Unsafe motherhood

Follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. Examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical pe...

Adventures in aidland

Concerned with the construction and transmission of knowledge about global poverty and its reduction Describes the social life of development professionals, the capacity of ideas to mediate relationships, the networks of experts and communities of aid workers, and the dilemmas of maintai...

Deterritorialized youth

Compares and contrasts humanitarian assistance among Sahrawi youth with self-sufficiency of Afghan refugee youth in Iran Offers methodological approach and rich qualitative data Examines refugee communities closely linked with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other...

An anthropology of war

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - ...

Colette's republic

In France’s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enlightenment conviction that men (and women) could remake their world. And yet with all of its pragmatic smoothing over of the supernatural edges of Cathol...

The fateful alliance

Policy worlds

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of ...

Nature of the miracle years

After 1945, those responsible for conservation in Germany resumed their work with a relatively high degree of continuity as far as laws and personnel were concerned. Yet conservationists soon found they had little choice but to modernize their views and practices in the challenging postwar cont...

Islam and new kinship

Assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have provoked global controversy and ethical debate. This book provides a groundbreaking investigation into those debates in the Islamic Middle East, simultaneously documenting changing ideas of kinship and the evolving role of r...

State collapse and reconstruction in the periphery

In the 1990s, Yugoslavia, which had once been a role model for development, became a symbol for state collapse, external intervention and post-war reconstruction. Today the region has two international protectorates, contested states and borders, severe ethnic polarization and minority concerns...

Militant lactivism?

First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of co...

The devil's captain

Written by a Choice Academic Book of the Year award winner Uses Ernst Jünger’s journals and correspondence to investigate his professional and personal experiences Analyses Nazi Paris through Jünger’s experiences in order to better understand the France of this period

Weimar radicals

Offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between Communism and Fascism a key problem of twentieth-century German history. Reconsiders the fateful relationship between the two great ideological competitors of the Weimar Republic, while offering a challenging new interpretation of th...

The viennese café and fin-de-siècle culture

The first study to consider the Viennese café in the wider context of the social, literary, visual and material culture of fin-de-siècle Vienna and the Dual Monarchy. Unique assessment of the café within its broader cultural context. Offers a new inter-disciplinary perspective on tur...

A european memory?

An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand why the grand design of a United Europe—with a common foreign policy and market yet enough diversity to allow for cultural and social differences—was overwhelmingly turned down by its citizens. The authors a...

Differentiating development

Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty. This volume constitutes a timely intervention in anthropological debat...