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Browse our February and March 2020 releases in Anthropology, Archaeology\/Heritage Studies, History, Memory Studies, and Mobility Studies and see what\u2019s new in paperback.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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OPEN ACCESS!<\/em><\/strong>
AFTER THE PINK TIDE<\/a>
Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America<\/strong>
Edited by Marina Gold and Alessandro Zagato<\/em>
Afterword by Bruce Kapferer<\/em>
Vol. 1, EGALITARIANISM<\/a>
The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized anthropological perspective, this book argues that at a time when the regular structures of political participation have been ruptured, the Latin American context reveals multiple expressions of egalitarian movements that strive (and sometimes momentarily manage) to break through the state\u2019s apparatus.

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CREDIT AND DEBT IN AN UNEQUAL SOCIETY<\/a>
Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
J\u00fcrgen Schraten<\/em>
Vol. 7, THE HUMAN ECONOMY<\/a>
South Africa was one of the first countries in the Global South that established a financialized consumer credit market. This market consolidates rather than alleviates the extreme social inequality within a country. This book investigates the political reasons for adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order. The book addresses sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and legal scholars interested in the interaction of economy and law in contemporary market societies.

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THE ROMA AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE<\/a>
Edited by Huub van Baar and Ang\u00e9la K\u00f3cz\u00e9<\/em>
Foreword by Malachi H. Hacohen<\/em>
Vol. 3, ROMANI STUDIES<\/a>

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique and anthropology, the contributors reflect on the extent to which a politics of identity regarding historically disadvantaged, racialized minorities such as the Roma can still be legitimately articulated.

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ON THE NERVOUS EDGE OF AN IMPOSSIBLE PARADISE<\/a>
Affect, Tourism, Belize<\/strong>
Kenneth Little<\/em>
Vol. 45, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY<\/a>

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise<\/em> is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.

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IF EVERYONE RETURNED, THE ISLAND WOULD SINK<\/a>
Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu<\/strong>
Kirstie Petrou<\/em>
Vol. 7, PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES: STUDIES OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR OCEANISTS<\/a>

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural \u2018home\u2019 places, urban suburbs and informal settlements over thirty years, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that continuity in the fundamental organising principles of cultural life \u2013 in this case centred on kinship and an \u2018island home\u2019 \u2013 is significantly more important for urban and rural lives than the transformative impacts of migration and urbanisation.

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MEDIA PRACTICES AND CHANGING AFRICAN SOCIALITIES<\/a>
Non-media-centric Perspectives<\/strong>
Edited by Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen<\/em>
Afterword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen<\/em>
Vol. 9, ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDIA<\/a>

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media’s role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse – covering different areas of sociality in different countries – but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context. The contributions to this collection provide fresh ethnographic descriptions of how new media practices can affect socialities in significant but unpredictable ways.

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NAVIGATING MISCARRIAGE<\/a>
Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives<\/strong>
Edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg<\/em>
Vol. 45, FERTILITY, REPRODUCTION AND SEXUALITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES<\/a>

Miscarriage is a significant women’s health issue. Research has consistently shown that one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage. This collected volume explores miscarriage in diverse historical and cultural settings with contributions from anthropologists, historians and medical professionals. Contributors use rich ethnographic and historical material to discuss how pregnancy loss is managed and negotiated in a range of societies. The book considers meanings attached to miscarriage and how religious, cultural, medical and legal forces impact the way miscarriage is experienced and perceived.

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SPACE, PLACE AND IDENTITY<\/a>
Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century<\/strong>
Florian K\u00f6hler<\/em>
Vol. 21, INTEGRATION AND CONFLICT STUDIES<\/a>

Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.

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THE CHILDREN OF GREGORIA<\/a>
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family<\/strong>
Regnar Kristensen and Claudia Adeath Villamil<\/em>
Vol. 8, ETHNOGRAPHY, THEORY, EXPERIMENT<\/a>

The Children of Gregoria<\/em> portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. The people entrenched in the violent communities that the Rosales belong to have been discussed, condemned, analyzed, joked about and cheered, but rarely have they been seriously listened to. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.

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CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT<\/a>
A Collaborative Primer for Archaeologists<\/strong>
Edited by Thomas F. King<\/em>

Stressing the interdisciplinary, public-policy oriented character of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), which is not merely \u201capplied archaeology,\u201d this short, relatively uncomplicated introduction is aimed at emerging archaeologists. Drawing on fifty-plus years\u2019 experience, and augmented by the advice of fourteen collaborators, Cultural Resource Management<\/em> explains what \u201cCRM archaeologists\u201d do, and explores the public policy, ethical, and pragmatic implications of doing it for a living.

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NOT EVEN PAST<\/a>
How the United States Ends Wars<\/strong>
Edited by David Fitzgerald, David Ryan, and John M. Thompson<\/em>

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan: Taken together, these conflicts are the key to understanding more than a half century of American military history. In addition, they have shaped, in profound ways, the culture and politics of the United States\u2014as well as the nations in which they have been fought. This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States\u2019 often halting and conflicted attempts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on the Cold War and post-9\/11 eras and explores the troubling implications of the American tendency to fight wars without end.

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BEYOND POSTHUMANISM<\/a>
The German Humanist Tradition and the Future of the Humanities<\/strong>
Alexander Math\u00e4s<\/em>
Vol. 22, SPEKTRUM: PUBLICATIONS OF THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION<\/a>

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities\u2014both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Math\u00e4s mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

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COLONIAL SEEDS IN AFRICAN SOIL<\/a>
A Critical History of Forest Conservation in Sierra Leone<\/strong>
Paul Munro<\/em>
Vol. 18, ENVIRONMENT IN HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES<\/a>

“Empire forestry\u201d\u2014the broadly shared forest management practice that emerged in the West in the nineteenth century\u2014may have originated in Europe, but it would eventually reshape the landscapes of colonies around the world. Melding the approaches of environmental history and political ecology, Colonial Seeds in African Soil<\/em> unravels the complex ways this dynamic played out in twentieth-century colonial Sierra Leone. While giving careful attention to topics such as forest reservation and exploitation, the volume moves beyond conservation practices and discourses, attending to the overlapping social, economic, and political contexts that have shaped approaches to forest management over time.

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RETHINKING THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION<\/a>
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800\u20131918<\/strong>
Edited by Martin Baumeister, Philipp Lenhard, and Ruth Nattermann<\/em>

Since the end of the nineteenth century, traditional historiography has emphasized the similarities between Italy and Germany as \u201clate nations\u201d, including the parallel roles of \u201cgreat men\u201d such as Bismarck and Cavour. Rethinking the Age of Emancipation<\/em> aims at a critical reassessment of the development of these two \u201clate\u201d nations from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing national, political, and religious loyalties.

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EMPTY SIGNS, HISTORICAL IMAGINARIES<\/a>
The Entangled Nationalization of Names and Naming in a Late Habsburg Borderland<\/strong>
\u00c1goston Berecz<\/em>
Vol. 27, AUSTRIAN AND HABSBURG STUDIES<\/a>

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names.

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POSTWAR SOLDIERS<\/a>
Historical Controversies and West German Democratization, 1945\u20131955<\/strong>
J\u00f6rg Echternkamp<\/em>
Translated from the German by Noah Harley<\/em>
Vol. 39, MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY<\/a>

Review for the German Edition: \u201cJ\u00f6rg Echternkamp’s convincing study fulfills its promise of methodologically complex differentiation\u2026 This differentiated view of the historical \u201cgaps\u201d and ambiguities offers ways to understand the German victims of the war as well as the (German) perpetrators\u2026To this end, Echternkamp\u2019s interpretation of the history of war and the military produces an important contribution.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 H-Soz-Kult<\/strong>

Contemporary historians have transformed our understanding of the German military in World War II, debunking the \u201cclean Wehrmacht\u201d myth that held most soldiers innocent of wartime atrocities. Considerably less attention has been paid to those soldiers at the end of hostilities. In Postwar Soldiers<\/em>, J\u00f6rg Echternkamp analyzes three themes in the early history of West Germany: interpretations of the war during its conclusion and the occupation period; military veteran communities\u2019 self-perceptions; and the public rehabilitation of the image of the German soldier. As Echternkamp shows, public controversies around these topics helped to drive the social processes that legitimized the democratic postwar order.

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FRIENDSHIP WITHOUT BORDERS<\/a>
Women’s Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany<\/strong>
Phil Leask<\/em>

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Sch\u00f6nebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives: a Rundbrief<\/em>, or bulletin, containing hundreds of letters and photographs. This book draws on that unprecedented resource, complemented by a set of interviews, to paint a rich portrait of \u201cordinary\u201d life in postwar Germany. It shows how these women\u2014whether reflecting on their experiences as Nazi-era schoolchildren or witnessing reunification\u2014were united by their complex interactions with official power and their commitment to sustaining a shared German identity as they made the most of their everyday lives in both the GDR and the Federal Republic.

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VELVET RETRO<\/a>
Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture
Veronika Pehe
Vol. 2, WORLDS OF MEMORY<\/a>

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked \u201cnostalgia\u201d to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a \u201cretro\u201d fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nation\u2019s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.

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A U-TURN TO THE FUTURE<\/a>
Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850<\/strong>
Edited by Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel<\/em>
Vol. 4, EXPLORATIONS IN MOBILITY<\/a>

From local bike-sharing initiatives to overhauls of transport infrastructure, mobility is one of the most important areas in which modern cities are trying to realize a more sustainable future. Yet even as politicians and planners look ahead, there remain critical insights to be gleaned from the history of urban mobility and the unsustainable practices that still impact our everyday lives. United by their pursuit of a \u201cusable past,\u201d the studies in this interdisciplinary collection consider the ecological, social, and economic aspects of urban mobility, showing how historical inquiry can make both conceptual and practical contributions to the projects of sustainability and urban renewal.

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BURGUNDY<\/a>
The Global Story of Terroir<\/strong>
Marion Demossier<\/em>
Vol. 43, NEW DIRECTIONS IN ANTHROPOLOGY<\/a>

\u201cApart from those interested in the academic aspects of food and wine, this book would be beneficial to non-academics looking to learn more about the complexities of the wine world. Overall, through her rich account and transnational approach including over two decades of fieldwork, Demossier\u2019s landmark work<\/em> Burgundy further legitimizes wine as a topic of academic interest and is sure to captivate oenophiles and food scholars alike.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Graduate Association of Food Studies<\/strong>

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SHADOWLANDS<\/a>
Memory and History in Post-Soviet Estonia<\/strong>
Meike Wulf<\/em>

\u201c\u2026a fascinating ride through Estonian post-war intellectual and cultural history, told through the personal narratives of historians of different age cohorts.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Slavic Review<\/strong>

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VIKTOR FRANKL’S SEARCH FOR MEANING<\/a>
An<\/strong> Emblematic 20th-Century Life<\/strong>
Timothy Pytell<\/em>
Vol. 23, MAKING SENSE OF HISTORY<\/a>

\u201cAs an introduction to Frankl\u2019s ideas and their relationship to broader mid-twentieth-century intellectual currents, Pytell\u2019s biography is an important contribution to the literature on Frankl and the contorted circumstances of his life.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 American Historical Review<\/strong>

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ESCAPE FROM HELL<\/a>
The True Story of the Auschwitz Protocol<\/strong>
Alfred Wetzler<\/em>
Translated by Ewald Osers
Edited by Peter Varnai
Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert
Introduction by Robert Rozett<\/em>

\u201c\u2026a compelling read; a real thriller. It provides very vivid descriptions of daily life in the camp and recounts in details the miraculous escape and the escapees\u2019 subsequent struggle to convince the unbelieving world of the happenings in Auschwitz-Birkenau.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 British Czech and Slovak Review<\/strong>

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OWNERSHIP AND NURTURE<\/a>
Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations<\/strong>
Edited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto, and Vanessa Grotti<\/em>
Foreword by James Leach<\/em>

\u201cIt is rare that a book comes along that manages to sum up an entire field while pointing provocatively in new directions.<\/em> Ownership and Nurture is such a volume, and the feat is all the more impressive since it is an edited collection. The introduction alone is worth the price of purchase, but the nine case studies that follow are delightful in their engrossing details, theoretical sophistication, and broad coverage of indigenous Amazonia\u2019s diversity.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)<\/strong>

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UNDERSTANDING CONFLICTS ABOUT WILDLIFE<\/a>
A Biosocial Approach<\/strong>
Edited by Catherine M. Hill, Amanda D. Webber and Nancy E. C. Priston<\/em>
Vol. 8, STUDIES OF THE BIOSOCIAL SOCIETY<\/a>

\u201cAll the chapters in this book have much to offer\u2026 I found this book to be inspiring and informative and a very welcome addition to the fascinating, complex and diverse ways people interact with wildlife.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Primate Eye<\/strong>

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RECLAIMING THE FOREST<\/a>
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya<\/strong>
Edited by \u00c5shild Kol\u00e5s and Yuanyuan Xie<\/em>
Foreword by F. Georg Heyne<\/em>

\u201cThis edited volume is the first book-length, English-language publication devoted to [the Ewenki] and makes a very welcome addition to the growing ethnographic literature on northern Asia\u2019s indigenous peoples\u2026 The book strikes an elegant balance between history, contemporary social commentary, and original narratives by members of the Ewenki community\u2026 This valuable contribution is ideal for acquainting the broader world with one of China\u2019s least-known minority groups, for anthropologists and social historians as well as readers hoping to learn something new about Asia\u2019s modern pastoral peoples. Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong>

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LIFE AS A HUNT<\/a>
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape<\/strong>
Stuart A. Marks<\/em>

\u201cFew academic books display such depth as does this one, but then few anthropologists devote over five decades to the same communities and issues. Anthropologist Marks first worked among Zambia’s Valley Bisa people in 1966, returning frequently for further research. The result is a masterwork of description, interpretation, and self-reflection.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong>

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ENGAGING WITH STRANGERS<\/a>
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands<\/strong>
Debra McDougall<\/em>
Vol. 6, ASAO STUDIES IN PACIFIC ANTHROPOLOGY<\/a>

\u201c\u2026a remarkable contribution to Solomon Islands studies. The book is significant for furthering our understanding on issues of ethnicity, hospitality, land tenure, conflict and conflict management\u2026 I find the personal experiences of the author throughout the book captivating, and helpfully illustrative when discussing complex themes. The accessibility of McDougall\u2019s prose makes for an easy read, especially for non-native speakers of English. A book of this quality is a valuable addition to the historical and anthropological narrative of a country so small yet so complex in its socio-cultural, political and economic composition.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 The Journal of Pacific History<\/strong>

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ECOLOGICAL MIGRANTS<\/a>
The Relocation of China’s Ewenki Reindeer Herders<\/strong>
Yuanyuan Xie<\/em>
Foreword by Ping Hao<\/em>

\u201cThis landmark study of a community of sedentarized Ewenki reindeer herders living in Inner Mongolia\u2026 is at once deeply sympathetic and penetratingly astute from a scholarly point of view. Rich in detail about the group\u2019s tumultuous historical experiences over the past century, the narrative weaves together multiple threads from traditional Ewenki forest culture with the challenges posed by adaptation to settled life. This book will doubtless capture the interest of both anthropologists and social historians, as the need to scientifically evaluate the effects of analogous ecological migrations in other areas of the globe becomes more urgent\u2026Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Choice<\/strong>

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TO THE BOMB AND BACK<\/a>
Finnish War Children Tell Their World War II Stories<\/strong>
Edited by Sue Saffle<\/em>
Foreword by Kai Rosnell<\/em>

\u201c\u2026a fine collection\u2026 The book is affecting, to be read a little at a time. You won’t forget it afterwards.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Finnish American Cultural Activities<\/strong>

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STREET VENDING IN THE NEOLIBERAL CITY<\/a>
A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy<\/strong>
Edited by Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha<\/em>

\u201cThe relevance and uniqueness of Graff and Ha\u2019s edited volume makes it a must read for anyone interested in the complex intersections of social dimensions and phenomena in the study of cities from a global perspective.\u201d<\/em> \u2022 Urbanities. Journal of Urban Ethnography<\/strong>

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