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  • 1
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  International Journal of the Commons 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: International Journal of the Commons
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Ubiquity Press
    Angaben zur Quelle: 8,2014,2, Seiten 457-471
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: commons ; human geography ; place-making ; politics of scale ; property rights ; reclaiming the commons ; spatial fit ; spatial planning ; spatiality ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Geografie und Reisen
    Abstract: This editorial sets the scene for the special feature by explaining the importance of geography to the commons and its governance, critically appraising the existing literature on this theme, highlighting important contributions from recent research and mapping out a future research agenda. It begins by reflecting on how little explicit attention has been paid to date to the spatial dimensions of the commons. The author critiques on the one hand the literature on the commons for conceiving of spatiality primarily as the local, physical context of commons use and regulation but also, on the other hand, the spatial science literature for generally neglecting the commons, both conceptually and empirically. The paper then pinpoints important exceptions in the fields of human geography and planning studies, assessing how these works contribute to a more thorough and robust understanding of the relationship between spatiality, the commons and their governance. The analysis of these select works making explicit reference to the commons is complemented with a reflection on how broader debates in the spatial sciences can enrich spatial research on the commons. The final section turns to the papers of the special feature, summarizing each of the papers in order and indicating how they each contribute to the themes developed in the editorial.
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  • 2
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  , Seiten 341-352
    ISBN: 978-3-531-19454-7 , 978-3-531-19454-7
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Wiesbaden : Springer VS
    Angaben zur Quelle: , Seiten 341-352
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Infrastruktur ; Ethnographie ; Ökologie ; Wissenschaftsforschung ; Technikforschung ; Science and Technology Studies ; Sozialanthropologie ; Anthropologie ; Care ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Infrastrukturen waren lange Zeit Untersuchungs- und Gestaltungsobjekte der technischen Disziplinen. Zwar vermitteln Infrastrukturen „reflection and action upon the world“ und sind somit häufig unmittelbar verwickelt in das Ordnen menschlicher Interaktion und Praxis. Trotzdem hat sich die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung diesem Phänomen lange Zeit nicht produktiv gewidmet.
    Note: Erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen (published first as): Jörg Niewöhner: „Perspektiven der Infrastrukturforschung: care-ful, relational, ko-laborativ“. In: Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies. Hrsg. von Diana Lengersdorf and Matthias Wieser. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2014, Seiten 341–352. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-19455-4_28
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  • 3
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Taylor & Francis : Taylor & Francis, 2015
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,12, Seiten 1547-1563
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Local energy transitions ; Berlin-Brandenburg ; Ownership ; Commons ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany’s energy transition through the lens of organization and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels the paper develops a novel way of conceptualizing the institutional to urban and regional energy transitions in terms of agency and power, ideas and discourse, and commons and ownership. This analytical heuristic is applied to a two-tier empirical study of the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The first tier involves a survey of the organizational landscape of energy infrastructures and services in cities, towns and villages in Brandenburg. The second tier comprises a case study of current, competing initiatives for (re-)gaining ownership of the power grid and utility in Berlin. The paper draws conclusions on the diverse and dynamic organizational responses to the Energiewende at the local level, what these tell us about urban and regional energy governance and how they are inspired by – or in opposition to – new forms of collective ownership resonant of recent debates on reclaiming the commons. It concludes with observations on how relational approaches to institutional research and the notion of the commons can guide and inspire future research on socio-technical transitions in general, and urban energy transitions in particular.
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    Note: Originally published as: Timothy Moss, Sören Becker & Matthias Naumann (2015) Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions, Local Environment, 20:12, 1547-1563, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2014.915799
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  • 4
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  20,4, Seiten 789-790
    ISSN: 1467-9655 , 1467-9655
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (3 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Wiley
    Angaben zur Quelle: 20,4, Seiten 789-790
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Rezension ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Biologie
    Abstract: Review of the book “The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology” (edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey, 2012).
    Note: published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner: Review of “The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology”, edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey, 2012. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20.4 (2014), pages 789–790. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12138_8.
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  • 5
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  , Seiten 259-270
    ISBN: 978-3-11-031603-2 , 978-3-11-031603-2
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : De Gruyter
    Angaben zur Quelle: , Seiten 259-270
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Genetik und Evolution ; Medizin und Gesundheit
    Note: Erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen (published first as): Jörg Niewöhner: „Molekularbiologische Sozialwissenschaft?“. In: Kulturen der Epigenetik. Vererbt, codiert, übertragen. Hrsg. von Vanessa Lux und Jörg Thomas Richter. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, Seiten 259–270. DOI: 10.1515/9783110316032.259 Das Dokument ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Es wird unter Einhaltung der zum Veröffentlichungszeitpunkt geltenden Selbstarchivierungsbedingungen des Verlags De Gruyter zur Verfügung gestellt.
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  • 6
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  42, Seiten 38-47
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science
    Angaben zur Quelle: 42, Seiten 38-47
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: River basin management ; Water Framework Directive ; politics of scale ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Scholars of environmental governance are increasingly intrigued by issues of scale. Efforts to institutionalise river basin management represent a pertinent exemplar, as they aspire to strengthen hydrological vis-à-vis political-administrative scales of governance. The EU Wa-ter Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious policy initiatives worldwide to reconfigure water management planning around the hydrological scale of river basins. Whilst it is widely assumed that the WFD is rescaling water governance in Europe, few em-pirical studies have been conducted to ascertain how far this is the case, what scalar strate-gies and practices are emerging and to what effect. The paper addresses these open issues with a study analysing the multi-scalar actions of water authorities, water management or-ganisations, local authorities and interest groups involved in implementing the WFD. It in-vestigates how stakeholders are acting scalar from the local to the European scale and back to further their interests in the course of WFD implementation, focussing on the Wupper sub-basin in Germany. Drawing for conceptual insight on the human geography debate on the politics of scale and processes of rescaling, we demonstrate how all relevant stakeholders are increasingly working across scales to advance their interests but in very different ways, with different degrees of deliberation and to different effect. A typology of multi-scalar action is developed to interpret this diversity. The paper draws conclusions on how multi-scalar action is altering not only power relations between the actors but also the scalar configurations themselves.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
    Note: First published as: Frank Hüesker and Timothy Moss: The politics of multi-scalar action in river basin management: Implementing the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). Land Use Policy 2015, 42 (January), pp.38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.07.003 This accepted manuscript version of the article stated above is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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  • 7
    ISBN: 978-3-8236-1691-7
    Language: German
    Additional Information: Berlin : Margraf Publishers GmbH 978-3-8236-1691-7
    DDC: 370
    Keywords: Klimawandel ; Lausitz-Spreewald ; transdisziplinär ; Klimaanpassung ; Bildung und Erziehung ; Raumplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur ; Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie, Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: Klimaschutz bleibt wichtig, aber wir müssen uns auch mit den Folgen des Klimawandels auseinandersetzen! Um dieser Herausforderung zu begegnen, bedarf es eines Austausches und Aushandelns zwischen betroffenen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen. Der Regionaldialog Lausitz-Spreewald versucht genau das. Er ist eine Plattform, auf der Wissenschaftler*innen, Praktiker*innen und Vertreter*innen aus Bildung und Kommunen in einen gleichberechtigten Dialog treten und die regionalen Perspektiven vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels erörtern und diskutieren. Die „Kommunikationsplattform“ soll somit einen Beitrag dazu leisten, vom abstrakten Begriff „Klimaanpassung“ zu konkreten regionalen Maßnahmen in Praxis, Bildung und Beratung zu gelangen. Der vorliegende Leitfaden zieht eine Zwischenbilanz, dokumentiert die bisherigen Veranstaltungen und den partizipativen Prozess und reflektiert den Regionaldialog als Dialoginstrument zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis.
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  • 8
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    Berlin : Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    DDC: 630
    Keywords: Farmland ; lease rate ; term structure ; hedonic price model ; privatization ; Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: This paper applies the concept of a term structure to agricultural land rental prices. Based on theoretical considerations, we develop a hedonic pricing model that allows for different shapes of the term structure curve while controlling for other price-relevant characteristics. We apply this model to land lease contracts in Saxony-Anhalt concluded between 2002 and 2010. We find an upward-sloping term structure at the beginning, that is, market participants expected increasing rental prices. For the subsequent years, however, we detect a singlehumped term structure. Hence, market participants revised their expectations and assumed a decline of land rental prices in the long-term.
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  • 9
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  2,1, Seiten 126-129
    ISSN: 2197-2567 , 2197-2567
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (4 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : sub\urban e.V.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 2,1, Seiten 126-129
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: careful material-semiotic practice ; Praxis ; Kollaboration ; Kritik ; Stadtanthropologie ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Diese Replik fügt dem sympathisch argumentierenden Aufsatz von Alexa Färber drei hoffentlich generative Kritikpunkte hinzu: Erstens erscheint mir überdenkenswert, ob der Assemblage-Begriff dem dynamischeren und bereits etablierten Konzept der careful material-semiotic practice Wesentliches hinzufügt. Zweitens muss meines Erachtens mit dem Assemblage-Denken ein neuer Kritikbegriff einhergehen, der nicht auf Subjekt-Objekt-Dichotomien basiert. Drittens halte ich es für wichtig, mit einem ko-laborativen empirischen Forschungsmodus den Kontakt zu den Natur- und Technikwissenschaften zu halten und nicht ausschließlich auf zunehmend sublime Forschung zu setzen.
    Note: Nachgenutzt gemäß den CC-Bestimmungen des Lizenzgebers bzw. einer im Dokument selbst enthaltenen CC-Lizenz: dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung – Nicht-kommerziell – Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland Lizenz (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/). , erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen (published first as): Jörg Niewöhner: „Stadt als Praxis ko-laborativ wissen. Kommentar zu Alexa Färbers 'Potenziale freisetzen'“. In: sub\urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 2.1 (2014), Seiten 126–129.
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  • 10
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Social Sciences 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Social Sciences
    Publ. der Quelle: Basel : MDPI
    Angaben zur Quelle: 3,2014,1, Seiten 172-192
    DDC: 551
    Keywords: resilience ; vulnerability ; rules in use ; water conflict ; water scarcity ; institutions ; Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.
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  • 11
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    In:  Nature and Culture Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 19 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: ECOLOGY ; NATURE ; SPECULATIVE FICTION ; TEMPORALITIES
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    In:  Nature and Culture Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 25 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: CONSERVATION ; GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ; HUNTING ; MUSEUMS ; SUSTAINABLE USE
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  • 13
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 17 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: DOMESTICATION THEORY ; ELECTRIC VEHICLES ; ENERGY CULTURE ; MOBILITY ; PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR ; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES ; SOCIAL PRACTICE THEORY
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  • 14
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.) , 005244
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Excavations (Archaeology) ; Altai Mountains. ; Mongolia. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In the frozen steppes of the Altay, a Franco-Mongolian archeological expedition prepares to excavate the tomb of an Eastern Scythian warrior, 2 300 years old. Their ritual practice of deep burial of the dead, in combination with extreme climatic conditions, may mean that these scientists will discover the last frozen tombs on the planet, and will elucidate the mysteries surrounding this Scythian horseman. Who was he? How did he live? How did he die? This investigation will enable new light to be shed on this forgotten civilization. Alongside the excavations, a family of Kazakh nomads have set up their summer camp, attracted by the unusual activity. Striking similarities appear between the lifestyles and practices of these Kazakhs and the Eastern Scythians, two millennia apart in time. Intertwined with the archeological research is thus a fascinating ethno-archeological study, of one of the last peoples still isolated from modernity, and their possible very ancient ancestors. But for the Kazakhs too, the question arises - how long will they survive in their isolation?
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Februrary 25, 2015). , Previously released as DVD. , In English.
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    Madrid :Explora Films,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.) , 005110
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages. ; Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: India: Pilgrims of the Ganges' is a journey through the North of India along the basin of the sacred river for Hindus, the Ganges. From the valleys located on the side of the Himalayas, cradle of Buddhism, to the saint city of Benares, this documentary offers a fascinating journey through National Parks turned into sanctuaries for wildlife, and cities where Islam and Hinduism live together since centuries ago. We will witness the most crowded religious pilgrimage in the planet and get close to the mystic and enigmatic world of the Sadhus, the sacred men of India. Finally we will reach Benares, the sacred city, where Hindus purify their living souls and find eternal rest after death.
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
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  • 17
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    In:  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures) Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1755-2931 , 1755-2931 , 1755-2923
    Pages: 18 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: cultures of subjectivity ; ethnicity ; ideals of home ; literature ; Lloyd Jones ; Mister Pip
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    In:  The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Vol. 32, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 2047-7716 , 2047-7716 , 0305-7674
    Pages: 14 p.
    Titel der Quelle: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 32, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: biopolitics ; crisis ; event ; Manchuria ; plague ; subject
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  • 19
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 27 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 3 (2014)
    Keywords: CLIMATE CHANGE ; ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS ; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS ; NATURE PROTECTION
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (51 minutes) , 005015
    Keywords: Cold Physiological effect. ; Cold. ; India ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Based on true stories, with re-enactments and 3-D medical imagery, 'Beyond Human Limits' recounts adventures of scientists who have risked their lives to explore the limits of their bodies when confronted to extreme conditions.Cold: Dr. Cauchy was trapped for a whole night outdoors in extreme weather.
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  • 21
    ISBN: 9781782382355
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- -- Introduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen -- -- PART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- -- Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology -- Charles J-H Macdonald and Jean Naudin -- -- Chapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of Suicide -- María Cátedra -- -- PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDE -- -- Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible" – Plato's Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-Killing -- Miira Tuominen -- -- Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on Suicide -- Malin Grahn -- -- Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages -- Virpi Mäkinen -- -- PART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- -- Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile": The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide Bomber -- Susanne Dahlgren -- -- Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying" – Men, Suicide, and Moral Agency -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo -- -- Afterword -- Arthur Kleinman -- -- Notes on Contributors --
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781782382638
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 292 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 8
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a "youth bulge" increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- -- Foreword: The Construction of Life Phases and Some Facts of Life -- Günther Schlee -- -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration and Usage -- -- Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict -- -- Chapter 1. Placing the Field Sites in Their Context – A Demographic History -- Chapter 2. 'Why Didn't You Take a Side?' –The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups -- Chapter 3. 'Siblings are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand' – Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship -- Chapter 4. 'The Gift of Youth' – Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants -- Chapter 5. 'The only Thing in Life that Makes you Feel like a King' – Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Changes -- Chapter 6. 'Youth are our Future' – The State's Youth Categories Challenged by Youth -- -- Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulge as a Question of Domestication -- -- Appendix -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781782384502
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 324 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz' legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry on topics from cultural diversity policies in Europe to transnational networks in Yemen, and from pottery and literature to multinational corporations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Ulf Hannerz and the Militant Middle Ground -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, and Shalini Randeria -- Chapter 1. Divided by a Shared Destiny: An Anthropologist's Notes from an Overheated World -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Chapter 2.Juxtapositions: Social and Material Connectedness in a Pottery Community -- Brian Moeran -- Chapter 3. Connecting and Disconnecting: Intentionality, Anonymity, and Transnational Networks in Upper Yemen -- Andre Gingrich -- Chapter 4. Global Swirl at Dupont Circle: Think Tanks, Connectivity, and the Making of "The Global" -- Christina Garsten -- Chapter 5. Reflexivity Reloaded: From Anthropology of Intellectuals to Critique of Method to Studying Sideways -- Dominic Boyer -- Chapter 6. On Anthropologists and Other Cultural Interpreters -- Thomas Blom Hansen -- Chapter 7. Traveling between Knowledge Practices -- Thomas Fillitz -- Chapter 8. Anthropologist in the Irish Literary World: Reflexivity through Studying Sideways -- Helena Wulff -- Chapter 9. Reflections in and on The Hall of Mirrors -- Gudrun Dahl -- Chapter 10. On the Shores of Power: Cultural Diversity Turn, Cultural Policies, and the Location of Migrants -- Ayse Caglar -- Chapter 11. Emergent Concept Chains and Scenarios of Depoliticization: The Case of Global Governance as a Future Past -- Ronald Stade -- Chapter 12. Lusotopy as Ecumene -- João De Pina-Cabral -- Chapter 13. An Anthropologist of the World: Interview with Ulf Hannerz, September 2012 -- Dominic Boyer -- Publications by Ulf Hannerz -- Notes on Contributors --
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät I
    Language: German
    DDC: 000
    Keywords: Bericht ; Technische Entwicklung ; Fortschritte der Menschheit ; Beiträge der Informationstechnologie ; Zukunftsprobleme der Menschheit ; Allgemeines, Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Informatik ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Technik
    Abstract: Die Ausführungen befassen sich mit der Rolle der Technik im Zusammengang mit der beständigen Steigerung des menschlichen Fortschritts unter Beachtung der sich wandelnden Zielstellungen. Dazu werden die in den zurückliegenden 200 Jahren geleisteten Beiträge nur kurz gestreift und der Schwerpunkt der Behandlung auf die vorwiegend informationstechnisch orientierten Leistungen der Gegenwart gelegt, welche bevorzugt der Erfüllung individueller Bedürfnisse dienen. Die Abhandlung erfolgt in 4 Komplexen, wobei die Inhalte sich an manchen Stellen ein wenig überdecken. Im Ausblick wird auf den Wechsel der Zielrichtung aufmerksam gemacht, welche auf die Bewältigung der anstehenden Menschheitsprobleme gerichtet ist. Hier entsteht der Technik im Verbund mit anderen Fachdisziplinen eine Vielzahl forderungsreicher Aufgaben.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (284 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Stadtsoziologie ; Erinnerungskultur ; Wirkung ; Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas ; quantitative Befragung ; Pierre Bourdieu ; öffentlicher Raum ; urban sociology ; Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe ; memorial culture ; quantitative survey ; effect ; Pierre Bourdieu ; public space ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Studie wird erstmals die Frage untersucht, wie das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas in Berlin auf die Besucher wirkt. Dafür wird eine quantitative Befragung von 500 Besuchern durchgeführt. Zunächst werden die Erinnerungskulturtheorien von Jan und Aleida Assmann und Horst-Alfred Heinrich vorgestellt. Anschließend wird das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas örtlich und zeitlich eingebunden, indem das Konzept des repräsentativen öffentlichen Raums eingeführt und die Erinnerung an die Opfer des Holocaust in der Bundesrepublik und der DDR beleuchtet werden. Es folgt die Darstellung der Entstehung des Denkmals. Über die Rezeption von Denkmälern existieren in den Sozialwissenschaften bisher keine Theorien. Daher wird auf die kunstsoziologische Theorie von Pierre Bourdieu, auf eine Studie über die Wirkung von Gedenkstätten von Bert Pampel und auf eine Untersuchung über die emotionale Wirkung von Gemälden von Dorothée Halcour zurückgegriffen. Für die Untersuchung wird angenommen, dass sich die Besucher aufgrund ihres Bildungsgrades, ihrer Nationalität, ihres Alters und ihres Sozialisationsortes in ihren Reaktionen auf das Denkmal unterscheiden. Weiterhin wird angenommen, dass die Umstände des Denkmalbesuchs die Wirkung des Denkmals beeinflussen. Die Befragung zeigt: Personen mit niedrigerem Bildungsgrad konnten sich das Denkmal seltener erschließen als Personen mit höherem Bildungsgrad. Diese Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Teile der Bevölkerung nicht an der Erinnerung an den Holocaust teilhaben können, wenn die Materialisierung der Erinnerung über Kunst geschieht. Die Nationalität beeinflusste wesentlich, wie die Befragten das Denkmal bewerteten: So beurteilten Deutsche das Denkmal häufiger negativ und seltener positiv als Ausländer. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung werden abschließend im Kontext erinnerungspolitischer Debatten diskutiert.
    Abstract: This study asks how the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin affects its visitors. The study comprises a quantitative survey of 500 visitors. First the study introduces the theories of memory by Jan and Aleida Assmann and Horst-Alfred Heinrich. This is followed by the concept of the so-called representative public space that locates the memorial topographically. This chapter also shows the historical context of the memorial. It describes the development processes of earlier monuments to remember the victims of the Holocaust in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 2005. The study then shows the development process of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. There are no theories on the effects of memorials in the social sciences. The study uses Pierre Bourdieu''s theory of art sociology as well as a study on the impact of memorial sites by Bert Pampel and a study on the emotional effects of paintings by Dorothee Halcour as a theoretical frame. The most resultant hypothesises tested by the research state that visitors differ in their reactions to the memorial according to their education, their nationality and their age. Furthermore the study presumes that the circumstances of visiting the memorial affect how people react to the memorial. The results show that visitors with lower levels of education are less often able to develop an understanding of the memorial compared to visitors with a higher education background. The results indicate that these visitors are excluded from the intended remembrance of the Holocaust when the materialization of the memorial is implemented with artistic measures. Nationality plays a significant role too and influences visitors when judging the memorial. Germans more often have negative and less often positive judgements than foreign visitors. Finally the results of the research are discussed in the context of the cultural debate around the significance of memorials.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (291 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; soziale Ungleichheit ; Armut ; städtische Armut ; Verarmungsprozess ; Entwicklungstrends ; social inequality ; Poverty ; urban poverty ; impoverishment process ; development trends ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Das Phänomen der Armut zählt zu den größten Problemen der Großstädte. Die im Fokus dieser Arbeit stehende Armut in zwei Städten kann nur mit einer breiteren Betrachtung der sozialen Ungleichheit, zunehmender Arbeitslosigkeit, der Verschlechterung von Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen, der Einkommensdisparitäten etc. verstanden werden. Diese Merkmale sind in zunehmendem Maße in Städten der Industrieländer wie Berlin zu spüren. Die wachsende Ausbreitung von Armut in den industrialisierten Gesellschaften sowie in den sogenannten Schwellenländern führte zu einer breiteren Diskussion über das Armutsphänomen auf internationaler Ebene. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird das Phänomen der Armut in zwei Großstädten untersucht. Mexiko-Stadt und Berlin sind zwei unterschiedliche Städte mit ähnlichen sozialen Problemen. Mexiko-Stadt ist die ,typische’ Stadt in einem Schwellenland, die sich von Städten der Industrieländer durch den Grad der sozialen Ungleichheit, die ausgeprägte Kluft zwischen arm und reich sowohl strukturell als auch funktionell deutlich unterscheidet. Berlin andererseits nähert sich nach der Wiedervereinigung den Problemen anderer großen Metropolen an. In den letzten Jahren traten folgende Phänomene auf: das Entstehen neuer Formen der Armut, eine wachsende Zahl von Sozialhilfeempfängern, eine zunehmende Migrationsbevölkerung ohne wirtschaftliche Perspektiven u.a. Die Studie fasst Untersuchungsergebnisse und Berichte über Armut in Mexiko-Stadt und Berlin zusammen. Es handelt sich nicht um die Erhebung neuer empirischer Daten, sondern um die Selektion, Darstellung und Analyse verschiedener Studien zu Armut in beiden Städten. Die Analyse widmet sich der Armut unter dem Gesichtspunkt gemeinsamer Aspekte, verschiedener Charakteristiken und der jeweiligen Entwicklungstrends in den zwei untersuchten Städten.
    Abstract: The phenomenon of poverty is one of the most serious problems of big cities. The focus of this doctoral thesis is an examination of poverty in two major cities, which must be understood on a broader basis while considering social inequality, rising unemployment, deterioration of working and living conditions, income disparities, etc. These increasing characteristics are notable in cities of developed countries such as Berlin. The growing spread of poverty in industrialized societies and in emerging countries has led to a broader discussion about the phenomenon of poverty at the international level. This doctoral thesis analyzes the phenomenon of poverty in two major cities. Mexico City and Berlin are two different cities with similar social problems. Mexico City is a ,typicalʼ city in a emerging country, which is structurally as well as functionally different from cities of developed countries by the degree of social inequality and the pronounced gap between rich and poor. On the other hand, after its reunification Berlin faces problems of other large cities. In recent years the following phenomena have occurred: the emergence of new forms of poverty, a growing number of welfare recipients, an increasing migrant population without economic prospects etc. This study summarizes investigative findings and reports on poverty in Mexico City and Berlin together. The goal is not to collect new empirical data, but rather to emphasize the selection, presentation and analysis of various studies on poverty in both cities. The analysis focuses on poverty from the standpoint of common aspects, differing characteristics and the respective development trends in the two researched cities.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (72 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,2
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Die Linke ; Kritische Diskursanalyse ; Politische Diskurs Analyse ; Deutsche Politik ; Diskursive Strategien ; Die Linke ; critical discourse analysis ; political discourse analysis ; discursive strategies ; German politics ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die Abschlussarbeit „Die Linke: A Political Discourse Analysis“ versucht zu verstehen a) wie und mit welchen Mitteln Sprache in der Politik strategisch genutzt wird, um Wähler zu beeinflussen b) welcher sozialer und politischer Kontext sich auf die Bildung von politischen Diskursen auswirkt c) welche Art von Effekten politische Diskurse auf aktuelle ‚policy making‘ Prozesse haben. Analysiert wird die Partei Die Linke. Das Ziel der Studie ist nicht, der schon existierenden Literatur über Die Linke, welche versucht den Erfolg der Partei mit dem rückläufigen wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand der Massen und dem erfolglosen ‚policy making‘ der anderen Parteien zu erklären, zu widersprechen. Um den Aufstieg von Die Linke besser verständlich zu machen, sollen jedoch linguistische Dimensionen der Analyse hinzugefügt werden. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, untersucht die Arbeit zuerst die diskursiven Strategien eines ausgewählten Texts und diskutiert anschließend die kontextualen Auswirkungen auf die beobachteten Strategien, in dem die Grundlagen der Kritischen Diskurs Analyse herangezogen werden. Die zentrale Hypothese dieser Untersuchung ist, dass der politische Diskurs von Die Linke als Teil einer politischen Strategie betrachtet werden sollte, welche versucht gegenhegemoniale diskursive Praktiken zu kreieren und darauf abzielt Prozesse des ‚policy-making‘ zu beeinflussen. Dass Die Linke erfolgreich die Lücke im linken Spektrum füllen konnte, hängt nicht nur mit dem erfolglosen ‚policy-making‘ der anderen Parteien zusammen, sondern ist auch der Kompetenz der Partei, Wähler mit Hilfe von politischen Diskursen zu beeinflussen, geschuldet.
    Abstract: The thesis ‘Die Linke: A Political Discourse Analysis’ tries to understand a) how and by which means language in politics can be strategically used in order to influence voters b) what kind of social and political context have an influence on the formation of political discourses and c) what kind of effects do political discourses have on actual policy making processes on the basis of the analysis of The Left Party (Die Linke in German). The overall aim of this study is not to oppose the already existing literature on Die Linke, which try to explain the party’s success with the declining economic prosperity of the masses and the unsuccessful policy making of its opponents but to add the linguistic dimension to the analysis in order to understand the rise of Die Linke more comprehensively. In order to achieve this aim, the research first identifies the discursive strategies of the selected text and then discusses the contextual impacts on the observed discursive strategies by adopting the main principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. The main hypothesis of this research is that political discourses of Die Linke should be considered as a part of the political strategy which tries to create counter-hegemonic discursive practices and aims to affect policy-making process. Die Linke’s success for filling the gap in the left is not only dependent on other parties’ unsuccessful policy-making but also on the party’s capacity to influence voters by its political discourses.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (72 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,7
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Diskursanalyse ; Konstruktivismus ; Poststrukturalismus ; amerikanische Außenpolitik ; U.S.-türkische Beziehungen ; Präsidentenreden ; Obama ; Erdogan ; discourse analysis ; Constructivism ; post-structuralism ; American foreign policy ; U.S.-Turkish relations ; presidential speeches ; Obama ; Erdogan ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Masterarbeit wird eine konstruktivistische Diskursanalyse durchgeführt um die These zu unterstüt-zen, dass eine grundlegende Umgestaltung im amerikanischen Verständnis der türkisch-amerikanischen Be-ziehung unter Präsident Obama im zuge eines übergeordneten Wandels der amerikanischen Außenpolitik stattgefunden hat. Anhand einer analytischen Betrachtung diverser hochrangiger Diskurse und Präsidenten-Reden seit der Ära Ronald Reagans versucht diese Arbeit den chronologischen Weg der amerikanischen Au-ßenpolitik anhand politischer Sprache, politischem Handeln und struktureller Veränderung, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Türkei, aufzuzeigen. Die Formbarkeit dieser Beziehung soll mittels Anwendung der konstruktivistischen Theorie besonders hervorgehoben werden. Zudem wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich das Verständnis amerikanischer Führungspolitiker in Bezug auf ihre Rolle in der Welt und der Beziehung zur Türkei, abseits des strikten Kurs des Realismus, in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert hat.
    Abstract: Using a constructivist discourse analysis, this thesis argues that there has been a fundamental shift in the American understanding of the U.S.-Turkish relationship under President Obama, situated within a broader change in the nature of American foreign policy making. By analyzing presidential and other high-level dis-course beginning in the Reagan era, this thesis examines the chronological path of American foreign policy, specifically in relation to Turkey, delving into political language, actions, and structural changes. By engaging constructivist theory, this thesis highlights the fluid nature of relations, endeavoring to answer the underly-ing question of how the high-level understanding of the U.S. role in world affairs generally, and in relation to Turkey specifically, has moved beyond a strict realist foundation over the past decades.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (78 Seiten)
    Series Statement: GeT MA working paper series 2014,2014,8
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Sozialpolitik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Türkei ; Neoliberalismus ; Gouvernementalität ; Gesundheitswesen ; Türkische Sozialpolitik ; Social Policy ; Welfare State ; Turkey ; Health Care ; Governmentality ; Health Transformation Program ; Neoliberalism ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die (vergleichende) Wohlfahrtsstaatforschung neigt zum Gebrauch absoluter Kategorien wie „Staat“, „Markt“, „Klasse“ oder „Soziale Gerechtigkeit“, um die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Wohlfahrtsstaaten zu erklären, zu messen oder zu kategorisieren. Insbesondere auf der Grundlage der Arbeiten Michel Foucault‘s zum Thema Gouvernementalität versucht diese Masterarbeitarbeit, alternative Perspektiven auf die Trans-formation von Wohlfahrtsstaaten zu bieten und die Entwicklungen in ihrer historischen Gebundenheit und der Komplexität der sich in ihnen widerspiegelnden sozialen Beziehungen zu verstehen. Dafür werden Episoden türkischer Gesundheitspolitik seit dem späten Osmanischen Reich interpretiert. Die Kernthemen sind die sich ändernde politischen Vorstellungen von Gesundheit einerseits und andererseits Techniken und Strategien, die politische Akteure anwenden, um das Politikfeld Gesundheit zu strukturieren und das Verhalten relevan-ter Akteure zu steuern. Die Arbeit greift insbesondere auf Primärquellen, wie offizielle Regierungspapiere, Reden, oder Leitfadeninterviews mit Experten zurück. Die Analyse zeichnet den politischen Diskurs über Ge-sundheit(spolitik) nach, der von „Barmherzigkeit und Gnade“ über die „Sicherung der Stärke der Nation“ bis hin zu der Idee eines „Rechtes auf Gesundheit“ reicht, welche seit den 1980er Jahren durch neoliberales Vo-kabular wie „(minimaler) Universalismus“, „Eigenverantwortung“ oder „Effizienz und Wettbewerb“ ergänzt wird. Derweil blieben trotz der Entstehung und Ausdehnung des Politikfeldes mit zugeordnetem bürokrati-schen Apparat, viele Programme und Projekte aufgrund der gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Struktur sowie fortlaufender Konflikte zwischen unterschiedlichen Regierungsmentalitäten inkonsistent und unvollen-det. Erst mit dem sogenannten Health Transformation Program, das seit 2003 unter der Partei für Gerechtig-keit und Fortschritt (AKP) implementiert wird, scheint ein Gesundheitssystem entstanden zu sein, welches sich durchgängig auf eine neoliberale Regierungslogik bezieht und die formalen Prinzipien einer Marktwirt-schaft als Regierungsprinzip auf die Erstellung von Programmen, Projekten und Regulierungen im Gesund-heitssektor projeziert.
    Abstract: Scholars of the welfare state tend to use absolute categories such as “class”, “state”, “market” or “social jus-tice” to measure, classify and compare welfare states. Drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault’s lectures on governmentality, this master’s thesis attempts to offer alternative perspectives on the transformation of welfare states by analyzing developments in the Turkish health system in consideration of their historicity and of the complexity of social relations reflected in them. Interpreting different historical episodes of Turk-ish health policies since the late Ottoman Empire, special attention is paid not only to changing political con-ceptions of health, but also to the techniques and strategies that governments have relied on to influence the conduct of providers and receivers of health services. The study draws predominantly on primary sources such as official government papers, speeches and expert interviews. Dominant political discourses on health have reached from “charity and favor” under the Sultans over “securing the strength of the nation” in the early Republic to the idea of everybody’s “right to health”, that is eventually mixed and complemented with neoliberal vocabulary such as “(minimal) universalism”, “individual responsibility”, or “efficiency and compe-tition”. In spite of the emergence of healthcare as a policy area being attached to an expanding bureaucratic apparatus, most programs and projects have remained inconsistent and fragmentary due to the composition of Turkish society and economy and the persistent struggles between different forms of governments. The findings suggest that only with the so-called Health Transformation Program (HTP) that is implemented since 2003 under the government of the Justice and Development Party (JDP), a health system has emerged that is consistently based on a distinguished mode of government. Neoliberalism, understood as the attempt to take the formal principles of a market economy and projecting them onto a general art of government, con-stitutes the underlying tenet of the HTP’s wide net of programs, projects and regulations by which the gov-ernment attempts to create, rather actively but from a distance, a health system in which all players act ra-tional, economically and self-responsible.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (349 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2013
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Gruppenbegutachtung ; Antragsbegutachtung ; Entscheidungen in Gruppen ; Organisationssoziologie ; Sozialpsychologie ; AL 33300 ; AK 52000 ; MR 2800 ; CP 4000 ; Panel Peer Review ; Grant Peer Review ; Group Decision Making ; Organizational Sociology ; Social Psychology ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie Gutachterinnen und Gutachter im Rahmen von Gruppenbegutachtungen zu einer gemeinsamen Bewertungsentscheidung finden. Untersucht wird diese Frage am Beispiel von Gruppenbegutachtungen zur Förderung von Sonderforschungsbereichen (SFB). Die Ergebnisse der Arbeit zeigen, dass sowohl die organisatorischen Rahmenbedingungen der Begutachtungssitzungen als auch die Organisation des gesamten Peer-Review-Prozesses, in welchem die Gruppenbegutachtung in der Regel nur einen Verfahrensschritt darstellt, maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den Prozess der Entscheidungsfindung innerhalb des Panels nehmen, wie auch auf die letztendliche konsensuale Entscheidung der Gutachtergruppe und die (unerwünschten) Gruppenphänomene, die während der Panelbegutachtung auftreten können. Die Ergebnisse zeigen darüberhinaus, dass Gutachtende den Prozess der Begutachtung sowohl als Subjekt ihrer eigenen Entscheidungsfindung (Rolle: Gutachter) als auch als Objekt des Entscheidungsfindungsprozesses anderer (Rolle: Antragsteller) wahrnehmen. Deshalb ist es für sie zentral, als Subjekt an einem Prozess teilzunehmen, der so fair ist, dass sie ihn auch als Objekt der Entscheidung anderer als fair erleben können. Dieser persönlichen Forderung nach Fairness kommt die Gruppenbegutachtung, den Ergebnissen zu Folge, stärker entgegen als die Einzelbegutachtung. Methodisch wurde ein exploratives Vorgehen gewählt und drei SFB-Beratungsgespräche sowie vier SFB-Einrichtungsbegutachtungen mit Hilfe der Methode der nicht-teilnehmenden Beobachtung analysiert. Zusätzlich wurden 80 Leitfadeninterviews mit Beteiligten der Begutachtungssitzungen und ausgewählten Antragstellenden sowie Dokumentenanalysen von Begutachtungsunterlagen durchgeführt.
    Abstract: The study addresses the question of how peer review committees come to a consensual decision. Therefore the decision making process of review committees to promote collaborative research centres (CRC, in German: Sonderforschungsbereiche, SFB) was analyzed. The results show that the organizational framework of the evaluation sessions as well as the organization of the entire peer review process (whereby the group evaluation is only one step in the whole process) have a great influence on: (1) on the decision making process within the panel, (2) on the final consensual decision of the panel group and (3) on the (unwanted) group phenomena that may occur during panel reviews. In addition the results illustrate that reviewers perceived the process of evaluations as both the subject of their own decisions (role: reviewer) as well as the object of the decision-making process of others (role: applicant). Therefore, for them it is central as a subject to participate in a process that is so fair that they can also experience the process as being wholly fair as an object of the decision of others. This personal call for fairness is stronger in relation to group evaluations than for individual peer review evaluations. Methodologically, an exploratory approach was chosen and three CRC preliminary review session (SFB Beratungsgespräch) and four CRC on-site reviews (SFB Einrichtungsbegutachtungen) were analyzed using the method of non-participant observation. In addition, 80 semi-structured interviews were conducted with evaluation session participants and selected applicants and a content analysis of review documents were done.
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    In:  LIBREAS. Library Ideas # 26: Bibliotheken __ abseits / ausserhalb der Bibliothek ,2014,26, Seiten 19-36
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (17 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: LIBREAS. Library Ideas # 26: Bibliotheken __ abseits / ausserhalb der Bibliothek
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,2014,26, Seiten 19-36
    DDC: 020
    Keywords: Öffentliche Bibliotheken ; Stadterneuerung ; Gentrifizierung ; Public Library ; Urban Revitalization ; Gentrification ; Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Gentrification - a process of replacement of a poorer population in an urban neighborhood with a richer one and the change of the looks of this respective neighborhood - has become a widespread topic of societal debate in recent years. This process is connected to public art and cultural activities, and sometimes triggered by projects of urban revitalization by the respective cities. Public libraries are part of this process, as they are used in the concepts of urban revitalization as institutions of public culture. This puts them in an uneasy position, as they also become part in processes of repulsion of socially vulnerable groups. The text will discuss the position of public libraries in respect to gentrification, using the processes in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, as a case study.
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    Keywords: Culture. ; Manners and customs. ; New Caledonia. ; India ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary explores traditions in New Caledonia.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed October 06, 2015). , In English.
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 2 (2014)
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 3 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 10 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 3 (2014)
    Keywords: abortion access ; abortion delays ; Affordable Care Act ; health disparities ; Medicaid ; Medicaid waiting time ; Oregon Health Plan ; reproductive health
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 3 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
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    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 3 (2014)
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    In:  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures) Vol. 23, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1755-2931 , 1755-2931 , 1755-2923
    Pages: 21 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 23, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: accession negotiations ; enlargement policy ; European Union ; pedagogy ; power ; Turkey
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    In:  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures) Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1755-2931 , 1755-2931 , 1755-2923
    Pages: 9 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
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    In:  Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures) Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1755-2931 , 1755-2931 , 1755-2923
    Pages: 10 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures - (formerly: Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 23, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: auto-ethnography ; Berlin ; choice ; ethnicity ; Jewishness ; museum
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    In:  Anthropology of the Middle East Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1746-0727 , 1746-0727 , 1746-0719
    Pages: 15 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology of the Middle East
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: arts ; ethnic music ; femininity ; public sphere ; sexuality ; Turkey ; women musicians
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    In:  Anthropology of the Middle East Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1746-0727 , 1746-0727 , 1746-0719
    Pages: 16 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology of the Middle East
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: HIV/AIDS ; intimacy ; Iran ; modesty ; sexuality ; stigmatisation ; taboo ; widows
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  • 42
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 27 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 3 (2014)
    Keywords: BOUNDARY OBJECTS ; ENERGY ; EVIDENCE ; POLICY ; ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE ; SUSTAINABILITY
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    ISBN: 9781782381211
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 242 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. The History of Eugenics -- Chapter 2. General Introduction to Eugenic Procedures -- Chapter 3. General Ethical Discussion -- Chapter 4. Arguments Supporting the New Eugenics -- Chapter 5. Arguments Opposing the New Eugenics -- -- Conclusion -- -- Appendix I: Past and Present Personalities Supporting Eugenic Policies -- Appendix II: Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on Eugenics -- -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography --
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  • 44
    ISBN: 9781782382393
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 288 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 7
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Throughout its history the concept of "Uzbekness," or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network. Accession is comparatively easy, as Uzbekness is grounded in a cultural model of territoriality, rather than genealogy, as the basis for social attachments. It acknowledges regional variation and the possibility of membership by voluntary decision. Therefore, the boundaries of being Uzbek vary almost by definition, incorporating elements of local languages, cultural patterns and social organization. This book combines an historical analysis with thorough ethnographic field research, looking at differences in the conceptualization of group boundaries and the social practices they entail. It does so by analysing decision-making processes by Uzbeks on the individual as well as cognitive level and the political configurations that surround them.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. A Historical Sketch of the Uzbeks: From Nomadic Conquerors to Post-socialist Farmers -- Chapter 2. A Central Asian Melting Pot: The Oasis of Bukhara -- Chapter 3. Desperation at the End of the World?The Oasis of Khorezm -- Chapter 4. Conflict Inevitable?The Ferghana Valley -- Chapter 5. Birthplace of a National Hero: The Oasis of Sharisabz -- -- Conclusion -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782382614
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 392 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Space and Place 11
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion and nationhood. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Examining phenomena such as Marian apparitions, a historic knights tournament, the symbolic re-signification of a massacre site, and the desolate social situation of Croatian war veterans, Narrating Victimhood traces the complex mechanisms of political radicalization in a post-war scenario. This book provides a new perspective for understanding the ongoing processes of transformation in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Text -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. (In-)Subordination at the Margins of Europe -- Chapter 2. Marian Devotion in Times of War -- Chapter 3. Re-Visions of History through Landscape -- Chapter 4. Of War Heroes, Martyrs, and Invalids -- Chapter 5. Mobilising Local Reserves -- -- Concluding Remarks -- -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Madrid :Explora Films,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.) , 005148
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Chachapoya Indians Antiquities. ; Peru. ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: A people who lived on the brink of the abyss and buried their dead on sheer cliffs, defying all logic ... the Chachapoya culture flourished between 800 and 1500 AD in northern Peru, at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. No one knows for sure whether the Chachapoyas came out of the jungles or the mountains, but they settled in a place that seems impossibly difficult to live in: the mountainous fringes of the Peruvian jungle. An Explora Films team made up of specialists in high-risk film shoots, speleologists, mountain rescue experts, and archaeologists has reached the depths of Chachapoya territory to study their habits and customs. This group of specialists has explored the funerary 'chulpas,' or tombs, located on the sheer walls of the region's towering cliffs. The unimaginable constructions, enigmatic paintings and rock carvings, mummies that appear to communicate encrypted messages, and mysterious sarcophagi perched on rocky ledges have been examined by the archaeologists on the expedition. Looking for answers, this documentary shines a light on many of the unexplained mysteries hidden in the mountains and canyons of the Chachapoyas.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Februrary 25, 2015). , Previously released as DVD. , In English.
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  • 47
    ISBN: 9781782382379
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 290 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Environment in History: International Perspectives 2
    Keywords: Environmental Studies, Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction: Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World -- Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas -- -- PART I : KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS IN REGULATORY SYSTEMS -- -- Chapter 1. Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors -- Nancy Langston -- -- Chapter 2. The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test -- Angela N. H. Creager -- -- Chapter 3. DES, Cancer and Endocrine Perturbation: Ways of Regulating, Chemical Risks and Public Expertise in the United States -- Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- -- Chapter 4. Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty. Environmental Risk Assessment in an Historical Perspective -- Soraya Boudia -- -- PART II : ACTIVISM AND NON-ACTIVISM: ALTERNATIVE USES OF KNOWLEDGE -- -- Chapter 5. Work, Bodies, Militancy: the "Class Ecology" Debate in 1970s Italy -- Stefania Barca -- -- Chapter 6. What Kind of Knowledge is Needed about Toxicant- Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin -- Laura Centemeri -- -- Chapter 7. From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science and the Law in the U.S. and Italy -- Barbara Allen -- -- Chapter 8. Guinea Pigs go to Court. Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan -- Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng -- -- PART III: PUTTING KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, AND REGULATIONN INTO PERSPECTIVE -- -- Chapter 9. Reckless Laws, Contaminated People: Science Reveals Legal Shortcomings in Public Health Protections -- Carl Cranor -- -- Chapter 10. Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment -- Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards -- -- Chapter 11. Low Dose Toxicology: Narratives from the Science-Transcience Interface -- Sheldon Krimsky -- -- Chapter 12. Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Towards a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty First Century -- Jody A. Roberts -- -- List of Contributors -- Index --
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  • 48
    ISBN: 9781782382737
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 248 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Religion
    Abstract: Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko's passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- -- Introduction: prophetic territories and temporalities -- -- PART I: ITINERARIES -- -- Chapter 1. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part I -- Chapter 2. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part II -- -- PART II: HERITAGES -- -- Chapter 3. Transmission: word, action and mediation -- Chapter 4. Trepidation: spirits, memories and disputed heritage -- Chapter 5. Transcendence: Tokoist diasporas -- -- Conclusion -- -- Primary sources -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782382874
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 220 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 10
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness that have received unequal attention in social anthropology. Offering new insights into the ways in which friendship is conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship. In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions between these two kinds of social relationships, the book suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies would also benefit from research that explores more systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Günther Schlee -- -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- Martine Guichard -- -- Part I. Friendship, Kinship and Age -- -- Chapter 1. Where Are Other People's Friends Hiding? Reflections on Anthropological Studies of Friendship -- Martine Guichard -- -- Chapter 2. Comradeship and the Transformation of Alliance Theory among the Maasai: Shifting the Focus from Descent to Peer-Group Loyalty -- Paul Spencer -- -- Part II. Friendship and Ethnicity -- -- Chapter 3. Friendship Networks in Southwestern Ethiopia -- Wolde Gossa Tadesse and Martine Guichard -- -- Chapter 4. Friendship and Spiritual Parenthood among the Moose and the Fulbe in Burkina Faso -- Mark Breusers -- -- Chapter 5. Labour Migration and Moral Dimensions of Interethnic Friendships: The Case of Young Gold Miners in Benin (West Africa) -- Tilo Grätz -- -- Part III. Friendship, Politics and Urbanity -- -- Chapter 6. Friendship and Kinship among Merchants and Veterans in Mali -- Richard L. Warms -- -- Chapter 7. 'Down-to-Earth': Friendship and a National Elite Circle in Botswana -- Richard Werbner -- -- Chapter 8. Negotiating Friendship and Kinship in a Context of Violence: The Case of the Tuareg during the Upheaval in Mali from 1990 to 1996 -- Georg Klute -- -- Afterword: Friendship in a World of Force and Power -- Stephen P. Reyna -- -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782383079
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 206 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology, Refugee & Migration Studies
    Abstract: Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the "making of the Scandinavian" and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction: Reasserting the Centrality of Women in Diasporas -- Haci Akman -- -- PART I: BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES -- -- Chapter 1. Art as Political Expression in the Diaspora -- Haci Akman -- -- Chapter 2. Islamic Identity in Third Space: Muslim Women Negotiating Subjectivity in Sweden -- Pia Karlsson Minganti -- -- Chapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News Media -- Rikke Andreassen -- -- Chapter 4. Finding Their Own Way Between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood – Female Migrants in Denmark -- Malene Fenger-Grøndahl -- -- Chapter 5. Being a Kurdish Woman in Sweden: Diaspora, Gender and Politics of Belonging -- Minoo Alinia -- -- PART II: HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCE -- -- Chapter 6. Kurdish Women of the Diaspora and Political Participation -- Kariane Westrheim -- -- Chapter 7. Territorial Stigmatisation, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation Among Young Immigrants -- Bolette Moldenhawer -- -- Chapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung – When Integration Policy Cannot Succeed -- Tina Kallehave -- -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782383116
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 228 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology,
    Abstract: Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a "search for resonance" with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the "living translation" of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: In Search of Resonance -- Note on the Text: Transcription Conventions -- -- Chapter 1. The Real Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 2. Ideas about Words, and Words about Ideas -- Chapter 3. Living Inscription in Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 4. Interaction in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 5. Embodied Experience in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 6. Living Translation in and into Practice -- -- Conclusion: Learning to Listen -- -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782383642
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 306 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Dislocations 13
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: 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, a phenomenon that has grown since the 1980s. The collection illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes, and it develops a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to this worldwide project. In Blood and Fire charts a course within global anthropology to address the widespread precariousness and the prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor -- August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir -- Chapter 1. Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia -- Lesley Gill -- Chapter 2. Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class on Maine's "Paper Plantation" -- August Carbonella -- Chapter 3. Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the -- Fate of its Working Class -- Judy Whitehead -- Chapter 4. Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain -- Susana Narotzky -- Chapter 5. The Saturn Automobile Plant and the Long Dispossession of US Autoworkers -- Sharryn Kasmir -- Chapter 6. "Worthless Poles" and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe -- Don Kalb -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782384663
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 122 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 14
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and relationships. This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of events to explore the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression. It moves beyond what has usually been defined as Arab Spring nations to include critical views on Bahrain, the Palestinian territories, and Turkey. The research and analysis presented explores not just the immediate protests, but also the historical realization, appropriation, and even institutionalization of these critical voices, as well as the role of international criminal law and legal exceptionalism in authorizing humanitarian interventions. Above all, it questions whether the revolutions have since been hijacked and the broad popular uprisings already overrun, suppressed, or usurped by the upper classes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Arab Spring: Revolutions or 1848 Reaction? -- Kjetil Fosshagen -- Chapter 1. Tahrir as Heterotopia: Spaces and Aesthetics of Egyptian Revolution -- Paola Abenante -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Arab Spring: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Popular Revolt and Protest, 2010-2012 -- Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots -- Chapter 3. Emergency Law and Hypergovernance: Human Rights and Regime Change in the Arab Spring -- Michael Humphrey -- Chapter 4. The Promises and Limitations ­­of Economic Protests in the West Bank -- Sohbi Samour -- Chapter 5. Stability or Democracy? The Failed Uprising in Bahrain and the Battle for the International Agenda -- Thomas Fibiger -- Chapter 6. The Turkish Model for the Arab Spring: The Corporate Moralist State -- Kjetil Fosshagen -- Notes on Contributors --
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    ISBN: 9781782384915
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 276 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Space and Place 13
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.  
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei -- PART I: GROUNDWORK -- Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg -- Heike Alberts -- Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz -- Christopher Jones -- PART II: PROJECTIONS -- Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn -- Sebastian Heiduschke -- Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme -- Erika Nelson -- Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital -- Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman -- Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda -- Gwyneth Cliver -- PART III: THEORIES -- Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? -- Heiner Stahl -- Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape -- Jason James -- Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "süße Krankheit" -- Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie -- Afterword -- Rolf J. Goebel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782385479
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 308 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 104
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy. Although Chile has gained political stability and grown economically, the ability of social policies to expand democratic governance and participation has proved limited, and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of citizen participation.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction: The Question of Democracy in a Democratic Society -- Chapter 1. Construction of Democracy, Public Policies and Participation of Civil Society -- Chapter 2. Chile: Top-Down Modernization and Low Intensity Re-Democratization -- Chapter 3. Social Policy Agendas in the Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 4. Civil Society, Public Policy Networks and Participatory Initiatives -- Chapter 5. From the Civil Society to the State: A New Elite is Born? -- Conclusion: Participation and Public Policies in the Chilean Democratic Process -- References -- Index --
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  • 56
    ISBN: 9781782385455
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 206 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Refugee & Migration Studies,
    Abstract: Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and "cultures of health" travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Sunil K. Khanna and Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 1. Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 2. To Be or Not To Be?: Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Elizabeth P. Challinor -- Chapter 3. 'Good Women Stay at Home. Bad Women Go Everywhere': Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Sajida Z. Ally -- Chapter 4. 'No That's not a Religious Thing, That's a Cultural Thing': Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Laura Griffith -- Chapter 5. Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers' Accounts of Birth and Loss in Northwest India -- Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 6. Acculturation and Experiences of Postpartum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers -- Mirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul -- Chapter 7. 'A Mother who Stays but Cannot Provide is not as Good': Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Catherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam -- Chapter 8. 'A "City-Walla" Prefers a Small Family': Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Sunil K. Khanna -- Chapter 9. Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Rachel Olson -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781782382577
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 168 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Dance and Performance Studies 6
    Keywords: Performance Studies
    Abstract: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the 'cultural flow' of the dances is 'punctuated' by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar's transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Senegal in Africa -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. Trans-Atlantic Travels of West African Dance -- Chapter 2. The New York Dance Floor -- Chapter 3. Navigating Trans-Atlantic Flows -- Chapter 4. Re-Choreographing Sabar -- Chapter 5. The Kinaesthetic of Sabar -- Chapter 6. Hearing Movements, Seeing Rhythms -- -- Conclusion -- -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9781782382713
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 468 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change.  A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends.  The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps, Tables, Charts and Figures -- Preface -- Maps -- -- Introduction: Methods of Fieldwork and Analysis -- -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Political Economy and Culture of Marmara Hamlet -- Chapter 2. The Cultural Logic of Non-Capitalist Accumulation -- Chapter 3. Land Distribution and Land Transfers -- Chapter 4. Farm Labouring Systems -- Chapter 5. Credit Relations and Social Consumption -- Chapter 6. Inter-regional Produce Markets -- Chapter 7. Rural Produce Traders and Wealth Acquisition -- Chapter 8. Economic Change from 1985 to 1998 -- Chapter 9. Change, Continuity – and Growth -- -- Appendix I: Basic Information on Household Heads, Marmara, 1979 -- Appendix II: Innovation, Agricultural Extension and Yields -- Appendix III: All Landholding Household Heads Grouped by Labour Practices During the Weeding Operation, 1978 -- Appendix IV: Household Consumption of Food Grain and Soup Ingredients` (Cefane) -- Appendix V: Trading Purchases, Sales and Margins of `M`, 1978 -- Appendix VI: Land Sales and Labour Use, Marmara, 1978 and 1979 -- -- Glossary of Key Hausa Words in the Text -- Bibliography --
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    New York, NY : [s.n.]
    ISBN: 9781782383017
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 254 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Dislocations 12
    Keywords: General Anthropology, Political Economy
    Abstract: Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people's actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. 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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- -- PART I: INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- -- Chapter 1. Capital: structural, phenomenological, financial -- -- PART II: SCALES OF HISTORY AND POLITICS -- -- Chapter 2. The scales of ethnography: periodizing spatial coherence in early twentieth-century, Spain -- Chapter 3. Popular struggle, dissident intellectuals and perspectives in realist history: a case from late twentieth-century Peru -- Chapter 4. History's absent presence in the everyday politics of contemporary rural Spain -- Chapter 5. On the threshold between everyday practice and historical praxis -- -- PART III: POLITICS' EDGE -- -- Chapter 6. Conditions of possibility: dominant blocs and changing contours of the hegemonic field -- -- Conclusion: Between reflexivity and engagement: tensions in the praxis of intellectuals -- -- References Cited -- Index --
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  • 60
    ISBN: 9781782383093
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 276 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing 14
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology,
    Abstract: Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Entangled Epistemes -- Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack & William Sax -- -- Chapter 1. Medicines of the Imagination: Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism -- Laurence J. Kirmayer -- -- Chapter 2. Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-patient Department (OPD) -- Johannes Quack -- -- Chapter 3. Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person -- Francis Zimmermann -- -- Chapter 4. My Vaidya and my Gynecologist: Agency, Authority and Risk in Quest of a Child -- Harish Naraindas -- -- Chapter 5. Davaa and Duaa: Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness -- Helene Basu -- -- Chapter 6. A Healing Practice in Kerala -- William Sax and Hari Bhaskar -- -- Chapter 7. Ayurveda in Britain: The Twin Imperatives of Professionalisation and Spiritual Seeking -- Maya Warrier -- -- Notes on Contributors --
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    ISBN: 9781782383512
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 256 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 2
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But this challenge has come at a cost. Culture, often reconfigured as 'custom', has often served to trap the people of the Pacific in the past of cultural reproduction, where everything is what it has always been, or worse-outdated, outmoded and destined for modernization. Pacific Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the Pacific would be different if we approached it from the perspective of the futures which Pacific people dream of, predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo cult, military coups to reflections on childhood fishing trips, the contributors to this volume show how Pacific people are actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Pacific Futures, Methodological Challenges -- Will Rollason -- -- Chapter 1. Imagining the Future: An Existential and Practical Activity -- Lisette Josephides -- -- Chapter 2. The Hanging of Buliga: A History of the Future in the Louisiade Archipelago, PNG -- Will Rollason -- -- Chapter 3. Why the Future is Selfish and Could Kill: Contraception and the Future of Paama -- Craig Lind -- -- Chapter 4. Gambling Futures: Playing the Imminent in Highland Papua New Guinea -- Anthony Pickles -- -- Chapter 5. The Future of Christian Critique: Lost Tribes Discourses in Papua New Guinean Publics -- Courtney Handman -- -- Chapter 6. A Cursed Past and a Prosperous Future in Vanuatu: a Comparison of Different Conceptions of Self and Healing -- Annelin Eriksen -- -- Chapter 7. Chiefs for the Future? Roles of Traditional Titleholders in the Cook Islands -- Arno Pascht -- -- Chapter 8. A Coup-Less Future for Fiji? Between Rhetoric and Political Reality -- Dominik Schieder -- -- Chapter 9. The Devouring of the Placenta: The Crisscrossing and Confluence of Cosmological, Geomorphological, Ecological, and Economic Cycles of Destruction and Repair in Ruatoria, Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Dave Robinson -- -- Chapter 10. The Human Face of Climate Change: Notes from Rotuma and Tuvalu -- Vilsoni Hereniko -- -- List of Contributors --
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  • 62
    ISBN: 9781782383765
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 224 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign-for example, a cattle car-and its referent, the Holocaust. These "sign-vehicles" serve as modes of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise, on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral imagination. Following on this insight, Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. Vehicles not only "carry people around," but also "carry" how they are understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and history.
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  • 63
    ISBN: 9781782384069
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 418 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered 'prey par excellence': the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as 'inua' (owner) and 'tarniq' (shade) over European concepts such as 'spirit 'and 'soul', the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 2. The Animals and Their Environment -- Chapter 3. Becoming A Good Hunter -- Life and Death -- Chapter 4. The Raven, The Bringer of Light -- Chapter 5. Qupirruit, Masters of Life And Death -- Fellow Hunters -- Chapter 6. The Dog, Partner of The Hunter -- Chapter 7. The Bear, A Fellow Hunter -- Prey -- Chapter 8. The Caribou, The Lice of The Earth -- Chapter 9. Seals, The Offspring of The Sea Woman -- Chapter 10. The Whale, Representing The Whole -- Comparison and Conclusions -- Appendix I: Inuit Elders -- Glossary of Inuktitut Words -- References -- Index --
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  • 64
    ISBN: 9781782384168
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 232 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 3
    Keywords: Refugee & Migration Studies
    Abstract: Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to "belong" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings-and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications-are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of climate change and sea-level rise.  
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification: Multiplicities of Belonging -- Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann -- Chapter 1. Culture as Experience: Constructing Identities through Cross-cultural Encounters -- Eveline Dürr -- Chapter 2. 'Forty Plus Different Tribes': Displacement, Place-making and Aboriginal Tribal Names on Palm Island, Australia -- Lise Garond -- Chapter 3. Coconuts and the Landscape of Underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea -- Will Rollason -- Chapter 4. Invisible Villages in the City: Niuean Constructions of Place and Identity in Auckland -- Hilke Thode-Arora -- Chapter 5. Migration and Identity: Cook Islanders' Relation to Land -- Arno Pascht -- Chapter 6. Protestantism among the Pacific Peoples in New Zealand: Mobility, Cultural Identifications, and Generational Shifts -- Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Chapter 7. Identity and Belonging in Cross-cultural Friendship: Māori and Pākehā Experiences -- Agnes Brandt -- Epilogue: Uncertain Futures of Belonging: Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania -- Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede Hermann -- Notes on Contributors --
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  • 65
    ISBN: 9781782384380
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 430 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 27
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalized Fatherhood: Emergent Forms and Possibilities in the New Millennium -- Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and José-Alberto Navarro -- PART I: CORPORATE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 1. The Corporate Father -- Jude Browne -- Chapter 2. Hiding Fatherhood in Corporate Japan -- Scott North -- PART II: TRANSNATIONAL FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 3. Transnational Fathers, Good Providers, and the Silences of Adoption -- Jessaca Leinaweaver -- Chapter 4. Long-Distance Fathers, Left-Behind Fathers, and Returnee Fathers: Changing Fathering Practices in Indonesia and the Philippines -- Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam -- PART III: PRIMARY CARE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 5. When the Pillar of the Home is Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-home Fathers in Vietnam -- Vu Thi Thao -- Chapter 6. On Fatherhood in a Conflict Zone: Gaza Fathers and their Children's Cancer Treatments -- Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yana Diamand, and Maram Abu Yaman -- PART IV: CLINICAL FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 7. Enhancing Fathering through Medical Research Participation in Mexico -- Emily Wentzell -- Chapter 8. The High-Tech Homunculus: New Science, Old Constructs -- Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin -- PART V: INFERTILE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 9. Assumed, Promised, Forbidden: Infertility, IVF, and Fatherhood in Turkey -- Zeynep B. Gürtin -- Chapter 10. New Arab Fatherhood: Emergent Masculinities and Assisted Reproduction -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- PART VI: GAY/SURROGATE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 11. Relating across International Borders: Gay Men Forming Families through Overseas Surrogacy -- Deborah Dempsey -- Chapter 12. Conceiving Fatherhood: Gay Men and Indian Surrogate Mother -- Sharmila Rudrappa -- PART VII: AMBIVALENT FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 13. Fatherhood, Companionate Marriage, and the Contradictions of Masculinity in Nigeria -- Daniel Jordan Smith -- Chapter 14. The Four Faces of Iranian Fatherhood -- Soraya Tremayne -- PART VIII: IMPERILED FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 15. "Bare Sticks" and Other Dangers to the Social Body Assembling Fatherhood in China -- Susan Greenhalgh -- Chapter 16. Paternity Poisoned: The Impact of Gulf War Syndrome on Fatherhood -- Susie Kilshaw -- List of Contributors --
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  • 66
    Language: English
    Additional Information: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ,2014, Seiten 1-129
    DDC: 630
    Keywords: Rubber cultivation ; Stakeholder Analysis ; Livelihood ; Xhishuangbanna ; Transdisciplinarity ; Sustainable land management ; Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This study was carried out in collaboration of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the China Agriculture University, Beijing, and the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve Bureau (NRWNNR) in Xishuanbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, PR China. The research group is part of the SURUMER Project, which is concerned with sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong Region. The report provides the results of a Stakeholder Analysis in the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve; case studies in eight villages on current land use, stakeholders’ problems and interests with regard to rubber cultivation, alternatives to rubber cultivation as well as knowledge dissemination and communication networks.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, bologna.lab
    In:  Abschlussberichte Q-Tutorien - Wintersemester 2013/2014 ,2014, Seiten 1-5
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (5 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Abschlussberichte Q-Tutorien - Wintersemester 2013/2014
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,2014, Seiten 1-5
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ; Poststrukturalismus ; Q-Torien ; Forschendes Lernen ; Neue Lehre ; Abschlussberichte ; Wintersemester 2013/14 ; bologna.lab ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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  • 68
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 minutes) , 005201
    Keywords: Donkeys ; Lamu Island (Kenya) ; Asia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: A small island with 24,000 people, 6,000 donkeys, and just 2 cars. Lamu, just off the coast of Kenya, is called "the donkey capital of Africa". It is a place where there are donkey traffic jams, where the largest humanitarian organization is a donkey sanctuary and where donkeys are the key to earning a living. Shee Famao is 14. His fondest dream is to have a donkey on his own and take part of the annual donkey race. He hopes to win the grand prize to help his family. Will he succeed?
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 11, 2015). , In English.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 minutes) , 005117
    Keywords: Time. ; India ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Based on true stories, with re-enactments and 3-D medical imagery, 'Beyond Human Limits' recounts adventures of scientists who have risked their lives to explore the limits of their bodies when confronted to extreme conditions.Time isolation: Michel Siffre spent two months beneath the earth's surface without any time landmarks. He discovered the existence of an 'internal clock' and his experiments gave birth to a new science: chrono biology.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 11, 2015). , In English.
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  • 70
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 10 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: arts practice ; community ; conceptualisation ; ethnography ; international ; participatory ; social change
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    In:  Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1752-2285 , 1752-2285 , 0967-201X
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 21, 1 (2014)
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  • 72
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    In:  Anthropology of the Middle East Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1746-0727 , 1746-0727 , 1746-0719
    Pages: 16 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology of the Middle East
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: aesthetic of politics ; domination ; Lebanon ; martyrdom ; patronage ; Walid Junblat
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    In:  Anthropology of the Middle East Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1746-0727 , 1746-0727 , 1746-0719
    Pages: 5 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology of the Middle East
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: descent ; marriage ; Shi’a ; Sunni ; Tâlesh
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    In:  Anthropology of the Middle East Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 1746-0727 , 1746-0727 , 1746-0719
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Anthropology of the Middle East
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
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  • 75
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    In:  The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Vol. 32, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 2047-7716 , 2047-7716 , 0305-7674
    Pages: 15 p.
    Titel der Quelle: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 32, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: ethics ; India ; individual-focus ; reflection ; talk and practice
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  • 76
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    In:  The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Vol. 32, 2 (2014)
    ISSN: 2047-7716 , 2047-7716 , 0305-7674
    Pages: 15 p.
    Titel der Quelle: The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 32, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: boundary ; domestic service ; intimacy ; relatedness ; Vietnam
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  • 77
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    In:  Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Vol. 2014, 69 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5263 , 1558-5263 , 0920-1297
    Pages: 12 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 2014, 69 (2014)
    Keywords: contemporary art ; gambling ; glamour ; millennial capitalism ; moral economy
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    In:  Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Vol. 2014, 70 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5263 , 1558-5263 , 0920-1297
    Pages: 8 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 2014, 70 (2014)
    Keywords: maritime ethnography ; regional study ; Russia ; trade ; Turkey ; Ukraine
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  • 79
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    In:  Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology Vol. 2014, 70 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5263 , 1558-5263 , 0920-1297
    Pages: 13 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 2014, 70 (2014)
    Keywords: assertiveness ; brick factory ; labor ; Maoist revolution ; workplace-based religious rituals
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  • 80
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 23 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    Keywords: AGRICULTURE/FOOD POLICY ; ECUADOR ; PESTICIDES ; PRACTICE ; SOCIOTECHNICAL REGIMES
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  • 81
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    In:  Nature and Culture Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 1 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2014)
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  • 82
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 18 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 2 (2014)
    Keywords: BIOGRAPHY ; CONSUMPTION ; LIFE-COURSE ; LOW CARBON TRANSITIONS ; SOCIAL CHANGE ; SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
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    In:  Nature and Culture Vol. 9, 3 (2014)
    ISSN: 1558-5468 , 1558-5468 , 1558-6073
    Pages: 12 p.
    Titel der Quelle: Nature and Culture
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 3 (2014)
    Keywords: HISTORY ; LONDON ; MIDDLE AGES ; SANITATION ; TELEVISION ; WASTE MANAGEMENT
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9781782384021
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 284 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology 7
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions-from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Laura Nader -- Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake? -- Roberto J. González and Rachael Stryker -- PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER -- Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice -- Linda Coco -- Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998 -- Jay Ou -- Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation -- Ellen Hertz -- PART II: STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE -- Chapter 4. On Dispossession: The Work of Studying Up, Down, and Sideways in Guatemala's Indigenous Land -- Rights Movements -- Liza Grandia -- Chapter 5. On Food: Manufacturing Food Insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico -- Roberto J. González -- Chapter 6. On Environment: The "Broker State," Peruvian Hydrocarbons Policy, and the Camisea Gas Project -- Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto -- PART III: STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES -- Chapter 7. On Family: Adoptive Parenting Up, Down, and Sideways -- Rachael Stryker -- Chapter 8. On Truth: The Repressed Memory Wars from Top to Bottom -- Robyn Kliger -- Chapter 9. On Common Sense: Lessons on Starting Over from Post-Soviet Ukraine -- Monica Eppinger -- Chapter 10. On Caring: Solidarity Anthropology (or, How to Keep Health Care from Becoming Science Fiction) -- Adrienne Pine -- On Power: Concluding Comments -- Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. González, and Rachael Stryker -- Notes on Contributors -- References --
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  • 85
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    Paris :ZED,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 minutes) , 005130
    Keywords: Popular culture. ; Video gamers. ; Video games. ; Asia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In recent years, video games have become the world's largest cultural industry. With 61 billion dollars in sales, they are far ahead of Hollywood, with just 12 billion dollars. 50 million people around the world are connected everyday through video games, transcending the generation gap - in the United States, 50% of daily players are over 30 years old -, cultural habits and social class. Meet a designer, a gold farmer, specialists and players who will immerse you into a virtual world that has not only influenced mass entertainment, but has become a technological, social, cultural and economic phenomenon.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 11, 2015). , In English.
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  • 86
    ISBN: 9781782384465
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 264 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What's In a Word? What's in a Question? -- Andrew Irving and Nina Glick Schiller -- PART I: THE QUESTION OF WHOSE COSMOPOLITANISM? PROVOCATIONS AND RESPONSES -- Provocations -- Chapter 1. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Multiple, Globally Enmeshed and Subaltern -- Gyan Prakash -- Chapter 2. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism -- Galin Tihanov -- Chapter 3. Whose Cosmopolitanism? And Whose Humanity? -- Nina Glick Schiller -- Chapter 4. Whose Cosmopolitanism? The Violence of Idealizations and the Ambivalence of Self -- Jackie Stacey -- Chapter 5. Whose Cosmopolitanism? Postcolonial Criticism and The Realities of Neo-Colonial Power -- Robert Spencer -- Responses -- Chapter 6. The Performativity and Suspension of Disbelief -- Jacqueline Rose -- Chapter 7. What Do We Do With Cosmopolitanism? -- David Harvey -- Chapter 8. Cosmopolitan Theory and the Daily Pluralism of Life -- Tariq Ramadan -- Chapter 9. Chance, Contingency and the Face to Face Encounter -- Andrew Irving -- Chapter 10. Cosmopolitanism and Intelligibility -- Sivamohan Valluvan -- PART II: THE QUESTIONS OF WHERE, WHEN, HOW, AND WHETHER: TOWARDS A PROCESSUAL SITUATED COSMOPOLITANISM -- Whose Encounters, Landscapes and Displacements? -- Chapter 11. 'It's Cool to be Cosmo': Tibetan Refugees, Indian Hosts, Richard Gere and 'Crude Cosmopolitanism' in Dharamsala -- Atreyee Sen -- Chapter 12. Diasporic Cosmopolitanism: Migrants, Sociabilities and City-Making -- Nina Glick Schiller -- Chapter 13. Freedom and Laughter in an Uncertain World: Language, Expression and Cosmopolitanism Experience -- Andrew Irving -- Cinema, Literature and the Social Imagination -- Chapter 14. Narratives of Exile: Cosmopolitanism beyond the Liberal Imagination -- Galin Tihanov -- Chapter 15. The Uneasy Cosmopolitans of Code Unknown -- Jackie Stacey -- Chapter 16. Pregnant Possibilities: Cosmopolitanism, Kinship and Reproductive Futurism in Maria Full of Grace and In America -- Heather Latimer -- Chapter 17. Backstage/Onstage Cosmopolitanism: Jia Zhangke's The World -- Felicia Chan -- Endless War or Domains of Sociability? Conflict, Instabilities and Aspirations -- Chapter 18. Politics, Cosmopolitics and Preventive Development at the Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Border -- Madeleine Reeves -- Chapter 19. Memory of War and Cosmopolitan Solidarity -- Ewa Ochman -- Chapter 20. Cosmopolitanism and Conviviality in an Age of Perpetual War -- Paul Gilroy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9781782384687
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 246 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: The Human Economy 1
    Keywords: General Anthropology, Political Economy
    Abstract: The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people's concrete economic activities and aspirations. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: The Human Economy Project -- Keith Hart and John Sharp -- Introduction -- Keith Hart and John Sharp -- Chapter 1. After the Big Clean-up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe -- Busani Mpofu -- Chapter 2. Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda -- Fraser McNeill -- Chapter 3. 'Letting Money Work for Us': Self-organization and Financialization from Below in an All-male Savings Club in Soweto -- Detlev Krige -- Chapter 4. Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in Pretoria -- John Sharp -- Chapter 5. Negotiating Inequality: the Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil -- Doreen Gordon -- Chapter 6. Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape Verde -- Juliana Braz Dias -- Chapter 7. Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa -- Saint-José Inaka and Joseph Trapido -- Chapter 8. Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: the Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians -- Jason Sumich -- Chapter 9. Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal -- Mallika Shakya -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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  • 88
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    Paris :ZED,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (50 minutes) , 004938
    Keywords: Shepherds. ; Georgia (Republic) ; India ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Samucha lives in the mountains of Tusheti, a tiny region in Georgia on the border with Chechnya. Proud and brave, Samucha looks like an American cowboy. He's a fabulous horse rider, a shepherd, a musician, singer, and storyteller. This year, like every springtime, Samucha migrates with his flock of 2,000 sheep to reach the high plains of the Caucasus, located at an altitude of 4000 meters. But he feels tired and old. After this season, it will finally be time for him to retire. He will spend the summer on the plateau accompanied by his two sons, David and Kwiria, to whom he will hand over his herd. Their time has come to be true Caucasian shepherds like their father and he hopes they will be worthy enough to perpetuate the traditions of their ancestors.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 11, 2015). , In English.
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  • 89
    ISBN: 9780857459770
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 212 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Museums and Collections 5
    Keywords: Museum Studies
    Abstract: In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally "make sense" of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish. Working through his empirical material to engage with and challenge established theoretical positions in the study of museums, modernity, and tourism, Mads Daugbjerg demonstrates that national belonging is still a key cultural concern, even as it asserts itself in novel, muted, and increasingly experiential ways.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Borders of Belonging: Investigating Landscapes of Danishness Today -- -- Chapter 1. Dybbøl and the Danish Nation: History and Context -- Chapter 2. Out of sight: Reconsidering the High Modern Museum -- Chapter 3. The Banalities of Being Danish: National Identity at the Castle Museum -- Chapter 4. Sensing 1864 at the Battlefield Centre -- Chapter 5. The Fate of the Nation at the Battlefield Centre -- Chapter 6. Danish Heritage Today: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Reappearance of the Romantic -- -- Conclusion: Paradoxes of modern belonging: Reassembling Heritage, Nation and Experience -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9781782382775
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 194 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- -- Introduction: We the Cosmopolitans: Framing the Debate -- Lisette Josephides -- -- Chapter 1. Citizens of Everything: The Aporetics of Cosmopolitanism -- Ronald Stade -- -- Chapter 2. The Capacities of Anyone: Accommodating the Universal Human Subject as Value and in Space -- Nigel Rapport -- -- Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Morality in the British Immigration and Asylum System -- Alexandra Hall -- -- Chapter 4. Experiences of Pain: A Gateway to Cosmopolitan Subjectivity? -- Anne Sigfrid Gronseth -- -- Chapter 5. Cosmopolitanism as Welcoming the Other/Imperilling the Self: Ethics and Early Encounters between Lyons Missionaries and West African Rulers Prior to Colonial Rule -- Marc Schiltz -- -- Chapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy and the Possibility of Cosmopolitanism -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- -- Conclusion -- Alexandra Hall -- -- Notes on contributors --
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9781782382935
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 348 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 103
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: 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.
    Description / Table 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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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781782383437
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 336 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists 1
    Keywords: General Anthropology
    Abstract: In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume-who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked-give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- -- Introduction: The Ethnographic Experiment in Island Melanesia -- Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg -- -- Chapter 1. Acknowledging Ancestors: The Vexations of Representation -- Christine Dureau -- -- Chapter 2. Across the New Georgia Group: A.M. Hocart's Fieldwork as Inter-Island Practice -- Edvard Hviding -- -- Chapter 3. The Genealogical Method: Vella Lavella Reconsidered -- Cato Berg -- -- Chapter 4. Rivers and the Study of Kinship in Ambrym: Mother Right and Father Right Revisited -- Knut M. Rio and Annelin Eriksen -- -- Chapter 5. House Upon Pacific Sand: W.H.R. Rivers and his 1908 Ethnographic 'Survey Work' -- Thorgeir S. Kolshus -- -- Chapter 6. Colonialism as Shell-Shock: W.H.R. Rivers's Explanations for Depopulation in Melanesia -- Tim Bayliss-Smith -- -- Chapter 7. A Vanishing People or a Vanishing Discourse? W.H.R. Rivers's 'Psychological Factor' and Depopulation in the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides -- Judith A. Bennett -- -- Chapter 8. Objects and Photographs from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition -- Tim Thomas -- -- Appendix I: Unpublished reports by W.H.R. Rivers to the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust Fund -- Transcribed by Tim Bayliss-Smith -- -- Appendix II: Materials in archives from the 1908 fieldwork in Island Melanesia -- Cato Berg -- -- Appendix III: Planning the Expedition: Letters Written before the Fieldwork Began --
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  • 93
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    ISBN: 9781782383550
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 240 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations 2
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Methods and Character Building -- Chapter 2. The Diagnostic Process -- Chapter 3. Therapeutics and Health Seeking -- Chapter 4. The Economies of Care -- Chapter 5. Alzheimer's and the Indian Appetite -- Chapter 6. Stigma and Loneliness in Care -- Chapter 7. The Journey to Silence -- Conclusion: 'This is the Time for Romance' -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9781782383680
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 304 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Travel & Tourism
    Abstract: It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples and places. These socially shared assemblages are collaboratively produced and consumed by a diverse range of actors around the globe. As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, "tourism imaginaries" have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it. The various authors contribute methodologically as well as conceptually to anthropology's grasp of the images, forces, and encounters of the contemporary world.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries -- Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn -- PART I: IMAGINARIES OF PEOPLES -- Chapter 1. Toward Symmetric Treatment of Imaginaries: Nudity and Payment in Tourism to New Guinea's "Treehouse People" -- Rupert Stasch -- Chapter 2. Scorn or Idealization? Tourism Imaginaries, Exoticization and Ambivalence in Emberá Indigenous Tourism -- Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Chapter 3. Deriding Demand: Indigenous Imaginaries in Tourism -- Alexis Celeste Bunten -- Chapter 4. Myth Management in Tourism's Imaginariums: Tales from Southwest China and Beyond -- Margaret Byrne Swain -- Chapter 5. Tourism Moral Imaginaries and the Making of Community -- João Afonso Baptista -- PART II: IMAGINARIES OF PLACES -- Chapter 6. The Imaginaire Dialectic and the Refashioning of Pietrelcina -- Michael A. Di Giovine -- Chapter 7. Temporal Fragmentation: Cambodian Tales -- Federica Ferraris -- Chapter 8. The Imagined Nation: The Mystery of the Endurance of the Colonial Imaginary in Postcolonial Times -- Paula Mota Santos -- Chapter 9. Belize Ephemera, Affect, and Emergent Imaginaries -- Kenneth Little -- Chapter 10. Envisioning the Dutch Serengeti: An Exploration of Touristic Imaginings of the Wild in the Netherlands -- Anke Tonnaer -- Afterword: Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism -- Naomi Leite -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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  • 95
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    ISBN: 9781782383727
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 572 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 19
    Keywords: Environmental Studies
    Abstract: With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century.  This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America -- including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners -- to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography. 
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Forward -- Shaikha Al-Misnad -- Introduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: Some Introductory Remarks -- Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 1. Societal Change and Sustainability within the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological Viewpoint -- Mark Manuel, Robin Coningham, Gavin Gillmore and Hassan Fazeli -- PART I: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 2. Qatar National Vision 2030: Advancing Sustainable Development -- Trudy Tan, Aziza Al-Khalaqi and Najla Al-Khulaifi -- Chapter 3. The Qatar National Master Plan -- Khondker Rahman -- Chapter 4. The State of Qatar: Along the Way to Sustainable Development -- Bahaa Darwish -- Chapter 5. Charting the Emergence of Environmental Legislation in Qatar: A Step in the Right Direction or Too Little Too Late? -- Wesam Al Othman and Sarah F. Clarke -- PART II: ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Chapter 6. Sustainable Energy: What Futures for Qatar? -- Thomas Henfrey -- Chapter 7. Money Rain: The Resource Curse in Two Oil and Gas Economies -- Emma Gilberthorpe, Sarah F. Clarke and Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 8. Islam and Sustainable Economic Development -- Rodney Wilson -- PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES -- Chapter 9. Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation -- Ben Campbell -- Chapter 10. Conservation and Sustainable Development: the Qatari and Gulf Region Experience -- Paul Sillitoe with Ali Alshawi -- Chapter 11. Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine Regions -- James Howard -- Chapter 12. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: Friends or Enemies? -- Nobuyuki Yamaguchi -- PART IV: URBAN AND HEALTH ISSUES -- Chapter 13. From Pearling to Skyscrapers: The Predicament of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in Contemporary Gulf Cities. -- Ali A. Alraouf and Sarah F. Clarke -- Chapter 14. How the City Grows: Urban Growth and Challenges to Sustainable Development in Doha, Qatar -- Andrew M. Gardner -- Chapter 15. Sustainable Waste Management in Qatar: Charting the Emergence of an Integrated Approach to Solid Waste Management -- Sarah Clarke with Salah Almannai -- Chapter 16. Sustainable Development and Health: From Global to Local Agenda -- Mylène Riva, Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman -- PART V: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES -- Chapter 17. Exploring Collaborative Research Methodologies in the Pursuit of Sustainable Futures -- Gina Porter -- Chapter 18. On the Importance of Culture in Sustainable Development -- Serena Heckler -- Chapter 19. People, Social Groups, Cultural Practices: From Venn Diagrams to Alternative Paradigms for Sustainable Development -- Fadwa El Guindi -- Chapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Values: Environmental Contradictions in Qatari Society -- Kaltham Al-Ghanim -- Conclusion: A Doha Undeclaration, Puzzling over Sustainable Development with Indigenous Knowledge -- Paul Sillitoe -- List of Contributors -- Index --
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  • 96
    ISBN: 9781782384120
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 210 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Gender Studies
    Abstract: An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Preface: Kaffee und Kuchen -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History -- PART I: WOMEN AND REORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIFE -- Chapter 1. Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt -- On Barak -- Chapter 2. Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey -- Sevgi Adak -- PART II: MALE SPACES, FEMALE SPACES? LIMITS OF AND BREACHES IN THE GENDERED ORDER OF THE CITY -- Chapter 3. Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah -- Ulrike Freitag -- Chapter 4. Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities -- Vahé Tachjian -- Chapter 5. "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency -- Nazan Maksudyan -- PART III: DISCOURSES AND NARRATIVES OF GENDER IN THE URBAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 6. Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the notion of Beauty between the "West" and the "Orient" -- Nora Lafi -- Chapter 7. The Urban Experience in Women's Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook -- Christoph Herzog -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 97
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät
    In:  Migration Letters 11,2014,2, Seiten 171-186
    ISSN: 1741-8984 , 1741-8984
    Language: German
    Titel der Quelle: Migration Letters
    Publ. der Quelle: , 2014
    Angaben zur Quelle: 11,2014,2, Seiten 171-186
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Qualifikationen ; hochqualifizierte Migration ; Deskilling ; polnische Migranten ; Großbritannien ; Skills ; Highly skilled migration ; Deskilling ; Polish immigrants ; United Kingdom ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Notions of skill are geographically and historically specific; migration regimes, professional regulations and national policies influence possibilities of effective validation of migrant knowledge abroad. Migration scholars convincingly demonstrate how migrants actively circumvent national requirements to fit into the dominant culture of the society of residence while preserving their own identities. Yet, without exception, social inequalities research exclusively addresses the integration of migrants into the receiving context, taking skills as a fixed attribute migrants simply ‘bring with them’. I argue that the context of origin of migrants for skill acquisition and validation during the migration process needs to be considered as well. The way skills are defined, acquired and valorised in the country of origin has an influence on how migrants mobilise them in the receiving society and on how they perceive their chances for negotiating strong positions in the labour market of the host country. The article draws on a study of Polish migrants to the UK with secondary and tertiary educational certificates who work in routine or semi-routine occupations.
    Abstract: Peer Reviewed
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  • 98
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (355 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2012
    DDC: 300
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Stadtpolitik ; Kreative Stadt ; Urban Governance ; Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft ; creative city ; urban governance ; urban politics ; cultural and creative industries ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Seit mehr als zehn Jahren wird in Städten weltweit über die „Kreative Stadt“ debattiert. Doch können Städte Kreativität fördern? Aus einer stadtsoziologischen Perspektive wird zunächst gefragt, welche Möglichkeiten die Stadt zur Entfaltung von Kreativität bietet. Das Verhältnis von Kreativität und Stadt wird als eine Wechselwirkung konzipiert, bei der Städte besondere Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Möglichkeitsräume für die Entstehung und Bewertung von Kreativität darstellen können, die mit Anthony Giddens Strukturationstheorie als Regeln und Ressourcen interpretiert und in den Interaktionen, Beziehungen und Institutionen verortet werden, die mit und zwischen Kreativtätigen in Städten entstehen. Aus einer Governanceperspektive wird dann gefragt, welche sozialen und soziopolitischen Arrangements sich zur Koordination von Kreativität in Städten herausbilden. Im Fokus der empirisch-analytischen Untersuchung stehen horizontale Kooperationsformen wie Netzwerke und Steuerungskreise von kreativwirtschaftlichen und öffentlichen Akteuren deren Ziel die Unterstützung der kreativwirtschaftlichen Branchen ist. Diese Governancestrukturen werden als intermediäre Strukturen betrachtet, die für die Beförderung von Kreativität wesentliche Koordinations- und Vermittlungsleistungen erbringen können. In einem explorativen, multimethodischen, qualitativen Fallstudienansatz werden jeweils zwei Governancearrangements in Berlin und London untersucht. Allen gemeinsam ist, dass sie eher symbolische Funktionen erfüllen, die Kooperationsbereitschaft anzeigen als Abstimmungs- und Aushandlungsprozesse und die Erarbeitung gemeinsamer Problemdefinitionen und Lösungsansätze. Trotz intensiver „Kreative Stadt“ - Diskussionen bildet „Kreativität als Ressource der Stadtentwicklung“ noch kein Deutungsrahmen, mit dem sich politische Mehrheiten für gezielte Strategien in den Städten mobilisieren lassen.
    Abstract: In the last decade, creativity has been promoted as the new key resource of urban development. From a governance perspective, the empirical-analytical inquiry focuses on the question how the ‘creative city’ has been translated into new governance processes and how creativity can be governed in cities. The empirical research draws on four governance arrangements between creative industries stakeholders and public bodies in Berlin and London and is based on an embedded multi-case-study-design with different qualitative methods such as interviews, content analysis and participant observation. These unfolding governance arrangements share objectively several productive features for success and policy innovation in that particular policy field: they combine a diversity of new actors and stakeholders in open and inclusive designs, exhibit passion and endurance of key actors, display a common interest and are matched by supportive, new strategic objectives from the two urban governments. Nevertheless, they also miss several features: a common frame of reference for defining a problem and for integrating disparate knowledge between all stakeholders, no prior cooperation experiences, hardly any financial resources, and eventually, a rather opportunistic and week commitment by urban governments. As in many other cities, the idea of a ‘creative city’ was rather used a ‘rhetorical device’ by urban politics to refashion existing policies instead of appropriate policy-making that supports cultural production in its multifaceted ways.
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  • 99
    Language: English
    Additional Information: Berlin & Jinghong : Eigenverlag Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ,2014
    DDC: 490
    Keywords: Rubber cultivation ; Stakeholder Analysis ; Livelihood ; Xhishuangbanna ; Transdisciplinarity ; Sustainable land management ; Andere Sprachen ; Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin ; Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie, Umwelt ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: This study was carried out in collaboration of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the China Agriculture University, Beijing, and the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve Bureau (NRWNNR) in Xishuanbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, PR China. The research group is part of the SURUMER Project, which is concerned with sustainable rubber cultivation in the Mekong Region. The report provides the results of a Stakeholder Analysis in the Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve; case studies in eight villages on current land use, stakeholders’ problems and interests with regard to rubber cultivation, alternatives to rubber cultivation as well as knowledge dissemination and communication networks.
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    Note: Übersetzung des Originaltexts in Chinesisch / Mandarin
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  • 100
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (219 Seiten)
    Dissertation note: Dissertation Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III 2013
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Identität ; Väter ; Beruf ; Sozialisation ; identity ; labor ; Fathers ; socialisation ; Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: In dieser Arbeit geht es um die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von beruflicher Position und anderen Einflussfaktoren auf die Väteridentität. Dabei werden in einer quantitativen Auswertung neben soziostrukturellen Variablen, wie Einkommen und beruflicher Verantwortungsgrad auch Einstellungen und Präferenzen der Väter im Hinblick auf ihre Väteridentität analysiert. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass der Beruf nur einen geringen Teil des Einflusses auf die Väteridentität darstellt und vielmehr Faktoren wie die Partnerin oder bestimmte Einstellungen ihre väterliche Identität ebenso prägen. Dies bedeutet einerseits, dass sich die Sozialisation von Vätern hinsichtlich ihrer Identität nur in einem Mehrebenenmodell wirklich voll erfassen lässt. Andererseits werden das Wohlbefinden und die subjektive Einstellung von Vätern, neben den soziostrukturellen Faktoren, als Einflussfaktoren auch im familienpolitischen Zusammenhang relevant. Die Väteridentität wird hier anhand des Konstanzer Väterinstruments getestet und misst sieben Faktoren: Belastung, Bereicherung, Geduld, Zeit/Beziehung, Durchsetzen und Freilassen. Die Datengrundlage besteht aus einer eigenen quantitativen Erhebung von 166 Vätern.
    Abstract: The current discussion about „new fathers“ assumes a significant correlation between work context and father engagement. But exactly which factors influence paternal identity and a distinct interpretation of fatherhood? Besides social structural variables like position within the labor market or income, this dissertation measures additional influencing variables like fathers’ preferences and partnership variables on father identity. The concept of father identity is based on seven subjective dimensions: mental strain, gain, patience, time/relationship, ability to assert oneself and releasability. Evaluating this concept of paternal identity shows that factors related to employment have less influence on fathers’ identities as may expected. Furthermore, this study shows that fathers’ identity is influenced by a mixture of socio-structural and non-sociostructural factors alike. These have to be measured in a multidimensional model. Data comes from self-administered questionnaires among 166 fathers. The evaluation of the concept of paternal identity was done by quantitative bivariate and multivariate statistical methods.
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