Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
At the lived edges of political maps, who has the right to impersonate the state, uphold its law and…
Posts Tagged 'ethnography'
Cruel Attachments: The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany
The title of this book suggests a narrow study, likely of interest largely to professionals working in this field….
How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics
As the title of Marcio Goldman’s newly translated monograph How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics suggests, this book…
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes, a physician-anthropologist, ethnographically captures the social and physical suffering of Triqui migrant farmworkers in the United States…
Broken Links, Enduring Ties: American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation
Linda J. Seligman joins a number of sociologists, historians and anthropologists tracking in some detail the “kinds of families and…
Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Transforming the Frontier takes readers into the complex reality of transnational and cross-border conservation initiatives in southern Africa. Peace parks…
The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine
Though this ethnography of the putative human rights industry focuses on Palestine, it could be told wherever people in the…
A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Kingfisher’s book is a theoretically productive account of how welfare reform policies develop and travel from New Zealand to Alberta,…
The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
The Moral Neoliberal is a robust exploration of neoliberalism’s “extraordinarily ethical” (p. 19) face discovered through an ethnography of volunteerism…
Loyalty Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia
Keith Brown’s Loyalty Unto Death sets out, with great sensitivity, to uncover and retell the story of the Macedonian Revolutionary…