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  • Power and Its Disguises

    Anthropological Perspectives on Politics

    de John Gledhill ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions.Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Actors in War and Peace

    Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics

    Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact with states and each other. It explores the identities, organization, strategies and influence of transnational actors involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking.While the study of ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • World Anthropologies in Practice

    Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge

    Edición de John Gledhill ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology’s eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the subject’s ... Leer más

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  • Neoliberalism, Transnationalization and Rural Poverty

    A Case Study of Michoacán, Mexico

    de John Gledhill ...
    Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking on neoliberal economic reforms that tackled some of the shibboleths of the Mexican revolutionary tradition and for its supposedly astute political management of change. This book offers a more critical understanding of the e ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The New War on the Poor

    The Production of Insecurity in Latin America

    de John Gledhill ...
    When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects a new kind of stigmatization.The New War on the Poor links the experiences of labour migrants crossing Latin America's international borders, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

    Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if ... Leer más

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  • World Anthropologies in Practice

    Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge

    Edición de John Gledhill ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology's eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the subject's ... Leer más

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  • Disputas em torno do espaço urbano

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    A publicação é resultado de uma série de textos que dão conta de processos sociais que têm efeitos sobre os modos como as pessoas vivem na cidade. Seus organizadores propõem o fomento de discussões em torno de temas como as perspectivas históricas sobre o processo urbano no Brasil, o acesso ao espaço público e a securitização do espaço urbano e o acesso de diferentes atores sociais aos espaços da ... Leer más

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  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

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  • International Security

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