wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Culture
ISBN: 9780520089945 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions that characterize life in dangerous places. They describe the first, often harrowing, experience of violence, the personal and professional problems that arise as troubles escalate, and the often surprising creative strategies people use to survive. In "writing violence," the authors give...
Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of...
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Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary Worldvolume 16
ISBN: 9780520250963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this book, she spent three years traveling to hot spots in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States investigating the dynamics of illegal trade around the world--from blood diamonds and arms to pharmaceuticals, exotica, and staples like food and oil. Global Outlaws peels away the layers of a vast economy that extends from a war orphan in Angola selling Marlboros on the street to powerful transnational networks reaching...
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the ...
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216,94 zł |
A Different Kind of War Story
ISBN: 9780812216219 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during the fifteen-year war of terror that took a million lives--mostly civilian--and completely destroyed homes, crops, hospitals, schools, and even access to water. The characters are the soldiers who fought it, the thieves and opportunists who profited from it, and the ordinary people whose lives were shattered by it and from whose ranks emerged the heroes and healers who created peace. Combining contemporary theory and innovative... A Different Kind of War Story takes us to the frontlines of one of the most brutal wars in recent history. The setting is Mozambique during ... |
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124,44 zł |
Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780520242418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century. Shadows of War is grounded in ethnographic research carried out at the epicenters of political violence on several continents. Its pages are populated not only with the perpetrators and victims of...
In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, throug...
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163,80 zł |
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9780520276017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based upon extraordinary fieldwork including interviews with scores of informants--smugglers, victims, power elites, and profiteers who populate economic war zones in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the U.S.--this compelling investigation of crime, money, and power shows the sum total of extralegal activities as representing a significant part of the world's economy, and provides a new framework for understanding 21st century economics and economic power.
Based upon extraordinary fieldwork including interviews with scores of informants--smugglers, victims, power elites, and profiteers who populate econo...
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108,93 zł |
The Paths to Domination, Resistance, and Terror
ISBN: 9780520073166 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Paths to Terror offers a new and refreshing perspective on sociopolitical violence: one that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance, and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. These innovative essays take the reader from the Americas, through Europe and the Middle East, and to Asia to capture the cultural construction of sociopolitical violence. The authors expand our view of the ethnographic reality, revealing the complex interplay among local, national, and international actors in the perpetuation of violence and terror. The organization of...
The Paths to Terror offers a new and refreshing perspective on sociopolitical violence: one that highlights the human experience of domination,...
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158,34 zł |