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Encoding race, encoding class : Indian IT workers in Berlin
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent…
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- -
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- 9780822361176
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- ix, 280p.; ill.
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- -
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- 331.6254043155 ENC a
A ritual geology : gold and subterranean knowledge in Savannah West Africa
Robyn d’Avignon tells the history of West Africa’s centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions, and cosmological engagements.
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- 4
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- 9781478092674
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- xvii, 329p.; ill.
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- -
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- 338.2741096 RIT d
Lifelines : the traffic of trauma
Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478092728
- Collation
- xi, 305p.; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.125650954792 LIF s
The small matter of suing Chevron
Suzana Sawyer traces Ecuador’s lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil.
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478092612
- Collation
- xiii, 417p.; ill.
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- -
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- 305.563309 SMA s
Genres of listening : an ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.
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- 2
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- 9781478092698
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- ix, 249p.
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- -
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- 153.733 GEN m
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain : making the local
A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call ‘stupid’ events, festivals and parades. Building a community is perceived to be an important and necessary act to enable resilience against the perceived t…
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- 9
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- 9781800080539
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- xvii, 210p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 323.60941 CIT j
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America â€â€¦
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- 9783030780395
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- xxi, 264 p. : ill.
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- 304.2014 SJO a
Claiming home : migration biographies and everyday lives of queer migrant wom…
Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are often rendered ›impossible subjects.‹ …
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- 9783837656916
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- 446 p.
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- 300 BUC c
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy : Care and community in Milan and beyond
‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and spaces beyond.Ageing with Smartpho…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787359710
- Collation
- 188p. ; ill.
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- Ageing with Smartphones
- Call Number
- 305.260945211 SHI a
Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030570811
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- 318p. ; ill.
- Series Title
- Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
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- 362.29 ANI c
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