Nation as Network. Diaspora, Cyberspace & Citizenship
Online interactions and digital cultures are closely related to many people’s social life and influence it in many ways, yet…
Posts Tagged 'politics'
Domesticating Youth: Youth Bulges and their Socio-Political Implications in Tajikistan
In her insightful study of youth in Tajikistan, Sophie Roche investigates the relation between demography and political mobilization. She wishes…
Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village
Days of Revolution is an ethnography of politics in Iran, seen from the perspective of a village half an…
No Billionaire Left Behind: Satirical Activism in America
Popular accounts disagree: are we living in an age of irony or a post-ironic era? On the one hand…
Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Born Out of Place is a captivating and timely ethnography of the everyday struggles of Indonesian and Filipina female domestic…
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…
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Jeffrey Witsoe’s Democracy against Development brings ethnographic and theoretical attention to the dynamics of postcolonial democracy in India. The book…
Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
Olga Demetriou offers a fascinating examination of borders and border politics in Western Thrace, a politically significant and historically…