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40 Years in the Desert
"A decade after James Horrox's pioneering work A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement, Merlin Becskey presents an engaging and well-written case study of a kibbutz trying to realise anarchist principles. Based on field research and interviews at kibbutz Samar, located in Israel's far south, Becskey provides valuable insight into an unlikely project under unlikely circumstances." — Gabriel Kuhn, editor and translator of All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, Liberating Society from the State and Other Writings by Erich Mühsam, and Revolution and Other Writings by Gustav Landauer "In Samar, communal organisation and individual desire form a tense bond, worked out every day. It may be the last refuge of the free spirit that animated the earliest Kibbutz groups, where everything depends on people." — Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive! and Anarchy, State and Revolution
The Multi-Sided Ethnographer
As ethnographic fieldwork blurs the boundaries between ›private‹ and ›professional‹ life, ethnographers always appear to be on duty, looking out for valuable encounters and waiting for the next moment of disclosure. Yet what lies in the gaps and pauses of fieldwork? The contributions in this volume dedicated to anthropologist Martin Sökefeld explore methodological and ethical dimensions of multi-sided ethnographic research. Based on diverse cases ranging from hobbies over kinship ties to political activism, the contributors show how personal relationships, passions and commitments drive ethnographers in and beyond research, shaping the knowledge they create together with others.
Debt, Trust and Reputation
Combining history and ethnography, it traces the evolution of extra-legality in modern Indian finance and its socioeconomic ramifications.
Behind The Bridge
After offering the reader the general context of Tibetan forced migration to India evoking Tibetan history, culture, the book looks closely at different methodologies using images. Classic ethnographic tools, such as film or relatively new methods, like photovoice or self-picturing are compared. The study sits at the crossroads of social science disciplines, such as history, ethnography, and geography and is based on original field research conducted in India since 2008. Majnu Ka Tilla is the name of the Tibetan colony in New Delhi and the preferential location of an experimental study related to memory and the spatial features of memory. The bridge is an ethnic frontier and a memorial urban point of reference creating the spatial memory. This publication is the result of years of experimental methodology using fixed and moving images with the Tibetan diaspora in India.
The Aesthetics of Development
Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) and development, creating both a bridge between them that is rarely explored and filling in concrete ways the content of the “culture” part of the equation “culture and development”. It includes manifestations of culture and the ways in which they relate to development, and in turn contribute to such pressing issues as poverty alleviation, concern for the environment, health, empowerment, and identity formation. It shows how the arts are an essential part of the concrete understanding of culture, and as such a significant part of development thinking - including the development of culture, and not only of culture as an instrumental means to promote other development goals.
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Rupien in der Dollar-Zone
Als Prozess und Medium gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe ist Geld vielerorts mit Wandel, Macht und Transformation verbunden. Der Gebrauch und die Zirkulation von Geld spiegeln indes auch tiefgreifende Aspekte von Tradition und fortlaufende Prozesse gesellschaftlicher Reproduktion wider. Der Band beschreibt Geschichte, Gegenwart und Kultur des Geldes in den südindischen Nilgiri mit Blick auf die dort lebenden Badaga. Ursprungsmythen, Dorfgründungen und Ahnenkulte, Kolonisation, ethnographische Repräsentation und Globalisierung, Markt, Gemeinschaft und Identität, Liebe, Religion und Ökonomie, Sozialstruktur und finanzielle Landschaften werden zur Geschichte eines "lokalen Geldes" verknüpft - ein Geld der Tat, des Geistes und der Erinnerung.
Intimate Connections
Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.
Think Tanks, Silicon Valley und 'flüchtige Überwachung'
Den Verlaufsformen, der 'Performanz' des Neoliberalismus kann nach wie vor starke Dominanz attestiert werden, wenngleich Formen und 'Quantität' (globale Durchdringung) je nach Region oder Land differieren. Im vorliegenden Band sind Studien vereint, die zentrale neoliberale Prozesse aus ethnologischen, also diverse Kontexte einbeziehenden Perspektiven angehen. Damit geht es nicht nur um Auswirkungen neoliberalen Handelns in bestimmten Regionen, sondern auch um die Sache selbst und ihre ursächlichen Akteure. Die Aufsätze zeigen zentrale Sachbereiche des Neoliberalismus auf, problematisieren, analysieren und nehmen kritische Haltungen ein. Manche können der historischen Anthropologie zugeordnet werden, andere wiederum der 'aktivistischen ' Ethnologie, wobei grundsätzlich Analyse und Interpretation eine wesentliche Rolle spielen.
