preface Michael Woolf Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb Chapter 2. Study Abroad and its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr PART II: STUDYING WITH(OUT) PASSION: STUDY ABROAD AND AFFECT Chapter 3. Passionate Displacements into Other Tongues and Towns: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shifting into a Second Language Karen Rodriguez Chapter 4. Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape, Affect in an African Mobility Experience Bradley Rink Chapter 5. Thinking through the Romance Hannah Davis Taïeb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum Chapter 6. Falling in/out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad Neriko Musha Doerr Chapter 7. Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self Yuri Kumagai PART III: SERVING WITH PASSION: ROMANTIC IMAGES OF SELF AND OTHER IN VOLUNTEERING ABROAD Chapter 8. One Smile, One Hug: Romanticizing “Making a Difference” to Oneself and Others through English-Language Voluntourism Cori Jakubiak Chapter 9. “People with Pants”: Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands Ruochen Richard Li Conclusion Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr Student Photo Essay Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla Villacís Index

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Book Synopsis Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals that many instances of human-wildlife conflict are often better understood as people-people conflict, wherein there is a clash of values between different human groups. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners from across the globe to develop a holistic view of these interactions. It considers the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’ alongside effective methodological approaches, and will be of value to academics, conservationists and policy makers.Trade Review “All the chapters in this book have much to offer… I found this book to be inspiring and informative and a very welcome addition to the fascinating, complex and diverse ways people interact with wildlife.” • The Primate Eye ”This timely volume is a must read for students, academics, researchers, and conservation practitioners and wildlife managers. It not only aims to raise awareness of the human-human conflict dimensions that often underlie or aggravate people-wildlife co-existence, but provides readers with useful approaches in addressing these.” • Tatyana Humle, University of Kent “This book is excellent and essential reading for anyone interested in human-wildlife coexistence, including researchers at all levels, conservation professionals, policy makers and funders. The editors and authors of this volume advocate convincingly for a radical change in measures taken to understand human-wildlife interactions, calling for a biosocial approach, and the integration of social and natural sciences.” • Joanna M. Setchell, Durham UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Complex Problems: Using a Biosocial Approach to Understanding Human-Wildlife Interactions Catherine M. Hill Chapter 1. People, Perceptions and 'Pests': Human-Wildlife Interactions and the Politics of Conflict Phyllis C. Lee Chapter 2. Block, Push or Pull? Three Responses to Monkey Crop-Raiding in Japan John Knight Chapter 3. 
Unintended Consequences in Conservation: How Conflict Mitigation May Raise the Conflict Level
 - The Case of Wolf Management in Norway Ketil Skogen Chapter 4. Badger-Human Conflict: An Overlooked Historical Context for Bovine TB Debates in the UK Angela Cassidy Chapter 5. Savage Values: Conservation and Personhood in Southern Suriname Marc Brightman Chapter 6
. Wildlife Value Orientations as an Approach to Understanding the Social Context of Human-Wildlife Conflict 
Alia M. Dietsch, Michael J. Manfredo and Tara L. Teel 
 Chapter 7. A Long Term Comparison of Local Perceptions of Crop Loss to Wildlife at Kibale National Park, Uganda: Exploring Consistency Across Individuals and Sites Lisa Naughton-Treves, Jessica L’Roe, Andrew L’Roe and Adrian Treves Chapter 8. Conservation Conflict Transformation: Addressing the Missing Link in Wildlife Conservation Francine Madden and Brian McQuinn Chapter 9. Engaging Farmers and Understanding Their Behaviour to Develop Effective Deterrents to Crop Damage by Wildlife Graham E. Wallace and Catherine M. Hill Chapter 10. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Sites of Negative Human-Wildlife Interactions: Current Applications and Future Developments Amanda D. Webber, Stewart Thompson, Neil Bailey and Nancy E. C. Priston Index

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Book Synopsis This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the author, patients and staff, who share their stories of the pressures of the work. Living Before Dying shows a world where, in extreme old age, people have to learn how to cope with living communally.Trade Review “This is a poignant account of a yearlong observational study of a large nursing home… Overall, a practical and empathetic consideration of elder care.” • Choice “Living Before Dying is an important and timely contribution to a rising body of social scientific and bioethical work about dementia, including the anthropology of senility. It should be read by all those who want care to improve for older people, with and without dementia.” • Times Higher Education “A key quality of this book is the richness of detail, which unveils the crude reality of what it can mean to live and work in an institution for older people. This kind of detail, sometimes extremely frank, is often lacking in other accounts in the literature.” • Anthropology in Action “This short book is packed with fascinating detail and unflinching commentary. Residential homes, as Davies notes, are perhaps the epitome of Goffman’s definition of a total institution. Read this study and pray that you do not end up incarcerated, or at least that conditions change. How to improve social care is not addressed here, but the urgent need to do so could not be clearer.” • Work, Employment and Society Journal “I strongly recommend this book, as its contents will shock, surprise and even reveal the truth about what happens behind closed doors at some care homes ... It is with great sensitivity that Davies has captured the true nature of caring for older people in a care setting. and the staff that care and support them in the latter years of their lives.” • Nursing and Residential Care “Dr. Davies has tackled a complex, emotionally difficult and important issue facing a growing number of families with ageing parents worldwide. She guides the reader through the maze of changing conditions and emotions with grace and compassion. Her observations are astute, deep and insightful.” • Patricia O’Neill, University of Oxford China Centre.Table of Contents Foreword Lord Nigel Crisp Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Social and Behavioural Implications of People with Dementia Chapter 2. Caring in Action - Women in the Workplace Chapter 3. Social Organization within the Nursing Home Chapter 4. Managing Activities for the Residents Chapter 5. Ordering Disorder Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Dani men and women, asking us to think differently about education as a trajectory for transformation and belonging, and ultimately revealing how dreams of equality are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.Trade Review “Overall, Dreams Made Small is a superb ethnography in which Munro shows the rich textures of the everyday and voices of Papuans, something rarely found in dominant and political-oriented studies of the region. By focusing on Papuans’ experience in Indonesia, Jenny Munro also makes an important contribution to the crossregional studies of diasporic Papuans… Without a doubt, Munro’s book will be an important reading for those who work with issues of education and race, critical race theories, youth, citizenship and Indonesian nationalism.” • The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) “A richly detailed and comprehensive portrayal of Dani students. Jenny Munro’s monograph is an important book to read for both students of Pacific anthropology and education as well as more generally.” • Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford “Munro's approach makes for a strong study of a people who are struggling in every way and constantly have to live with racial tensions and stigmatization…This is a courageous ethnographic study.” • Volkskunde “One of the pleasing things about this ethnography is that while we are aware of the author’s presence, there is no sense in which she is the star. Her writing style has a clarity that makes confronting the analysis inescapable. This book is a must read for those of us with an interest in Melanesian/Indonesian anthropology and political life. It should also be a starting point for those educators seeking to improve outcomes for people on the margins. Ultimately, as an ethnography, it is a gem.” • American Anthropologist “Cross-referencing Indonesian and international studies on race, sociology, education and development allows this detailed ethnography to be scaffolded by theory but never straightjacketed by it, producing a portrait of grassroots Papuan experiences in the Indonesian archipelago infrequently documented in scholarly studies.” • The Australian Journal of Anthropology “Jenny Munro’s [book] is one of the finest pieces of anthropology about West Papua by a foreign scholar in recent years… Although it is a detailed study of one segment of Papua’s complex society, Munro’s study provides critical insights into Papuan cultural identity, political aspirations.” • Anthropos “Anthropological studies based on recent field research among Papuans are few. However, Munro’s study is not merely to be welcomed because it is rare. Its importance is that it contributes significantly, and clearly, to the analysis of ethnic divisions in Indonesia and efforts by Papuans to deal with these divisions.” • Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde “This book is the honest story of Dani students, which accurately illustrates their steps towards education and fulfilling dreams of improving life quality back at home. It is a great resource for the reader to understand the position of the Papua people in Indonesia.” • Anthropological Notebooks “…a superb ethnography in which Munro shows the rich textures of the everyday and voices of Papuans, something rarely found in dominant and political-oriented studies of the region… Without a doubt, Munro’s book will be an important reading for those who work with issues of education and race, critical race theories, youth, citizenship and Indonesian nationalism.” • The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology “This excellent ethnography of the racialization of education in Indonesia describes and analyzes the prejudices suffered by Papuan Dani students with great sensitivity and empathy, weaving a very careful and intricate image of the life of students.” • Christine Jourdan, Concordia UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: New Promises, Old Problems Chapter 1. Ethno-Racial and Political Dreams of Education in Wamena Chapter 2. ‘Newcomers’ and ‘Masters of the Land’ in North Sulawesi Chapter 3. Stigma, Fear, and Shame: Dani Encounters with Racial and Political Formations in North Sulawesi Chapter 4. ‘Discipline is Important’: Aspirations and Encounters on Campus Chapter 5. Belonging, Expertise and Conflict in Highlanders’ Social World Abroad Chapter 6. ‘Study First’: Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Survival in the 'City of Free Sex' Chapter 7. Doing Good Things in a Dani Modernity Conclusion: Koteka Questions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAyahuasca has gained significant popularity these days in cities around the world. Why? What effect might ayahuasca be having on our culture? Does this psychoactive brew, which seems to inspire environmental action, simplified lifestyles and more communitarian behaviour, act as an antidote to frenzied consumerist culture? In When Plants Dream, Pinchbeck and Rokhlin explore the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impact that ayahuasca is having on society. Part 1 covers the background; what ayahuasca is, where it is found, and its cultural origins. Part 2 explores the role and practices of the ayahuasquero in both Amazonian and Western cultures. Part 3 examines the medicinal plants of the Amazon, looking particularly at the ingredients in ayahuasca and their therapeutic qualities, covering the most up-to-date biomedical research, psychedelic science and psychopharmacology. It also covers all the legal aspects of ayahuasca use. Lastly in Part 4 Pinchbeck and Rokhlin question the future of ayahuasca. When Plants Dream is the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon.Trade Review"When Plants Dream offers a standout survey of the accompanying quest for knowledge and transformation that this plant and others promise." - California Bookwatch"When Plants Dream, by Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin is the first book to set the Ayahuasca phenomenon in its proper context... All in all a tour de force. Highly recommended." - Graham Hancock

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Book SynopsisGenetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of ‘pro-poor’ innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food sovereignty and the environment. The promotion of biotechnology is an integral part of ‘new Green Revolution for Africa’ interventions and is also intimately linked to the rise of ‘philanthrocapitalism,’ which advances business solutions to address the problem of poverty. Through interviews with farmers, policymakers and agricultural scientists, Jacqueline Ignatova shows how efforts to transform the seed sector in northern Ghana – one of the key laboratories of this ‘new Green Revolution’ – may serve to exacerbate the inequality it was notionally intended to address. But she also argues that its effects in Ghana have been far more complex than either side of the debate has acknowledged, with local farmers proving adept at blending traditional and modern agricultural methods that subvert the interests of global agribusiness.Trade ReviewIgnatova’s important book illuminates profound problems with public-private partnerships that skirt democratic accountability and empower wealthy interests at the expense of local communities. But it’s not a despairing account: she centres Ghanaian activists and policy-makers who are pioneering a new type of philanthropy, one emphasizing interdependency and social justice over anti-democratic efforts to privatize seed commons. A revelatory and insightful study. * Professor Linsey McGoey, University of Essex, UK *Like a combine through a field of genetically modified maize, Jacqueline Ignatova cuts through the rhetoric surrounding the 'Green Revolution for Africa' to reveal the underlying power, politics and inequities that shape agricultural development in contemporary Ghana. Full of rich empirics and analytical insights, this book is essential reading for those seeking a comprehensive understanding of how public-private partnerships and philanthropy-driven initiatives are reshaping smallholder agriculture across the African continent. * Marcus Taylor, Associate Professor & Head of Department, Global Development Studies, Queen’s University, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Green Revolution discourse, structural adjustment, and the “enabling environment” for agribusiness Chapter 2: Philanthrocapitalism and the politics of public-private partnerships Chapter 3: Biocapital, “pro-poor” biotechnology, and legislative changes in the seed sector Chapter 4: Technological savior or terminator gene? Biotechnology, food security, and the political economy of hype Chapter 5: Experts, entrepreneurs, and the “last mile user” Interlude: On “mixing” Chapter 6: Neocolonial anxieties Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA slave woman in 1840s America dresses as a white, disabled man to escape to freedom, while a twenty-first-century black rights activist is ‘cancelled’ for denying her whiteness. A Victorian explorer disguises himself as a Muslim in Arabia’s forbidden holy city. A trans man claiming to have been assigned male at birth is exposed and murdered by bigots in 1993. Today, Japanese untouchables leave home and change their name. All of them have ‘passed’, performing or claiming an identity that society hasn’t assigned or recognised as theirs. For as long as we’ve drawn lines describing ourselves and each other, people have naturally fallen or deliberately stepped between them. What do their stories—in life and in art—tell us about the changing meanings of identity? About our need for labels, despite their obvious limitations? Lipika Pelham reflects on tales of fluidity and transformation, including her own. From Pope Joan to Parasite, Brazil to Bangladesh, London to Liberia, Passing is a fascinating, timely history of the self.Trade Review'Pelham, a writer with a flair for capturing complex sensitivities, has produced a provocative, engaging history that doesn't balk at considering the fierce contemporary debate surrounding gender identity, or what happens when passing becomes trespassing, AKA cultural appropriation.' -- The Observer'A fascinating and engrossing exploration of racial passing and fluid racial identity from an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist.' -- Cosmopolitan UK‘[Offers] long histories, with much to say about the present.’'This remarkable book merges perceptive understanding of sociopolitical identity problems facing many who are disempowered and marginalised owing to skin-colour, sexuality, gender, caste, class or religion.' -- Morning Star'Expertly navigating themes of identity, boundaries and belonging, Pelham combines moving storytelling with patient writing to create a truly transformative experience.' -- David Lammy MP, author of 'Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society''Thoroughly elevates the complex reality of day-to-day identity dynamics, tracing their rich historical origins and posing pertinent questions for the future.' -- Koa Beck, author of 'White Feminism''A profound and heartfelt meditation on the cost of self-effacement and the need to forge a new sense of self from the debris of our atavisms.' -- Aatish Taseer, author of 'The Twice-Born', 'The Temple-Goers' and 'Stranger to History''A gripping account of how a person can be liberated by taking on another identity, or indeed how their own existence exposes the artificial boundaries of otherness. With compassion, honesty, and a storyteller's eye for beauty in meaning, Pelham destigmatises and viscerally recreates these crossings to another shore.' -- Medina Tenour Whiteman, author of 'The Invisible Muslim'

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Book SynopsisThe dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread migrations that have indelibly marked the region throughout the last 150 years. Syria itself has harboured millions from its neighbouring lands, and Syrian society has been shaped by these diasporas. Dawn Chatty explores how modern Syria came to be a refuge state, focusing first on the major forced migrations into Syria of Circassians, Armenians, Kurds, Palestinians, and Iraqis. Drawing heavily on individual narratives and stories of integration, adaptation, and compromise, she shows that a local cosmopolitanism came to be seen as intrinsic to Syrian society. She examines the current outflow of people from Syria to neighbouring states as individuals and families seek survival with dignity, arguing that though the future remains uncertain, the resilience and strength of Syrian society both displaced internally within Syria and externally across borders bodes well for successful return and reintegration. If there is any hope to be found in the Syrian civil war, it is in this history.Trade Review'[Chatty's] book examines the country's experience with migration through a mixture of source material and interviews with members of minority communities. A portrait emerges of a country that has been tolerant and generous to those seeking refuge.' * The Financial Times *‘Fascinating . . . Chatty’s work provides a valuable insight into Syria’s formation as a refugee state before it became the world’s biggest exporter of refugees.’ * International Affairs *'An admirably clear exposition of how and why Syria embraced millions of Muslim and Christian refugees from the disintegrating Ottoman Empire and how and why, in the current war, displaced Syrians were met with reciprocal hospitality in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, but large-scale rejection in the West.' * Diana Darke, author of 'My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syria Crisis' *'Passionate and erudite, combining the intimacy of the anthropological eye with a broad historical sweep, Dawn Chatty tells the two-century story of Syria as a place of refuge. Beginning with Sultan Abdul Hamid’s creation of the muhajireen quarter of Damascus as a refuge for Muslims from Crete, Chatty further exposes the often-forgotten forced migrations of Muslims from the Balkans, Crimea, and the Caucasus; the story continues with the Armenians, Kurds, then the Palestinians and Iraqis. The last chapter recounts the tragedy of how Syrians have now become refugees from their own country.' * Raymond Hinnebusch, Professor, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews *'A very timely and insightful book. Tracing the arc of migration in and out of Syria in the last 150 years, Dawn Chatty offers a layered portrait of a modern nation whose cultural hybridity was until recently the source of its openness.' * Nasser Rabat, Aga Khan Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *'Today half of the Syrian population is internally displaced or have fled, or left, for mainly neighbouring countries but also further afield. In this crisis we risk disregarding the rich humanitarian history of the country. Dawn Chatty’s timely book is devoted to that history when Bilad ash-Sham in the late Ottoman period, and Syria since World War I, received and welcomed refugees and uprooted people from within, as well as from without, the region. Based on long-term anthropological engagement in the region and with the people she writes about, this book is a very important contribution to regional ethnography and history and to the development of refugee studies.' * Annika Rabo, Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University *

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Book SynopsisEthnographic fieldwork is something which is often presented as mysterious and inexplicable. How do we know certain things after having done fieldwork? Are we sure we know? And what exactly do we know? This book describes ethnographic fieldwork as the gradual accumulation of knowledge about something you don’t know much about. We start from ignorance and gradually move towards knowledge, on the basis of practices for which we have theoretical and methodological motivations. Jan Blommaert and Dong Jie draw on their own experiences as fieldworkers in explaining the complexities of ethnographic fieldwork as a knowledge trajectory. They do so in an easily accessible way that makes these complexities easier to understand and to handle before, during and after fieldwork. The 2nd edition of this bestselling book updates the 1st edition and includes a new postscript on ethnography in an online world.Trade ReviewThis book takes the reader into a wonderfully complex, multivocal conversation on ethnographic practice. The new edition successfully extends these conversations into the ever more ‘ethnographically thick’ realm of online socialisation and subjectivation. It provides guidance and insights which are edifying and superbly didactic for beginners while profoundly inspiring for advanced scholars. * Karel Arnaut, KU Leuven, Belgium *This book provides a precise and practical approach to linguistic fieldwork. It does so not only by reaffirming ethnography’s core principles but also by updating this method to study communicative practices in the online-offline nexus. Blommaert and Dong provide a welcome reframing of the discipline, in which theoretical reasoning equals practical problem-solving and ‘subjectivity’ is an indispensable and crucial tool. * Marco Jacquemet, University of San Francisco, USA *This is a beautiful book. It presents a highly readable and insightful account of how doing ethnography helps us build theories of language in social life. For novices, it offers rich accounts that model and exemplify the doing of ethnography. For more experienced researchers, this second edition illuminates the challenges and rewards of exploring the online-offline nexus. * Zane Goebel, The University of Queensland, Australia *The authors have created a humorous, honest, reassuring, and heartfelt book that can help us to remember the true reasons we conduct research: our curiosity to understand and analyze complex interactions. * Manuela Vida-Mannl, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, LINGUIST List 32.2373 *Jan Blommaert & Dong Jie’s book is an easy-to-use, practical guide for students and researchers who want to use ethnography as a research method [...] In this second edition, the authors further a vivid discussion of ethnographic practice in both offline and online contexts. To do so, they track the theoretical and methodological changes that emerged since the book was first published ten years ago [...] An important advance of the book is its focus on the inseparability of life offline and online. The authors highlight the affordances and difficulties this nexus presents for ethnographers. * Carlos Henrique Bem Gonçalves, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Language in Society 50 (2021) *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition 1. Introduction 2. Ethnography 3. The Sequence 1: Prior to Fieldwork 4. The Sequence 2: In the Field 5. The Sequence 3: After Fieldwork 6. By Way of Conclusion 7. Postscript: When Your Field Goes Online References

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Book Synopsis Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world – in particular the emergence of “non-territorial” religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) – and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.Trade Review “… a valuable addition to the literature on Pentecostalism. It is an experiment in comparative anthropology which employs an intriguing and innovative method and theory… This book is likely to stimulate salutary re-thinking about what passes as ‘established’ assumptions about the nature, history, and theory of Pentecostal research in the social sciences.” • Contemporary Religion “… a rich comparative study of sites in Africa and Melanesia in the thrall and thick of ‘Pentecost.’… [It] succeeds as a comparative and collective ethnography of three sites of modern ‘Pentecost,’ encouraging readers to see ‘Pentecostalism’ as not merely a new religious movement but rather a multiplicity of new religious movements, for they are many, emerging from and embedded within distinct historical and cultural contexts…It will also provide sociologists of religion who study new religious movements ethnographically with much food for thought and many opportunities for scholarly introspection.” • Sociology of Religion “Going to Pentecost raises important questions that intersect with theoretical issues in religion, globalization, and research about everyday life, that extend beyond the anthropology of Christianity and therefore, important for the broader more multidisciplinary study of Pentecostalism.” • Anthropos “This volume should be commended for its methodological device that allows for further investigation in the study of transnational religions. Theories develop directly from comparative field research… this book’s creative agenda should be both explored and further developed, and I would recommend it primarily to scholars in the fields of anthropology, Pentecostal studies, missiology, and world Christianity.” • Pneuma. The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies “Well-written, accessible, and groundbreaking… this book offers to rejuvenate the anthropology of Pentecostalism.” • Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh “Ethnographically well-grounded, conceptually innovative, and experimental in its comparative approach. Although there have been many collaborative publications on global Pentecostalism, few are so well integrated and are able to develop arguments through a truly comparative ethnography.” • Kim Knibbe, University of GroningenTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTIONS Introduction: Going to ‘Pentecost’: Outline of an Experiment Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost' Reading Guide PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST' Chapter 1. Borders in ‘Pentecost’: Creating Protected Spaces Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in ‘Pentecost’ Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST' Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in ‘Pentecost’ Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth PART IV: COMMENTS Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed Matei Candea Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism Joel Robbins Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good? Knut Rio Chapter 11. ‘Pentecost’ in The World Birgit Meyer Index

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