CONTESTED MEDITERRANEAN SPACES

Ethnographic Essays in Honour of Charles Tilly

“It is well known that Charles Tilly left scholars of big structures, large processes, and huge comparisons a tall research agenda. It is less acknowledged that he also left political ethnographers an impressive and provocative set of tools. In the skilled hands of the contributors to t his insightful volume, the ‘Tilly toolbox’ is put to good work in the service of a theory-driven and empirically-grounded exploration of Mediterranean contentious landscapes.”  •  Javier Auyero, University of Texas, Austin; Editor, Qualitative Sociology

Volume 4, Space and Place

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VISION AND CHANGE IN INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Transformation from Science to Commercialization

“This is an excellent body of ethnographic scholarship on institutional entrepreneurship within the defense R&D sector, beautifully written and complete with a rich description of Gamma - a truly deep ethnography.”  •  Siri Terjesen, Indiana University

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COLLECTIVE TERMS

Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France

"This is a wonderful work of ethnography on a topic of vital contemporary concern—the French banlieue . . . It offers a fresh look at what has become a rather paralyzed debate on race, culture, integration and difference in France . . . By studying social life in a New Town, rather than working with one particular immigrant community, the author moves us to a far richer depiction of urban France and is able to tackle these topics in a fresh new way."  •  Andrea Smith, Lafayette College

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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND DEMOGRAPHY

The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics

In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers, and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the United Kingdom.

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MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION

A Critical Stance

This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current literature on migration and development as the contributors explore the contradictory discourses about migration and the role these discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a global regime of militarized surveillance.Those who seek to address the morass of development failure, vitriolic attacks on immigrants, or sanguine views about migrant agency are challenged by this volume to put aside their methodological nationalism and pursue alternative pathways out of the quagmire of poverty, violence, and fear that is enveloping the globe.

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COMING OF AGE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

"Impatient with popular and academic hand-wringing over 'prolonged adolescence' (or young people's unwillingness to grow up), Blatterer in this overdue sociological treatise on the changing nature of adulthood in Western society counters that such judgments unfairly draw on obsolete norms of adulthood… Blatterer's writing is eloquent…his arguments are well considered, important, and thought-provoking." •  Choice

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GIRL MAKING

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

“Through her careful and sensitive navigation of issues such as growing up and finding a voice for oneself in the murkiness of living as a teenager, Bloustien presents a cogent analysis of the challenges and victories experienced by these adolescent girls… The sensitivity with which she approaches her subjects and the issues they face give her credibility and makes her work both believable and moving.”  •   Journal of Sociology

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THE STATE AND THE ARTS

Articulating Power and Subversion

This innovative volume explores the challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and commercial arts policies in the current era. While endeavouring to avoid the currently dominant pragmatic and didactic priorities of officialdom, the contributors tackle social and cultural policy and practice in the arts as well as connections between national states and dissenting art from a range of genres.

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THE NATURE OF SOCIOLOGY

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. The Nature of Sociology contains two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor.

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ON PRAYER

Text and Commentary

"This study should have been his doctoral dissertation that he never finished...Its English version clearly shows that we are dealing with an important text on a topic that is curiously little explored by anthropologists." • Revue philosophique

"Anthropologists, sociologists and theologians will be grateful for the first English translation of this important early text by Marcel Mauss…The notes edited by Robert Parkin and some 'Concluding Anthropological Reflections' by Howard Morphy make this a very valuable item for Mauss scholarship." • Reviews in Religion and Theology

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Durkheimian Studies

Études Durkheimiennes

Durkheimian Studies / Etudes Durkheimiennes is concerned with all aspects of the work of Durkheim and his group, such as Marcel Mauss and Robert Hertz, and with the contemporary development and application of their ideas to issues in the social sciences, religion and philosophy.

Volume 17/2011, 1 issue p.a.
ISSN: 1362-024X (Print) * ISSN: 1752-2307 (Online) more