(Ebook) Ethnography in Unstable Places Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change 1st Edition by Carol J Greenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz, Kay B Warren, Carroll McC Lewin, Robert J Gordon ISBN 0822383489 9780822383482

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ISBN 10: 0822383489 
ISBN 13: 9780822383482
Author: Carol J Greenhouse, Elizabeth Mertz, Kay B Warren, Carroll McC Lewin, Robert J Gordon

Ethnography in Unstable Places is a collection of ethnographic accounts of everyday situations in places undergoing dramatic political transformation. Offering vivid case studies that range from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, Russia, and Southeast Asia, the contributing anthropologists narrate particular circumstances of social and political transformation—in contexts of colonialism, war and its aftermath, social movements, and post–Cold War climates—from the standpoints of ordinary people caught up in and having to cope with the collapse or reconfiguration of the states in which they live. Using grounded ethnographic detail to explore the challenges to the anthropological imagination that are posed by modern uncertainties, the contributors confront the ambiguities and paradoxes that exist across the spectrum of human cultures and geographies. The collection is framed by introductory and concluding chapters that highlight different dimensions of the book’s interrelated themes—agency and ethnographic reflexivity, identity and ethics, and the inseparability of political economy and interpretivism. Ethnography in Unstable Places will interest students and specialists in social anthropology, sociology, political science, international relations, and cultural studies. Contributors. Eve Darian-Smith, Howard J. De Nike, Elizabeth Faier, James M. Freeman, Robert T. Gordon, Carol J. Greenhouse, Nguyen Dinh Huu, Carroll McC. Lewin, Elizabeth Mertz, Philip C. Parnell, Nancy Ries, Judy Rosenthal, Kay B. Warren, Stacia E. Zabusky

(Ebook) Ethnography in Unstable Places Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change 1st Table of contents:

Introduction: Altered States, Altered Lives
Part One
Ghettos in the Holocaust: The Improvisation of Social Order in a Culture of Terror
Nazi Intentionality
Establishment of Ghettos and Judenrate
Lodz Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto
Vilna Ghetto
Rationality and Ambivalence
Conclusion
Notes
Unsettled Settlers: Internal Pacification and Vagrancy in Namibia
Locating the Vagrancy Proclamation within the Legal Panoply
Enforcing the Proclamations
The Nature of the Settler State
Idlers on the Land
Unsettled Settlers: Fear and Loathing in Namibia
Conclusion
Notes
Judges without Courts: The Legal Culture of German Reunification
The Field of Dispossession
An Ethnographic Approach
Normative Conversion
Conclusion
Notes
Part Two
Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes: Following Gyres in the Worlds of Big Science and European Integration
Context: Transnational Processes Reviewed
Conceptualizing Fieldwork: Theoretical Difficulties
Conceptualizing Fieldwork: Practical Difficulties
Executing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Challenges
Practices of Transnationalism: Improvisation and Cynicism
Dreaming of Freedom in the Iron Cage
Notes
The Composite State: The Poor and the Nation in Manila
Don Mariano San Pedro’s Bewildering Legacy
Legal Fission
God and Law
God and Bureaucracy
‘‘The People were All Angry’’
Constructing a Processual Infrastructure
Ironic Growth and Parity
Disputing Up New Alliances
Society as Autonomy
The Morality of Family, State, and Termite
The Composite State
The National Disorder
Notes
Domestic Matters: Feminism and Activism Among Palestinian Women in Israel
Organizations, Activism, and Feminism in Haifa
The Case of Ichlas: Contested Discourses of Honor
Violence in a Demonstration Against Violence
Bringing it Home: The Politics and Place of Domestic Activism
Intimate Spaces
Notes
‘‘Best Interests’’ and the Repatriation of Vietnamese Unaccompanied Minors
Vietnamese Refugees and the Comprehensive Plan of Action
Living in Detention
Nowhere to Return
In Whose Best Interest?
A Preventable Tragedy
Political Uses of Humanitarian Concepts
What Really Happened to the Returnees?
Humane Alternatives
Reconfigured Social Fields
Notes
Part Three
Beating the Bounds: Law, Identity, and Territory in the New Europe
What is Beating the Bounds?
The Region of Kent as Place and Symbol
The Codification of English Law and the Decline of Legal Custom
Beating the Bounds in 1994
Other Local Community Activities
Kent in England
Conclusion
Notes
‘‘Honest Bandits’’ and ‘‘Warped People’’: Russian Narratives About Money, Corruption, and Moral Decay
An ‘‘Honest Bandit’’
Privatization: Views from Within
The Metaphysic of Money
The Dangerous ‘‘Cult of Money’’: Retribution and Redemption
Redemption Through the Mafia
Notes
Trance Against the State
Vodu Practices and Interpretations
Political Context of the Ethnographic Project
Vodu Law and Power
Atikevodu in the Colonial Records
Colonial and Christian Reactions to Atikevodu
Mimesis and Resistance
Conclusion
Notes
Part Four
The Perfidy of Gaze and the Pain of Uncertainty: Anthropological Theory and the Search for Closure
The Pain of Uncertainty and the Search for Closure
Anthropological Accounts of Unstable and Transforming States: In-Between Concepts, Disciplines, and Epistemologies
Fragmented Realities, Structured Truths: The Ethnography of Transforming States
Notes
Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions
Notes
Contributors
Works Cited

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