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Serie: Dislocations
GebondenEngels9781845451455
1-11-2008
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781845451974
1-11-2010
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845453077
1-8-2007
Presenting an account of the intersection of globalization and neo-racism in a rural Greek community, this book describes the contradictory political and economic development of the Greek countryside since its incorporation into the European Union. Meer
GebondenEngels9781800732803
1-5-2022
Set in the resource frontier of northeastern Turkey, Bulldozer Capitalism studies the rise and decline of an anti-dam/anti-displacement campaign and the political responses to other extractive projects that it helped to shape in its aftermath. Meer
GebondenEngels9781785330711
10-3-2016
The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism. Meer
GebondenEngels9781805398226
1-1-2025
Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using “global ethnography” and “hidden histories” as the keys to social discovery. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845455231
1-10-2008
Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the experiences and contested meanings of home for people whose lives are characterized by migration related to varying forms of violence. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845455514
1-3-2009
Based on an extended period of research in two local steel factories, this descriptive account offers a wide-ranging critique of post-industrial capitalism. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845455675
1-3-2009
Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Meer
GebondenEngels9781845456207
1-2-2010
Challenges the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins Bridges the current gap between approaches to... Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800737334
9-12-2022
Original research on the lived experience of policies of deportation in the UK. Offers rich ethnographic data on the experience of border control. Meer
GebondenEngels9781800738737
12-5-2023
Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781785338212
28-3-2018
The first study to explicitly link up an interest in hope (through the concept of yearning) with a political economic analysis of the state. The first study to intervene conceptually in such work through an ethnographic analysis of everyday secular (rather than transcendent) hope as it appears in material practices. Meer
GebondenEngels9781782383000
1-5-2014
Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls "the society of capital" and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. Meer
GebondenEngels9781782383635
1-8-2014
Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. Meer
GebondenEngels9781789205619
10-1-2020
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach. Meer
GebondenEngels9781789206166
10-1-2020
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. Meer