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French London
A blended ethnography of a migrant city
By Saskia Huc-Hepher
Who are the people that make up London's French community and why did they choose to leave France and settle in London? How is 'Frenchness' played out in physical and digital diasporic spaces? ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4333-4
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Neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal
By Patrícia Alves de Matos
Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With its endless rows of small cubicles, where human ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3498-1
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Buy NowEnvironment, labour and capitalism at sea
'Working the ground' in Scotland
By Penny McCall Howard
This book explores how fishers make the sea productive through their labour, using technologies ranging from wooden boats to digital GPS plotters to create familiar places in a seemingly hostile ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4369-3
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Buy NowInto the woods
An epistemography of climate change
By Meritxell Ramírez-i-Ollé
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. For four ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4098-2
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Buy NowImmersion
Marathon swimming, embodiment and identity
By Karen Throsby
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3961-0
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Buy NowExoticisation undressed
Ethnographic nostalgia and authenticity in Emberá clothes
By Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
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 ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3458-5
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Buy NowAn ethnography of NGO practice in India
Utopias of development
By Stewart Allen
Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9299-6
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£85.00
Buy NowLiving displacement
The loss and making of place in Colombia
By Mateja Celestina
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 ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0873-9
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Buy NowFactories for learning
Making race, class and inequality in the neoliberal academy
By Christy Kulz
Over half of England's secondary schools are now academies. While their impact on achievement has been debated, the social and cultural outcomes prompted by this neoliberal educational model has ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1619-2
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Buy NowOccupational health and social estrangement in China
By Wing-Chung Ho
This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1361-0
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