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Serie: Dislocations
gebondenEngels346 blz.9781805392989
15-3-2024
The industrial workers of Ukraine have a contradictory and complex political lifeworld. Based on three years of fieldwork in the city of Kryvyi Rih, this book focuses on the everyday politics and moral economy that constitute the working-class and structures its relations with other social groups. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780857457943
1-12-2012
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. Meer
GebondenEngels9780857459152
15-8-2013
Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. 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
PaperbackEngels9781836956976
1-6-2026
Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, focusing primarily on the end of Kailali’s feudal system of bonded labor. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781800736337
13-1-2023
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. 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
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
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
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
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
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
GebondenEngels9781785338908
13-6-2018
Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of `civil society' in Serbia's postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation. Meer
GebondenEngels9781785339066
11-6-2018
Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed. Meer