Название: Anthropologies and futures ISBN: 1474264875 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474264877 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kirby Vicki Название: Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large ISBN: 0822350734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822350736 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derrida’s claim that there is “no outside of text,” Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access—much less be—nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.
Автор: Paolo Heywood Название: New Anthropologies of Italy: Politics, History and Culture ISBN: 1805395858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781805395850 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16949.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.
Finalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist Anthropology Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America’s growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. In The New American Servitude, Coe demonstrates how these workers often struggle to find a sense of political and social belonging. They are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of power—and effectively turned into servants—at the hands of other members of the care worker network, including clients and their relatives, agency staff, and even other care workers. Low pay, a lack of benefits, and a lack of stable employment, combined with a lack of appreciation for their efforts, often alienate them, so that many come to believe that they cannot lead valuable lives in the United States. While jobs are a means of acculturating new immigrants, African care workers don’t tend to become involved or politically active. Many plan to leave rather than putting down roots in the US. Offering revealing insights into the dark side of a burgeoning economy, The New American Servitude carries serious implications for the future of labor and justice in the care work industry.
Название: Anthropologies of cancer in transnational worlds ISBN: 0815346476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815346470 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Original empirical essays from across the globe demonstrate how the study of cancer promotes theoretical understandings of the politics and pragmatics of suffering, and offers insights into the meanings of survivorship, risk, charity and care in transnational contexts.
Автор: Wood, Donald C. Название: Ogata-mura ISBN: 1785330446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785330445 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village’s purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura’s development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village’s economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.
Автор: Anderson Levitt Kathryn M Название: Anthropologies of Education ISBN: 1782380574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782380573 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.
Название: World Anthropologies in Practice ISBN: 1474252613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474252614 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results
Imagine that you are testing the safety and efficacy of an experimental drug in what is called a Phase I trial. The only direct benefit to you of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175 for completing the study. If you choose to enroll, you must spend twenty consecutive nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you sign up for this kind of test?
This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in residential research clinics across the United States and 268 interviews with both volunteers and staff, Jill A. Fisher finds that decisions to enroll in such medical studies are often influenced by poverty, a history of incarceration, or being a member of a minority group who faces social and economic inequalities, and so has limited options for income. She shows that the healthy people who participate in Phase I clinical trials are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities and that they are often serial participants who obtain a significant portion of their income from being included in such clinical trials.
Adverse Events thus shows how social inequality fundamentally shapes Phase I trials. Moreover, it shows that participants, in their quest to continue to be picked for inclusion and maintain their income from such trials, form their daily habits in an effort to stay healthy enough to continue to qualify. But in actually improving their health to ensure that they are model volunteers--or in sometimes skirting rules about how long to wait in between trials by moving from clinic to clinic--these serial participants can end up affecting the validity of the trials themselves.
From the often desperate circumstances of serial study participants, to the very validity of these trial results, Fisher explores the social inequalities and less-than-trustworthy findings of medical research in which nearly everybody involved is incentivized to game the system. Adverse Events provides an unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing, signaling the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.
Автор: Vicki Kirby Название: Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large ISBN: 0822350556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822350552 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derrida’s claim that there is “no outside of text,” Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access—much less be—nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.
Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results
Imagine that you are testing the safety and efficacy of an experimental drug in what is called a Phase I trial. The only direct benefit to you of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175 for completing the study. If you choose to enroll, you must spend twenty consecutive nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you sign up for this kind of test?
This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in residential research clinics across the United States and 268 interviews with both volunteers and staff, Jill A. Fisher finds that decisions to enroll in such medical studies are often influenced by poverty, a history of incarceration, or being a member of a minority group who faces social and economic inequalities, and so has limited options for income. She shows that the healthy people who participate in Phase I clinical trials are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities and that they are often serial participants who obtain a significant portion of their income from being included in such clinical trials.
Adverse Events thus shows how social inequality fundamentally shapes Phase I trials. Moreover, it shows that participants, in their quest to continue to be picked for inclusion and maintain their income from such trials, form their daily habits in an effort to stay healthy enough to continue to qualify. But in actually improving their health to ensure that they are model volunteers--or in sometimes skirting rules about how long to wait in between trials by moving from clinic to clinic--these serial participants can end up affecting the validity of the trials themselves.
From the often desperate circumstances of serial study participants, to the very validity of these trial results, Fisher explores the social inequalities and less-than-trustworthy findings of medical research in which nearly everybody involved is incentivized to game the system. Adverse Events provides an unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing, signaling the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.
Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across the country were brought to settle there. The village was to be a model of a new breed of highly mechanized, efficient rice agriculture; however, the village’s purpose was jeopardized when the demand for rice fell, and the goal of creating an egalitarian farming community was threatened as individual entrepreneurialism took root and as the settlers became divided into political factions that to this day continue to struggle for control of the village. Based on seventeen years of research, this book explores the process of Ogatamura’s development from the planning stages to the present. An intensive ethnographic study of the relationship between land reclamation, agriculture, and politics in regional Japan, it traces the internal social effects of the village’s economic transformations while addressing the implications of national policy at the municipal and regional levels.
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