E-book Doing Feminist Urban Research (Insights from the GenUrb Project)

Doing Feminist Urban Research introduces the reader to the newly emerging 21st-century global landscape of feminist urban research. It showcases decolonising practices, partnerships and teamwork, new standards such as EDI, geo-ethnographic methodologies, software-enhanced qualitative data analysis, and knowledge mobilisation. This book delves into both the institutional and lived realities of t…

E-book Values of Happiness: Toward an Anthropology of Purpose in Life

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging h…

E-book Sport, Forced Migration and the 'Refugee Crisis'

The tabloid newspaper Bild portrayed the rise of Bakery Jatta as a professional football player with almost fan-alike admiration. The word ‘fairy tale’ was widely used to describe the sport career of this young Gambian, who migrated to Europe in 2015 in the context of the ‘refugee crisis’ and rapidly made a name for himself in one of the world’s top football leagues. Within just…

E-book Halal Development: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges: Proceedings o…

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E-book Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia

Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia in a conflict pitting Muslims against Christians. A manifestation of the extreme perception that emerged amidst the uncertainty and challenge to seeing brought on by urban warfare, the street paintings e…

E-book Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction

In this Very Short Introduction, Ali Rattansi provides a balanced assessment of what's true and what's false about multiculturalism. Rattansi provides a useful definition of the word "multiculturalism" and he looks at how the term is used--and misused--in political debate, public policy, and within the educational arena, presenting a balanced and comprehensive view of all the opinions surroundi…

E-book Why We Play : An Anthropological Study

Always contextualize. Always historicize. Always focus on the particular and the specific. These have become basic mantras in cultural anthropology, as well as the humanities in general. And with these mantras have come a deep suspi-cion of wide-ranging comparative studies, and in particular a deep suspicion of the general categories that undergird such comparative work. Terms like myt…

E-book Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

ocial and behavioral scientists have tended to focus on young people’suse of (both legal and illegal) psychoactive and addictive substances,largely ignoring their use of other kinds of chemicals. There are fourbroad trends in this body of research: one set of studies defines substanceuse as risky behavior, something that needs to be prevented by under-standing the determinants of use. These s…

E-book The Funeral of Mr. Wang : Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Mr. Wang died of cancer at the Nanjing Municipal Hospital of Chinese Medicine during the wee hours of the morning on December 14, 2014. He was eighty-four years old and had been at the hospital for almost two weeks. Before coming to the hospital, he saw a series of doctors about pain in his legs and hips, but checked into the hospital when the pain increased. About five days before his death, a…

E-book Boundary Struggles : Contestations of Free Speech in the Norwegian Pub…

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right and conside-red a core value in liberal democracies. However, it is also one of our time’s most contested issues, constantly claimed either to be too wide-ranging, allowing continuous repression of minority groups, or too limited – restricting dissent and democratic deli-beration. In this book we depart from conventional approaches to fr…