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  • Affect, Power, and Institutions

    Edited by Millicent Churcher, Sandra Calkins, Jandra Böttger, Jan Slaby ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Affective Societies
    This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions – theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic.As part of its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of institutional affect. ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan

    Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

    by Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Alsarah, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos0, Nancy Gallagher1, Katarzyna Grabska2, Ellen Gruenbaum3, Asma M. Abdel Halim4, Sara A. Hassanain5, Guma K. Komey6, Amina Alrasheed Nayel7, Margret Otto8, Richard Rottenburg9, Ulrike Schultz0, Pindai Sithole1, Atta El-Battahani2 ...
    This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Who Knows Tomorrow?

    Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan

    by Sandra Calkins ...
    Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its extenuation in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Disrupting Territories

    Land, Commodification & Conflict in Sudan

    Edited by Jörg Gertel, Richard Rottenburg, Sandra Calkins ...
    Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds. Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading"A timely contribution to an important set of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Revisualising Intersectionality

    by Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is ... Read more

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  • Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research

    Edited by Reza Banakar, Dr Max Travers ...
    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    Socio-legal researchers increasingly recognise the need to employ a wide variety of methods in studying law and legal phenomena, and the need to be informed by an understanding of debates about theory and method in mainstream social science. The papers in this volume illustrate how a range of topics, including EU law, ombudsmen, judges, lawyers, Shariah Councils and the quality assurance industry ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • The Spiral of Silence

    New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

    Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati ...
    Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting the interest of scholars from communication, political science, sociology, public opinion and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Design Ethnography

    Epistemology and Methodology

    by Francis Müller ...
    Translated by Anna Brailovsky ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of ... Read more

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross-Cultural Management

    by Jasmin Mahadevan ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of culture and its managerial consequences and taking into account the diversity and multiple identities apparent in cross-cultural management.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional ... Read more

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  • Reflexive Ethnography

    A Guide to Researching Selves and Others

    by Charlotte Aull Davies ...
    Series series The ASA Research Methods
    Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority.Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Research Practice

    Concise Paperback Edition

    Edited by Clive Seale, David Silverman, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    ′This book is jam-packed with a wide range of material related to qualitative research…. [T]his is a quality text and has much to offer the reader, especially the novice researcher′ - Nurse Researcher`This comprehensive collection of almost 40 chapters - each written by a leading expert in the field - is the essential reference for anyone undertaking or studying qualitative research. It covers a ... Read more

    $107.09 USD