Автор: Berberoglu, Berch, Название: America after empire : ISBN: 1032222832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032222837 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5384 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examining the worldwide expansion of the American Empire over the course of its turbulent history in great detail, Berberoglu assesses America`s imperial legacy - highlighting its failure to come to terms with the enormous cost of this adventure in imperial overreach. But Berberoglu sees light at the end of the long, dark tunnel.
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one’s capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.
Автор: Glynn Cochrane Название: Anthropology in the Mining Industry ISBN: 331950309X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319503097 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book outlines how Rio Tinto-one of the world`s largest miners-redesigned and rebuilt relationships with communities after the rejection of the company during Bougainville`s Civil War.
Автор: Leese Peter, Crouthamel Jason Название: Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After ISBN: 3319815210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319815213 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on diverse methodologies, including oral history, and use varied sources such as literature, film and the broadcast media. The contributions discuss imaginative, communal and political responses, as well as the ways in which the later welfare of traumatized individuals is shaped by medical, military, and civilian institutions. Incorporating innovative methodologies and offering a thorough evaluation of current research, the book shows new directions in historical trauma studies.
Автор: Goodman Robin Truth Название: Gender Work ISBN: 1137381191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137381194 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance and shown that feminist theory must reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing representations of how the symbolic power of gender is in the service of neoliberal practices.
Автор: Rieger Joerg Название: Religion, Theology, and Class ISBN: 113735142X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137351425 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This important collection of essays addresses the question of why scholars can no longer do without class in religious studies and theology, and what we can learn from a renewed engagement with the topic. This volume discusses what new discourses regarding notions of gender, ethnicity, and race might add to developments on notions of class.
Описание: Examines gender as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon which is influential in and influenced by state-led policies and structures, as well as social practices and relations and which shapes the experiences and lives of women and men. This book explores the pivotal nature of the demise of the communist regimes.
Автор: Mususa, Patience Название: There used to be order ISBN: 0472054996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472054992 Издательство: Eurospan Рейтинг: Цена: 3754 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Examines social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the re-privatization of the large state mining conglomerate. Based on three years of ethnographic research, the book examines life for those living in difficult economic circumstances, and considers the tension between the life they live and the nature of an `extractive area`.
Self-sufficiency of the house is practiced in many parts of the world but ignored in economic theory, just as socialist collectivization is assumed to have brought household self-sufficiency to an end. The ideals of self-sufficiency, however, continue to shape economic activity in a wide range of postsocialist settings. This volume's six comparative studies of postsocialist villages in Eastern Europe and Asia illuminate the enduring importance of the house economy, which is based not on the market but on the order of the house. These formations show that economies depend not only on the macro institutions of markets and states but also on the micro institutions of families, communities, and house economies, often in an uneasy relationship.
Автор: Touaf Larbi, Boutkhil Soumia, Nasri Chourouq Название: North African Women After the Arab Spring: In the Eye of the Storm ISBN: 3319842765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319842769 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, the contributors discuss a host of questions related to women and gender in the Arab world and address the broader question of why women`s efforts and momentum during the revolution did not seem to pay off the same way they did for men.
Автор: Pedersen, Morten Axel Название: Not quite shamans ISBN: 0801449103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801449109 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 18533 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past.For much of the twentieth century, Mongolia's communist rulers attempted to eradicate shamanism and the shamans who once served as spiritual guides and community leaders. With the transition from a collectivized economy and a one-party state to a global capitalist market and liberal democracy in the 1990s, the people of the Shishged were plunged into a new and harsh world that seemed beyond their control. "Not-quite-shamans"—young, unemployed men whose undirected energies erupted in unpredictable, frightening bouts of violence and drunkenness that seemed occult in their excess— became a serious threat to the fabric of community life. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Northern Mongolia, Pedersen details how, for many Darhads, the postsocialist state itself has become shamanic in nature.In the ideal version of traditional Darhad shamanism, shamans can control when and for what purpose their souls travel, whether to other bodies, landscapes, or worlds. Conversely, caught between uncontrollable spiritual powers and an excessive display of physical force, the "not-quite-shamans" embody the chaotic forms—the free market, neoliberal reform, and government corruption—that have created such upheaval in peoples' lives. As an experimental ethnography of recent political and economic transformations in Mongolia through the defamiliarizing prism of shamans and their lack, Not Quite Shamans is an attempt to write about as well as theorize postsocialism, and shamanism, in a new way.
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