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Being Available and Reachable
The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable. Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement transnational social relationships through instantaneous interaction. To capture the different experiences and impressions on the significance of these media in easing communication for migrants and non-migrants, Tazanu draws on ethnographic accounts based on his fieldwork in Freiburg (Germany) and Buea (Cameroon). He argues that it is mainly the migrants who maintain or are expected to maintain ties with non-migrants back in Camer...
Living Together Across Borders
Living Together Across Borders: Care Through Communication in Separated Salvadoran Families tells the stories of extended families living stretched between a rural Salvadoran village and the urban locations in the United States where their migrant relatives live. Author Lynnette Arnold focuses on their cross-border conversations, demonstrating that this communication is a vital resource for enacting care-at-a-distance. She examines seemingly mundane interactions including greetings, remittance negotiations, and reminiscing together. Arnold demonstrates that while these practices are distributed in ways that reinforce boundaries between migrant and non-migrant relatives, families simultaneously use these same practices to build convivencia (living-together) despite ongoing separation.
Methodology and Research Practice in Southeast Asian Studies
This book addresses the question of how to ground research practice in area-specific, yet globally entangled contexts such as 'Global Southeast Asia'. It offers a fruitful debate between various approaches to Southeast Asia Studies, while taking into consideration the area-specific contexts of research practice cross-cutting methodological issues.
Sociality Revisited? The Use of the Internet and Mobile Phones in Urban Cameroon
This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migrants in Switzerland, to explore the meaning and role of New Media in the negotiation of sociality in transnational migration. New Media facilitated connectedness serve as a privileged lens through which Cameroonians, home and away, scrutinise and mediate sociality. In this rich ethnography, Bettina Frei describes how the internet and mobile phones are adopted by migrants and their non-migrant counterparts in order to maintain transnational relationships, and how the specific medialities of these communication technologies in turn impact on transnational sociality. Contrary to popular presumptions that New Media are experienced as mainly connecting and enabling, this study reveals that in a transnational context in particular, New Media serve to mediate tensions in transnational social ties. The expectations of being connected go hand in hand with an awareness of social and geographical distance and separation.
Being a Parent in the Field
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge? Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork. The authors show how multiple familial relations and the presence of their children, partners, or other family members impact the immersion into the field and the construction of its boundaries. Female and male authors from various career stages exemplify different research conditions, financial constraints, and family-career challenges which are decisive for academic success.
Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten
Internetbasierte Medien sind ein wichtiges Feld empirischer Analyse und speziell qualitativer Sozialforschung. Der Band behandelt methodologische und methodische Fragen der qualitativen Arbeit mit internetbasierten Daten sowie den qualitativen Umgang mit der Vielfalt verschiedener Medienformen im Internet, der sogenannten Multimodalität. Etablierte qualitative Methoden beziehen sich auf herkömmliche Kommunikationsformen, die im Internet in veränderter Weise praktiziert werden; zudem entstehen internetbasierte Daten in anderen Kontexten. Gängige Regeln für das Forschungsvorgehen sind nicht ohne weiteres umsetzbar. Die qualitative Analyse internetbasierter Daten erfordert andere Herangehensweisen, kann aber etablierte Techniken gegenstandsangemessen erweitern. Der Band beleuchtet klassische, statische Internetseiten, statische, dynamische und interaktive Blogs, Foren und Forumsdiskussionen, soziale Netzwerke wie Facebook, Twitter und Socialcast, Miniblogs, extrem flüchtige Chats, Mikroblogs und SMS. Die Beiträge liefern eine methodologische Reflexion und befassen sich detailliert mit konkreten Auswahl- und Analyseverfahren.
Social Media im transnationalen Alltag
Welche Rolle spielen digitale Medien im transnationalen sozialen Alltag? Für Senegales_innen in Berlin und Dakar erfüllen sie eine besondere Funktion: Mobiltelefone, Social Media, digitale Fotografie und Videos ermöglichen es, abwesende Personen - Geschwister, Freunde oder Ehepartner - auf spezifische Weise präsent zu machen. Simone Pfeifers medienethnografische Arbeit bezieht die Perspektiven aus Deutschland und Senegal gleichberechtigt in die Untersuchung ein und zeigt, wie Senegales_innen ihren sozialen Alltag durch transnationale Medienpraktiken gestalten. Die aktuelle Forschung zu Migration und Medien wird dabei durch den Fokus auf Visualität und die Bedeutung von Bildern bei der Gestaltung von sozialer und emotionaler Nähe erweitert.
Prannie Rhatigan's Irish Seaweed Kitchen
Irish seaboard lore, recipes old & new, nutritional information & personal anecdote combine with the faintest hint of nostalgia in this refreshingly original mix of common sense & practical cookery.
Rebuilding American Military Power in the Pacific
This volume examines how the U.S. military must rebuild in the wake of Iraq/Afghanistan, and refocus its power projection to face the new challenges emerging in the Pacific and with China. Rebuilding American Military Power in the Pacific: A 21st-Century Strategy provides an all-encompassing look at the challenges facing the United States in shaping a 21st-century Pacific strategy: dealing with the growing Chinese colossus, the unpredictable nuclear challenge presented by North Korea, the dynamic of the Arctic opening, and maintaining the security of the conveyor belt of goods and services in the Pacific. Can the United States successfully train and prepare for the 21st century, and break fr...
