Social justice and human rights movements are entering a new phase. Social media, artificial intelligence, and digital forensics are reshaping advocacy and compliance. Technicians, lawmakers, and advocates, sometimes in collaboration with the private sector, have increasingly gravitated toward the possibilities and dangers inherent in the nonhuman. #HumanRights examines how new technologies interact with older models of rights claiming and communication, influencing and reshaping the modern-day pursuit of justice.
Ronald Niezen argues that the impacts of information technologies on human rights are not found through an exclusive focus on sophisticated, expert-driven forms of data management but in considering how these technologies are interacting with other, "traditional" forms of media to produce new avenues of expression, public sympathy, redress of grievances, and sources of the self. Niezen considers various ways that the pursuit of justice is happening via new technologies, including crowdsourcing, social media-facilitated mobilizations (and enclosures), WhatsApp activist networks, and the selective attention of Google's search engine algorithm. He uncovers how emerging technologies of data management and social media influence the ways that human rights claimants and their allies pursue justice, and the "new victimology" that prioritizes and represents strategic lives and types of violence over others. #HumanRights paints a striking and important panoramic picture of the contest between authoritarianism and the new tools by which people attempt to leverage human rights and bring the powerful to account.
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.
Описание: This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.
Описание: In Concrete Dreams Nicholas D’Avella examines the changing social and economic lives of buildings in the context of a construction boom following Argentina's political and economic crisis of 2001. D’Avella tells the stories of small-scale investors who turned to real estate as an alternative to a financial system they no longer trusted, of architects who struggled to maintain artistic values and political commitments in the face of the ongoing commodification of their work, and of residents-turned-activists who worked to protect their neighborhoods and city from being overtaken by new development. Such forms of everyday engagement with buildings, he argues, produce divergent forms of value that persist in tension with hegemonic forms of value. In the dreams attached to built environments and the material forms in which those dreams are articulated—from charts and graphs to architectural drawings, urban planning codes, and tango lyrics—D’Avella finds a blueprint for building livable futures in which people can survive alongside and even push back against the hegemony of capitalism.
Agrarian reforms transformed the Mexican countryside in the late twentieth century but without, in many cases, altering fundamental power relationships. This study of the Tehuacán Valley in the state of Puebla highlights different strategies to manipulate the local implementation of federal government programs. With their very differing successes in the struggle to regain and maintain control of land and water rights, these strategies raise important questions about the meaning of the phrase "locally controlled development."
Because Mexico is dependent on irrigation for 45 percent of its cash crop production, national policy has focused on developing vast government controlled and financed irrigation systems. In the Tehuacán Valley, however, the inhabitants have developed a complex irrigation system without government aid or supervision. Yet, in contrast to most parts of Mexico, water rights can be bought and sold as a commodity, leading to accumulation, stratification, and emergence of a regional elite whose power is based on ownership of land and water. The analysis provides an important contribution to the understanding of local control.
The findings of this study will be important to a wide audience involved in the study of irrigation, local agricultural systems, and the interplay between local power structures and the national government in developing countries. The book also presents unique material on gravity-fed, horizontal wells, known as qanat in the Middle East, which had been unknown in the literature on Latin America before this book.
Uncovers the class and race dimensions of the "cupcake wars"
In the wake of school-lunch reform debates, heated classroom cupcake wars, and concerns over childhood obesity, the diet of American children has become a "crisis" and the cause of much anxiety among parents.
Many food-conscious parents are well educated, progressive and white, and while they may explicitly value race and class diversity, they also worry about less educated or less well-off parents offering their children food that is unhealthy. Jennifer Patico embedded herself in an urban Atlanta charter school community, spending time at school events, after-school meetings, school lunchrooms, and private homes. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observation, she details the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children's eating. Ultimately, Patico argues that the attitudes of middle-class parents toward food reflect an underlying neoliberal capitalist ethic, in which their need to cultivate proper food consumption for their children can actually work to reinforce class privilege and exclusion.
Listening closely to adults' and children's food concerns, The Trouble with Snack Time explores those unintended effects and suggests how the "crisis" of children's food might be reimagined toward different ends.
Автор: Luken Paul C., Vaughan Suzanne Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography ISBN: 3030542211 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030542214 Издательство: Springer Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chapter 1: Introduction / Institutional Ethnography: Sociology for Today, Paul C. Luken Part 1: Exploring Historical and Ontological FoundationsChapter 2: Elements of an Expansive Institutional Ethnography: A Conceptual History of its North American Origins, Marjorie L. DevaultChapter 3: Materialist Matters: A Case for Revisiting the Social Ontology of Institutional Ethnography, Liza McCoyChapter 4: Teaching Institutional Ethnography as an Alternative Sociology, Eric Mykhalovsky, Colin Hastings, Leigha Comer, Julia Gruson-Wood, and Mathew StrangChapter 5: Exploring Institutional Words as People's Practices, Dorothy E. SmithPart 2: Developing Strategies and Exploring ChallengesChapter 6: Mapping Ruling Relations: Advancing the Use of Visual Methods in Institutional Ethnography, Nikole K. DalmerChapter 7: Discovering the Social Organization of Perinatal Care for Women Living with HIV: Reflections from a Novice Institutional Ethnographer, Allyson IonChapter 8: IE and Visual Research Methods: An Open-ended Discussion, Morena TartariChapter 9: And Then There Was Copyright, Suzanne VaughanChapter 10: Invoking Work Knowledge: Exploring the Social Organization of Producing Gender Studies, Rebecca W.B. LundChapter 11: Teaching Institutional Ethnography to Undergraduate Students, Kathryn ChurchPart 3: Explicating Global/Transnational Ruling RelationsChapter 12: Using Institutional Ethnography to Investigate Intergovernmental Environmental Policy Making, Lauren E. EastwoodChapter 13: Regulating the Duty to Consult: Exploring the Textually-Mediated Nature of Indigenous Dispossession in Chile, Magdalena UgarteChapter 14: Transnational Power Relations in Education: How it Works Down South, Nerida Spina and Barbara ComberChapter 15: The Struggle for 'Survival' in Contemporary Higher Education: The Lived Experiences of Junior Academics, Li-Fang and Yu-Hsuan LinPart 4: Making Change within CommunitiesChapter 16: Building Change On and Off Reserve: Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Susan Marie Turner and Julia BomberryChapter 17: Mapping Institutional Relations for Local Policy Change: The Case of Lead Poisoning in Syracuse, New York, Frank RidziChapter 18: The Institutional Analysis: Matching What Institutions Do with What Works for People, Ellen PencePart 5: Critiquing Public Sector Management RegimesChapter 19: Professional Talk: Unpacking Professional Language, Ann Christin E. NilsenChapter 20: The Frontline Interpretive Work of Activating the Americans with Disabilities Act, Eric RodtiguezChapter 21: Contested Forms of Knowledge in the Criminal-Legal System: Evidence-Based Practice and Other Ways of Knowing among Frontline Workers, Nicole Kaufman and Megan WelshChapter 22: Public Protection as a Ruling Concept in the Management of Nurses' Substance Use, Charlotte A. RossChapter 23: Producing Functional Equivalency in Video Relay Service, Jeremy L. BrunsonPart 6: Bringing Together Different Approaches and PerspectivesChapter 24: Using Composites to Craft Institutional Ethnographic Accounts, Michael CormanChapter 25: Attending to Messy Troubles of the Anthropocene with Institutional Ethnography and Material Semiotics: The Case for Vital Institutional Ethnography, Karly BurchChapter 26: Institutional Ethnography for Social Work, Gerald de MontignyChapter 27: Institutional Ethnography and Youth Participatory Action
Автор: Emma Crewe Название: The House of Commons: An Anthropology of MPs at Work ISBN: 1474234585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474234580 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The House of Commons is one of Britain`s mysterious institutions: constantly in the news yet always opaque. In this ground-breaking anthropological study of the world`s most famous parliament, Emma Crewe reveals the hidden mechanisms of parliamentary democracy.
Автор: Chong Kimberly Название: Best Practice ISBN: 1478000880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478000884 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4383.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.
In Best Practice Kimberly Chong provides an ethnography of a global management consultancy that has been hired by Chinese companies, including Chinese state-owned enterprises. She shows how consulting emerges as a crucial site for considering how corporate organization, employee performance, business ethics, and labor have been transformed under financialization. To date financialization has been examined using top-down approaches that portray the rise of finance as a new logic of economic accumulation. Best Practice, by contrast, focuses on the everyday practices and narratives through which companies become financialized. Effective management consultants, Chong finds, incorporate local workplace norms and assert their expertise in the particular terms of China's national project of modernization, while at the same time framing their work in terms of global “best practices.” Providing insight into how global management consultancies refashion Chinese state-owned enterprises in preparation for stock market flotation, Chong demonstrates both the dynamic, fragmented character of financialization and the ways in which Chinese state capitalism enables this process.
Описание: In the age of globalization, the transnational dimension of sciences like medicine seems to be given. However, the agents connecting different parts of this transnational biomedical landscape have yet to receive their due attention. Situated at the intersection of contemporary debates as well as theories of medical anthropology and migration in the 21st century, this book explores the experiences of Nigerian trained physicians who migrated to the US and the UK within the last 40 years. By drawing on individual professional life stories, Judith Sch hle illuminates how these physicians disconnect from and (re)connect to diverse local social and biomedical contexts, becoming established abroad while at the same time trying to influence health care services in Nigeria through transnational endeavors.
Описание: This book explores how best practice for acute stroke care was developed, translated and taken up in medical practice across various sites in the province of Ontario using institutional ethnographic research.
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