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The Commons in a Glocal World
This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capi...
The Commons in a Glocal World
This volume focuses on how, in Europe, the debate on the commons is discussed in regard to historical and contemporary dimensions, critically referencing the work of Elinor Ostrom. It also explores from the perspective of new institutional political ecology (NIPE) how Europe directly and indirectly affected and affects the commons globally. Most of the research on the management of commons pool resources is limited to dealing with one of two topics: either the interaction between local participatory governance and development of institutions for commons management, or a political- economy approach that focuses on global change as it is related to the increasingly globalised expansion of capi...
Urban Dreams
Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods, Roth’s work calls into question established notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, documents changing marriage and kinship relations under the impact of a persistent economic crisis, and explores the increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
Anders Wirtschaften - Gespräche mit Leuten, die es versuchen
Spätestens seit der grossen Finanzkrise wächst die Skepsis gegenüber der globalisierten Wirtschaft, die immer mehr Bereiche des individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens, aber auch der Natur, dem kapitalistischen Zwang zur Rendite unterwirft - mit unübersehbaren negativen Folgen für die Verteilungsgerechtigkeit, den sozialen Zusammenhalt und die Umwelt. In diesem Band werden im Gespräch zwischen Forschenden und Praktikern Projekte vorgestellt, die diesen fatalen Zwang zur Rendite zumindest lokal und in kleinem Kreis aufzuheben versuchen: Sie sozialisieren den wirtschaftlichen Austausch über zinslose Währungen (TALENTE Vorarlberg), Zeitguthaben (Zeitvorsorgen St. Gallen und Obwalden) und das Teilen (Mobility) - oder sie gehen noch weiter und heben ihn innerhalb von Kommunen (Niederkaufungen) oder in grösseren Netzwerken (Pappelhof) zugunsten einer Geben und Nehmen trennenden Wirtschaft ganz auf. Die Gespräche zeigen: Sozialer Sinn, Pragmatismus und Lust am Experiment - aber auch Paradoxien und Widersprüche prägen das andere Wirtschaften.
Corruption and the Secret of Law
This volume presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibility of the former already inscribed into the latter. Taking a critical stance towards the normative good governance agenda spearheaded by institutions such as Transparency International and the World Bank, this volume argues that by uncritically depicting corruption as an absolute evil, these anti-corruption programs disregard the close relationship that exists between corruption and state power. Addressing various aspects of a complex and ambivalent phenomenon, Corruption and the Secret of Law draws on studies from different parts of the world including Burundi, China, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico and the USA and provides a valuable resource for students, researchers and policy-makers working in this area.
In Amazonia
The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves a fascinating story that changes our understanding of this region and challenges us to rethink what w...
Entrepreneurship and Family Business
Deals with the issue of entrepreneurship and family business. This title considers the issues, problems, contexts, or processes that make a family firm more entrepreneurial. It covers topics such as the emergence and growth of family businesses, and the use of entrepreneurial policies, practices and strategies by family firms.
The New Era of AIDS
In the mid-1990s new treatment options introduced a new era of AIDS. This book is a sophisticated study of the shaping of this new era. Well informed by ethnographic as well as statistical data, it reveals the complex and ambiguous processes of change in the field of HIV/AIDS and beyond. The investigation leads from the changing conceptions of disease and body to the re-defined roles of patients and physicians, and eventually treats the shifts in the production and diffusion of knowledge that the health care system underwent. In doing so, the book captures the new era of AIDS from multiple perspectives and through the voices of physicians as well as people with HIV. It offers an accessible and engaging account of the wide-ranging responses this illness caused. As an original and timely contribution to questions of considerable currency in medicine and the social sciences, the book meets the interests of specialists, professionals, researchers and students alike.
Ibss: Anthropology: 1996
Provides an unrivelled overview of intellectual development in anthropology.
