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Family Ties
Based on the CBS television series. One of the most beloved television families of the 1980s takes to the stage. Twenty years have passed and Alex P. Keaton, now running for Congress, returns to his parents’ Columbus home with his sisters, Mallory and Jennifer, who are parents of their own. Gathered together once again, they relive some of the most important moments from their childhood—the growing pains, heartbreaks, and reconciliations—with fondness and appreciation for simpler times that defined a generation.
Outlawed
An ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden, marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security.
Owners of the Sidewalk
Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent stall vendors (fijos) and its illegal and itinerant street and sidewalk vendors (ambulantes), Goldstein shows how the state's deliberate neglect and criminalization of the Cancha's poor—a practice common to neoliberal modern cities—makes the poor exploitable, governable, and consigns them to an insecure existence. Goldstein's collaborative and engaged approach to ethnographic field research also opens up critical questions about what ethical scholarship entails.
Processing the Mafia
It's 1990, the verge of the technical revolution. Paul Kritt, a quiet computer programmer for a prominent Boston bank is tired of being taken for granted and passed over for promotions. When opportunity presents itself, Kritt seeks revenge and self-satisfaction by wiping the bank of all its assets. But entering the world of bank robbers requires getting in bed with some dangerous characters. Can he stay one step ahead of the Mafia and the FBI long enough to enjoy his booty?
Decolonizing Ethnography
In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos García and López Juárez transformed the project's activist and academic dimensions. In so doing, they offer a guide for those wishing to expand the potential of ethnography to serve as a means for social transformation and decolonization.
Violent Democracies in Latin America
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of violence contrasts starkly with governmental efforts to extend civil, political, and legal rights to all citizens, and it is invoked as evidence of the failure of Latin American countries to achieve true democracy. The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a so...
The Romanov Star
When private investigator Justin Wade takes on socialite Susan Berns as a client, he doesn't anticipate falling in love or jumping deep into a murder investigation. Originally hired to find Susan's missing husband and jewelry, he discovers one piece is the famous Romanov Star, designed by Peter the Great and among the missing jewels the famous Romanovs owned at the time they were murdered. The investigation volleys between Naples, Florida and the Boston suburb of Revere, Massachusetts. Along with Wade, Russians and wealthy jewelry collectors are hot on the trail of the necklace and will go to any extent to get their hands on it before he does. Fraught with deception, theft and murder, the story keeps readers in suspense from page one to the end.
