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Exploring contemporary debates and developments in Roma-related
research and forms of activism, this volume argues for taking up
reflexivity as practice in these fields, and advocates a necessary
renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies. The
contributors gathered here - whose professional trajectories often
lie at the confluence between activism, academia, and policy or
development interventions - are exceptionally well placed to
reflect on mainstream practices in all these fields, and, from
their particular positions, envision a reimagining of these
practices.
Exploring contemporary debates and developments in Roma-related
research and forms of activism, this volume argues for taking up
reflexivity as practice in these fields, and advocates a necessary
renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies. The
contributors gathered here - whose professional trajectories often
lie at the confluence between activism, academia, and policy or
development interventions - are exceptionally well placed to
reflect on mainstream practices in all these fields, and, from
their particular positions, envision a reimagining of these
practices.
Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature
and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the
human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline,
anthropology has often advocated - and even defended - the cultural
integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the
globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline's
original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and
placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative
frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that
has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively
engaging with people to make changes through research, education,
and political action.
Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective
community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most
vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using
case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban
communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory
researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders,
find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global
sustainability research and practice.
Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature
and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the
human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline,
anthropology has often advocated - and even defended - the cultural
integrity, authenticity, and autonomy of societies across the
globe. Public anthropology today carries out the discipline's
original purpose, grounding theories in lived experience and
placing empirical knowledge in deeper historical and comparative
frameworks. This is a vitally important kind of anthropology that
has the goal of improving the modern human condition by actively
engaging with people to make changes through research, education,
and political action.
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may
play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of
disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice.
This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological
theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism. However,
this engagement also moves anthropologists away from traditional
roles of observation toward participatory roles that become
increasingly involved with those communities or social groupings
being studied. The chapters in this book suggest the roles
anthropologists are able to play to bring us closer to a public
anthropology characterized as engagement.
Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology and
Director of the Urban Semester Program of Cornell University. His
publications include "Ethnicity and Nationalism in Southeastern
Europe" (1981, ed with John W. Cole) and "Manny Almeida's Ringside
Lounge: The Cape Verdean Struggle for their Neighborhood"
(1992).
Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles.
His publications include "Sustainability and Communities of Place"
(2007), "Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture"
(2008), "Children and Disasters" (1999), and "The Crisis of
Competence: Transitional Stress and the Displaced Worker"
(1990).
Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective
community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most
vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level. Using
case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban
communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory
researchers and students, as well as policy and community leaders,
find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global
sustainability research and practice.
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Renegade Rule (Paperback)
Ben Kahn, Rachel Silverstein, Sam Beck
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R528
R398
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Are unicorns real? Their popularity and enduring role in human
culture certainly is. How can you win a fight against a unicorn?
Why do some unicorns have wings? Why are unicorns often pictured
with rainbows? Get answers to these questions and more in this fun
look at unicorns throughout history. This four-colour, fully
illustrated book provides everything you always wanted to know
about the myths, science, and history that surround the unicorn, a
creature that has grown even more popular in the twenty-first
century. With its stylish design and fresh, captivating
illustrations, The Very Short, Entirely True History of Unicorns
will appeal to readers - children and adults alike - who can't get
enough of the world's most elusive animal.
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