This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years.
The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out between cosmopolitan convergence and multicultural diversity, between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised poor groups, between the global and the local. The chapters in this volume present a series of empirical explorations of how difference...
This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuel...
This volume explores how "difference "is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years.
The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out between cosmopolitan convergence and multicultural diversity, between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised poor groups, between the global and the local. The chapters in this volume present a series of empirical explorations of how difference is...
This volume explores how "difference "is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled b...
Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day realities of life sciences categories. In doing so, it shows how such categories remain contested and dynamic, and that the boundaries they create are subject to negotiation as well as re-configuration and re-stabilization processes. Organized around the themes of biological substances and objects, personhood and the genomic body and the creation and dispersion of knowledge, each of the volume s chapters reveals the elusive nature of fixity...
Drawing on social science perspectives, Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that engage with the often shifting and day-to-day...
This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. This is invaluable reading for scholars of medical anthropology, medical sociology and science and technology studies, as well as for the fields of gender studies, reproductive health and genetic disease research.
This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. This is invaluabl...
