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  • - Development and the Politics of Differentiation
    af Sarah D. Phillips
    278,95 kr.

    In Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the destitute with little or no support from the Ukrainian state. This book documents the unexpected effects that social activism has produced for women in Ukraine.

  • af Trevor H. J. Marchand
    502,95 - 1.879,95 kr.

    Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London's East End during the present 'renaissance of craftsmanship'. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

  • - Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain
    af Jaume Franquesa Bartolome
    340,95 - 905,95 kr.

  • - Time, Ritual, and Sexual Commerce in London
    af Sondra L. Hausner
    253,95 - 320,95 kr.

    Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried there-the "e;Winchester Geese,"e; women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark, not far from Shakespeare's Globe, is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists, and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials to the outcast dead. Ceremonies combining raucous humor and eclectic spirituality are led by a local playwright, John Constable, also known as John Crow. His interpretation of the history of the site has struck a chord with many who feel alienated in present-day London. Sondra L. Hausner offers a nuanced ethnography of Crossbones that tacks between past and present to look at the historical practices of sex work, the relation of the Church to these professions, and their representation in the present. She draws on anthropological approaches to ritual and time to understand the forms of spiritual healing conveyed by the Crossbones rites. She shows that ritual is a way of creating the present by mobilizing the stories of the past for contemporary purposes.

  • - Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
    af Krisztina Fehervary
    418,95 - 793,95 kr.

    Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Fehervary shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.

  • - Changing Faces of the Eternal City
     
    317,95 kr.

    Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.

  • - Changing Faces of the Eternal City
     
    964,95 kr.

    Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This book examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.

  • - Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan
    af Aksana Ismailbekova
    323,95 - 901,95 kr.

  • - Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places
    af Erica T. Lehrer
    343,95 - 973,95 kr.

    Since the end of Communism, Jews from around the world have visited Poland to tour Holocaust-related sites. A few venture further, seeking to learn about their own Polish roots and connect with contemporary Poles. For their part, a growing number of Poles are fascinated by all things Jewish. Erica T. Lehrer explores the intersection of Polish and Jewish memory projects in the historically Jewish neighborhood of Kazimierz in Krakow. Her own journey becomes part of the story as she demonstrates that Jews and Poles use spaces, institutions, interpersonal exchanges, and cultural representations to make sense of their historical inheritances.

  • - Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
    af Keith Brown
    362,95 - 973,95 kr.

    The underground Macedonian Revolutionary Organization recruited and mobilized over 20,000 supporters to take up arms against the Ottoman Empire between 1893 and 1903. Challenging conventional wisdom about the role of ethnic and national identity in Balkan history, Keith Brown focuses on social and cultural mechanisms of loyalty to describe the circuits of trust and terror-webs of secret communications and bonds of solidarity-that linked migrant workers, remote villagers, and their leaders in common cause. Loyalties were covertly created and maintained through acts of oath-taking, record-keeping, arms-trading, and in the use and management of deadly violence.

  • - Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City
    af Gustav Peebles
    250,95 kr.

    Currency and culture in a European border zone

  • - Mobbing, Well-Being, and the Workplace
    af Noelle J. Mole
    249,95 kr.

    Psychological harassment at work, or "e;mobbing,"e; has become a significant public policy issue in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Mobbing has given rise to specialized counseling clinics, a new field of professional expertise, and new labor laws. For Noelle J. Mole, mobbing is a manifestation of Italy's rapid transition from a highly protectionist to a market-oriented labor regime and a neoliberal state. She analyzes the classification of mobbing as a work-related illness, the deployment of preventive public health programs, the relation of mobbing to gendered work practices, and workers' use of the concept of mobbing to make legal and medical claims, with implications for state policy, labor contracts, and political movements. For many Italian workers, mobbing embodies the social and psychological effects of an economy and a state in transition.

  • - Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries
     
    278,95 kr.

    Crossing religious frontiers at shared holy places

  • - The Other Side of Tolerance
    af Marcy Brink-Danan
    251,95 - 653,95 kr.

    Turkey is famed for a history of tolerance toward minorities, and there is a growing nostalgia for the "e;Ottoman mosaic."e; In this richly detailed study, Marcy Brink-Danan examines what it means for Jews to live as a tolerated minority in contemporary Istanbul. Often portrayed as the "e;good minority,"e; Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and periodically attacked. Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance, describing how Turkish Jews manage the tensions between cosmopolitanism and patriotism, difference as Jews and sameness as Turkish citizens, tolerance and violence.

  • af John Borneman
    280,95 - 678,95 kr.

    Reflections on politics, loss and reconciliation in Europe and the Middle East

  • - Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria
    af Gerald W. Creed
    308,95 kr.

    Mumming and modernity in rural Bulgaria

  • - National Imaginary in the Time of Milosevi
    af Marko Zivkovi
    285,95 - 368,95 kr.

    Public discourse and everyday life during the last days of Yugoslavia

  • - Activism, Aid, and NGOs
    af Julie Hemment
    323,95 kr.

    Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to and growing collaboration with members of the group Zhenskii Svet (Women's Light) in the provincial city of Tver'.

  • - Memory, Consumption, Germany
    af Daphne Berdahl
    248,95 kr.

    Pathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transition

  • - Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France
    af Andrea L. Smith
    309,95 kr.

    Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. This study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.

  • - Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict
     
    316,95 kr.

    Provides social, cultural, and historical context for understanding one of Europe's longest-running conflicts

  • - Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
    af Paul A. Silverstein
    322,95 kr.

    An ethnography of the Algerian presence in France and the transnational Berber movement.

  • - "We are Witnesses, Not Victims"
    af Giovanna Parmigiani
    368,95 - 740,95 kr.

  • - Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete
    af Konstantinos Kalantzis
    420,95 - 901,95 kr.

  • - Migration, Conversion, and the Politics of Islam
    af Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar
    298,95 - 960,95 kr.

  • - Difference, Knowledge, and Fieldwork
    af Matei Candea
    249,95 kr.

    The island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social universe. This study of a Corsican village explores nationalism, language, kinship, and place.

  • af Deborah Reed-Danahay
    225,95 kr.

    Views Pierre Bourdieu's work within the context of his life and times.

  • - Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs
    af Julie Hemment
    309,95 - 888,95 kr.

    Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("e;Ours"e;) and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence of Russia's authoritarian turn. By contrast, Hemment's detailed ethnographic analysis finds an astute global awareness and a paradoxical kinship with the international democracy-promoting interventions of the 1990s. Drawing on Soviet political forms but responding to 21st-century disenchantments with the neoliberal state, these projects seek to produce not only patriots, but also volunteers, entrepreneurs, and activists.

  • - Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic
    af Sonja Luehrmann
    281,95 kr.

    Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia's Volga region, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheist propaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith in standardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations.

  • - Labor, the Body, and Working-Class Culture
    af David A. Kideckel
    320,95 kr.

    A poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workers

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