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  • Morality, Crisis and Capitalism

    Anthropology for Troubled Times

    Edited by Jean-Paul Baldacchino, Jon P. Mitchell ...
    'May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Morality, Crisis and Capitalism

    Anthropology for Troubled Times

    Edited by Jon P. Mitchell, Jean-Paul Baldacchino ...
    'May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity - troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Ritual, Performance and the Senses

    Edited by Michael Bull, Jon P. Mitchell ...
    Series series Sensory Studies
    Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants. Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ritual, Performance and the Senses

    Edited by Jon P. Mitchell, Michael Bull ...
    Series series Sensory Studies Series
    Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants.Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Ethnographic Practice in the Present

    Edited by Marit Melhuus, Jon P. Mitchell, Helena Wulff ...
    Series Book 11 - EASA Series
    In its assessment of the current "state of play" of ethnographic practice in social anthropology, this volume explores the challenges that changing social forms and changing understandings of "the field" pose to contemporary ethnographic methods. These challenges include the implications of the remarkable impact social anthropology is having on neighboring disciplines such as history, sociology, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Human Rights in Global Perspective

    Anthropological Studies of Rights, Claims and Entitlements

    Edited by Jon P. Mitchell, Richard A. Wilson ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities?Human Rights in a Global Perspective develops a social ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Ambivalent Europeans

    Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta

    by Jon P. Mitchell ...
    Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell identifies a profound ambivalence towards Europe, and also more broadly to the key processes of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Global and Local Football

    Politics and Europeanization on the Fringes of the EU

    by Gary Armstrong, Jon P. Mitchell ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game?Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of contemporary football. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Culture

    by John Tomlinson ...
    Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.The book starts with an analysis of the relationship between the globalization process and contemporary culture change and goes on to relate this to ... Read more

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  • Sociology

    An Introductory Textbook and Reader

    by Daniel Nehring, Ken Plummer ...
    This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education

    Dangerous Words and Discourses of Possibility

    Edited by Spyros Themelis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics.Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors, this text offers a critical examination of key terms which have become increasingly central to educational discourse. Each essay considers the etymological ... Read more

    $57.99 USD