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This informative Field Guide to Intercultural Research is
specifically designed to be used in the field, guiding the reader
away from pitfalls and towards best practice. It shares valuable
fieldwork challenges and experiences, as well as insights into key
methodological debates and practical recommendations relevant to
both new and seasoned researchers. Offering an international
outlook and featuring insights from across four continents, this
invaluable guide introduces new methods and approaches to data
analysis, tackling various research phases, including perspectives
from quantitative researchers. It focuses on the role of culture
and the intercultural challenges that fieldworkers encounter,
enticing readers into further conversations concerning the role of
fieldwork in producing new knowledge. Expert contributors
illustrate the benefits of field research in intercultural research
not only to academic literature, but also to organisational
policies and the societies within which we work and live. Including
insights from the fields of ethnography and social anthropology,
this cutting edge guide is crucial reading for all students and
researchers of business and management studies as well as
organisational development hoping to begin their foray into
fieldwork, as well as experienced scholars looking for new
approaches to field research. It will also benefit management
professionals and consultants in need of an expanded knowledge-base
for coFnducting action research or other interventions in
organisations.
There are ongoing debates on the concepts surrounding the roles of
Indigenous people in transforming the entrepreneurial landscape to
promote socio-economic development. Arguably, the culture and ways
of our lives, in the context of entrepreneurship, have a role in
influencing social economic development. The ideals between the
entrepreneurial practice of Indigenous people and their culture are
somewhat commensal towards sustainable growth and development. The
practice of Indigenous and cultural entrepreneurship is embedded in
historical findings. Context, Policy, and Practices in Indigenous
and Cultural Entrepreneurship provides insights into the policy,
culture, and practice that influence the impact of local and
Indigenous entrepreneurs within communities which transcends to
socio-economic development. This is critical as the knowledge
gained from our entrepreneurial diversity can provide a platform to
reduce social ills as a result of unemployment and give a sense of
belonging within the social context. Covering key topics such as
government policy, entrepreneurial education, information
technology, and trade, this premier reference source is ideal for
policymakers, entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, scholars,
researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the
study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading
scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural
anthropology draw upon extensive field experiences and archival
investigations of black communities in North America, the
Caribbean, South America, and Africa to challenge received
paradigms in Afro-American anthropology. They employ dialogic
approaches that demand both an awareness of the historical
fashioning of anthropology's categories and self-reflexive,
critical research and define a new agenda for the field. Paying
close attention to power, politics, and the dynamism of
never-finished, open-ended behavioral forms and symbolic
repertoires, the contributors address colonialism, the slave trade,
racism, ethnogenesis, New World nationalism, urban identity
politics, the development of artworlds, musics and their publics,
the emergence of new religious and ritual forms, speech genres, and
contested historical representations. The authors offer
sophisticated interpretations of cultural change, exchange,
appropriation, and re-appropriation that challenge simplistic
notions of culture.
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in
social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of
research methods and techniques in data collection. It also
outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when
working in the field. Authors address key strategies to tackle the
major challenges to fieldwork, including advice on using indigenous
or innovative skills and making intelligent use of the advantages
already available within standard research methodologies.
International contributors provide a hands-on account of research
methodologies as applied in the field, with particular focus on
research ethics and community culture and interactions. The book
offers a number of useful case studies, featuring examples of the
application of research techniques in different cultural and
socio-economic contexts. Utilizing an innovative and dynamic
'storytelling' method, this book will be a useful research tool for
fieldworkers engaging in social science research in community
settings, as well as students in the field learning the core
techniques of fieldwork.
Our culture is one that speaks rather than listens. From reality TV
to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate,
and to receive attention. It reduces 'reality' to revelation and
voyeurism. The Art of Listening argues that this way of life is
having severe and damaging consequences in a world that is
increasingly globalized and interconnected. It addresses the
question: how can we listen more carefully? Social and cultural
theory is combined with real stories from the experiences of the
desperate stowaways who hide in the undercarriages of jet planes in
order to seek asylum, to the young working-class people who use
tattooing to commemorate a lost love. The Art of Listening shows
how sociology is in a unique position to record 'life passed in
living' and to listen to complex experiences with humility and
ethical care, providing a resource to understand the contemporary
world while pointing to the possibility of a different kind of
future.
Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we’re going.
Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?
'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before’ Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
American Boarding School Fiction, 1981-2021: Inclusion and Scandal
is a study of contemporary American boarding-school narratives.
Before the 1980s, writers of American boarding-school fiction
tended to concentrate on mournful teenagers - the center was filled
with students: white, male, Protestant students at boys' schools.
More recently, a new generation of writers-including Richard A.
Hawley, Anita Shreve, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Tobias Wolff-has
transformed school fiction by highlighting issues relating to
gender, race, scandal, sexuality, education, and social class in
unprecedented ways. These new writers present characters who are
rich and underprivileged, white and Black, male and female,
adolescent and middle-aged, conformist and rebellious. By turning
their attention away from the bruised feelings of teenagers, they
have reinvented American boarding-school fiction, writing vividly
about a host of subjects the genre overlooked in the past.
Hawai'i and Fiji share strikingly similar histories of colonialism
and plantation sugar production but display different legacies of
ethnic conflict today. Pacific Island chiefdoms colonized by the
United States and England respectively, the islands' indigenous
populations were forced to share resources with a small colonizing
elite and growing numbers of workers imported from South Asia. Both
societies had long traditions of chiefly power exercised through
reciprocity and descent; both were integrated into the plantation
complex in the nineteenth century. Colonial authorities, however,
constructed vastly different legal relationships with the
indigenous peoples in each setting, and policy toward imported
workers also differed in arrangements around land tenure and
political participation. The legacies of these colonial
arrangements are at the roots of the current crisis in both places.
Focusing on the intimate relationship between law, culture, and the
production of social knowledge, these essays re-center law in
social theory. The authors analyze the transition from chiefdom to
capitalism, colonizers' racial and governmental ideologies, land
and labor policies, and contemporary efforts to recuperate
indigenous culture and assert or maintain indigenous sovereignty.
Speaking to Fijian and Hawaiian circumstances, this volume
illuminates the role of legal and archival practice in constructing
ethnic and political identities and producing colonial and
anthropological knowledge.
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