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Shock and Awe
Do words sometimes betray you, leaving you a stranger in your own land? Words can be brutal, frustrating, and exhausting. Consider terrorism, civilization, and even peace, family, and security. Words can also be bridges to new forms of experience and openings for alliance. This book explores the political trajectories of words through pictures, excerpts, stories and exegesis about the politics of the present global situation. Scholars, artists, activists and poets have joined forces to offer alternative etymologies, genealogies, fragments of everyday life, and glimpses of social history as a form of defence and defiance in an escalating war on words. - from the introduction. Words are provided by a stellar cast, including Lain Boal, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Jonathan Fox, Lisbeth Haas, Sven Lindquist, Helene Moglen, Goenawan Mohamad, Adrienne Rich, Alix Kates Shulman, Yasushi Uchiyamada and dozens more.
The Insecure American
Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation's possible future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the contributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets of American life to map the impact of the new economy, the "war on terror," the "war on drugs," racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocumented immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more. In laying out a range of views on the forces that unsettle us, The Insecure American demonstrates the singular power of an anthropological perspective for grasping the impact of corporate profit on democratic life, charting the links between policy and vulnerability, and envisioning alternatives to life as an insecure American.
The Emotional Politics of Racism
With stop-and-frisk laws, new immigration policies, and cuts to social welfare programs, majorities in the United States have increasingly supported intensified forms of punishment and marginalization against Black, Latino, Arab and Muslim people in the United States, even as a majority of citizens claim to support "colorblindness" and racial equality. With this book, Paula Ioanide examines how emotion has prominently figured into these contemporary expressions of racial discrimination and violence. How U.S. publics dominantly feel about crime, terrorism, welfare, and immigration often seems to trump whatever facts and evidence say about these politicized matters. Though four case studies—...
The Philosophical Animal
Humans are animals who fictionalize other animals to asse their "humanness." We are philosophical animals who philosophize about our humanity by projecting images onto a mirror about other animals. Spanning literature, philosophy, and ethics, the thread uniting The Philosophical Animal is the bestiary and how it continues to inform our imaginings. Beginning with an exploration of animals and women in the literary work of Coetzee, famous for his book on the Lives of Animals, Eduardo Mendieta then dives into the genre of bestiaries in order to investigate the relation between humanity and animality. From there he approaches the works of Derrida and Habermas from the standpoint of genetic engineering and animal studies. While we have intensely modified many species genetically, we have not done this to ourselves. Why? Finally, Mendieta deals with the political and ethical implications suggested by this question before ending on an autobiographical note about growing up around so-called animals, and in particular horses.
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity
We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of figures that populate the social and cultural imaginaries of contemporary Southeast Asia—some familiar only in specific places, others recognizable across the region and even globally. It puts forward a series of ethnographic portraits of figures that represent and give voice to something larger than themselves, offering a view into social life that is at once highly particular and general. They include the Muslim Television Preacher in Indon...
Biographische Verknüpfungen
Als sozialwissenschaftliches Konzept ist Biographie für empirische Forschung und Theoriebildung in verschiedenen Disziplinen relevant, aber auch für die Verknüpfung zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis in Erziehung und Bildung, sozialer Arbeit oder Pflege. Bettina Dausien hat mit ihren empirischen, theoretischen und methodologischen Beiträgen die Biographieforschung sowohl in der Erziehungswissenschaft als auch in der Soziologie über Jahrzehnte hinweg wesentlich mitgestaltet. Die zentralen Gegenstände ihrer Arbeit sind Bildung und Sozialisation, Bildungsbiographien und biographisches Wissen sowie Verhältnisse sozialer Ungleichheit, insbesondere im Bereich der Geschlechterforschung. Die in diesem Band versammelten Texte knüpfen auf unterschiedliche Weise an ihre Arbeit und diese Themen an, führen angefangene Überlegungen weiter und leisten damit zugleich einen Beitrag zu aktuellen Debatten in der Biographieforschung und darüber hinaus.
