Search Results

ENGLISH

Society Of The Righteous - Ibadhi Muslim Identity And Transnationalism In Tanzania

by Kimberly T. Wortmann

~~43,71€~~ 39,34€ 10% OFF

 By studying the complexities of a religious community whose significance has been obscured by the limitations of area studies paradigms, Wortmann shifts the discussion of global Muslim religion and politics beyond the usual concerns with tradition versus modernity, contestations between various branches of Islam, and the global war on terror.
ENGLISH

Tenement Nation - Working-Class Cosmopolitanism In Edinburgh

by Christa Ballard Tooley

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Tooley's study of the working-class Canongate community in Edinburgh's Old Town as they negotiate gentrification plans offers a complex view of class and nation. Tenement Nation looks at these negotiations between socioeconomic classes and even nationalities to show what Tooley calls a ""working-class cosmopolitanism"" in pursuit of social, economic, and political inclusion.
ENGLISH

Engineering Global Socialism - Ownership, Non-Alignment, And Corporate Culture In A Bosnian Company

by Anna Calori

~~46,09€~~ 41,48€ 10% OFF

 Engineering Global Socialism chronicles the journey of the Bosnian global corporation Energoinvest and its workers from its Yugoslav socialist ideals through decades of dissolution, reconstruction, and post-socialist transformation.Author Anna Calori provides a company-centric window into the business history of socialist globalization during periods of national development, destruction, and rebuilding. Contrary to popular perceptions of "centralized" socialist states, Energoinvest actively shaped trade relations with the Global South, driven by a socialist corporate culture that encouraged competition as well as collective decision-making. Even after Yugoslavia's disintegration in 1992 ended its dreams of a socialist path to globalization, these core characteristics shaped Energoinvest's adaptation to capitalist transformations and made it a key player in the struggle for Bosnia's post-war economic reconstruction. Through oral histories and archival research, Calori reveals how Energoinvest's workers paired the promise of a new model of global integration with their own visions of a working world in which they set the rules of engagement—and how, upon its sale to mostly foreign owners, the marginalization and ethnic homogenization of employee shareholders mirrored changes around citizenship in Bosnia. Now, in the twenty-first century, Energoinvest offers new promises of a post-industrial future, but its often hazy parameters leave workers to rely on the memory of "what could have been" to make sense of change.Tracing the long trajectory of a Yugoslav enterprise through decades of large-scale social change, Engineering Global Socialism presents a historical and sociological moment in which workers' ideas about social and corporate enterprise offered the possibility of a more democratic path to globalization.
ENGLISH

Worlding Home - An Urban Ethnography Of Peacekeeping Camps In Goma, Drc

by Maren Larsen e Marenlarsen

~~43,12€~~ 38,81€ 10% OFF

 Worlding Home interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 2017 to 2019, more than twenty of these camps existed in and around the city, operating as sites of global outreach even as they generated new ways of being at home for peacekeepers and the peace-kept population.Through multisited ethnography and deep engagement with anthropological and urban theory, author Maren Larsen explores the entanglements of camp and city. Pushing against readings of Goma's peacekeeping camps as either more privileged enclaves or as outliers in camp studies when compared to refugee camps, Larsen argues for an understanding of "camp" as a process and practice. Between dwelling and journeying and "here" and "there," the everyday lives and embodied practices of Goma's peacekeepers and Congolese civilians co-construct a "city as elsewhere" in which camping is a vital urban practice.By offering a more expansive understanding of how UN peacekeeping camps fit within Goma's urban fabric, Worlding Home reveals the intertwined sociospatial processes of making a home, building a city, and reimagining the world.
ENGLISH

Society Of The Righteous - Ibadhi Muslim Identity And Transnationalism In Tanzania

by Kimberly T. Wortmann

~~45,96€~~ 41,36€ 10% OFF

free shipping

 By studying the complexities of a religious community whose significance has been obscured by the limitations of area studies paradigms, Wortmann shifts the discussion of global Muslim religion and politics beyond the usual concerns with tradition versus modernity, contestations between various branches of Islam, and the global war on terror.
ENGLISH

Remaking Islam In African Portugal - Lisbon‚ Mecca‚ Bissau

by Michelle Johnson

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>A portrait of Muslim migrants adapting to a new world and a new understanding of their own religious and cultural identity in a European city. When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam. Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon—especially those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and attend Friday prayer at Lisbon’s central mosque—aspire to be cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women—many of whom never studied the Qur’an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the mosque—remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In response, these women have created a "culture club" as an alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe, and how Guinean migrants’ relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion.</DIV>
ENGLISH

Fast Money Schemes - Hope And Deception In Papua New Guinea

by John Cox

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands. The most notorious scheme, U-Vistract, attracted many thousands of investors, enticing them with promises of 100 percent interest to be paid monthly. Its founder, Noah Musingku, was a charismatic leader who promoted the scheme as a form of Christian mission and as the basis for establishing an independent kingdom. Fast Money Schemes uses in-depth interviews with investors, newspaper accounts, and participant observation to understand the scheme''s appeal from the point of view of those who invested and lost, showing that organizers and investors alike understood the scheme as a way of accessing and participating in a global economy. John Cox delivers a "post-village" ethnography that gives insight into the lives of urban, middle-class Papua New Guineans, a group that is not familiar to US readers and that has seldom been a focus of anthropological interest. The book''s concern with understanding the interweaving of morality, finance, and aspirations shared by a global cosmopolitan middle class has wide resonance beyond studies of Papua New Guinea and anthropology.
ENGLISH

In Sickness And In Wealth - Migration, Gendered Morality, And Central Java

by Carol Chan

15,89€ + 10% CARD

 Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions to migrate. Villagers evaluate men''s and women’s migrations differently, leading to different ideas about which kinds of human or financial flows should be encouraged and which should be discouraged or even criminalized. Despite routine and well-documented instances of exploitation of Indonesian migrant workers, some villagers still emphasize that a migrant''s success or failure ultimately depends on that individual’s morality, fate, and destiny. Indonesian villagers construct strategies for avoiding migration-related risks that are closely linked to faith and belief in supernatural agency. These strategies shape the flow of migration from the country and help to ensure the continued confidence Indonesian people have in migration as an act of promise and hope.
ENGLISH

Africans In Exile - Mobility, Law, And Identity

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 The enforced removal of individuals has long been a political tool used by African states to create generations of asylum seekers, refugees, and fugitives. Historians often present such political exile as a potentially transformative experience for resilient individuals, but this reading singles the exile out as having an exceptional experience. This collection seeks to broaden that understanding within the global political landscape by considering the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects it has had on African peoples. The works collected in this volume seek to recover the diversity of exile experiences across the continent. This corpus of testimonials and documents is presented as an "archive" that provides evidence of a larger, shared experience of persecution and violence. This consideration reads exiles from African colonies and nations as active participants within, rather than simply as victims of, the larger global diaspora. In this way, exile is understood as a way of asserting political dissidence and anti-imperial strategies. Broken into three distinct parts, the volume considers legal issues, geography as a strategy of anticolonial resistance, and memory and performative understandings of exile. The experiences of political exile are presented as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and postcolonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa.
ENGLISH

Global Mountain Regions - Conversations Toward The Future

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.
ENGLISH

Ethnography Of Hunger - Politics, Subsistence, And The Unpredictable Grace Of The Sun

by Kristin Phillips

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with—rather than die from—hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and state extraction, Phillips studies hunger as a pattern of relationships and practices that organizes access to food and profoundly shapes agrarian lives and livelihoods. Amid extreme inequality and unpredictability, rural people pursue subsistence by alternating between—and sometimes combining—rights and reciprocity, a political form that she calls "subsistence citizenship." Phillips argues that studying subsistence is essential to understanding the persistence of global poverty, how people vote, and why development projects succeed or fail.
ENGLISH

Global Mountain Regions - Conversations Toward The Future

54,08€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions.
ENGLISH

New Humanitarianism And The Crisis Of Charity - Good Intentions On The Road To Help

by Michael Mascarenhas

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>"An excellent addition to courses on development, inequality, public policy, and globalization, and it could . . . be read by an audience beyond sociologists."—American Journal of Sociology Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian policy and practice? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, Michael Mascarenhas considers that issue using water management projects in India and Rwanda as case studies. Mascarenhas analyzes the complex web of agreements ?both formal and informal?that are made between businesses, governments, and aid organizations, as well as the contradictions that arise when capitalism meets humanitarianism. "Insightful . . . provides a scathing critique of the new humanitarianism." —University of Chicago Press Journals </DIV>
ENGLISH

Archipelago Of Care - Filipino Migrants And Global Networks

by Deirdre Mckay

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>A study of Filipino caregivers in London and what it says for migrant workers and the networks they build in the global marketplace. Focusing on the experience of Filipino caregivers in London, some of whom are living and working illegally in their host country, Deirdre McKay considers what migrant workers must do to navigate their way in a global marketplace. She draws on interviews and participant observations, her own long-term fieldwork in communities in the Philippines, and digital ethnography to present an intricate consideration of how these caregivers create stability in potentially precarious living situations. McKay argues that these workers gain resilience from the bonding networks they construct for themselves through social media, faith groups, and community centers. These networks generate an elaborate "archipelago of care" through which migrants create their sense of self. "A beautifully written ethnography of Filipino migrants in the UK and their experience of living their lives within and across the UK and the Philippines, mediated by physical space, institutions and a series of digital media." —Heather Horst, coauthor of Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices "Deirdre McKay takes a novel approach to key concepts undergirding globalization and transnationalism today—citizenship, surveillance, and security. She makes us think differently about the negotiation of belonging in a digital and hyper-securitized age." —Jennifer Burrell, author of Maya After War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala</DIV>
ENGLISH

Paprika, Foie Gras, And Red Mud - The Politics Of Materiality In The European Union

by Zsuzsa Gille

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 In this original and provocative study, Zsuzsa Gille examines three scandals that have shaken Hungary since it joined the European Union: the 2004 ban on paprika due to contamination, the 2008 boycott of Hungarian foie gras by Austrian animal rights activists, and the "red mud" spill of 2010, Hungary's worst environmental disaster. In each case, Gille analyzes how practices of production and consumption were affected by the proliferation of new standards and regulations that came with entry into the EU. She identifies a new modality of powerthe materialization of politics, or achieving political goals with the seemingly apolitical tools of tinkering with technology and infrastructureand elucidates a new approach to understanding globalization, materiality, and transnational politics.
Bastards Of Utopia - Living Radical Politics After Socialism

by Maple Razsa

10,59€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV>Bastards of Utopia, the companion to a feature documentary film of the same name, explores the experiences and political imagination of young radical activists in the former Yugoslavia, participants in what they call alterglobalization or "globalization from below." Ethnographer Maple Razsa follows individual activists from the transnational protests against globalization of the early 2000s through the Occupy encampments. His portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country''s youth. More information on the film can be found at www.der.org/films/bastards-of-utopia.html.</DIV>
ENGLISH

Looking Behind The Label - Global Industries And The Conscientious Consumer

by Gustavo Setrini, Hiram Samel, Nik Summers, Sebastian Koos e Tim Bartley

26,88€ + 10% CARD

 What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? Looking behind the Label presents an informative introduction to global production and ethical consumption, tracing the links between consumers' choices and the practices of multinational producers and retailers. Case studies of several types of products—wood and paper, food, apparel and footwear, and electronics—are used to reveal what lies behind voluntary rules and to critique predominant assumptions about ethical consumption as a form of political expression.
ENGLISH

Rooted Globalism - Arabâ€“Latin American Business Elites And The Politics Of Global Imaginaries

by Kevin Funk

90,58€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Branding Bhakti - Krishna Consciousness And The Makeover Of A Movement

by Nicole Karapanagiotis

37,84€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Engineering Global Socialism - Ownership, Non-Alignment, And Corporate Culture In A Bosnian Company

by Anna Calori

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Engineering Global Socialism - Ownership, Non-Alignment, And Corporate Culture In A Bosnian Company

by Anna Calori

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Worlding Home - An Urban Ethnography Of Peacekeeping Camps In Goma, Drc

by Maren Larsen

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Worlding Home - An Urban Ethnography Of Peacekeeping Camps In Goma, Drc

by Maren Larsen

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Society Of The Righteous - Ibadhi Muslim Identity And Transnationalism In Tanzania

by Kimberly T. Wortmann

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
Loading results...

View more results