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The Decline of Marriage in Namibia – Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
In southern Africa, marriage used to be widespread and common. However, over the past decades marriage rates have declined significantly. Julia Pauli explores the meaning of …
Contested Properties – Peoples, Plants, and Politics in Post–Apartheid South Africa
This book deals with the values of medicinal plants and associated knowledge(s) in the field of bioprospecting in post-apartheid South Africa. Bioprospecting, the use of genetic or …
The Cop and the Sociologist
Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers …
Migration and (Im)Mobility – Biographical Experiences of Polish Migrants in Germany and Canada
In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" …
Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand
Working with nature - and not against it - is a global trend in coastal management. This ethnography of coastal protection follows the increasingly popular approach of "soft" …
Bounded Mobilities
Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live …
European Mobility in Times of Crisis
The global economic and financial crisis had severe impact on southern European economies and stimulated growing numbers of mainly young migrants heading north, nurturing the fear …
The Bureaucratic Production of Difference – Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations
In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to …
Tensional Responsiveness
How we sense and move our bodies shapes how we relate with each other. Current socio-economic practices are reducing generative qualities of relating. Doerte Weig shows how bodily …
Intimacy in Illegality – Experiences, Struggles and Negotiations of Migrant Women
How do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships? How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link between intimacy and migration status …
Local Knowledge and Gender in Ghana
The emergence of global knowledge societies is recently questioning the meaning and relevance of local knowledge in the context of Southern countries. Women have proved to be the …
Childhood and Migration – From Experience to Agency
This volume puts an emphasis on the question how children themselves experience and manage migration and by means of which they construct an identity for themselves which takes …