Up, Down, and Sideways (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
Redaktion: Stryker, Rachael; Gon, Roberto J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using a "vertical slice" approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions-from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782384021
• Artikelnr.: 41213431

Autorenporträt

Rachael Stryker is Assistant Professor in the department of Human Development and Women's Studies at California State University, East Bay. Her work comparatively explores emotion socialization, with a focus on attachment formation and representation, and her publications include The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family (Cornell, 2010), as well as articles for the Childhood, International Migration and Children and Youth Services Review journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Laura Nader
Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What's at Stake?
Roberto J. González and Rachael Stryker
PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER
Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S.
Bankruptcy Legal Practice
Linda Coco
Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998
Jay Ou
Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour
Organisation
Ellen Hertz
PART II: STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE
Chapter 4. On Dispossession: The Work of Studying Up, Down, and Sideways in
Guatemala's Indigenous Land
Rights Movements
Liza Grandia
Chapter 5. On Food: Manufacturing Food Insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico
Roberto J. González
Chapter 6. On Environment: The "Broker State," Peruvian Hydrocarbons
Policy, and the Camisea Gas Project
Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto
PART III: STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES
Chapter 7. On Family: Adoptive Parenting Up, Down, and Sideways
Rachael Stryker
Chapter 8. On Truth: The Repressed Memory Wars from Top to Bottom
Robyn Kliger
Chapter 9. On Common Sense: Lessons on Starting Over from Post-Soviet
Ukraine
Monica Eppinger
Chapter 10. On Caring: Solidarity Anthropology (or, How to Keep Health Care
from Becoming Science Fiction)
Adrienne Pine
On Power: Concluding Comments
Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. González, and Rachael Stryker
Notes on Contributors
References