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"In this exciting volume Esther Fihl and Jens Dahl have brought together a group of collaborators to grapple with questions of identity, place, and power in the contemporary world. In developing the concept of alternative spaces the authors help us conceptualize how people around the world are shaping their lives in relation to but without being dictated by nation-states, enduring cultural and religious forms, and new technologies. Ranging from indigenous rights activists in the United Nations to caste councils in South India, from the political struggles of Mexican migrants in the United States to the position of Christians in Syria, and from racecourse gambling in India to the Danish seamen's church in Singapore, each contributor offers a wide-ranging and unique perspective on how groups of people are shaping more or less stable alternative spaces in the wake of globalization. Most importantly, A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces rescales ethnographic comparison itself and thus offer a new window into how social life is organized." - Johan Lindquist, Associate Professor, Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
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Book Title: A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces
Editors: Jens Dahl, Esther Fihl
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137299543
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jens Dahl and Esther Fihl 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29953-6Published: 07 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45280-4Published: 07 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29954-3Published: 07 January 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 252
Topics: Political Sociology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality