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  • Not by Faith Alone

    Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-Based Organizations in the United States

    by Janet Bauer, Janet G. Brashler, Andrea Chivakos, Scott T. Fitzgerald, William Garriott, Lance D. Laird, Katherine Lambert-Pennington, Isaac Morrison, Leah Mundell, Julie Pfromm, Laura Polk, Timoteo Rodriguez, Jo Anne Schneider, Ethan P. Sharp, Wendy Cadge ...
    This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Addiction Trajectories

    Edited by Eugene Raikhel, William Garriott ...
    Series series Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
    Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal addiction ministries in Puerto Rico, the essays are linked by the contributors' attention to the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Anthropology of Police

    Edited by William Garriott, Kevin Karpiak ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    What are the potential contributions of anthropology to the study of police? Even beyond the methodological particularities and geographic breadth of cultural anthropology, there are a set of conceptual and analytical traditions that have much to bring to broader scholarship in police studies.Including original and international contributions from both senior and emerging scholars, this pioneering ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Policing and Contemporary Governance

    The Anthropology of Police in Practice

    Edited by William Garriott ...
    What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world. ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Policing Methamphetamine

    Narcopolitics in Rural America

    by William Garriott ...
    In its steady march across the United States, methamphetamine has become, to quote former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, “the most dangerous drug in America.” As a result, there has been a concerted effort at the local level to root out the methamphetamine problem by identifying the people at its source—those known or suspected to be involved with methamphetamine. Government-sponsored anti ... Read more

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  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

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  • Writing the World of Policing

    The Difference Ethnography Makes

    Edited by Didier Fassin ...
    As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Critical Ethnic Studies

    A Reader

    by Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective ...
    Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rise Up/Fight Back

    Selected Writings of an Antipsychiatry Activist

    by Don Weitz ...
    The book features a radical perspective on psychiatry and the “mental health system” informed by an antipsychiatry perspective and anti-oppression analysis. In the Introduction, antipsychiatry is defined as active and radical resistance to psychiatry - antipsychiatry is not an intellectual or “academic exercise.” The book deconstructs psychiatry as a social control system.. As social control, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights

    A Comprehensive Guide

    Edited by Livia Holden ...
    Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies.Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural expertise: its ... Read more

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  • Unbroken Brain

    A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

    by Maia Szalavitz ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMore people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment ... Read more

    $12.99 USD