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  • Audit Culture

    How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

    by Cris Shore, Susan Wright ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘A new and compelling argument for why so many institutions continue to be spellbound by rankings and metrics – despite the cultural carnage they cause. How can we halt this “death by audit”? The authors develop a radical agenda that will strike fear into number-loving technocrats around the world’ Peter Fleming, author of Dark Academia: How Universities Die‘A powerful and definitive critical ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corruption

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Dieter Haller, Cris Shore ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective - it shows how anthropology can throw light on aspects of corruption that remain unexamined in international ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Compliance, Defiance, and ‘Dirty’ Luxury

    New Perspectives on Anti-Corruption in Elite Contexts

    Edited by Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Jardar Østbø, Cris Shore ...
    This book interrogates the transnational field of (anti-)corruption and elite crime. Using the lens of luxury, art, and antiquities, the contributors reconceptualize the driving dialectics of corruption and anti-corruption. Compliance, Defiance and 'Dirty' Luxury brings together scholars across criminology, anthropology, sociology, and the humanities to tackle these dialectics from different ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Europe

    Identities and Boundaries in Conflict

    Edited by Cris Shore, Victoria A. Goddard, Josep R. Llobera ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation. Their aim is to suggest an agenda for future research capable of addressing developing trends in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Crown and Constitutional Reform

    Edited by Cris Shore, Sally Raudon, David V Williams ...
    The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries.The constitutional foundation of many Commonwealth countries is the Crown, an icon of ultimate authority, at once familiar yet curiously enigmatic. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Policy

    Perspectives on Governance and Power

    Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Building Europe

    The Cultural Politics of European Integration

    by Cris Shore ...
    The development of the European Union has been one of the most profound advances in European politics and society this century. Yet the institutions of Europe and the 'Eurocrats' who work in them have constantly attracted negative publicity, culminating in the mass resignation of the European Commissioners in March 1999. In this revealing study, Cris Shore scrutinises the process of European ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Shapeshifting Crown

    Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

    Edited by Cris Shore, David V. Williams ...
    The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology

    Edited by Richard Fardon, Oliva Harris, Cris Shore, Veronica Strang, Mark Nuttall, Trevor H J Marchand, Richard A Wilson ...
    In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential ... Read more

    $300.59 USD

  • Death of the Public University?

    Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

    Edited by Susan Wright, Cris Shore ...
    Series Book 3 - Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and Policies
    Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Up Close and Personal

    On Peripheral Perspectives and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge

    Edited by Cris Shore, Susanna Trnka ...
    Series Book 25 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how ‘peripheral perspectives’ can help re-shape the discipline ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Policy Worlds

    Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power

    Edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright, Davide Però ...
    Series Book 14 - EASA Series
    There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This ... Read more

    $21.89 USD