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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781789201239
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 334 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Museums and Collections 11
    Keywords: Museum Ethnography, Smithsonian, Natural History, National Museum of Natural History, Deep Time Exhibit, Curation
    Abstract: Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsoniańs National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world́s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations and Table -- Foreward -- Jennifer Shannon -- Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership -- Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale -- Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture -- Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise -- Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things -- Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Coda: The Natiońs T-rex -- Appendix A: Consent Form -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires -- Sample Team Interview Questionnaire -- Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781789201390
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 238 p. , 9.00 6.00 in.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 7
    Keywords: Global Pentecostalism, Global Evangelicalism, Christianity in Melanesia, Christianity in Africa, Anthropology of Pentecostalism, Anthropology of Christianity, Global Christianity
    Abstract: Co-authored by three anthropologists with lonǵterm expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world ́ in particular the emergence of ́non-territoriaĺ religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) ́ and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- Introduction: Going to ́Pentecost́: Outline of an Experiment -- Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost' -- Reading Guide -- PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 1. Borders in ́Pentecost́: Creating Protected Spaces -- Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in ́Pentecost́ -- Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road -- PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in ́Pentecost́ -- Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity -- Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth -- PART IV: COMMENTS -- Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed -- Matei Candea -- Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism -- Joel Robbins -- Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands -- Bj©ırn Enge Bertelsen -- Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good? -- Knut Rio -- Chapter 11. ́Pentecost́ in The World -- Birgit Meyer -- Index --
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781789201215
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 210 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Bedouin, World Heritage, Heritage Protection, Petra, Jordan, UNESCO
    Abstract: Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In the Presence of Things -- Chapter 1. Preserving Heritage ́ Marketing Bedouinity -- Chapter 2. Taming Heritage -- Chapter 3. The Shameful Shaman -- Chapter 4. Dealing with Dead Saints -- Chapter 5. The Allure of Things -- Chapter 6. Ambiguous Materialities -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781789201192
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 236 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Media 8
    Keywords: Lifestyle Blogs, Microcelebrity, Malaysia, Bloggers, Influencers, Consumerism, Asia
    Abstract: Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter ́thick descriptioń case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers ́ precursors to current social media ́microcelebritieś and ́influencers.́ It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the ́dividual self.́
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Brief Chronology of Personal and Lifestyle Blogging in Malaysia -- Introduction: Anthroblogia: Participant Observation and Blogging in Malaysia -- Chapter 1. The Blog as Assemblage: Agency and Affordances -- Chapter 2. January 2006: Blogwars, Hit Sluts and Authenticity in the Personal Blogosphere -- Chapter 3. The Blogger and Her Blog: (Dis)Assembling the Dividual Self -- Chapter 4. May 2007: Assembling Genres -- Chapter 5. Assembling Blogs and Bloggers -- Chapter 6. April 2007: Voicy Consumers and Negotiating Networked Publics -- Chapter 7. Assembling a Blog Market -- Chapter 8. January 2009: Negotiating the Authentic Advertorial -- Chapter 9. Assembling Lifestyles -- Chapter 10. October 2009: Regional Blogmeet -- Conclusions: The Dividual Self and Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog -- References -- Index --
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781789201291
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 358 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Refugees, Germany, Asylum Seekers, Political Asylum, Cultural Diversity, Refugee Crisis
    Abstract: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Making, Experiencing and Managing Difference in a Changing Germany -- Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sharon Macdonald -- PART I: MAKING GERMANS AND NON-GERMANS -- Chapter 1. Language as Battleground: ́Speakinǵ the Nation, Lingual Citizenship and Diversity Management in Post-unification -- Germany -- Uli Linke -- Chapter 2. Diversity and Unity: Political and Conceptual Answers to Experiences of Differences and Diversities in Germany -- Friedrich Heckmann -- Chapter 3. Jews, Muslims and the Ritual Male Circumcision Debate: Religious Diversity and Social Inclusion in Germany -- G©œkce Yurdakul -- PART II: POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE -- Chapter 4. Islam, Vernacular Culture and Creativity in Stuttgart -- Petra Kuppinger -- Chapter 5. ́Neuk©œlln Is Where I Live, It́s Not Where Ím Froḿ: Children of Migrants Navigating Belonging in a Rapidly Changing -- Urban Space in Berlin -- Carola Tize and Ria Reis -- Chapter 6. The Post-migrant Paradigm -- Naika Foroutan -- PART III: REFUGEE ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 7. New Yeaŕs Eve, Sexual Violence and Moral Panics: Ruptures and Continuities in Germanýs Integration Regime -- Kira Kosnick -- Chapter 8. Solidarity with Refugees: Negotiations of Proximity and Memory -- Serhat Karakayal♯ł -- Chapter 9. Negotiating Cultural Difference in Dresdeńs Pegida Movement and Berlińs Refugee Church -- Jan-Jonathan Bock -- PART IV: NEW INITIATIVES AND DIRECTIONS -- Chapter 10. Interstitial Agents: Negotiating Migration and Diversity in Theatre -- Jonas Tinius -- Chapter 11. Articulating a Noncitizen Politics: Nation-State Pity vs. Democratic Inclusion -- Damani J. Partridge -- Chapter 12. The Refugees-Welcome Movement: A New Form of Political Action -- Werner Schiffauer -- Conclusion: Refugee Futures and the Politics of Difference -- Sharon Macdonald -- Index --
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781789201437
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 392 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 24
    Abstract: Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research ́ much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach ́ on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Bonnie McCay -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: At Sea in the Twenty-First Century -- Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson -- Chapter 1. Moving Beyond the ́Scapé to Being in the (Watery) World, Wherever -- Hannah Cobb and Jesse Ransley -- Chapter 2. Working Grounds, Producing Places, and Becoming at Home at Sea -- Penny McCall Howard -- Chapter 3. Reexamination Brazilian Mounds: Changed Views of Coastal Societies -- Daniela Klokler and MaDu Gaspar -- Chapter 4. Seamless Archaeology: The Evolving Use of Archaeology in the Study of Seascapes -- Caroline Wickham-Jones -- Chapter 5. Moving Along: Wayfinding, Following, and Nonverbal Communication across the Frozen Seascape of East Greenland -- Sophie C©Þcilie Elixhauser -- Chapter 6. Drawing Gestures: Body Movement in Perceiving and Communicating Submerged Landscapes -- Cristi©Łn Simonetti -- Chapter 7. Exploration of a Buried Seascape: The Cultural Maritime Landscapes of Tremadoc Bay -- Gary Robinson -- Chapter 8. Fish Traps of the Crocodile Islands: Windows on Another World -- Bentley James -- Chapter 9. A Community-Based Approach to Documenting and Interpreting the Cultural Seascapes of the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia -- David Guilfoyle, Ross Anderson, Ron ́Doć Reynolds, and Tom Kimber -- Chapter 10. Recognized Seaworthy: Resistance and Transformation among Icelandic Fisherwomen -- Margaret Willson and Helga Tryggvad©đttir -- Chapter 11. ́It Is Windier Nowadayś: Coastal Livelihoods and Seascape-Making in Qeqertarsuaq, West Greenland -- Pelle Tejsner -- Chapter 12. Home-Making on Land and Sea in the Archipelagic Philippines -- Olivia Swift -- Chapter 13. Fishing for Food and Fun: How Fishing Practices Mediate Physical and Discursive Relationships with the Sea in Carteret County, North Carolina, US -- No©±lle Boucquey and Lisa Campbell -- Chapter 14. Sea Nomads: Sama-Bajau Mobility, Livelihoods, and Marine Conservation in Southeast Asia -- Natasha Stacey and Edward H. Allison -- Chapter 15. Formal and Informal Territoriality in Ocean Management -- Tanya J. King -- Afterword: At Home on the Waves? A Concluding Comment -- Tim Ingold -- Glossary -- Index --
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781785339950
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 158 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Asian Anthropologies 9
    Keywords: Legitmation, Chinese Divination, Anthropology of China, Superstition, Fortune Telling, Contemporary China
    Abstract: Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal ́superstitioń, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to ́traditioń. Beyond matters of image management, divinerś efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Social and Political Status of Divination in China -- Chapter 2. The Practice of Divination and Diviners -- Chapter 3. Typical Customers of Divination -- Chapter 4. The Moral Discourses of Divination -- Chapter 5. Divination as an Aspect of ́Traditional Culturé -- Chapter 6. Divination as Counselling -- Chapter 7. The Professionalization of Divination through Associations -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781789204827
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Explorations in Heritage Studies 2
    Keywords: Heritage Formation; Heritage Use; Heritage Contestation; Social Movements; Heritiage Activism; Contested Heritage; Dissonant Heritage
    Abstract: Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of Heritage -- Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones -- Chapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement Studies -- Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. Jasper -- Chapter 2. ‘The Past is Always New’: A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage Movements -- Tod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim -- Chapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional China -- Gary Sigley -- Chapter 4. Heritage Activism in Singapore -- Terence Chong -- Chapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in Nepal -- Sudeep Jana Thing -- Chapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka’s Dumbara Rata Weavers -- Aimée Douglas -- Chapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in Iran -- Ali Mozaffari --
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  • 9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Papers
    Abstract: The Multi-tier Framework (MTF) was developed to address the specifics of energy-access needs outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) initiative launched by the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) in the World Bank, in consultation with multiple development partners, has developed the Global Tracking Framework (GTF) to measure and monitor energy access using the MTF in terms of attributes and tiers. As part of the stock-taking exercise on measuring access via the MTF, ESMAP has launched detailed data collection activities in seventeen countries. One of those is Nepal, a country in South Asia committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Energy Access (SDG 7.1). With the government of Nepal, the World Bank carried out a nationally representative household survey in 2017 to determine a baseline for Nepal's access to energy. The findings of this report are based on the data from that survey
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  • 10
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Abstract: World Bank Group strategy continues to position SMEs as key vehicles to promote employment, value chain development, economic and social inclusion, and resilience in the face of fragility and conflict. This note synthesizes findings regarding SMEs and SME support from recent IEG evaluations, independent evaluations by other MDBs, and relevant World Bank Group research
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  • 11
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Abstract: This evaluation assesses the Bank Group's effectiveness and comparative advantage in fostering regional integration during FY2003-17 and draws lessons that can be used to inform future regional integration operations. Client countries of the World Bank Group have turned to regional integration as one of the pathways toward faster economic development and peace, and to help overcome development challenges. Main findings of the report include: (i) Overall, the Bank Group's efforts to foster regional integration have led to mostly positive development outcomes in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region and in infrastructure sectors. (ii) Though the IDA Regional Window program has also contributed to regional integration (mainly in the Africa Region), the development outcomes of its interventions are not significantly different from similar projects co-financed outside the program
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  • 12
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Other Infrastructure Study
    Abstract: Tunisia's has made significant investments in infrastructure, which has contributed to economic growth. The investments have enabled reasonably good access to basic infrastructure services. While access rates are high, the relative quality of Tunisia's infrastructure has deteriorated significantly over the last ten years. State-owned enterprises (SOEs), which dominate the infrastructure sector, receive considerable subsidies and incur notable financial losses. Overall, there is a heavy reliance on external borrowing to fund infrastructure investment, which creates contingent liabilities, and enhances foreign exchange and macro-economic risk. Chapter one provides an overview of Tunisia's infrastructure performance; chapter two discusses each sub-sector in more detail in terms of achievements and challenges; chapter three looks at historical trends in spending followed by a scenario analysis of investment needs with anecdotal examples, and discusses the present macro-economic and fiscal constraints; and chapter four presents possible action items for further discussion with the Tunisian government
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  • 13
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Poverty Assessment
    Abstract: Uganda's progress in reducing poverty during the late 1990s and early 2000s was remarkable. This note documents the trends in poverty and inequality in Uganda with a focus on the period 2012 to 2016. It first explores how various indicators of monetary poverty have evolved over time and if these trends vary by urban and rural areas and by region. This is complemented with a description of the movements in several non-monetary poverty indicators. Secondly, the note analyzes who has benefitted from the lackluster economic growth, and how this has translated into different measures of inequality. It then aims to disentangle some of the forces behind the changes in poverty, mostly resorting to decomposition exercises. Finally, it provides an account of who are the poor households and what are their living conditions, particularly compared to non-poor households
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  • 14
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER)
    Abstract: In 2018, the World Bank released World Development Report which showed that the world is facing a 'Learning Crisis'. Following up from that report, the Bank has launched the Human Capital Project to mobilize more resources, including for the improvement of learning outcomes. Subsequently, global leaders have been increasingly focused on solving this learning crisis and have renewed attention for Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education. Pakistan is an early adopter of this Human Capital Project, and the new government is taking the lead to address the root causes of the learning crisis. This report aims to help the government with that agenda, by quantifying the extent of the learning crisis, and to highlight the main causes of the crisis. According the World Development Report, the 'Learning Crisis' consists of three main elements. The first is that access to schooling is still unequally distributed. While there have been huge efforts to expand schooling, there are still countries (including Pakistan) with millions of children out of school. Children living in regions with violence, children from poorer families and children with physical or mental disabilities are still often excluded. The second element is that even those who are in school are often not learning anything at all. In Malawi and Zambia, for instance, 89 percent of students could not read a single word by the end of Grade 2. In India, that figure is 85 percent. These numbers are important, as children who do not master basic literacy will probably never catch up with the curriculum. In other words, schooling is not necessarily the same as learning. The third element of the learning crisis is that the proximate causes of the learning crisis, low quality teaching, student school readiness, school leadership and school inputs, are not systematically addressed by actors in the system. One of the reasons behind this is that there is no systematic data collection on these factors
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  • 15
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Financial Sector Assessment Program
    Keywords: Capital Markets ; Capital Markets and Capital Flows ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Regulation ; Financial Regulation and Supervision ; Securities Markets Policy and Regulation
    Abstract: The securities and exchange commission (SEC) is the main regulator of the capital market in the Philippines, but its resources are insufficient to adequately address its core functions, especially the supervision of capital market participants, and yet it has to address other legal responsibilities unrelated to capital markets. Other agencies also have capital market regulatory responsibilities, creating a fragmented regulatory framework that causes inconsistencies detrimental to the market and to investors' protection. The existence of regulatory arbitrage, supervisory overlaps, and enforcement gaps evidences the need for an active periodic procedure with other financial system regulators to coordinate supervision activities and review unregulated products, markets, market participants and activities. It should include information sharing and analysis of areas where there may be arbitrage, overlap, gaps, and risks to investor protection and market fairness, efficiency and transparency or other risks to the financial system. A clear and consistent risk-based approach for the SEC supervision of capital market intermediaries is needed. The bank secrecy legislation of Philippines impedes prompt access by the SEC to bank account information
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  • 16
    ISBN: 9781789203325
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 340 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Politics of Repair 1
    Keywords: Connection Between Tinkering and Innovation; Ethnography of Repair and Brokkenness; Politics of Failure; Indigenous Ways of Solving Problems; Responses to Failure and Wrongdoings
    Abstract: Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Insiders’ Manual to Breakdown -- Francisco Martínez -- Head, Hand, Heart: On Contradiction, Contingency and Repair -- Caitlin DeSilvey -- Chapter 1. Underwater, Still Life: Multi-species Engagements with the Art Abject of a Wasted American Warship -- Joshua O. Reno -- Beyond the Sparkle Zones -- Kathleen Stewart -- Chapter 2. “Till Death Do Us Part”: The Making of Home Through Holding onto Objects -- Tomás Errázuriz -- “The Lady is Not There”: Repairing Tita Meme as a Telecare User -- Tomás Sánchez Criado -- Chapter 3. In the House of Un-Things: Decay and Deferral in a Vacated Bulgarian Home -- Martin Demant Frederiksen -- Undisciplined Surfaces -- Mateusz Laszczkowski -- Chapter 4. A Ride on the Elevator. Infrastructures of Brokenness and Repair in Georgia -- Tamta Khalvashi -- Don’t Fix the Puddle: A Puddle Archive as Ethnographic Account of Sidewalk Assemblages -- Mirja Busch and Ignacio Farías -- Chapter 5. What is in a Hole? Voids out of Place and Politics below the State in Georgia -- Francisco Martínez -- Maintaining Whose Road? -- Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi -- Chapter 6. Dirtscapes: Contest over Value, Garbage and Belonging in Istanbul -- Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe -- Repairing Russia -- Michał Murawski -- Chapter 7. Village Vintage in Southern Norway: Revitalisation and Vernacular Entrepreneurship in Culture Heritage Tourism -- Sarah Holst Kjær -- A Story of Time Keepers -- Jérôme Denis and David Pontille -- Chapter 8. Keeping Them “Swiss”. The Transfer and Appropriation of Techniques for Luxury Watch Repair in Hong-Kong -- Hervé Munz -- Lost Battles of De-bobbling -- Magdalena Crăciun -- Chapter 9. Small Mutinies in the Comfortable Slot: The New Environmentalism as Repair -- Eeva Berglund -- Why Stories About the Broken Down Snowmobiles Can Teach You A Lot About the Life in the Arctic Tundra -- Aimar Ventsel -- Chapter 10. The Imperative of Repair: Fixing Bikes – For Free -- Simon Batterbury and Tim Dant -- Repair and Responsibility: The Art of Doris Salcedo -- Siobhan Kattago -- Chapter 11. Repair and (Re)creation: Broken Relationships and a Path Forward for Austrian Holocaust Survivors -- Katja Seidel -- Living Switches -- Wladimir Sgibnev -- Chapter 12. Brokenness and Normality in Design Culture -- Adam Drazin -- And Then You See Yourself Disappear (in Iceland) -- Jason Pine -- Epilogue: This Mess We’re In, Or Part Of -- Patrick Laviolette -- Index --
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9781789204841
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 288 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 200.9
    Keywords: Black Atlantic; Atlantic Studies; Transatlantic Anthropology; Transatlantic History; Religion; Mobility; Belonging; Cultural Heritage; Placemaking
    Abstract: Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Introduction: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Atlantic -- Markus Balkenhol, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Ramon Sarró -- Chapter 1. Silent Histories: Deadly Chinos and the Memorialization of a Chinese Imaginary through Afro-Cuban Religions -- Diana Espíríto Santo -- Chapter 2. Of Revelation and Re-Creation: Christian Miracles and African Traditions in the Atlantic -- Roger Sansi -- Chapter 3. Peruvian Israelites: Territorial Narratives and Religious Connections across the Atlantic -- Carmen González Hacha -- Chapter 4. Defending What’s Ours: Asserting Land Rights through Popular Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo -- Katerina Chatzikidi -- Chapter 5. Emergent Atlantics: Black Evangelicals’ Quest for a New Moral Geography in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil -- Bruno Reinhardt -- Chapter 6. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal: Avoiding Stigmas and Building Bridges -- Claudia Swatowiski -- Chapter 7. Our Lady of Fátima in Brazil, Iemanjá in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic -- Clara Saraiva -- Chapter 8. Eight Movements and a Coda on the Baroque Atlantic -- Mattijs van de Port -- Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration -- Roos Dorsman -- Chapter 10. Imaging the African Diaspora: Cultural Heritage, Religion, and Belonging in the Netherlands -- Markus Balkenhol -- Chapter 11. Places of No History in Angola -- Ruy Llera Blanes -- Chapter 12. Slavery Histories from the Hinterland: Making Indigenous Heritage Landscapes in Western Burkina Faso -- Laurence Douny -- Chapter 13. A Prophetic Enclave: Religious Heritage and Environmental History in Northern Angola -- Ramon Sarró and Marina Temudo -- Conclusion: From the Atlantic Point of View: Some Concluding Thoughts -- Ramon Sarró -- Index --
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781789203523
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 168 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 305.23096894
    Keywords: world studies;zambia;social analysis;economics;social upheaval;neoliberalism;globalism;zambian children;unmonitored children;child relationships;child studies;linguistics;ethnography;ethnographics;rural african life;growing up in rural africa;children;sociology
    Abstract: Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Growing Up in Han’gombe Village -- Chapter 1. Approaching Children’s Perspectives: Reflections on Fieldwork -- Chapter 2. “Know a Dead Man’s Feet by his Child” Family Life in a Changing Society -- Chapter 3. “Is That How You Insult in Your House?” Linguistic Agency among Hang’ombe Children -- Chapter 4. The Distant Power of School: Academic Practices in Daily Life -- Conclusion: Past and Future Perspectives -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789202380
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (238 p)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Food & Nutrition 9
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth -- Introduction: Food and -- Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century -- Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth -- Chapter 1. Towards a Cross-disciplinary Approach to Food -- and Sustainability in the Twenty-first Century -- Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth -- Chapter 2. Food Insecurity and Sustainability in -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Paul Collinson -- Chapter 3. From Healthy to Sustainable: Transforming the -- Concept of the Mediterranean Diet from Health to Sustainability through -- Culture -- F. Xavier Medina -- Chapter 4. Cultures of Sustainability in the Anthropocene: -- Understanding Organic Food in Palermo -- Giovanni Orlando -- Chapter 5. Wild Phytogenetic Resources for Food in the -- Barranca del Rίo Santiago, Mexico: A First Approach to SustainabilityMartín Tena Meza, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Ricardo Ávila Palafo -- , Raymundo Villavicencio García -- Chapter 6. Farm Urban and Urban Aquaponics: Changing -- Perceptions in Classrooms and Communities -- Iain Young -- Chapter 7. ‘Dig for Sustainability’ in the Twenty-f -- rst Century: Allotments, Gardens and Television -- Helen Macbeth -- Chapter 8. Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-first -- Century: How Places in the UK are Working to Meet This Challenge -- Lucy Antal -- Chapter 9. Food and the Problem of Uncertainty – Refuge -- s and the Sense of Sustainability: The Case of Karen Farmers Returning to -- Their Villages From Refugee Camps Along the Thai Burmese Border -- Peter Kaiser -- Chapter 10. In Praise of a Fermented Bread: An Ethiopian -- Recipe for Frugal Sustainability -- Valentina Peveri -- Chapter 11. The Indian ‘Meat Dilemma’: Malnutrit -- on, Social Hierarchy and Ecological Sustainability -- Michaël Bruckert -- Chapter 12. Eating Outside the Home: Food Practices as a -- Consequence of Economic Crisis in Spain -- Maria Gracia-Arnaiz -- Chapter 13. First Steps in Developing a Food Waste -- Management Strategy in a UK Higher Education Institution: The University of -- Liverpool Case Study -- Nick Doran and Iain Young -- Chapter 14. The Demand for Sustainable Ways of Dealing -- with Waste from Agriculture and Aquaculture -- Iain Young -- Index --
    Abstract: Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face. Its cross-disciplinary framework of chapters with local, regional and continental perspectives provides a global outlook on sustainability issues. These case studies will appeal to those working in public sector agencies, NGOs, consultancies and other bodies focused on food security, human nutrition and environmental sustainability
    Note: Zielgruppe - Audience: Professional and scholarly
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    ISBN: 9781789203585
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 260 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Dislocations 26
    Keywords: China; Domestic Dislocation in the Contemporary Countryside; Dispossession; Red Capitalism; Socialist Sovereignty
    Abstract: Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place and the location of class in China and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction: The Countryside as Home -- PART I: HISTORY, POLITICS, PLACE -- Chapter 1. The Big Village -- Chapter 2. Genealogies Revealed and Concealed -- PART II: GENDER, GENERATION, KINSHIP -- Chapter 3. Reproducing Kin across Generational Divides -- Chapter 4. Gendered Aspirations in Marriage -- PART III: LABOR, LOCATION, PRECARITY -- Chapter 5. Fields, Food, and the Market -- Chapter 6. Dangerous Domesticities -- Conclusion: Claims, Belonging, and the Home -- Postscript: Home as Workplace -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789203547
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    Pages: 170 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Worlds in Motion 6
    DDC: 304.8
    Keywords: European Union; Mobility; Structured Inequalities; Spatial Choices and Practices; Habitus
    Abstract: French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement.  This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Bourdieu, Social Space, and Mobility -- Chapter 1. Bourdieu’s World-Making -- Chapter 2. A Sense of One’s Place -- Chapter 3. Landscapes of Mobility -- Chapter 4. The Nation-State and Thresholds of Social Space -- Chapter 5. The European Union as Social Space -- Conclusion: Toward an Ethnography of Social Space -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789200133
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    Pages: 186 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: business and economics;business scams;late stage capitalism;pyramid schemes;russia;siberia;siberian business schemes;international business;post socialism;soviet russia;russian economics;contemporary capitalism;capitalism;marketing;american dream
    Abstract: Multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes promote the idea that participants can easily become rich. These popular economies turn ordinary people into advocates of their interests and missionaries of the American Dream. Marketing Hope looks at how different types of get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on their social dynamics, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Capitalism in Aga -- Chapter 2. American Dream or Pyramid Scheme? -- Chapter 3. Spiritual Capitalism -- Chapter 4. Pyramids of Intimacy -- Chapter 5. Pyramids and their Products -- Chapter 6. Power in the Pyramids -- Chapter 7. Multilevel Marketing, Pyramid Schemes and Capitalism -- List of References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204322
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    Pages: 242 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 43
    Keywords: Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Reproductive Medicine; Medical Anthropology; Sociology; Political Science; Philosophy; Cultural Perspectives on Reproduction; Cultural Persepctives on Fertility; Reproduction; Fertility
    Abstract: Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Recognizing Donor-Conceived Families: A Major Issue in Europe’s Bioethics Debates -- Irène Théry -- Map. ART in Europe -- Introduction -- Jennifer Merchant -- PART I: VISIBLE BORDERS – LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY -- Chapter 1. ART and French Law: The Advantages and Inconveniences of the Therapeutic Model -- Laurence Brunet -- Chapter 2. ART and Surrogacy in Belgium: No Borders for Access – Few Borders for Kinship -- Jehanne Sosson -- PART II: INVISIBLE BORDERS, FRANCE, BELGIUM -- Chapter 3. Does the Embryo Make the Family? Access to Embryo Donation in France -- Séverine Mathieu -- Chapter 4. Access to ART in France and Belgium: The Standpoint of Four ART Practitioners -- Jennifer Merchant -- Chapter 5. Removing Anonymity for Egg and Sperm Donors? (Re-)Igniting the Debate in Belgium -- Cathy Herbrand and Nicky Hudson -- PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES AND SURROGACY -- Chapter 6. When French Couples Become Parents Through Surrogacy in the United States: What Relationship with the Surrogate -- Jérôme Courduriès -- Chapter 7. Using ART or Surrogacy: Designating Third Parties in the Reproductive Process, and Representing Family Ties in Same-Sex Families -- Martine Gross -- Chapter 8. Queer Families Online: The Internet as a Resource for Accessing and Facilitating Surrogacy and ART in France and the United States -- Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer -- PART IV: CROSS-BORDER PRACTICES -- Chapter 9. Single Men and Women Barred From Using ART in France -- Dominique Mehl -- Chapter 10. Cross-Border Reproductive Care for French Patients in Belgium -- Guido Pennings -- Chapter 11. Is ART a “National Issue”? -- Marie Gaille -- Conclusion -- Jennifer Merchant -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204384
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    Pages: 278 p.
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    Series Statement: New Directions in Anthropology 44
    DDC: 394.1209467
    Keywords: Gastronationalism; Spanish Regional Cuisine; Catalan Identity; Culinary Nationalism; Josep R. Llobera; Detailed Ethnographic Monographs of Nationalisms; Autonomy of Catalonia; Independence Movement; Everyday Experience of Nationalism in Catalonia
    Abstract: In the early twenty-first century, nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain, this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia’s pro-independence movement, and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols, culture and identity in everyday life. Nourishing the Nation provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language and Translation -- Maps of Spain and Catalonia -- Introduction: Nourishing Catalan Nationalism -- Chapter 1. Catalan Cookbooks: Creating Catalonia through Culinary Literature -- Chapter 2. The Foundational Sauces and National Dishes -- Chapter 3. Catalan Cuisine in Context -- Chapter 4. The Gastronomic Calendar: Seasonality, Festivity and Territory -- Chapter 5. Catalan National Days and their Foods -- Conclusion: Cuisine as National Identity -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201567
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    Pages: 100 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 18
    Keywords: critique of current populist movements;different anthropological experiences;integral to western democratic systems;exclusionary essentialisms;paradox of democracy;political accountability and historical consciousness;populist movements;populist rhetoric;populism
    Abstract: Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process? Bringing together different anthropological experiences of current populist movements, this volume makes a timely contribution to these questions. Contrary to more conventional interpretations of populism as crisis, the authors instead recognize populism as integral to Western democratic systems. In doing so, the volume provides an important critique that exposes the exclusionary essentialisms spread by populist rhetoric while also directing attention to local views of political accountability and historical consciousness that are key to understanding this paradox of democracy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Populism and its Paradox -- Bruce Kapferer and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Chapter 1. From “The People” to “The Citizens”: The Possibilities and Limitations of Populist Discourse in Argentina -- Victoria Goddard -- Chapter 2. The Brazilian Crisis and the Ghosts of Populism -- John Gledhill -- Chapter 3. Lurching between Consensus and Chaos: Shades of Populism in Australian Indigenous Policy -- Melinda Hinkson and Jon Altman -- Chapter 4. Populism’s Claims: The Struggle between Privilege and Equality -- Susana Narotzky -- Chapter 5. How Populism Works -- Michael Herzfeld --
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    ISBN: 9781789202410
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    Pages: 155 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Social Analysis 8
    Keywords: study of post ottoman empire;crisis experience in central greece;prayer as history;war at greek border;post civil war era;post ottoman world;ottoman empire;greece;nationalist wars of 20th century;greco turkish war;late nationalism;nationalist era;historical
    Abstract: How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term “late nationalism”.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State -- Nicolas Argenti -- Chapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece -- Daniel M. Knight -- Chapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina -- David Henig -- Chapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness -- Alice von Bieberstein -- Chapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek Border -- Laurie Kain Hart -- Chapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event -- Penelope Papailias -- Chapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos -- Séverine Rey -- Chapter 7. “Eyes Shut, Muted Voices”: Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument -- Dimitra Gefou-Madianou -- Chapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World -- Charles Stewart -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789203387
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 188 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: West Africa; Water Economy; Drinking Water; Water Distribution; Water Vendors
    Abstract: Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Paying particular attention to two key groups of people who provide water to most of Niamey’s residents - door-to-door water vendors, and those who sell water in one-half-liter plastic bags (sachets) on the street or in small shops – the authors offer new insights into how Niamey’s water economies affect gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure today.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Water? Why Now? -- Chapter 1. Situating Water in the 21st Century -- Chapter 2. Historical Urban Development in Niamey -- Chapter 3. Accessing Water in Niamey -- Chapter 4. Water Delivery Vendors in Niamey -- Chapter 5. “Pure Water” in Niamey -- Chapter 6. Fluid Materialism in Niamey -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789203608
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 256 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: African Continent; Sub-Saharan African Societies; Regime Change Since the 1990s; Moral Practices and Discourses; Neoliberal Reforms
    Abstract: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts -- Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski -- Chapter 1. Historical Regimes of Responsibility in ‘The Politics of the Belly’ -- Jean-François Bayart -- Chapter 2. The Use(fulness) of Discourses of 'Responsibility' on the DRC's ‘Sovereign Frontier’ -- Stylianos Moshonas -- Chapter 3. High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge: Views from Mozambique -- Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo -- Chapter 4. Reproduction, Responsibility and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire -- Armando Cutolo and Giulia Almagioni -- Chapter 5. Human Care or Human Capital: Corporate Responsibility and HIV Management at South Africa’s Mines -- Dinah Rajak -- Chapter 6. For What Are Persons With Disabilities Responsible? The Study of Public, Social and Family Responsibilities in the Context of Locomotor Disability (Cape Flats, South Africa) -- Marie Schnitzler -- Chapter 7. Diverting Makila Mabe: Understanding Responsibility in Kinshasa’s Pentecostal Worlds -- Katrien Pype -- Chapter 8. The (Ir)Responsible Witch: Ambiguities among the Maka of Southeast Cameroon -- Peter Geschiere -- Chapter 9. The ‘Return of Culture’: Spiritual Threats, Asylum Policies and the Responsibility of Anthropological Knowledge -- Roberto Beneduce -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204292
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    Pages: 288 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 8
    Keywords: Fredrik Barth; Human Agency; Social Anthropology; Humanistic Anthropology
    Abstract: Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential creativity, as well as continuing to develop the relevance for his work as a way of thinking about and beyond the state. The work is grounded on his insistence that theory should grow only from observed life.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Introduction -- Robert P. Weller and Keping Wu -- Chapter 1. Humility First: Fredrik Barth in His Own Words – and Mine -- Unni Wikan -- Chapter 2. Transacting Knowledge and Value: Fredrik Barth and the Tactics of Mutual Incomprehension -- Michael Herzfeld -- Chapter 3. Cosmologies in the Remaking: Variation and Time in Chinese Temple Religion -- Robert P. Weller -- Chapter 4. Building Infrastructure and Making Boundaries in Southwest China -- Keping Wu -- Chapter 5. On Nomads of South Persia -- Thomas Barfield -- Chapter 6. The Language of Trust and Betrayal -- Gunnar Haaland -- Chapter 7. Khan and Sufi: Two Types of Authority in Swat, Northern Pakistan -- Charles Lindholm -- Chapter 8. Values and the Value of Secrecy: Barthian Reflections on Values and the Nature of Mountain Ok Social Process -- Joel Robbins -- Chapter 9. Paradigm Change in Chinese Ethnology and Fredrik Barth’s Influence -- Ke Fan -- Chapter 10. An Overall Generative Approach: Fredrik Barth's Contribution to Anthropological Research and Writing -- Chee-Beng Tan -- Afterword: A Rooted Cosmopolitan Remembered -- Ulf Hannerz -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204865
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    Pages: 236 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Mobilities; Immobilities; Social Positionality; Political Economyl Moral Economy; African Societies; Social Inequality
    Abstract: Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa -- Joël Noret -- Chapter 1. Inequality from up Close: Qur’anic Students in Northern Nigeria Working as Domestics -- Hannah Hoechner -- Chapter 2. 'Born Free to Aspire?' An Ethnographic Study of Rural Youths’ Aspirations in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Fawzia Mazanderani -- Chapter 3. Great Expectations and Uncertain Futures: Education and Social Im/mobility in Niamey, Niger -- Gabriella Körling -- Chapter 4. ‘Precarious Prosperity?’ Social Im/mobilities Among Young Entrepreneurs in Kampala -- Laura Camfield and William Monteith -- Chapter 5. ‘Here Men Are Becoming Women and Women Men’: Gender, Class, and Space in Maputo, Mozambique -- Inge Tvedten, Arlindo Uate and Lizete Mangueleze -- Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space -- Benjamin Rubbers -- Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border -- Maxim Bolt -- Chapter 8. Domestic Dramas: Class, Taste and Home Decoration in Buea, Cameroon -- Ben Page -- Conclusion: A Multidimensional Approach to Social Positionality in Africa -- Joël Noret -- Appendix I: Sample characteristics -- Appendix II: Summary of entrepreneurs’ directions of social mobility -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201116
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    Pages: 262 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Cyberneuroethics;Neuronal Network;Neuro;Cyber;Brain-Mind Interface
    Abstract: With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace. In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invites society, as a whole, to seek a path in the use of these interfaces enabling humanity to prosper while avoiding the relevant risks. As such, the volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why use the term Cyberneuroethics? -- Chapter 2. Popular Understanding of Neuronal Interfaces -- Chapter 3. Presentation of the Brain/Mind Interface -- Chapter 4. Neuronal Interface Systems -- Chapter 5. CyberNeuroEthics -- Chapter 6. Neuronal Interfaces and Policy -- Conclusion -- Appendix: SCHB Recommendations on CyberNeuroEthics -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201772
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    Pages: 288 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Southern African Development;Legacy of Colonialism;Development Models;South Africa;Zimbabwe;Economic development;Rethinking and Unthinking;Coloniality;Inequality;Poverty
    Abstract: Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction: Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa -- Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- PART I: THEORY, CONCEPTS AND DISCOURSE -- Chapter 1. Rethinking Development in the Age of Global Coloniality -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Chapter 2. Rethinking and Reclaiming Development in Africa -- Vusi Gumede -- Chapter 3. Elusive Solutions to Poverty and Inequality: From ‘Trickle Down’ to ‘Solidarity Economy’ -- Tidings P. Ndhlovu -- PART II: DEVELOPMENT, URBANISM AND POVERTY -- Chapter 4. Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Issues -- Rudo Barbra Gaidzanwa -- Chapter 5. Theory of Poverty or Poverty of Theory?: A Decolonial Intervention on Urban Poverty in South Africa -- Raymond Nyapokoto and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- PART III: EMPOWERMENT, REGIONALISM, IDENTY AND DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 6. The ‘Native Returns’: Assessing and Re-imagining Indigenisation and Black Economic Empowerment as Development Projects in the ‘Post-colony’ -- Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa and Tinashe Lukas Chimedza -- Chapter 7. Ethno-Politics and Regionalism in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: The Matabeleland Development Question and the Imperative for Development Redress after the Crisis -- Vusilizwe Thebe -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Land Ownership in South Africa: Self-Perceptions and Identities of Backyard Dwellers within the Coloured Community -- Wendy Isaacs-Martin -- PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL POLICY AND AFRICAN FAMILIES -- Chapter 9. Understanding the Conceptualisation of African Families: A Social Policy Development Poser in South Africa -- Busani Mpofu -- Chapter 10. Socio-economic and Cultural Barriers to Marital Unions and HIV Incidence Correlates: A Public Policy Poser for South Africa? -- Busani Ngcaweni -- Chapter 11. Old Persons Cash Grant Pay-out Days: How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa -- Gloria Sauti -- Afterword: End of Development and Rise of Decoloniality as the Future -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Mpofu -- References -- Index --
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    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 19
    Keywords: Identity Politics, Political Reform, Guinea, Guinea Conakry, West Africa
    Abstract: In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Names and Spelling -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Identity at the Margins: A Place in Guinea -- Chapter 1. A Journey to the Margins? -- Chapter 2. Maintaining Marginality: Ethnic and National Elements of Identification -- Chapter 3. Reaching for the Margins: Negotiating State Power -- Chapter 4. Mixing and Mingling: New Politics, Old Structures? -- Chapter 5. Bargaining with an Ailing State -- Chapter 6. Citizenship at the Margins: Performing the Future State -- Conclusion: Liberties at the Margins: Playing the Game -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789202021
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 212 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 306.4/60995
    Keywords: Pacific Rim;Ethnographic Studies of Plant Materials;Anthropology of Design and Material Culture;New Materialities;Making
    Abstract: How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Materials and Design -- PART I: MATERIALS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE -- Chapter 1. On the Materials of Mats -- Chapter 2. Materials on the Move -- Chapter 3. What’s in a Plant Leaf? -- PART II: MATERIALS: DESIGN: TRANSFORMATION -- Chapter 4. Of Canoes and Troughs -- Chapter 5. Enclosures and Disclosures -- PART III: MATERIAL FUTURES -- Chapter 6. Returning Cultural Knowledge in a Digital Design Context -- Chapter 7. Material Histories and the Changing Nature of Museum Collections -- Conclusion: Towards a New Understanding of Materiality -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789203400
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 186 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: portrait of alpine settlement;resistance to outsiders and modernization;two way process of research;villagers embrace four small children;act as participant observers;intrusion of observation;distorts ordinary life observed;challenges of multi vocality;economy;culture;history;ethnographic enterprise
    Abstract: In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement – its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and “truth” are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Setting -- Chapter 3. Boundaries -- Chapter 4. Population -- Chapter 5. Children -- Chapter 6. School -- Chapter 7. Money and Property -- Chapter 8. Work -- Chapter 9. Animals -- Chapter 10. Marie -- Chapter 11. Caterina -- Chapter 12. Margherita -- Chapter 13. Martin -- Chapter 14. Twenty-five Years On -- Ethnographer’s Epilogue -- Cast of Characters -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789206104
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    Pages: 204 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology 9
    Abstract: Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Names, Language and Transliteration -- Introduction: A Tale of Two Countercultures -- Chapter 1. Land of the Golden Avatar -- Chapter 2. Changing the Subject -- Chapter 3. Practices of Knowledge -- Chapter 4. Learning to Love Krishna -- Chapter 5. Simple Living, High Thinking -- Conclusion: Failing Well -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789203462
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 354 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Catastrophes in Context 2
    Keywords: illumination of disjunctions in field;disaster reduction;academic and expert knowledge;policies and practices of agencies;driving factors;risk construction;complexity of resettlement;importance of peoples culture;suppositions;realities;agendas;executions
    Abstract: A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Defining Disaster Upon Disaster: Why Risk Prevention and Disaster Response So Often Fail -- Susanna M. Hoffman -- PART I: ILLUMINATING THE FISSURES: SUPPOSITIONS, REALITIES, AGENDAS, AND EXECUTION -- Chapter 1. Unwieldy Disasters: Engaging the Multiple Gaps and Connections That Make Catastrophes -- Roberto E. Barrios -- Chapter 2. Advocacy and Accomplishment: Contrasting Challenges to Successful Disaster Risk Management -- Terry Jeggle -- Chapter 3. Natural Hazard Events into Disasters: The Gap between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice as it Affects the Built Environment -- Stephen Bender -- Chapter 4. Humanitarian Response: Ideals Meet Reality -- Adam Koons -- Chapter 5. Disaster Theory Versus Practice? It’s a Long Rocky Road - A Practitioner’s View from the Ground -- Jane Murphy Thomas -- PART II: SITUATIONS AND EXPOSITIONS: PLIGHTS, PROBLEMS AND QUANDRIES -- Chapter 6. Slow On-Set Disaster: Climate Change and the Gaps Between Knowledge, Policy, and Practice -- Shirley J. Fiske and Elizabeth Marino -- Chapter 7. Disrupting Gendered Outcomes: Addressing Disaster Vulnerability Through Stakeholder Participation -- Brenda D. Phillips -- Chapter 8. Resettlement for Disaster Risk Reduction: Global Knowledge, Local Application -- Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Chapter 9. From Nuclear Things to Things Nuclear: Minding the Gap at the Knowledge-Policy-Practice Nexus in Post-Fallout Fukushima -- Ryo Morimoto -- Chapter 10. “Haitians Need to be Patient” - Notes on Policy Advocacy in Washington Following Haiti’s Earthquake -- Mark Schuller -- PART III: REVAMPING APPARATUS AND OUTCOME -- Chapter 11. The Scope and Importance of Anthropology and its Core Concept of Culture in Closing the Risk and Disaster Knowledge to Policy and Practice Gap -- Susanna M. Hoffman -- Chapter 12. Engaged: Applying the Anthropology of Disaster to Practitioner Settings and Policy Creation -- Katherine E. Browne, Elizabeth Marino, Heather Lazrus, and Keely Maxwell -- Chapter 13. Future Matter Matters: Disasters as a (Potential) Vehicle for Social Change. It’s About Time -- Ann Bergman -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204346
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 334 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Dislocations 27
    Keywords: Volta Redonda; Labor; Heavy Industry; Global Capitalism; Globalization; Working Class Livelihood; Global Economic Re-structuring; Financialization; Financialization of Economics; Financialization of Politics
    Abstract: Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Brazilian Steel-Town and the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) -- Chapter 1. Capital Enclosures, Labour Abstraction and the Struggle over Value Forms -- Chapter 2. Cyclops at Work: Capital as Technology -- Chapter 3. Old and New Land Questions: Capital as Land -- Chapter 4. Of Ants and Steelworkers: Capital as Labor -- Chapter 5. The Invention of People’s Money: Capital as Money -- Chapter 6. Labor as Commons -- Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of Uneven and Combined Development -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789202045
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    Pages: 174 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Loose Can(n)ons 4
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Discursive Spaces; Spaces of Dispersion; Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification; Anthropology; Ethical Relativism
    Abstract: On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial subjectivity and postcolonial critique. Contrary to the widespread assumption that cultural studies and the social sciences share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'modern' disciplinary practices and axioms have in fact produced inherently incompatible theories. Anthropology's ethical relativism has also created obstacles for a critical theory of culture and society.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The Illusion of Anthropological Identity -- PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REIFICATIONS FROM ETHNICITY TO IDENTITY -- Chapter 1. Toward Identification: The Unconscious Geopolitics of Ethnicity and Culture in Theory -- -- Disenfranchising Concepts from their Disciplinary Mindsets -- Reframing Ethnicity, Culture and Identity -- Discursive Fictions in the Geopolitics of Modernity, Nation-State, Colonialism, etc. -- Pragmatic Crises of Context in the Ecology of Social Process -- The Illusion of Identity and the Groundedness of L’Imaginaire -- -- Chapter 2. The Diasporic Mind-field in the (Inter)Disciplinary Politics of Identity -- -- Diaspora as Cultural Phenomenon and Conceptual Problematic -- Diaspora as Explanatory or Emancipatory Concept in Disciplinary Perspective -- The Japanese ‘Diaspora’ in Postwar Taiwan -- Diasporic Identification as Subjective Positioning -- -- PART II: BEYOND THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY OF WRITING CULTURE -- Chapter 3. The Predicament of James Clifford in the Anthropological Imaginary -- -- The New and Newer Ethnography: A Short History of Consciousness -- The Fate of Geertz: ‘Culture’ and Beyond -- -- Chapter 4. Writing Theory: Rethinking the Emancipation of the Author from his Function -- -- Theory, Literarily Speaking: Authorial Subjectivity from Text to Context -- Theory as Narrative: The Birth of Society and the Norm from Durkheim to Foucault -- The Limits of Imaginative Discourse within the Boundaries of Disciplinary Practices -- Unthinking the Disciplines: Steps toward an Ecology of Practice -- -- PART III: CAN THE POSTCOLONIAL SPEAK IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY? -- Chapter 5. Subaltern Studies as Historical Exception / Postcolonialism as Critical Theory -- -- Postcolonial Theories in the Concrete -- The Disciplinary Divide: Why Can’t the Post-colonial Speak in Sociological Theory? -- Subaltern Studies in the Abstract -- Decolonizing the Fog of American Identity: Lessons from Chineseness in Critical Reflexivity -- From Historical Exception to Theoretical Exceptionalism -- -- Chapter 6. Nation as Norm, State as Exception: Unseen Ramifications of a Hyphenated Modernity -- -- On Geoffrey Benjamin’s (2015 [1985]) Deep Sociology of the Nation-State -- The Emergence of the State as Signifying Apparatus in the Practice of Modern Institutions -- Governmentality in the Critique of Social Theory, or the Return of Postcolonialism2 -- -- Bibliography --
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    ISBN: 9781789203301
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 236 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    DDC: 306.09
    Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; European State Powers; Hybridization and Power Relations; Colonial History; Archaeological Data
    Abstract: Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: In Search of Indigenous Voices in the Historical Archaeology of Colonial Encounters -- Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi -- Chapter 2. The Sounds of Colonization: An Examination of Bells at Point Pearce Aboriginal Mission Station/Burgiyana, South Australia -- Madeline Fowler, Amy Roberts, and Lester-Irabinna Rigney -- Chapter 3. Colonization, Sámi Sacred Sites and Religious Syncretism, c. AD 500–1800 -- Inga-Maria Mulk and Tim Bayliss-Smith -- Chapter 4. Seeking the Indigenous Perspective: Colonial Interactions at Fort Saint Pierre, French Colonial Louisiane (1719–29) -- LisaMarie Malischke -- Chapter 5. Clockwork Porridge: An Archaeological Analysis of Everyday Life in the Early Mining Communities of Swedish Lapland in the Seventeenth Century -- Risto Nurmi -- Chapter 6. “Not on Bread but on Fish and By Hunting”: Food Culture in Early Modern Sápmi -- Ritva Kylli, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Tiina Äikäs and Sirpa Aalto -- Chapter 7. Landscapes of Resilience at the Cut Bank Boarding School, Montana -- William A. White and Brandi E. Bethke -- Chapter 8. Conflicts in Memory and Heritage: Dakota Perspectives on Historic Fort Snelling, Minnesota -- Katherine Hayes -- Chapter 9. Discussion: Colonialism Past and Present: Archaeological Engagements and Entanglements -- Carl-Gösta Ojala -- Chapter 10. Perspectives on Indigenous Voices and Historical Archaeology -- Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi -- Afterword -- Alistair Paterson and Shino Konishi -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201987
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 278 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: European Anthropology in Translation 7
    DDC: 306.209457
    Keywords: Patrongage-clientelism, Patronage, Corruption, Southern Italy, Basilicata
    Abstract: The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Art of Raccomandazione -- Chapter 1. The Ethnographic Setting -- Chapter 2. Patronage/Clientelism: Some Theoretical Considerations -- Chapter 3. Toward a Poetics of Patronage -- Chapter 4. Raccomandazione, Tangente and Mafia: An “Amoral” Family of Genres -- Chapter 5. Raccomandazione, Class Relations and the Southern Question -- Chapter 6. Employing the ‘Little Shove’: Raccomandazione and Work -- Chapter 7. “We’re not Uganda, but Almost”: Raccomandazione and Southern Italian Identity -- Conclusion: Raccomandazione and the Bourgeois-Liberal World Order -- Epilogue: What Happened When They Read What I Wrote: Mediterranean Clientelism and Corruption Revisited -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201963
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 324 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Miltary-Civilan Encounters, Peace and Conflict Studies, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution
    Abstract: Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Rethinking Civil-Military Connections: From Relations to Entanglements -- Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Chapter 1. The Invisible Uniform: Civil-Military Entanglements in the Everyday Life of Danish Soldiers’ Families -- Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Maj Hedegaard Heiselberg -- Chapter 2. Capable Patriots: Narratives of Estonian Women Living with Military Service Members -- Tiia-Triin Truusa and Kairi Kasearu -- Chapter 3. Military, Society, and Violence through Popular Culture: Japan's Self-Defense Forces -- Eyal Ben-Ari -- Chapter 4. From Obligatory to Optional: Thirty Years of Civil-Military Entanglements in Norway -- Elin Gustavsen and Torunn Laugen Haaland -- Chapter 5. Framing the Other in Times of War and Terror: Explorations of the Military in Germany -- Maren Tomforde -- Chapter 6. Domesticating Civil-Military Entanglement: Multiplicity and Transnationality of Retired British Gurkhas’ Citizenship Negotiation -- Taeko Uesugi -- Chapter 7. Civil-Military Relations from International Conflict Zones to the United States: Notes on Mutual Discontents and Disruptive Logics -- Robert A. Rubinstein and Corri Zoli -- Chapter 8. The Entangled Soldier: On the Messiness of War/Law/Morality -- Thomas Randrup Pedersen -- Chapter 9. Mobility through Self-Defined Expertise: Israeli Security from the Occupation to Kenya -- Erella Grassiani -- Chapter 10. Explaining Efficiency, Seeking Recognition: Experiences of Argentine Peacekeepers in Haiti -- Sabina Frederic -- Chapter 11. Crossing over Barbed-Wire Entanglements of U.S. Military Bases: On Environmental Issues around MCAS Futenma in Okinawa, Japan -- Masakazu Tanaka -- Chapter 12. The Entanglements of Military Research at Home and Abroad: An Experience of an Israeli Anthropologist -- Nir Gazit -- Afterword: Three Interpretations of Civil-Military Entanglements -- Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789202144
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 322 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 36
    DDC: 302/.17
    Keywords: methods of anthropology;anthropology history;academic debate;new developments;new methods;academic studies;history reference;social;moral;ethics of knowledge;non knowledge;alterity;kingship;african kingship;kilimanjaro;durkheim;anthropology
    Abstract: Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas -- PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY -- Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem -- Thomas Csordas -- Chapter 2. On the Concept of “Evil” in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence -- Byron Good -- PART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING -- Chapter 3. Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia -- Andrew Beatty -- Chapter 4. Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad -- Roland Littlewood -- Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora -- Simon Coleman -- Chapter 6. The Transformation of Evil in Nepal -- David Gellner -- Chapter 7. Radical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- Chapter 8. Are Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger -- Adeline Masqulier -- PART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE -- Chapter 9. Engaging Evil and Excess in Palestine / Israel -- Julie Peteet -- Chapter 10. The Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain -- Ventura Perez -- Chapter 11. The Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante -- William C. Olsen -- Chapter 12. Monsters, Sadists, and the Unspectacular Torture Experience -- Nerina Weiss -- Afterword -- David Parkin --
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    ISBN: 9781789203622
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    Pages: 266 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Romani Studies 2
    DDC: 306.09
    Keywords: Europe; Bulgaria; Roma; Structural and Social Inequalities; Identity
    Abstract: At present, Roma are an integral part of Europe, though they face structural and social inequalities and different forms of exclusion and discrimination. Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ through the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. It also seeks to understand the relationships between the Romani groups in Europe, due to their increased travel and convergence, and predict the effects of migration on (new) Romani consciousness. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Literature Review -- Chapter 2. Methodology -- Chapter 3. Migration -- Chapter 4. Belonging and Space -- Chapter 5. Romani Identity as Part of Migration and 'Romanipe' -- Chapter 6. Eye-Opening Processes: The Culture of Migration -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789204360
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    Pages: 200 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 44
    Keywords: Anthropology of Birth; Anthropology of Care; Medical Anthropology; South Africa; Private Sector Medical Care; Racial History; Racialized History; Healthcare; Childbirth; Privilege; Midwifery; Ethos of Care; Anthropological Scholarship; Feminist Scholarship; Elite Care Services; Social-Ecological Health
    Abstract: Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors of society, and there is deep division between what the privileged can afford compared with the rest of the population. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author situates the argument in the context of a growing literature on care in anthropological and feminist scholarship, offering a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Elite Birthing Care in South Africa -- Chapter 1. Myths of Birth: Intervention, Having ‘Choice’ and Histories of Birth -- Chapter 2. Being heard: Planning, “choice” and knowing in pregnancy and birth -- Chapter 3. Self-Making: Pain, Language and Metaphor in Birth Stories -- Chapter 4. Making Birthing Relations: The Constitution of Attentiveness and Responsiveness -- Conclusion: Care as a Problem, Care’s Limits -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201390
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    Pages: 238 p , 9.00 6.00 in
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment 7
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    Abstract: Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world – in particular the emergence of “non-territorial” religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) – and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular
    Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- Introduction: Going to ‘Pentecost’: Outline of an Experiment -- Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost' -- Reading Guide -- PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 1. Borders in ‘Pentecost’: Creating Protected Spaces -- Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in ‘Pentecost’ -- Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road -- PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in ‘Pentecost’ -- Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity -- Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth -- PART IV: COMMENTS -- Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed -- Matei Candea -- Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism -- Joel Robbins -- Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands -- Bjørn Enge Bertelsen -- Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good? -- Knut Rio -- Chapter 11. ‘Pentecost’ in The World -- Birgit Meyer -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789201215
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 p)
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    Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In the Presence of Things -- Chapter 1. Preserving Heritage – Marketing Bedouinity -- Chapter 2. Taming Heritage -- Chapter 3. The Shameful Shaman -- Chapter 4. Dealing with Dead Saints -- Chapter 5. The Allure of Things -- Chapter 6. Ambiguous Materialities -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?
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    ISBN: 9781789202458
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (170 p)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 5
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    Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language and Translation -- Introduction: Market Frictions -- Chapter 1. Town -- Chapter 2. Market -- Chapter 3. Neigboring -- Chapter 4. Illegality -- Chapter 5. Morality -- Chapter 6. Renewal -- Epilogue -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditiona ” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to me t the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time
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    ISBN: 9781789202281
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    Pages: 286 p , 9.00 6.00 in
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 42
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    Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: 'COMMUNITY' HEALTH -- Chapter 1. The Pursuit of Self-protection -- Chapter 2. Culture, Faith and Health -- PART II: MATERNITY AND INFANT BODY POLITICS -- Chapter 3. Maternity Matters -- Chapter 4. Immunities and Immunisations -- Conclusion: Antonymic Immunities -- Appendix -- List of Archival Materials and Oral Histories -- Glossary -- Index --
    Abstract: For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population
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    ISBN: 9781789203035
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (172 p)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From British Museum to Museum of Mankind -- Chapter 2. Colleagues and friends -- Chapter 3. Exhibitions -- Chapter 4. The Stores -- Chapter 5. Research and Collecting -- Chapter 6. Education -- Chapter 7. Back to the British Museum -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Ethnography Department Exhibitions, 1970 to 2003 -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum
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    ISBN: 9781789201321
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 p)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Money-Moving -- Chapter 2. Reputation Management -- Chapter 3. Disciplines -- Chapter 4. Public Service -- Chapter 5. Social Soundness Analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Engagement Issues for Anthropology -- Appendix B: The Culture of Poverty Debate -- Appendix C: World Bank Social Development Group -- Appendix D: Culture and Development Assistance -- Bibliography -- Index --
    Abstract: 50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of Washington’s “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills. Here, the author argues, the insights provided by anthropological fieldwork have a crucial role to play
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    ISBN: 9781789204827
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p)
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    Series Statement: Explorations in Heritage Studies 2
    Keywords: social movements and heritage studies;analysis of heritage;concepts of social movements;heritage processes;formation of heritage;use of heritage;contestation of heritage;official players;non official players;activist players;shift of perspective towards heritage
    Abstract: Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Production of Heritage -- Ali Mozaffari and Tod Jones -- Chapter 1. Understanding Heritage Activism: Learning from Social Movement Studies -- Tod Jones, Ali Mozaffari, and James M. Jasper -- Chapter 2. 'The Past is Always New': A Framework for Understanding the Centrality of Social Media to Contemporary Heritage Movements -- Tod Jones, Transpiosa Riomandha and Hairus Salim -- Chapter 3. The Exemplary Foreigner: Cultural Heritage Activism in Regional China -- Gary Sigley -- Chapter 4. Heritage Activism in Singapore -- Terence Chong -- Chapter 5. Riverscape as Biocultural Heritage: A Local Indigenous Social Movement Contests a National Park in Nepal -- Sudeep Jana Thing -- Chapter 6. Heritage for Whom? Caste and Contestation Among Sri Lanka's Dumbara Rata Weavers -- Aimée Douglas -- Chapter 7. Heritage Activism and the Media (Framing) in Iran -- Ali Mozaffari
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    ISBN: 9781789201192
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p)
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    Series Statement: Anthropology of Media 8
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    Abstract: Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter “thick description” case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media “microcelebrities” and “influencers.” It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the “dividual self.”
    Abstract: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Brief Chronology of Personal and Lifestyle Blogging in Malaysia -- Introduction: Anthroblogia: Participant Observation and Blogging in Malaysia -- Chapter 1. The Blog as Assemblage: Agency and Affordances -- Chapter 2. January 2006: Blogwars, Hit Sluts and Authenticity in the Personal Blogosphere -- Chapter 3. The Blogger and Her Blog: (Dis)Assembling the Dividual Self -- Chapter 4. May 2007: Assembling Genres -- Chapter 5. Assembling Blogs and Bloggers -- Chapter 6. April 2007: Voicy Consumers and Negotiating Networked Publics -- Chapter 7. Assembling a Blog Market -- Chapter 8. January 2009: Negotiating the Authentic Advertorial -- Chapter 9. Assembling Lifestyles -- Chapter 10. October 2009: Regional Blogmeet -- Conclusions: The Dividual Self and Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog -- References -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781789202878
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (418 p)
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    Series Statement: Worlds of Memory 1
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    Abstract: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Education in the Service of Democracy -- Chapter 2. Talking about the Nazi Past in Class and Succeeding at School -- Chapter 3. Gender, Family and the Nazi Past(s) -- Chapter 4. The Nazi Past as an Everyday Resource for Adolescents -- Chapter 5. The Social and Cultural Limits to Appropriations of the Nazi Past -- Chapter 6. Peer-group Dynamics and Playful Uses of the Past -- Conclusion: From Memory to Appropriation(s) -- Appendix 1: The German School System -- Appendix 2: Structure of Interviews with Students -- Appendix 3: Summary Table of Teachers and List of Teachers Interviewed -- Appendix 4: List of Students Interviewed -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional determination not to forget has expressed a “duty of remembrance” through commemorative activities and educational curricula. But as the horrors of the Third Reich retreat ever further from living memory, what do new generations of Germans actually think about this past? Combining observation, interviews, and archival research, this book provides a rich survey of the perspectives and experiences of German adolescents from diverse backgrounds, revealing the extent to which social, economic, and cultural factors have conditioned how they view representations of Germany’s complex history
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    ISBN: 9781789202687
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (204 p)
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    Series Statement: Dance and Performance Studies 14
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    Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Introduction: A Hip Hop Introduction to -- Other Japans -- Chapter 1. Down in the Ghetto -- Chapter 2. Hypermasculinity and Ghetto/Gangsta -- Authenticity -- Chapter 3. Represent JP Koreans! Ethnic Identity in -- Zainichi Hip Hop -- Chapter 4. Rapping for the Nation -- Afterword -- References --
    Abstract: The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corre ponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narrati es. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise
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    ISBN: 9781789201239
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (334 p)
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    Series Statement: Museums and Collections 11
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    Abstract: Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public
    Abstract: List of Illustrations and Table -- Foreward -- Jennifer Shannon -- Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership -- Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale -- Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture -- Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise -- Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things -- Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Coda: The Nation’s T-rex -- Appendix A: Consent Form -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires -- Sample Team Interview Questionnaire -- Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    ISBN: 9781785339950
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (158 p)
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    Series Statement: Asian Anthropologies 9
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    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Social and Political Status of Divination in China -- Chapter 2. The Practice of Divination and Diviners -- Chapter 3. Typical Customers of Divination -- Chapter 4. The Moral Discourses of Divination -- Chapter 5. Divination as an Aspect of ‘Traditional Culture’ -- Chapter 6. Divination as Counselling -- Chapter 7. The Professionalization of Divination through Associations -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal “superstition”, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to “tradition”. Beyond matters of image management, diviners’ efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice
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    ISBN: 9781789203189
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (236 p)
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    Abstract: List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881) -- Chapter 2. Tools and Types -- Chapter 3. Seneca Revisited -- Chapter 4. Omaha Skewing Reconsidered -- Chapter 5. Highland Middle Indian (HMI) Terminologies -- Chapter 6. Schneider, Relatedness, “Malayan”, and General Comparison -- Chapter 7. Social Evolution and the Australian Anomaly -- Chapter 8. Order in Anarchy: HMI Gentile Organization Compared -- Chapter 9. Bridewealth and Gender in Highland Middle India -- Chapter 10. The Dark Side of the Moon -- Conclusion: For the Record -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: About 150 years ago L. H. Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains. From a new perspective, the book will re-examine, confirm and criticize, Morgan’s findings to conclude that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals. Apart from references to American and Australian features, such holistic socio-cultural constructs will be exemplified by elaborate descriptions of little-known contemporary indigenous societies in highland Middle India, altogether comprising many millions of members
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p)
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    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mistaken Identities: The Task of Thinking in Dark Times -- Chapter 2. Radical Empiricism and the Little Things of Life -- Chapter 3. The Witch as a Category and as a Person -- Chapter 4. The New Materialisms -- Chapter 5. Words and Deeds -- Chapter 6. Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism -- Chapter 7. Existential Scarcity and Ethical Sensibility -- Chapter 8. Identification and Description: An Essay on Metaphor -- Chapter 9. Islam and Identity among the Kuranko -- Chapter 10. In Defense of Existential Anthropology -- Notes -- Index --
    Abstract: Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called “dark times.” Jackson’s response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible. Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind
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    ISBN: 9781789201734
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (442 p)
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    Abstract: List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Heritage-Making, Branding, and Globalization -- Chapter 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principles, and Partnership in Heritage-Making -- Chapter 2. Heritage-Making: The 2002 International Conference -- Chapter 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy? -- Chapter 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo Case -- Part II: Commerce, Competition, and Consumerism: Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade -- Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of Africa -- Chapter 6. Pawned, Preyed Upon, Purchased, or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa -- Chapter 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central Routes -- Chapter 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of Africa -- Chapter 9. Old Bagamoyo -- Chapter 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural Bagamoyo -- Chapter 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of Cloth -- Chapter 12. Intruders and Terminators: The End of the Story -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
    Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (70 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: International Development in Focus
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    Abstract: This volume summarizes a series of studies undertaken to better understand the current socioeconomic context of the Northern and Eastern provinces in Sri Lanka. Nearly a decade after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, the Northern and Eastern provinces lag in key social and economic measures. The study was made up of six background studies focused on (i) the provincial economies and economic structures of the North and East; (ii) labor force dynamics; (iii) demographic changes and impacts on vulnerability; (iv) the psychosocial needs of the local population; (v) community and social institutions; and (vi) livelihood trends and impacts of the war on productive assets. These studies were informed by both primary data collection, as well as secondary data sources and literature. The key findings from the assessment show that significant public investments in the Northern and Eastern provinces have resulted in growth and convergence between these provinces and the rest of the country. However, pockets of poverty and deprivation remain across these provinces, and the economic base of the region has yet to fully recover from the impacts of the civil war. Social vulnerabilities were persistent across the Northern and Eastern provinces, and were closely linked with poverty rates. With the demographic impacts of the war, vulnerabilities for women are growing in the region. There was a high rate of psychosocial needs recorded, and evidence that the social fabric has not been fully restored since the war. Citizen engagement, trust, and accountability remain important priorities, alongside economic revival, job creation, and restoring the social fabric and local institutions
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    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
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    Abstract: Africa's Pulse is a biannual publication containing an analysis of the near-term macroeconomic outlook forthe region. Each issue also includes a section focusing upon a topic that represents a particular developmentchallenge for the continent. It is produced by the Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region of theWorld Bank.Recent data point to a weakening of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2018, according to the newAfrica's Pulse, a bi-annual analysis of the state of African economies conducted by the World Bank. Thegrowth slowdown can be attributed to the lower than expected performance of the large countries in theregion (South Africa and Nigeria). The downswing reflects poorer performance in agriculture followingdroughts and lower performance of commodity sectors
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (0 pages)
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    Abstract: Despite some financial turbulence, growth in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) was resilientduring the first half of 2018. The growth outlook for the region remains positive. After peaking in2017, growth in developing EAP is expected to slow modestly in 2018, as China's economicexpansion continues to moderate. However, downside risks have significantly intensified. Anescalation in trade tensions and heightened financial market turbulence, either due to an accelerationin U.S. monetary policy normalization or contagion from other emerging markets could threaten theregion's growth prospects. To navigate uncertainty, developing EAP economies should reduceshort-term vulnerabilities and enhance buffers, redouble their commitment to an open, rules-basedinternational trade and investment framework, including through deeper regional economicintegration, and deepen structural reforms. The intensification of risks underscores the need tocontinue to enhance economic security by investing in human capital and strengthen socialassistance and insurance programs to increase households' resilience to systemic shocks
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    ISBN: 9781464814112
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (572 pages)
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    Series Statement: Africa Development Forum
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    Abstract: Cet ouvrage presente une serie d'orientations politiques, ainsi que leurs declinaisons operationnelles, permettant aux pays d'Afrique subsaharienne de relever le defi de l'amelioration de l'apprentissage tout en elargissant l'acces et en assurant l'achevement d'une education de base pour tous. L'etude souligne l'importance de configurer le systeme educatif de maniere a ce qu'il soit constamment axe sur les resultats et a ce que tous les enfants aient acces a de bonnes ecoles, du materiel d'apprentissage de qualite et d'excellents enseignants. L'approche de cet ouvrage est unique car elle caracterise les pays en fonction des defis auxquels ils ont ete confrontes dans les annees 1990 et selon les progres accomplis en matiere d'education au cours des 25 dernieres annees, ce qui permet ainsi aux pays de la region d'apprendre les uns des autres. Les auteurs presentent une revue de litterature et y ajoutent de nouvelles analyses tirees de multiples donnees provenant d'une trentaine pays de la region. Ils integrent egalement des resultats de recherche sur ce qui influence l'apprentissage des enfants, leur acces a la scolarisation et les progres accomplis grace a l'education de base. Le livre tire des lecons sur la region pour la region a partir de ce qui fonctionne et de ce qui serait necessaire d'ameliorer. Le livre explore quatre pistes pour aider les pays a ajuster leurs systemes educatifs afin d'ameliorer l'apprentissage : poursuivre les efforts inacheves visant a assurer une education de base universelle et de qualite, assurer une supervision et un soutien efficaces des enseignants, concentrer les priorites de depenses et les procedures budgetaires sur l'amelioration de la qualite, et combler le deficit de capacites du systeme institutionnel. L'ouvrage se termine par une evaluation de la maniere dont les previsions de taux de fecondite et de croissance economique peuvent impacter les progres futurs en matiere d'education
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    ISBN: 9781464815164
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (70 pages)
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    Abstract: After a period of rapid economic growth associated with high commodity prices, the Latin America and Caribbean region has again entered a phase of lackluster performance. Overall this slowdown seems moreself-inflicted than imported, and the outlook for the region is not encouraging either. A tepid exportresponse constrains the prospect of growing through external demand whereas limited fiscal space leaveslittle room to stimulate domestic demand. The outlook could deteriorate further if the internationalenvironment became less conducive. This report explores whether inward-looking development strategies could be one of the reasons for slowgrowth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Trade barriers are higher than in other developing regions, and while numerous preferential trade agreements have been signed, many of them are intra-regional. Thereport shows that South-North agreements are associated with increases in economic complexity and faster economic growth than South-South agreements. It illustrates the point by assessing the economic, social, spatial and environmental impacts of two major: South-North agreements signed over the last year
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (124 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
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    Abstract: Ideas for Action is a youth competition on initiatives to implement the Sustainable Development Goals launched in November 2014 by the World Bank Group and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The 2019 winners (3 top teams, 4 runners-up, and 11 honorable mentions) were selected from more than 3,000 proposals submitted by more than 21,000 team members from 142 countries.This year witnessed an unparalleled level of growing recognition with a 50 percent increase in proposals over 2018. The winning proposals were selected through a rigorous selection process that judged the projects on depth and clarity, significance of impact, originality and creativity, and feasibility. The teams had to showcase a strong proposal that presented a potential for impact on a large number of people with a practical roadmap for implementation. In addition to young staff members, reviewers included executives from Firmenich, Flour Mills of Nigeria, the German-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, PepsiCo, the Wharton School, and the World Bank Group. Other competition partners included the International Labour Organization, Hemofarm, the World Bank Group's Youth to Youth Community (Y2Y) and Youth Summit, Knowledge Wharton, and the United Nations Youth Assembly.Youth participation in the 2030 Development Agenda is crucial. This initiative is a knowledge-sharing platform that empowers young professionals with the support and tools needed to engage in the conversation with leading professionals in the global development industry and the private sector. Through their use of technology-such as rainwater harvesting, reusable plastics, mobile apps, and devices-young people have ideas to make an exponential impact. The goal is to support truly workable and actionable results by connecting leading schools of finance and management with governments around the world to build partnerships that bolster these ideas into effective implementation. This book recognizes the incredible talent and spirit that these young people bring to the global development conversation
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (0 pages)
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    Series Statement: Europe and Central Asia Economic Update
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    Abstract: With slowing global growth and increasing uncertainty clouding the global economic prospects,the Europe and Central Asia region faces a more challenging context than previously envisioned.Growth in the emerging markets and developing economies in the region slowed in 2018 and isprojected to decline to further in 2019, before picking up in 2020-21. What challenges does theregion face in the coming year? In the long run, how should policy makers design policies thatboost growth and help individuals and firms adjust to the interplay between globalization andtechnological change? Within the global context, this update summarizes the recent developmentsand outlook for the region. The focus of this issue is on financial inclusion in the region, as one ofthe important policy areas that can promote long-term growth, reduce poverty, and enhanceresilience to shocks
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (98 pages)
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    Abstract: The South Asia Economic Focus is a biannual economic update presenting recent economic developments and a near term economic outlook for South Asia. It includes a Focus section presenting more in depth analysis of an economic topic of relevance for stability, growth and prosperity in the region as well as country briefs covering Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It concludes with a data section providing key economic indicators for South Asia 'at a glance'. Overall, it aims at providing important background information and timely analysis of key indicators and economic and financial developments of relevance to World Bank Group operations and interaction with counterparts in the region, particularly during annual and spring meeting
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    ISBN: 9781464814730
    Language: French
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (80 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
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    Abstract: La Banque mondiale se compose de la Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le developpement (BIRD) et de l'Association internationale de developpement (IDA). La mission de l'institution est de mettre fin a l'extreme pauvrete et de promouvoir une prosperite partagee de maniere durable
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (102 pages)
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    Abstract: It is widely agreed that, over the past decade, accelerating infrastructure investments in India's North Eastern Region (NER) and neighboring countries, along with connectivity agreements with Bangladesh, hold immense promise for unlocking NER's economic potential. Other global trends, such as the growing incomes and consumer awareness in India and neighboring countries; a rising preference for fresh, healthy, safe, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible products; the growing role of services in manufacturing; and increasing demand for skilled resources are also very favorable for NER. Together, these developments can help NER showcase its strengths in agriculture and services, thereby developing value chains in these sectors, which will lead to sustainable, better-paying job opportunities for the people of NER. In this context, the World Bank, in consultation with stakeholders--government, private sector, and academia--analyzed two cross-cutting constraints that are encountered across all value chains and sectors in NER: connectivity and logistics, and product standards and quality infrastructure. To ground the policy in specific contexts, the team studied four sectors in depth: fruits and vegetables, spices, bamboo and related products, and medical tourism. Playing to Strengths lays out an initial policy framework for NER that integrates demand and supply and shows that, even with a low base in manufacturing, NER can leverage its strengths in agriculture and services to step up its growth. However, implementing this framework will require a different approach to doing business compared with the existing ecosystem and its associated value chains, which are mostly geared to local and/or price-conscious consumers. In capitalizing on its advantages, NER will not only accelerate its own development, but also will play an increasingly critical role in the government of India's "Act East" policy
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    Abstract: This book examines how nine different health systems--U.S. Medicare, Australia, Thailand, Kyrgyz Republic, Germany, Estonia, Croatia, China (Beijing) and the Russian Federation--have transitioned to using case-based payments, and especially diagnosis-related groups (DRGs), as part of their provider payment mix for hospital care. It sheds light on why particular technical design choices were made, what enabling investments were pertinent, and what broader political and institutional issues needed to be considered. The strategies used to phase in DRG payment receive special attention. These nine systems have been selected because they represent a variety of different approaches and experiences in DRG transition. They include the innovators who pioneered DRG payment systems (namely the United States and Australia), mature systems (such as Thailand, Germany, and Estonia), and countries where DRG payments were only introduced within the past decade (such as the Russian Federation and China). Each system is examined in detail as a separate case study, with a synthesis distilling the cross-cutting lessons learned. This book should be helpful to those working on health systems that are considering introducing, or are in the early stages of introducing, DRG-based payments into their provider payment mix. It will enhance the reader's understanding of how other countries (or systems) have made that transition, give a sense of the decisions that lie ahead, and offer options that can be considered. It will also be useful to those working in health systems that already include DRG payments in the payment mix but have not yet achieved the anticipated results
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    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
    Abstract: Guinea-Bissau is a small state in West Africa with a population of around 1.8 million. It is rich in natural resources (fisheries, forestry and agriculture) and biodiversity. Economic activity is, however, dominated by the production and sale of unprocessed cashew, which is also the main source of income for more than two thirds of households. Guinea-Bissau is host to a large variety of ethnic groups, languages and religions, with communal and ethnic-based violence remaining low. The country has a history of political and institutional fragility dating back to its independence from Portugal in 1973. Since independence, four successful coups have been recorded, with another 16 coups attempted, plotted, or alleged. Political fragility has been manifesting itself in frequent government turnover. Political instability has been responsible for large drops in output and government expenditure. After almost three years of political gridlock, a new consensus government came to power in April 2018. In sum, Guinea-Bissau has been caught in a vicious cycle of poor governance, fragmented elites, weak public sector capacity, and a poorly diversified economy. The objective of the Guinea-Bissau Public Expenditure Review (PER) is to analyze government expenditure, fiscal revenue, and public financial management in selected sectors (education, health, and security). The PER is a follow-up to the World Bank's (2017) Public Expenditure Analysis that provided an overall review of public finances in Guinea-Bissau (see Annex I). It contains a wide range of analyses, with some chapters examining public spending trends and outcomes, while others are more process oriented and place a strong emphasis on PFM systems, at macro- and micro-levels. The education and health chapters go beyond the confines of traditional World Bank PERs-namely the efficiency, effectiveness, and equity of spending. Both of these chapters also review the PFM systems in the respective line ministries with a view to identifying options for reform. Further, the PER analyzes the fiscal implications of continuing to spend over 15 percent of the budget on the security sector and nearly 9 percent of GDP on wage and nonwage compensation
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: Real GDP growth slowed to 3.1 percent in January-November 2018 from 3.7 percent in the same period of 2017. This deceleration was the result of slower growth in both gold production and non-gold industry. Export performance remains weak, largely on account of a sharp slowdown in gold exports, and in spite of trade opportunities within the Eurasian Economic Union. Attracting private investment remains a challenge. Recent developments point to limited progress in addressing structural issues over the past few years. While the Kyrgyz Republic was able to avoid an external shock driven recession in 2014-15, the economy remains vulnerable to external economic shocks given its high dependence on an undiversified export base, workers' remittances, and foreign aid.The fiscal position has improved with a strong tax revenue performance and cuts to capital outlays. This has helped keeping public debt under control following a sharp increase in 2014-15. With inflation pressures low, the monetary policy stance remains relaxed. The National Bank reduced its policy rate by 25 basis points to 4.75 percent in May 2018 to support economic growth and has maintained a managed float of the exchange rate.Going forward, real GDP growth is forecast to accelerate slowly to 3.9 percent by 2020 supported by all the major sectors - industry, agriculture, construction and services. On the demand side, growth is projected to be driven by private consumption, investment and exports. The economy will continue to benefit from large remittance inflows and firming external demand. Strong remittances will support average consumption growth of around 3 percent in 2018-20. However, the current account deficit is projected to remain elevated at about 9 percent of GDP, reflecting structural constraints, the significant import content of public investment, and an indirect feed-through effect of remittances via imports. To rebuild fiscal buffers, the authorities are committed to reducing the deficit to 3 percent of GDP by 2020
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    Abstract: The outlook for the global economy has darkened amid elevated trade tensions. International trade and investment are moderating, trade tensions remain elevated, and financing conditions are tightening. Global growth is projected to moderate from a downwardly revised 3 percent in 2018 to 2.9 percent in 2019 and 2.8 percent in 2020-21, as economic slack dissipates, monetary policy tightens in advanced economies, and global trade gradually slows (World Bank Global Economic Prospects, January 2019). Despite external shocks to trade and tourism, growth of the Thai economy is estimated to have accelerated to 4.1 percent in 2018. The economy proved to be resilient in the face of strong global headwinds due to strengthening domestic demand stemming from an upswing in private consumption and private investment. Domestic consumption expanded by 5 percent in 2018Q3, posting the highest growth rate in 22 quarters in a low-inflation environment and record-low unemployment. In addition, private investment grew by 3.9 percent in the third quarter supported by increased spending on construction, machinery and equipment. Strong domestic demand offset partially adverse global factors-the China-US trade dispute-as well as domestic and idiosyncratic factors-such as the Phuket boat tragedy and the high-base effect of gold exports. The Thai economy also owed its resiliency to strong and stable macroeconomic fundamentals
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    Abstract: This paper examines the patterns of growth of Poland, and its transition into high-income status over the past two decades from a macro and micro perspective. It benchmarks Polish performance with that observed in established high-income countries, and with that of others that have been trapped in middle--income levels and examines the role that integration into the EU had on growth. The analysis reveals, first, that Poland's growth process has been accompanied by a process of diversification of assets, including institutions, physical and human capital. Second, that the progressive integration into the EU bloc boosted growth and productivity because of three keyfactors: (i) increased openness to trade, investment and talent, (ii) increased domestic competition, and regulatory harmonization with EU, (iii) increased certainty in reforms, through a commitment to EU-institutions. Third, that for full convergence to high-income levels, Polish firms need to increase their innovative capacities. The paper extracts lessons applicable to other economies trapped in middle-income levels, as well as to Poland itself to consolidate growth looking forward
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    Abstract: The World Bank has been supporting a comprehensive program to strengthen cooperative management and development within the Zambezi River Basin. This program provides regional financing and analytical work that brings together the various commitments within a World Bank-financed portfolio of more than USD 2 billion to facilitate dialogue among the riparian states and further drive the development of climate-resilient water resources for sustainable growth. The application of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol in the Zambezi River Basin represents part of this broader program of support to the riparian states toward enhancing development outcomes through improved cooperation and sustainable development. The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol is a multi-stakeholder tool that evaluates the performance of hydropower projects against globally-applicable sustainability criteria for basic good practice and proven best practice. This Program Report reflects on the project design, objectives, results, and lessons learned from the experience of using the Protocol for guided self-assessment with three hydropower operators in the basin: the Zambezi River Authority, Zesco, and Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa
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    Series Statement: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program Papers
    Abstract: In cold-climate regions of developing countries, access to a reliable and affordable heat supply is critical to the well-being of the rural and peri-urban poor, who enjoy only limited access to district heating, natural gas, and electricity networks. Most of them have long relied on solid fuel-fired, traditional heating stoves or simple low-pressure boilers (LPBs), which are fuel-inefficient, leaky, and highly polluting both indoors and outside. Having access to high-efficiency, low-emissions (HELE) heating stoves offers under-served households a cost-effective, intermediate solution until fuel-switching to gas or electricity is possible. Recent World Bank- supported winter heating pilot programs in the Central Asian countries of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan brought to market a small number of advanced, solid fuel-fired space heating and cooking stoves. This technical report aims to document the Central Asia pilot experience with HELE heating technologies and their potential use as a cost-effective, intermediate solution for millions of underserved households for improving health and reducing household air pollution, energy poverty, and climate impacts
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    Abstract: Sri Lanka is facing a challenging macroeconomic landscape. The post-conflict high growth momentum has decelerated. A volatile global environment and structurally weak competitiveness continue to weaken growth and external sector performance. High interest costs mask limited fiscal improvement. While outlook remains stable conditional on political stability and reform implementation, the balance of risks is downward tilted. The country is vulnerable to global financial market conditions due to large refinancing requirements. Although some important reforms were carried out, the process has slowed down due to a challenging political environment
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    Series Statement: Debt and Creditworthiness Study
    Abstract: The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) using the revised joint IMF/WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) shows that Cambodia remains at low risk of external debt distress. All debt burden indicators are projected to remain under their indicative thresholds under the baseline and the shock scenarios. While the overall risk of debt distress is low, the analysis indicates that debt sustainability is vulnerable to export and growth shocks, and the materialization of contingent liabilities. Furthermore, the public and publicly guaranteed (PPG) debt-to-GDP ratio is projected to rise by more than 10 percentage points during the next decade due to projected large fiscal deficits in the medium term. These findings reinforce the importance of implementing reforms to increase the economy's resilience to external shocks and encourage export and economic diversification. Efforts to mobilize fiscal revenue, to strengthen the Public Investment Management framework (including for PPPs) and further enhance monitoring of PPP and financial sector risks, as well as introduction of a debtbased fiscal anchor, are necessary to ensure debt sustainability in the medium term
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  • 80
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    Series Statement: Partnership for Market Readiness Technical Papers
    Abstract: Carbon pricing instruments (CPIs) involve large legal and financial interests. Trust in the accuracy and integrity of the reported data is therefore a prerequisite for a well-functioning instrument. To ensure accuracy and integrity of data, a robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system is essential. Verification is critical to enhance trust in a carbon pricing system. Where systems have large financial implications, participation is voluntary, or international exchange of units is planned, this trust is paramount for successful implementation. This guidebook aims to help regulators to better understand their options in designing a verification system tailored to their specific needs and circumstances
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    Series Statement: Country Financial Accountability Assessment
    Abstract: The research is based on the PEFA framework and methodology for assessing public financial management performance and the data set that is generated from the PEFA assessments. The research quantified PEFA scores and aggregated them into overall scores which required developing assumptions on weighting scores, measures, and assessments. The research acknowledges methodological limitations of using the PEFA data set, including the assumptions. In general, the research follows the approach taken by previous researchers who have used PEFA data for quantitative analysis, but this does not eliminate the challenges that persist in transforming grades to numerical values and aggregating them. The time inconsistency issues and the limited number of observations also influenced the regression analysis using the PEFA data set. The team acknowledges that the PEFA data set was not designed for statistical analysis and that using it in quantitative regressions presents a series of econometric issues that cannot be fully resolved in this book, or in other papers which apply a similar approach. The research report builds on general recognition that PFM is important for development and recognizes that there is limited evidence based on the nontechnical determinants of PFM performance, as well as the outcomes of a good PFM system. The report therefore aims to bridge some of this gap between theory and practice using data on PFM performance from PEFA assessments. The report undertakes a closer examination of the key debates on what constitutes a good PFM system by providing an overview of the PEFA framework, and the data set that is generated through PEFA assessments, including its strengths and weaknesses. This was done to enable the research team to undertake quantitative analysis of the relationship between PFM performance and other governance indicators and outcomes
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    Series Statement: Other Agricultural Study
    Abstract: Zambia's agricultural sector represents the backbone of its rural economy and holds great potential for the entire country. Zambia's agriculture sector faces challenges and is likely to grow more vulnerable as a result of climate change and risk. At the same time, land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), and agriculture sector account for approximately 93 percent of the country's carbon footprint. The Government of the Republic of Zambia (GoZ) is integrating climate change concerns into its agriculture policy agenda. Under its Zambia climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategy framework, the GoZ is promoting the rollout of CSA practices that will sustainably increase productivity, enhance resilience, and reduce or remove greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The CSA investment plan (CSAIP) aims to identify and fill knowledge gaps about CSA's local- and national-level benefits, specifically under climate change, inform policy development, and prioritize investment opportunities. The World Bank collaborated with the GoZ to develop a CSAIP intended to support the operationalization of the country's climate commitments toward development of a productive, resilient, and low-emission agriculture sector. The CSAIP development began with a participatory process that identified the agriculture sector's policy goals. This report takes the next step by assessing the impacts of a suite of CSA practices on achieving the sector goals and on household welfare. The report concludes with recommendations and proposals for future CSA investments
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    Series Statement: Other Public Sector Study
    Abstract: As in many countries, tax collection is a development challenge in Kosovo. Kosovo is one of the poorest and youngest countries in Europe in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and both demographics and statehood. The lack of an independent monetary policy - given that Kosovo has adopted the euro as the national currency - means that ensuring the sustainability of fiscal policy is critical. However, limited tax revenues hamper the government's ability to address economic cycles. Between 2011 and 2017, total government revenue amounted to about 14 percent of GDP, below the average of 19 percent among countries in Europe and Central Asia. Unlike other countries, Kosovar government relies on taxes for more than 85 percent of its revenues. Mobilizing tax revenues is therefore critical. The Tax Administration of Kosovo (TAK) requested assistance from the World Bank and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to address this challenge using an evidence-based approach. To this end, the World Bank and GIZ applied behavioral insights to promote tax compliance among specific groups of taxpayers. Three experiments were designed, implemented, and evaluated in 2018 that involved sending behaviorally informed reminders using letters, e-mails, and short messaging service (SMS) messages to various groups of taxpayers to induce timely and honest declarations and payments. The short-term objective of these trials was to increase the number and timeliness of tax declarations. Simple, behaviorally designed messages were effective in inducing tax declaration. Messages helped raise the tax declaration rate by an average of around 3 percentage points during a period of between four and six weeks. Among personal income tax (PIT) declarations, this represents a 59 percent increase in compliance, equivalent to over 200 more annual tax declarations among participants. The likelihood of payment rose in many instances, and no significant difference was found in the amounts of taxes paid. Lessons from the tax experiments in Kosovo highlight the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation and the need to establish processes that help integrate tax collection functions and data systems
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
    Abstract: This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note discusses Pakistan achieving an advantageous environment for public and private investment by strengthening its business climate and reforming the financial sector
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
    Abstract: This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100- Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns hundred years old in 2047. This policy note discusses the need for strong governance to accelerate and sustain Pakistan's growth. Strong governance will require improved transparency and accountability, so policies are designed and implemented to benefit Pakistan's population
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    Abstract: Following an initial spike in early 2018, Armenia's economic performance slowed during the rest of the year, but still estimated to have above 5 percent growth for the year. Inflationary pressures remained low, while the external balances deteriorated. The overperformance of the fiscal accounts reflected strong revenue collection, sound control over current spending, and underperformance of capital expenditure. The outlook, however, is more conservative
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    Series Statement: Policy Notes
    Abstract: This policy note is an attempt to systematically analyze and document emerging trends in the evolution of students' learning outcomes in Tanzania's primary schools. The note is based on two rounds of the Service Delivery Indicators Survey in Tanzania, 2014 and 2016, and provides guidance to the Government on: (1) regional, district and school-level variations in gains in pupil achievement scores; (2) student, teacher and school level factors associated with learning outcomes; and (3) key observable factors associated with highest gains in test scores. The good news is that the Government's concerted reform efforts are showing positive results in quality of schooling: test scores in English, Math, and Kiswahili for Standard four pupils have improved significantly over time. They have improved all across Tanzania, with largest gains registered in disadvantaged targeted districts (EQUIP-T3), followed by rural areas. Low-performing regions are catching up as the impacts of several large-scale investment programs are taking root. These improvements in test scores appear to be associated with improvements in teacher effort and subject knowledge. Rising pupil-teacher-ratios pose risks to continued learning improvements, particularly as the Government is preparing for rapid expansion in enrolments in the wake of the Fee-Free Basic Education Policy. Students tested for 2016 will be entering Form 1 secondary in 2018-19. For the improvements in learning at the primary level to have maximum impact, particularly in disadvantaged regions supported by EQUIP-T, they will require immediate attention to and investments in secondary schools to take these students through the full cycle of quality basic education promised by FFBEP. Female students, overage students, and non-native Kiswahili speakers continue to lag behind in learning, posing threats to the long-term equity of the system. Careful measurement of teacher practices at secondary level can provide ways to supportteaching behavior conducive to the well-being of these children
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    Abstract: The Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) Practitioner's Handbook is a practical, step-by-step guide that takes stakeholders through the entire process of operationalizing the International EIP Framework. It is composed of three sections. Section one highlights ways in which the government and other relevant stakeholders can support industrial park developers and operators in adopting the International EIP Framework through institutional, financial and technical support. It presents a detailed explanation of the four key steps, as well as a range of activities involved in developing and implementing a national-level EIP initiative. Section two lays out four key steps and action items involved in implementing the International EIP Framework. Section three provides a guideline on how to identify and actively create industrial symbiosis networks-an important strategy for promoting EIPs and operationalizing the International EIP Framework
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    Series Statement: Economic Updates and Modeling
    Abstract: The economic growth outlook remains positive. The country's economic growth is projected to reach6.4 percent in 2019 and slightly edge up to 6.5 percent in 2020 and 2021, as inflation is expected to decline, and spending due to the upcoming midterm elections is likely to boost private consumption growth. Public investment growth is expected to be tempered in the first half of 2019 due to delays in approving the public budget, and is projected to recover in the second half of 2019. Export growth will likely remain weak, as global economic and trade growth are projected todecelerate in the near term, due to persisting trade tensions. The further strengthening of the U.S. dollar, possible increases in U.S. interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainties continue to be the main external downside risks to the economic outlook. Key short-term priorities to sustain the Philippines' rapid economic growth include prudently managing fiscal and current account balances and adopting policies to preserve consumer and business confidence. As the government continues to expand public investment to address the country's infrastructure gap, it is crucial toraise additional revenue to preserve fiscal sustainability, particularly as financing conditions may tighten globally. In addition, the trade deficit is estimated to remain wide, as export growth will likely stay weak while import growth is expected to accelerate. Given that global financing conditions may tighten, the government needs to closely monitor the performance of remittances, service exports, and foreign direct investment to prevent an external funding gap. In the long term, in addition to sustained efforts to build human capital, initiatives to address structural constraints are needed to accelerate inclusive growth. Improved market competition, accelerated investment, and improved labor market conditions to boost both productivity and economic growth will be essential. This calls for urgent actions on a couple of policy initiatives including revisiting foreign participation in the domestic market, implementing reforms to improve doing business, and reducing non-tariff barriers to boost trade. For instance, passing the Public SectorAct Amendment bill will entice foreign investments and bring competition to the transportation andtelecommunications sectors that are key backbone services whose efficiency directly affects overall productivity
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    Series Statement: Water Papers
    Abstract: This document summarizes evidence and guidance on project design and results framework indicators for nutrition-sensitive water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) operations and WASH components of other sector and subsector projects. The current body of evidence on the links between WASH and nutrition provides important clues as to what nutrition sensitive enhancements are needed to achieve greater impacts on early child nutrition and human capital. Six principles are outlined that aim to address some of the limitations that are found with conventional WASH interventions. A set of results framework indicators are proposed to support nutrition-sensitive WASH monitoring and evaluation in water supply and sanitation lending operations and for WASH components of projects in other sectors
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    Series Statement: Public Expenditure Review
    Abstract: This Public Expenditure Review (PER) was prepared by the World Bank at the request of the Ministry of Finance of Cabo Verde. With a debt-to-GDP ratio of 126 percent in 2017, Cabo Verde is the most indebted country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The country is also at a high of risk of external debt distress. As part of fiscal consolidation efforts to reduce debt, this PER identifies measures to boost fiscal revenues and improve the efficiency of public spending with emphasis on health and education. The report recommends tax policy measures to stem revenue loss from ineffective tax expenditures while strengthening revenue administration and tax compliance. There is space to reduce spending inefficiencies on goods and services, wages and salaries yielding potential fiscal savings. Investment in human capital is prioritized in Cabo Verde but there is scope to improve efficiency and outcomes. In education, reducing repetition rates and addressing human resources issues are key to avoiding waste and improving outcomes. In health, the report recommends measures to improve the allocation of resources to health units. If implemented, these measures could result in combined fiscal savings of at least 2.5 percent of GDP. Finally, continued rationalization of central government fiscal support to State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) is required to support a gradual reduction of the debt-to-GDP ratio over the medium term. The report includes five chapters. Chapter one discusses the key drivers of fiscal balances and public debt in Cabo Verde and explores different options to put debt on a downward trajectory. Chapters two and three analyzes in detail the respective performances of fiscal revenues and spending over 2010 to 2017. Chapters four and five reviews public spending in the health and education sectors with emphasis on efficiency. Equity issues as also covered in chapters four and five
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    Series Statement: Other Education Study
    Abstract: Over the past decade, China's transition rate from lower secondary education to higher secondary education has increased significantly, from 80.5 to 93.7 percent. In light of this impressive progress, the Chinese government aimed at raising the gross enrollment rate in senior high schools to above 90 percent by 2020. Quality and relevance in vocational and academic high school education could be a key bottleneck in further expansion. The way tracking operates between academic and vocational streams could itself be a distortion for the sector's further expansion. Looking ahead, reforms in upper secondary education are imperative, given increasing demand for a highly skilled labor force and China's fast demographic change as the young population cohorts decline. The paper examines the sector's key constraints in access, financing, tracking, and informed decisions and recommends how the quality of the general and vocational education tracks can be further improved
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    Series Statement: Other Financial Sector Study
    Abstract: The report discusses key policy issues that enable and constrain digital savings market development and offers policy considerations within the context of the G20's High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion. Based on current market observations, three policy considerations seem most important for facilitating digital savings account deployments: Enable banking institutions to pursue digital savings partnerships with nonbank entities. Support the development of interoperability between banks and nonbank e-money issuers. Harmonize customer due diligence standards for emoney wallets and low-risk bank deposits
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    Series Statement: Other Health Study
    Abstract: Bangladesh made a number of laudable development achievements in the early millennium but can and should do more to improve human capital and the wellbeing of its population. Coupled with impressive achievements in poverty reduction and economic growth are meeting many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-such as reaching nearly universal access to primary education, gender parity in primary and secondary education, ensuring food security, lowering infant, child, and maternal mortality rates, improving immunization coverage, and increasing access to improved water sources. Nurturing a child's early years can help nations boost human capital to become more diverse, competitive economies. Improving early childhood development requires multi-sectoral action. Advancements in early childhood development will not be possible without improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). This report will discuss several analyses that demonstrate the importance of WASH in nurturing the early years. The report begins with an examination of progress in achieving human development outcomes, many of which are specifically used to measure early childhood development and human capital. The next section will present a poverty risk model used to measure differences in WASH-related disease burden among wealth groups and populations with and without access to basic water and sanitation services. The third section discusses WASH deprivations in community health centers that reduce quality of care, and the fourth section measures the unique environmental exposures from inadequate WASH faced by slum dwellers, an often neglected yet high-risk population for poor health and undernutrition. The proceeding four sections then present original econometric analyses linking various components of WASH to childhood stunting, early childhood skills, infant mortality, and school enrollment. The final section concludes and provides recommendations on how Bangladesh's WASH sector can prioritize the early years in future investments
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    Series Statement: Country Gender Assessment
    Abstract: gaps that a country faces, across different domains, better informs policy design. To that effect, this report seeks to identify where progress has been achieved in increasing opportunities and outcomes for women and men in Mexico and where further policy action is required. It focuses on three areas that are critical for gender-equal access to opportunities: (a) endowments, such as health and education; (b) economic opportunities, such as access to labor, land, and financial markets; and (c) agency, including norms, representation, and freedom from violence. The report takes advantage of the existing literature as well as different sources of publicly available data for the country and aims to provide a panorama of the prevailing gender gaps and areas for work to close those gaps, covering a wide range of outcomes. As such, it seeks to serve as a guiding document for policy action and dialogue, further research, and public discussion
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    Series Statement: Country Partnership Frameworks
    Abstract: This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) sets out the World Bank Group's approach to supporting the reform agenda in North Macedonia over January 2019-June 2023. The CPF builds on the results and lessons of the previous World Bank Group Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) that originally covered the period from July 2014 to June 2018 and was subsequently extended by six months to December 2018. The new CPF seeks to address the priorities identified by the recently completed Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) for North Macedonia. The strategic objective of the CPF is to support North Macedonia's ability to achieve faster, inclusive, and sustainable growth and provide its citizens with greater opportunities for a better life. The CPF aims to support the Government's program and medium-term strategy, which present a vision of accelerated economic growth with better employment opportunities, social cohesion and inclusion, and a plan to tackle the persistent bottlenecks. The Government strategy is consistent with the SCD's vision of a better-connected, vibrant domestic economy engaged in the region and beyond as it secures its footing in areas of strong comparative advantage
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    Series Statement: Other papers
    Abstract: Financial conditions in recent years have provided developing countries with unprecedentedopportunities to tap international bond markets, increasing access to commercial debtfinancing. On that background, developing countries are broadening the range of debtinstruments employed in implementing debt management strategies, and this has changed therisk profile of their public debt portfolios. The target audience of this Discussion Paper is thesovereign debt manager, with a special focus on first time/infrequent issuer in Low IncomeDeveloping Countries. The Guidance Note does not discuss whether countries should issueinternational bonds or not, but, rather, focus on the process of issuing such instruments, giventhe lack of objective and independent guidance available for issuers. The note outlines a stepby-step process and provides practical advice
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    Series Statement: Other papers
    Abstract: This paper explores economic informality and how it relates to digital financial inclusion. It focuses specifically on the potential role that digital financial services-including those accessed through mobile phones and the internet can play in encouraging businesses to formalize their operations. The data show wide variations in the extent of informality as well as the financial inclusion of informal business owners. The paper finds that digital financial services can make it easier for informal firms to register and operate as a formal business, while also creating synergies between individual reform efforts. For example, companies that use a digital payroll system can easily make pension contributions when online platforms are available. Digital financial transactions also make it easier for governments to enforce laws and regulations, including tax collection. However, there are several important caveats. It is not clear that formalizing small transactions is an effective way to increase tax collection. As the digital economy grows and countries seek to curb informality, policymakers should tailor their programs to the needs and realities of different groups of enterprises
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    Abstract: This note analyzes household survey data and firm-level data to measure gender gaps in employmentoutcomes over the past 15 years and shed light on the degree to which economic growth has translated into more and better jobs for men and women, and the relative impact on each group. The analysis relies primarily on micro-level data from the annual Encuesta Permanente de Hogares for 2001 through 2016, the Encuesta Continua de Empleo for 2010-2014, the Censo Economico 2011, a census of firms, and the 2015-16 Encuesta de Empresas, a follow-up firm survey. Patterns in labor supply and its correlates will be examined using household-level data, and the analysis will consider how gender and other worker characteristics are related to labor market outcomes. In addition, this note explores the degree to which private sector labor demand and firm productivity differ by gender; this is done using firm-level data to examine the drivers of firm performance and employment growth. The remainder of this note is structured as follows. Section 2 examines recent socio-demographic trends that have affected the number of women entering the labor market in Paraguay. Section 3 looks at gender differentials in labor market outcomes relating to work status, sector of employment and earnings, inter alia. Section 4 considers the gender composition of labor demand by private sector firms, and section 5 concludes with a discussion of policy options for the future
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    Abstract: This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that management quality is positively correlated with productivity and quality of jobs across subsectors of manufacturing. But the average score of management quality in Turkey is relatively low compared to peer countries. Factors such as firm size, level of human capital of the workforce, export intensity of the firm, openness to international markets, level of hierarchy in decision making, and degree of managerial autonomy are found to be important determinants of managerial practices in Turkey. Thus, improvements in these dimensions, through relevant policies and incentives, can have a positive effect on the quality of firm management going forward.Such improvements in management practices-particularly in the two dimensions whereTurkey scores lowest: monitoring and targeting-can have positive effects on firmperformance and lead to increases in the creation of quality jobs
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