Edges of Global Transformation

Ethnographies of Uncertainty
Herausgeber: Aspen, Harald; Larsen, Anne Kathrine; Fyhn, Håkon

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic studies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, this book explores the edges of the global transformative forces that are associated with the neoliberal order of today. At the edge, the situation is characterized by uncertainty, despair, hope, and vulnerability as old social patterns are consumed and new emerge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781498584074
• ISBN-10: 1498584071
• Artikelnr.: 53018973

Autorenporträt

Edited by Håkon Fyhn; Harald Aspen and Anne Kathrine Larsen - Foreword by Nigel Rapport - Contributions by Harald Aspen; Bjørn Arntsen; Marianna Betti; Astrid Blystad; Håkon Fyhn; Liv Haram; Siri Lange; Anne Kathrine Larsen; Dorcas Mfaume; Martin Thomasse

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Building Creatures of Uncertainty: Crisis, Storytelling and
Othering in the Norwegian Building Industry by Håkon Fyhn Chapter 2: The
Perfect Subject and its Discontents: Central Europe at a Crossroad by
Martin Thomassen Chapter 3: Protection as a Strategy: The Response of
Bedouin Village Women to the Development of Dubai by Anne Kathrine Larsen
Chapter 4: Localizing Ontologies of Uncertainty in Neoliberal Tanzania by
Liv Haram Chapter 5: Aggravated Uncertainty: The Dubious Influence of a
Modern Management Regime on Lake Chad Fisheries by Bjørn Arntsen Chapter 6:
Vulnerability and Trust: Migrants in Search of a Better Position in Urban
Northern Cameroon by Trond Waage Chapter 7: State, Peasant Society and
Modernization in Ethiopia by Harald Aspen Chapter 8: Globally Designed
Accountability and Local Social Inequality; A Case Study of Two Maternal
Deaths in Tanzania by Siri Lange, Dorcas Mfaume and Astrid Blystad Chapter
9: Well-Being, Healthcare and Development in Turkana: Pre and Post
Devolution by Marianna Betti