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The Partial Revolution - Labour, Social Movements And The Invisible Hand Of Mao In Western Nepal

by Michael Hoffmann

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 Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepalâ€™s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailaliâ€™s feudal system of bonded labor.
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Class, Contention, And A World In Motion

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 Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history...
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When Women Held The Dragon'S Tongue - And Other Essays In Historical Anthropology

by Hermann Rebel

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 Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins Bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture Presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies
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Slipping Away - Banana Politics And Fair Trade In The Eastern Caribbean

by Mark Moberg

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 During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating.
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Where Have All The Homeless Gone? - The Making And Unmaking Of A Crisis

by Anthony Marcus

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 While homelessness has not disappeared from the American social scene, the homeless have disappeared from American public discourse following increased attention in the 1980s and early 1990s. In this work, the first volume of the new series, Dislocations: Anthropologies of Labor, Place, and Displacement, Marcus (international development, Melbo
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Intellectuals And (Counter-) Politics - Essays In Historical Realism

by Gavin Smith

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 Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls "the society of capital" and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
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The Partial Revolution - Labour, Social Movements And The Invisible Hand Of Mao In Western Nepal

by Michael Hoffmann

23,96€ + 10% CARD

 Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal's Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali's feudal system of bonded labor.
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Revolt Of The Provinces - Anti-Gypsyism And Right-Wing Politics In Hungary

by Kristóf Szombati

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 The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.
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Worldwide Mobilizations - Class Struggles And Urban Commoning

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 Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed.
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Glimpses Of Hope - The Rise Of Industrial Labor At The Urban Margins Of Nepal

by Michael Hoffmann

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 Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle-class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in areas such as modern food-processing, water-bottling, housebuilding, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity. Although global labor relations have been mostly in decline for decades, this ethnography offers insights and glimpses of hope in terms of labor dynamics and the opportunities various jobs may afford.
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Facing The Crisis - Ethnographies Of Work In Italian Industrial Capitalism

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 Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.
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Frontiers Of Civil Society - Government And Hegemony In Serbia

by Marek Mikus

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 Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of `civil society' in Serbia's postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation.
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Indigenist Mobilization - Confronting Electoral Communism And Precarious Livelihoods In Post-Reform Kerala

by Luisa Steur

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 Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.
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Elusive Promises - Planning In The Contemporary World

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 Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently - as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space.
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Biopolitics, Militarism, And Development - Eritrea In The Twenty-First Century

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 Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century.
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Crude Domination - An Anthropology Of Oil

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 This title assesses the current state of knowledge concerning oil, integration, and conflict and formulates an anthropological research strategy to advance an understanding of oil and its vicissitudes.
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Communities Of Complicity - Everyday Ethics In Rural China

by Hans Steinmuller

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 Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China.
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Blood And Fire - Toward A Global Anthropology Of Labor

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 Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement of the greater common good...
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Anthropology Of Corporate Social Responsibility

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 The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism.
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Breaking Rocks - Music, Ideology And Economic Collapse, From Paris To Kinshasa

by Joe Trapido

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 Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa's troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
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Democracy Struggles - Ngos And The Politics Of Aid In Serbia

by Theodora Vetta

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 This book traces the boom of local NGOs in Serbia since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.
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Brazilian Steel Town - Machines, Land, Money And Commoning In The Making Of The Working Class

by Massimiliano Mollona

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 Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getulio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant - of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.
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Bulldozer Capitalism - Accumulation, Ruination, And Dispossession In Northeastern Turkey

by Erdem Evren

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 Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath.
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Claiming Homes - Confronting Domicide In Rural China

by Charlotte Bruckermann

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 Explores how `care', defined as `work done on behalf of others', allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China's politics of place and localization of class.
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