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Trusting the Police – Comparisons across Eastern and Western Europe
The police can be seen as a governmental institution or as an organizational body, where especially the work - effectiveness, or fairness in encounters - is valued. Through the …
Dealing with Elusive Futures – University Graduates in Urban Africa
The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike. The contributors accept the challenge to depict young men and …
Companies in Peace Processes – A Guatemalan Case Study
The role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent years. Although the private sector is often associated with sustaining …
Claiming Home
Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. …
Becoming a Migrant Worker in Nepal
High-profile events such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar have made one thing abundantly clear: Much of today's economic growth would be unthinkable without the low-wage …
EU–Space and the Euroclass – Modernity, Nationality, and Lifestyle Among Eurocrats in Brussels
How are prestige and power anchored in EU-Brussels? Which performances are valued and which are not? Pawel Lewicki's ethnographic analysis gives an insight into how different …
Towards Shared Research – Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments
Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from …
Subjectivity and Synchrony in Artistic Research – Ethnographic Insights
Artistic research has become an established mode of inquiry and knowledge production in many fields. Johanna Schindler examines the collaborative practices of two artistic research …
Iconic Places in Central Asia
Jeanne Féaux de la Croix maps three iconic places as part of Central Asians' 'moral geographies' and examines their role in navigating socialist, neo-liberal and neo-Islamic life …
Framing Prior Consultation in Brazil – Ethnographic Perspectives on Limits of Participation and Multicultural Politics
This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regulation of ILO Convention 169, …
The Changing Leadership Roles of Dedes in the Alevi Movement
What is the function of clerical leadership in Alevism based on sociocultural and political understandings? To answer that complex question, Deniz Cosan Eke examines the political, …
Lebanese in Motion – Gender and the Making of a Translocal Village
Globalisation and transnational migration have altered people's understanding of as well as their relationship to their "dwelling places" and "places of origin". Taking the …