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Forthcoming July 2024
New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)

This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Forthcoming March 2024
Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Discussing the notions around social dynamics, Crypto Crowds explores how crowd and community formations manifest empirically in cryptocurrency sociality online. Pioneering in its approach to the increasing digitalization and datafication of everyday life, the volume encourages scholars explore further how ‘decentralized’ and ‘trustless’ technologies take part in the construction of postmodern crowds.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Forthcoming January 2024
Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Kalb, D. (ed)

In a global perspective of fast transforming social spaces that moves from East to West, Insidious Capital explores the struggles around the exploitation and valuation of labor, environmental politics, expansion of the ground rent, new hierarchies, the contradictions of higher education, the off-shoring of ‘immaterial’ labor, the illiberal right, and the mobilizations against it.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Published December 2023
Compliance

Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)

Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published December 2023
Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Through detailed archaeological case study, a multiregional approach and a theoretical approach around agencies and individuality, this volume focuses on the diversity of the population that participated in the maritime network of France through the 17th to the 19th century and whose agency and importance is often overlooked.

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2023
Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. The volume brings together contributions based on extensive empirical research conducted as part of a cross-European study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2023
The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Scalettaris, G.

Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it is deployed and who its agents are. By taking the reader through the offices in charge of the Afghan refugee crisis during the 2000s, in Geneva and in Kabul, the book shows the internal functioning of this international organization.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
Published November 2023
Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

Case Studies from the African Diaspora

Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)

Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

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Published October 2023
Poverty Archaeology

Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

The Poor Laws in the United Kingdom left a built and material legacy of over two centuries of legislative provision for the poor and infirm. Workhouses represent the first centralized, state-organized system for welfare. This volume forms a social archaeology of the lived experience of poverty and health in the nineteenth century.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2023
Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Newell, S. (ed)

Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published October 2023
Assembling Financialisation

Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment

Langford, Z.

Farmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Martin, L. M.

Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
Published October 2023
The Subject of Sovereignty

Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism

Feldman, G.

Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the “relational subject”: a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published September 2023
These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social media. In a study of this ‘bone trade’, how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and use a variety of methods drawn from the digital humanities to analyze the sheer volume of social media posts in search of answers to questions regarding this online bone trade.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Huttunen, L. & Perl, G. (eds)

All over the world, people deliberately disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This edited volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

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Published September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published August 2023
Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published July 2023
Military Politics

New Perspectives

Crosbie, T. (ed)

Bringing together new research by leading scholars, this volume rethinks the role played by militaries in politics. The volume introduces new theories of military politics, arguing against the inherited theories and practices of civil-military relations, and presents rich new data on senior officership and on the intersection of military politics and military operations.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2023
White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands

Parkin, R.

Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2023
Theorizing Entrepreneurship for the Future

Stories from Global Frontiers

Beuving, J.

Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as ‘future-work’: the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published May 2023
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism

Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad

Knudsen, S. (ed)

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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
Published May 2023
Exchange and Markets in Early Economic Development

Informal Economy in the Three New Guineas

Conroy, J. D.

The idea of an informal economy emerged from, and is a critique of, the ideology of ‘economic development’. It originated from Keith Hart’s recognition of informal economic activity in 1960s Ghana. In the context of four colonialisms – German, British, Australian and Dutch – this book recounts Hart’s effort in 1972 to introduce the informal ‘sector’ into development planning in Papua New Guinea.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Colonial History

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Published April 2023
Integrating Strangers

Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast

Ménard, A.

Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
Published April 2023
The Power of the Story

Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean

Joos, V., Munro, M. & Ribó, J. (eds)

A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
Published April 2023
Advocacy and Archaeology

Urban Intersections

Britt, K. M. & George, D. F. (eds)

Inspired by the idea of revolution and excitement about the ways archaeology is being used in social justice arenas, this volume seeks to visualize archaeology as part of a movement by redefining what archaeology is and does for the greater good.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2023
Set to See Us Fail

Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York

Castellano, V.

Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2023
Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism

Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology

Ferraz de Matos, P.

Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2023
Terrorism and the Pandemic

Weaponizing of COVID-19

Gunaratna, R. & Pethö-Kiss, K.

The global pandemic has offered extraordinary opportunities for extremists and terrorists to mobilize themselves and revive as more powerful actors in the security landscape. But could these threat groups actually capitalize on the coronavirus crisis and advance their malevolent agendas? This book provides, for the first time, a true picture of novel trends since the pandemic outbreak.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology of Religion
Published February 2023
Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States

War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest

Keyel, J.

The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published January 2023
This Land Is Not For Sale

Trust and Transitions in Northern Uganda

Meinert, L. & Reynolds Whyte, S. (eds)

As violent conflict has declined in northern Uganda, tensions and mistrust concerning land have increased. Residents try to deal with acquisitions by investors and exclusions from forests and wildlife reserves. Using extended case studies, collaborating researchers analyze the principles and practices that shape access to land. Contributors examine the multiplicity of land claims, the nature of transactions, and the management of conflicts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sociology
Published January 2023
Glimpses of Hope

The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published December 2022
Taking Our Water for the City

The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities

Beisaw, A. M.

Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2022
The Politics of Making Kinship

Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Alber, E. (ed)

Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2022
Sentient Ecologies

Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape

Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)

Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
Published October 2022
Enlightening Encounters

The Journeys of an Anthropologist

Gudeman, S.

Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2022
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

Anthropological Encounters

Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published September 2022
Morality, Crisis and Capitalism

Anthropology for Troubled Times

Baldacchino, J.-P. & Mitchell, J. P. (eds)

With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law’ crisis in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published August 2022
Ethnographies of Deservingness

Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality

Tošić, J. & Streinzer, A. (eds)

Claims around 'who deserves what and why' moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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Published May 2022
Wine Is Our Bread

Labour and Value in Moldovan Winemaking

Ana, D.

Based on ethnographic work in a Moldovan winemaking village, Wine Is Our Bread shows how workers in a prestigious winery have experienced the country’s recent entry into the globalized wine market and how their productive activities at home and in the winery contribute to the value of commercial terroir wines.

Subjects: Food & Nutrition Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2022
Bulldozer Capitalism

Accumulation, Ruination, and Dispossession in Northeastern Turkey

Evren, E.

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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published April 2022
Thrift and Its Paradoxes

From Domestic to Political Economy

Alexander, C. & Sosna, D. (eds)

Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales and are constantly re-negotiated at the nexus of socio-economic, religious, and kinship ideals and praxis.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published April 2022
African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Bošković, A. & Schlee, G. (eds)

Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History Development Studies

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Published February 2022
Cooling Down

Local Responses to Global Climate Change

Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)

Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies

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Published February 2022
Refugees on the Move

Crisis and Response in Turkey and Europe

Balkan, E. & Kutlu Tonak, Z. (eds)

Refugees on the Move highlights and explores the profound complexities of the current refugee issue by focusing specifically on Syrian refugees in Turkey and other European countries and responses from the host countries involved. The book examines the causes of the movement of refugee populations, and host governments’ attempts to manage and overcome the so-called “refugee crisis”.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2022
Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)

The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2022
Entrepreneurs of Identity

The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire

Günther, C.

Understanding the Islamic State’s ideologues as ‘entrepreneurs of identity’, this book explores how the group defined categories of social identity and used these categories as tools of communicative and cognitive structuring.

Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published November 2021
Rethinking Internal Displacement

Geo-political Games, Fragile States and the Relief Industry

Laker, F.

To tackle the vast numbers of internally displaced people, a UN regime has emerged that seeks to replicate the long-established regime of refugee protection by applying international law and humanitarian assistance to citizens within their own borders. This book looks at the origins, structure and impact of this new UN regime and whether it is fit for purpose.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published October 2021
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate

Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate

Sillitoe, P. (ed)

While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies

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Published October 2021
Moral Economy at Work

Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Yalçın-Heckmann, L. (ed)

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published September 2021
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self

Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era

Hann, C. (ed)

Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. The authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery and exploitation experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published August 2021
Latin America and Refugee Protection

Regimes, Logics, and Challenges

Jubilut, L. L., Vera Espinoza, M., & Mezzanotti, G. (eds)

Looking at refugee protection in Latin America, this landmark edited collection assesses what the region has achieved in recent years. The book analyses Latin America’s main documents in refugee protection, evaluates the particular aspects of different regimes, and reviews their emergence, development and effect, to develop understanding of refugee protection in the region.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2021
Constructing Risk

Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment

Bender, S. O.

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2021
Explorations in Economic Anthropology

Key Issues and Critical Reflections

Kaneff, D. & Endres, K. W. (eds)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality, the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays authored by leading scholars primarily from the field of economic anthropology.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published June 2021
Sovereign Forces

Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America

McNeish, J.-A.

Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published April 2021
Merchant Kings

Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870

Schrauwers, A.

Merchant Kings offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rapid industrialization of the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java during the nineteenth century. By placing colony and metropole into a single analytical frame, it offers a bracing new approach to understanding the development of modern corporations within the context of empire.

Subjects: Colonial History History: 18th/19th Century Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2021
Ethnographies of Power

A Political Anthropology of Energy

Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)

Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

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Published January 2021
Commerce as Politics

The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence

Maliehe, S. M.

This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Colonial History

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Published October 2020
Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Skrzypek, E. E.

The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2020
Facing the Crisis

Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism

D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)

Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published August 2020
Financialization

Relational Approaches

Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)

Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

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Published August 2020
Punks and Skins United

Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture

Venstel, A.

Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2020
Who’s Cashing In?

Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)

From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
Published May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body in Tunisia during this time.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?

An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus

Shokeid, M.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies

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Published April 2020
Protest, Youth and Precariousness

The Unfinished Fight against Austerity in Portugal

Carmo, R. M. & Vasconcelos Simões, J. A. (eds)

After over a decade of austerity in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, what lies next for European societies? This edited collection brings together sociologists, social movement specialists, political scientists, and other scholars to look specifically at how Portuguese youth have navigated this politically and economically difficult period.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

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Published March 2020
After the Pink Tide

Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)

The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now 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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published February 2020
Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society

Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa

Schraten, J.

Investigates the political reasons for South Africa 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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published February 2020
The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe

Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2020
Money Counts

Revisiting Economic Calculation

Schmidt, M. & Ross, S. (eds)

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2020
Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America

Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)

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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2020
Big Capital in an Unequal World

The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan

Armytage, R.

Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams

The Art of Managing Foreign Aid

Drążkiewicz, E.

How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published December 2019
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Shackel, P. A.

By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2019
Brazilian Steel Town

Machines, Land, Money and Commoning in the Making of the Working Class

Mollona, M.

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. Brazilian Steel-Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2019
Regimes of Responsibility in Africa

Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)

How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2019
Water, Life, and Profit

Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M

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. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2019
Money Games

Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town

Pickles, A. J.

Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published June 2019
Market Frictions

Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border

Endres, K. W.

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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published May 2019
Political Networks and Social Movements

Bolivian State–Society Relations under Evo Morales, 2006–2016

Valdivia Rivera, S.

Political Networks and Social Movements examines the relationship between the State and social movements under the administration of current Bolivian president Evo Morales. Author Soledad Valdivia Rivera analyzes how this linkage has come to transform the essence of the Bolivian political process as we know it.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology History (General)

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Published May 2019
Marketing Hope

Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia

Schiffauer, L.

Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology

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Published April 2019
Planning Labour

Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania

Cucu, A.-S.

Planning Labour explores the early socialist industrialization and the implementation of central economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955. Centered on the city of Cluj, an ethnically mixed city in the northwestern part of Romania, this volume examines the deeply contradictory process required for achieving socialist accumulation.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2019
Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Mpofu, B. & Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J. (eds)

Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume attempts to rethink (and unthink) development discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors explore the ways in which legacies of colonialism impact development, as well as other factors such as regional politics, corruption, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Subjects: Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2019
Party Responses to Social Movements

Challenges and Opportunities

Piccio, D. R.

Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of social movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tension between their respective roles and aims.

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2019
Refugees Welcome?

Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany

Bock, J.-J. & Macdonald, S. (eds)

Combining in-depth anthropological studies with more long-term analyses, this volume examines the responses to and implications of the arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany – widely seen as the most major and contested social change in the country since reunification.

Subjects: Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2019
The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State

Histories of a Key Concept in the Nordic Countries

Edling, N. (ed)

The Nordic concept of “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical idea that has yet to receive much exploration beyond its postwar emergence. This volume chronicles “the welfare state” from its historical origins to its interpretations, values, and challenges over time in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.

Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published December 2018
Democracy Struggles

NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia

Vetta, T.

This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2018
Europeanization in Sweden

Opportunities and Challenges for Civil Society Organizations

Meeuwisse, A. & Scaramuzzino, R. (eds)

This volume brings together new empirical research into how the process of European integration has played out in Sweden. Europeanization in Sweden not only offers insights into how Europeanization is enacted on the ground, but also addresses the question of whether and how the “Swedish model” can guide European integration.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2018
Pacific Realities

Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)

In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2018
Indeterminacy

Waste, Value, and the Imagination

Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)

What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy

Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia

Zeitzen, M. K.

An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context

An Anthropological Perspective

Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)

Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2018
Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era

Carrier, J. G. (ed)

This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrongdoing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many would consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of economic right and wrong.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes

Angé, O.

Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2018
Roma Activism

Reimagining Power and Knowledge

Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)

Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2018
Nation Branding in Modern History

Viktorin, C., Gienow-Hecht, J. C. E., Estner, A., & Will, M. K. (eds)

Branding in Modern History draws from a variety of international case studies, ranging from Austria and Switzerland to Chile, the US, China, Spain, Suriname, and Poland to investigate the nexus between cultural marketing, self-representation and political power by looking at current nation branding campaigns as well as its historical predecessors.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies

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Published August 2018
All or None

Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt

Sánchez Hall, A.

All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2018
Refugee Resettlement

Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance

Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.

The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2018
Living Under Austerity

Greek Society in Crisis

Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)

Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2018
Pilgrimage and Political Economy

Translating the Sacred

Coleman, S. & Eade, J. (eds)

Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2018
The Global Life of Austerity

Comparing Beyond Europe

Rakopoulos, T. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2018
Frontiers of Civil Society

Government and Hegemony in Serbia

Mikuš, M.

Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published June 2018
The Revolt of the Provinces

Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary

Szombati, K.

The first in-depth ethnographic monograph on the New Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the Provinces explores the making of right-wing hegemony in Hungary over the last decade, focusing on interaction between social antagonisms emerging on the local level and struggles waged within the political public sphere.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published June 2018
Worldwide Mobilizations

Class Struggles and Urban Commoning

Kalb, D. & Mollona, M. (eds)

Viewing the significant urban insurrections of past decades with an anthropological eye, Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its precise context in the global capitalist transformation.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies

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Published April 2018
A Creole Nation

National Integration in Guinea-Bissau

Kohl, C.

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2018
Oil and Sovereignty

Petro-Knowledge and Energy Policy in the United States and Western Europe in the 1970s

Graf, R.

Oil and Sovereignty explores the national and international strategies formulated to deal with the first oil crises in 1973-1974, as steadily increasing prices and reduced production raised the specter of an uncertain future for many.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2018
Money at the Margins

Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design

Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)

Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published March 2018
Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2018
The Southeast Asia Connection

Trade and Polities in the Eurasian World Economy, 500 BC–AD 500

Chew, S. C.

Over world history, Southeast Asia’s contribution to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not been given much attention. This book attempts to recalibrate these interactions of Southeast Asia with other parts of the world economy, and gives the region its due instead of treating it as little more than a region of peripheral entrepôts.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2018
Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)

Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2018
The Partial Revolution

Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal

Hoffmann, M.

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.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Peace and Conflict Studies

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Published November 2017
Stategraphy

Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State

Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)

By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2017
From Clans to Co-ops

Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily

Rakopoulos, T.

From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition

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Published October 2017
From Eastern Bloc to European Union

Comparative Processes of Transformation since 1990

Heydemann, G. & Vodička, K. (eds)

This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven former Soviet states and current EU members. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformation processes that have taken place in a given nation, identifying structural similarities and assessing outcomes compared to one another as well as the rest of Europe.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2017
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia

Transitioning to an Alternative World System

Baer, H. A.

As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published September 2017
Laborers and Enslaved Workers

Experiences in Common in the Making of Rio de Janeiro's Working Class, 1850-1920

Badaró Mattos, M.

In the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro was not only home to the largest population of enslaved laborers in the Americas, but it was also the site of an incipient working-class consciousness across seemingly distinct social categories. This volume analyzes the diverse labor arrangements and associative life of Rio’s working class, from which emerged the strategies that workers free and unfree pursued against oppression.

Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2017
Contesting Deregulation

Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s

Andresen, K. and Müller, S. (eds)

Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present

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Published August 2017
Images from Paradise

The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia

Salgó, E.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies

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Published June 2017
Civil Society Revisited

Lessons from Poland

Jacobsson, K. & Korolczuk, E. (eds)

In contrast to a social scientific literature that characterizes Polish civil society as weak and passive, this volume focuses on forms of collective action that researchers too often ignore due to their theoretical and methodological blind spots. It constitutes a powerful critique of a model of civil society that is ‘made from above’ by elites, media, and public institutions.

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2017
Money in a Human Economy

Hart, K. (eds)

Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2017
Indigenist Mobilization

Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala

Steur, L.

Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2017
Labour, Unions and Politics under the North Star

The Nordic Countries, 1700-2000

Hilson, M., Neunsinger, S., & Vyff, I. (eds)

Notwithstanding Nordic countries’ reputation for strong labour movements, the fortunes of organized labour have varied widely throughout the region and across different historical periods. Together, the essays collected here explore themes such as work, unions, politics and migration in the Nordic states from the early modern period to the twenty-first century.

Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.

Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2017
Shaping Taxpayers

Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency

Björklund Larsen, L.

How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2016
America Observed

On an International Anthropology of the United States

Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)

There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks

Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa

Trapido, J.

Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)

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Published September 2016
From Craftsmen to Capitalists

German Artisans from the Third Reich to the Federal Republic, 1939-1953

McKitrick, F. L.

As Hitler consolidated power, German artisans emerged as an important Nazi constituency, drawn by the party’s rejection of both capitalism and Bolshevism. Yet, after 1945, they became one of the pillars of postwar stability. This volume gives the first account of this astonishing transformation, exploring how tradesmen helped to realize German democratization and recovery.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published July 2016
Economic Citizenship

Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment

Sa'ar, A.

Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2016
The State We're In

Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)

What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2015
Street Vending in the Neoliberal City

A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Graaff, K. & Ha, N. (eds)

From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations, this urban practice also reveals global ties and developments.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo

Imaginaries of Freedom and Control

Zagato, A. (ed)

The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2015
The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey

Balkan, N., Balkan, E. & Öncü, A. (eds)

By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey's economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to establish hegemony over labor.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2015
The Political Economy of Border Drawing

Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies

Paul, R.

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories for migrant workers in each country, and examines the interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in determining migrant legality.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

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Published October 2014
People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis

Perspectives from the Global South

Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)

The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2014
Blood and Fire

Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor

Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)

Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2014
Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics

Essays in Historical Realism

Smith, G.

“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2013
The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living

Argyrou, V.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images

Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel

Wesley, D.A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published November 2012
Anthropology and Political Science

A Convergent Approach

Aronoff, M. J. & Kubik, J.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2012
Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

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Published December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State

Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia

Kapferer, B.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2011
The Allure of Capitalism

An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis

Røyrvik, E. A.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2011
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

Friedman, J. T.

In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published March 2010
China in Oceania

Reshaping the Pacific?

Wesley-Smith, T. & Porter, E. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published July 2009
Markets and Civil Society

The European Experience in Comparative Perspective

Perez-Diaz, V. (ed)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2009
Economic Persuasions

Gudeman, S. (ed)

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2009
State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery

Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia and Kosovo

Sörensen, J. S.

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published April 2009
Crisis of the State

War and Social Upheaval

Kapferer, B. & Bertelsen, B. E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published February 2009
Reproducing Class

Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul

Rutz, H. J. & Balkan, E. M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

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Published November 2008
Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation

West, H. G. & Raman, P. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published October 2008
Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-liberal State in Latin America

Fischer, E. F. (ed)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion

Roth, S. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published June 2008
Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism

Levey, G. B. (ed)

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2008
Economy's Tension

The Dialectics of Community and Market

Gudeman, S.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published May 2008
Difficult Folk?

A Political History of Social Anthropology

Mills, D.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology

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Published August 2006
The Romani Movement

Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe

Vermeersch, P.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

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New Anthropologies of Italy

Politics, History and Culture

Heywood, P. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)

Crypto Crowds

Singularities and Multiplicities on the Blockchain

Shapiro, M. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Insidious Capital

Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle

Kalb, D. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Compliance

Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Agency and Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire

Gauthier-Bérubé, M. & Dempsey, A. (eds)

Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology

Resisting Radicalisation?

Understanding Young People's Journeys through Radicalising Milieus

Pilkington, H. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology

The UNHCR and the Afghan Crisis

The Making of the International Refugee Regime

Scalettaris, G.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies

Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

Case Studies from the African Diaspora

Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies

Poverty Archaeology

Architecture, Material Culture and the Workhouse under the New Poor Law

Newman, C. & Fennelly, K.

Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology

Of Hoarding and Housekeeping

Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

Newell, S. (ed)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Cultural Studies (General)

Assembling Financialisation

Local Actors and the Making of Agricultural Investment

Langford, Z.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Martin, L. M.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology

The Subject of Sovereignty

Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism

Feldman, G.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology

These Were People Once

The Online Trade in Human Remains and Why It Matters

Huffer, D. & Graham, S.

Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

An Anthropology of Disappearance

Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

Huttunen, L. & Perl, G. (eds)

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies

Between the Forest and the Road

The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit

Bravo Díaz, A.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)

Beyond the Social Contract

An Anthropology of Tax

Makovicky, N. & Smith, R. (eds)

Subject: Political and Economic Anthropology

Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Military Politics

New Perspectives

Crosbie, T. (ed)

Subjects: Sociology Peace and Conflict Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

White Eagle, Black Eagle

Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands