CLASS, CONTENTION, AND A WORLD IN MOTION

“This book represents a superb edited collection of important and relevant articles on the relationship between class and migration in the contemporary world. As su ch, the introduction and the articles make a major contribution to the literatures on migration and industrial/service work under contemporary capitalist conditions of labor and neoliberal globalization.”  · Donald M. Nonini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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SLIPPING AWAY

Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean

"racefully written manuscript - a pleasure to read ... This is a fine example of how ethnographic and historical research might be used to advance our understanding of contemporary globalization."  ·  Marc Edelman, CUNY, Graduate Center

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WHEN WOMEN HELD THE DRAGON’S TONGUE - Volume 7

and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE HOMELESS GONE? - Volume 1

The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

Drawing on five years of ethnographic research in New York City with African Americans and Latinos living in poverty, Where Have All the Homeless Gone? reveals that the homeless “crisis” was driven as much by political misrepresentations of poverty, race, and social difference, as the housing, unemployment, and healthcare problems that caused homelessness and continue to plague American cities.

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BLOOD AND ORANGES - Volume 2

Immigrant Labor and European Markets in Rural Greece

"This is a book well worth reading... offers a comprehensive background to the studied society and the complex social relationships at all levels that dominate this rural Greek microcosm. This is an excellent book, of interest to those studying globalization and the integration of markets but also those interested on contemporary Greek society and its entanglements."  ·  Labour History

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STRUGGLES FOR HOME - Volume 3

Violence, Hope and the Movement of People

Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the experiences and contested meanings of home for people whose lives are characterized by migration related to varying forms of violence. Taking seriously the political implications and exploitation of discourses of home in the transnational processes that connect yet differently affect the movement of people and capital, it challenges the sedentarist assumption that territoriality and nation are necessarily the primary determinants of identification. However, it does not replace this sedentarism with a free floating, placeless approach.

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MADE IN SHEFFIELD - Volume 5

An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics

"His narrative of the embodied lives of the factory workers and their tools brings the theory of local and transnational networks of production to life. The book's real triumph lies in this subtle layering of experiential ethnographic narratives of production and economy. The political theory underpinning the account whilst challenging is, however, illuminating for a deeper reading of Mollona's argument. The reader's 'work' is rewarded by an argument which presents a valuable contribution to the field of political and industrial ethnography in contemporary neoliberal Europe."  ·  Durham Anthropology Journal

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BIOPOLITICS, MILITARISM, AND DEVELOPMENT - Volume 6

Eritrea in the Twenty-First Century

The contributions to this volume reveal and interpret the links between development and developmentalist ideologies, intensifying militarism, and the controlling and disciplining of human lives and bodies by state institutions, policies, and discourses. Also assessed are the multiple consequences of these policies for the Eritrean people and the ways in which such policies are resisted or subverted. This insightful, comparative volume places the Eritrean case in a broader global and transnational context.

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Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as 'globalization' or 'empire'. Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between 'at home' and 'abroad' , 'center' and 'periphery'. The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an 'anthropology at large', that can accommodate issues of the global south, post-socialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.

Volumes 56, 57 & 58/2010, 3 issues p.a

ISSN: 0920-1297 (Print)

ISSN: 1558-5263 (Online)

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