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Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African
American family's ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm
struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou
communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted
there like the wild red iris of the coastal wetlands, the family
had gathered for generations to cook and share homemade seafood
meals, savor conversation, and refresh their interconnected lives.
In this lively narrative, Katherine Browne weaves together voices
and experiences from eight years of post-Katrina research. Her
story documents the heartbreaking struggles to remake life after
everyone in the family faced ruin. Cast against a recovery
landscape managed by outsiders, the efforts of family members to
help themselves could get no traction; outsiders undermined any
sense of their control over the process. In the end, the insights
of the story offer hope. Written for a broad audience and supported
by an array of photographs and graphics, Standing in the Need
offers readers an inside view of life at its most vulnerable.
This book presents original research on gender and the power
dynamics of diverse forms of violent extremism, and efforts to
counter them. Based on focus group and interview research with some
250 participants in Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and UK
in 2015 and 2016, it offers insights from communities affected by
radicalisation and violent extremism. It introduces the concept of
gendered radicalisation, exploring how the multiple factors of
paths to violent extremist groups - social, local, individual and
global - can differ for both men and women, and why. The book also
offers a critical analysis of gender and terrorism; a summary of
current policy in the five countries of study and some of the core
gendered assumptions prevalent in interventions to prevent violent
extremism; a comparison of Jihadi extremism and the far right; and
a chapter of recommendations. This book is of use to academics,
policy-makers, students and the general reader interested in better
understanding a phenomenon defining our times.
This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a
frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors
are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and
work in a cross-cultural context, examining issues of: historical
change, the construction of globalization, household authority and
entitlement, and entrepreneurship and autonomy. The book will be a
valuable resource for researchers in anthropology and in the
related fields of economics, sociology of work, gender studies,
women's studies, and economic development. Published in cooperation
with the Society for Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page.
This book presents original research on gender and the power
dynamics of diverse forms of violent extremism, and efforts to
counter them. Based on focus group and interview research with some
250 participants in Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and UK
in 2015 and 2016, it offers insights from communities affected by
radicalisation and violent extremism. It introduces the concept of
gendered radicalisation, exploring how the multiple factors of
paths to violent extremist groups - social, local, individual and
global - can differ for both men and women, and why. The book also
offers a critical analysis of gender and terrorism; a summary of
current policy in the five countries of study and some of the core
gendered assumptions prevalent in interventions to prevent violent
extremism; a comparison of Jihadi extremism and the far right; and
a chapter of recommendations. This book is of use to academics,
policy-makers, students and the general reader interested in better
understanding a phenomenon defining our times.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
In Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the
multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior
in particular kinds of economic systems. The chapters explore
economic systems from a variety of diverse indigenous and
capitalist societies, focusing on moral challenges in non-Western
economic systems undergoing profound change, grassroots movements
and moral claims in the context of capitalism, and morality-based
movements taking place within corporate and state institutions. The
anthropological insights of each chapter provide the value of
firsthand fieldwork and ethnographic investigation, as well as the
tradition of critically studying non-Western and Western societies.
Because the moral challenges in a given capitalist society can no
longer be effectively addressed without considering the interaction
and influences of different societies in the global system, the
international ethnographic research in this book can help document
and make sense of the changes sweeping our planet.
What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books
economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty,
says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the
informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins
with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as
colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in
1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had
enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to
decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that
defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off
the books in Martinique today. Browne draws on a decade of
ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic
sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies
as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own
insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows
how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of
plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French
economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered
by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole
identities, the practice of creole economics provides both
assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned
and French. This powerful ethnographic study shows how local
economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the
books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses
an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and
cultural influences.
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