Bøger i New Ethnographies serien

The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'. -- .

This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings. -- .

This book introduces the concept of disciplined agency as a valuable explanatory tool vis-a-vis new forms of labour exploitation in service realms of production and the material and moral insecurities of capitalism under neoliberal governance. -- .

This book is a detailed exploration of the working practices of a community of scientists exposed in public, and of the making of scientific knowledge about climate change in Scotland. -- .

This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. -- .

This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- .

Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success -- .

This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Provides insight into the 2008 economic crisis through review of the role of national identities, different styles and ethos of business, tension and unrest prevalent during the merger, and implications for future development within the organisation. -- .

This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun's tumultuous presidency (2003-8). -- .

An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. -- .

This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. -- .

Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- .

Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

A unique ethnographic study of Party political activismExploring how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election.

A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives.

This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It provides a unique ethnographic comparative study of forced displacement and onward migration within the living memory of one community.

This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges.

This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. -- .