This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades, focusing on the transformation of how knowledge is conceptualized, produced, and disseminated at different levels of public education in various national contexts around the world.
This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the l...
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D'Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men, providing unique and hitherto unknown perspectives on their experiences coping with intolerance. With sensitivity and humor, the authors narrate their attempts at accessing this hidden population in bars, campgrounds, social clubs, and political groups. This volume is a must-read for researchers,...
Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lac...
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers blame the egoism and asocial behavior found in new free-market societies on their communist pasts, this work shows how relationships are also threatened by the profit orientations and personal ambition unleashed by economic development. Successful people in societies as diverse as China, Russia,...
Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and co...
This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of twenty-first century capitalism's global modalities. Drawn from settings across the globe, case studies explore the nuanced formations of class and power within particular migration flows while addressing the complex analytics of a contemporary critical political...
This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migra...
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and what we need to do to better understand the role of military service in shaping people's lives.
This edited volume provides a comprehensive and critical review of what we know about military service and the life course, what we don't know, and wh...
Employing the framework of social rights and active citizenship, this volume examines the tensions between economic growth and the developmental state, on the one hand, and social rights and civil liberties on the other, in East Asia.
Employing the framework of social rights and active citizenship, this volume examines the tensions between economic growth and the developmental state...
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the megacities of the Global South, selected and idealized aspects of poverty are being turned into a tourist commodity for consumption.
The book takes the reader on a journey through Rocinha, a neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro which is advertised as "the largest favela in Latin America." Bianca Freire-Medeiros presents interviews with tour operators, guides, tourists and dwellers to explore the vital questions...
Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for i...
This text represents contributions from leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while also providing cross-disciplinary perspectives on this topic.
This text represents contributions from leading scholars from several disciplines that show the diversity of approaches to religious rituals, while al...
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere, examining them as sites for contestation and democratic debate, and also identifying them as examples of a particular aesthetic cosmopolitanism. The book approaches contemporary festivals as relatively autonomous social texts that need interpretation and contextualisation. This perspective,...
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popular...
This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immigration on the global north, but also on the effect of immigration on the global south and the social and economic factors that give rise to immigration in the first place.
This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immi...
