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  • Electrifying Anthropology

    Exploring Electrical Practices and Infrastructures

    Edición de Simone Abram, Brit Ross Winthereik, Thomas Yarrow ...
    What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropology and science and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Green Ice

    Tourism Ecologies in the European High North

    Edición de Simone Abram, Katrín Anna Lund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents lively case studies of tourism developments in the European High North from diverse perspectives. It compares views of the changing political ecology of a fragile region shaped by climatic and cultural factors. In exploring the mutual relations between new developments in Arctic travel narratives and tourism practices. Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North pays ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development

    Knowledge and sentiments in conflict

    Edición de Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. All the contributors use rigorous anthropological methods of analysis to shed light on the ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • How to Live Through a Pandemic

    Edición de Simone Abram, Helen Lambert, Jude Robinson ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countries and areas of the ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Tourists and Tourism

    Identifying with People and Places

    Edición de Simone Abram, Don Macleod, Jackie D. Waldren ...
    Series series Ethnicity and Identity
    The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the connection between individual locations and the world's global markets is an obvious product of tourism, the heart of the tourist experience is the construction of identity: the relation of the traveller to ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Culture and Planning

    de Simone Abram ...
    In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk about culture. This book brings that focus to planning research, examining culture as a socio ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Rationalities of Planning

    Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing

    de Jonathan Murdoch, Simone Abram ...
    What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK and the rationality of 'sustainable development'. Supported by a wealth of empirical material ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Elusive Promises

    Planning in the Contemporary World

    Edición de Simone Abram, Gisa Weszkalnys ...
    Series Libro 11 - Dislocations
    Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning offers, how such a promise is made, and what happens to it through time. The authors, all leading ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Ethnographies of Power

    A Political Anthropology of Energy

    Edición de Simone Abram, Nathalie Ortar, Tristan Loloum ...
    Series Libro 42 - EASA Series
    Energy related infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power. Revisiting classic ... Leer más

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  • Landscapes

    Ways of Imagining the World

    de Hilary P.M. Winchester ...
    Series series Insights Into Human Geography
    Landscapes is a timely and well-written analysis of the meaning of cultural landscapes. The book delves into the layers of meaning that are invested in ordinary landscapes as well as landscapes of spectacle and power. Landscapes is a powerful and vivid application of the new cultural geography to case studies not previously visited within cultural geography texts. ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Slum Tourism

    Poverty, Power and Ethics

    Edición de Fabian Frenzel, Ko Koens, Malte Steinbrink ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Global North, for example in Victorian London when the upper classes toured the East End. What is new, however, is its ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Heritage and Identity

    Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World

    Edición de Marta Anico, Elsa Peralta ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continents and cultures.This collection of thought-provoking articles from experts in the field captures the richness and ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD