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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism Published February 2026 Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism Ethnographies of Norwegian Energy and Extraction Businesses Abroad Knudsen, S. (ed)

Through a series of case studies in diverse regions of the world, this book explores how transnational Norwegian energy and extractive industries handle corporate social responsibility (CSR) when operating abroad.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £15.95 Making Things Happen Published August 2024 Making Things Happen Community Participation and Disaster Reconstruction in Pakistan Murphy Thomas, J.

Making Things Happen is about the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction, drawing on one project, the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP). As disasters are increasing in number and intensity so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £15.95 Profiles of Anthropological Praxis Published January 2024 Profiles of Anthropological Praxis An International Casebook Redding, T. M. & Cheney, C. C. (eds)

The book Profiles of Anthropological Praxis is something of a sequel to Anthropological Praxis: Translating Knowledge into Action, published in 1987 (Westview Press).  As a casebook of anthropological projects, the new version shares a fascinating breadth of award-winning projects undertaken by applied anthropologists to address the needs of an array of stakeholders and situations.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology

Pb £27.95 Indigenous Resurgence Published March 2022 Indigenous Resurgence Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice Dhillon, J.

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £15.95 Collaborative Happiness Published April 2024 Collaborative Happiness Building the Good Life in Urban Cohousing Communities Kingfisher, C.

Collaborative Happiness looks at two urban cohousing communities: Kankanmori, in Tokyo; and Quayside Village, in Vancouver. In expanding beyond mainstream approaches to happiness focused exclusively on the individual, Quayside Village and Kankanmori provide an alternative model for how to understand and practice the good life in an increasingly urbanized world marked by crisis of both social and environmental sustainability.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £27.95 Moral Work of Anthropology, The Published February 2024 The Moral Work of Anthropology Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)

Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories Published January 2025 Invisible Faces and Hidden Stories Narratives of Vulnerable Populations and Their Caregivers Obeng, C. S. & Obeng, S. G. (eds)

Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health. It reflects the socio-political ecologies like public hostility and stereotyping, neglect of their unique health needs, their courage to overcome adversity, and the love of family and healthcare providers in mitigating their problems.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Pb £23.95 Going Forward by Looking Back Published March 2023 Going Forward by Looking Back Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.

Subjects: Archaeology Applied Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals

Pb £36.00 Time Work Published March 2023 Time Work Studies of Temporal Agency Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)

Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Disaster Upon Disaster Published October 2019 Disaster Upon Disaster Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb £23.95 Theoreticial Scholarship and Applied Practice Published August 2019 Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice Pink, S., Fors, V., & O'Dell, T. (eds)

Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. The contributions to this collection advance our understanding of the ethics, values, opportunities and challenges that emerge in making of engaged and interdisciplinary scholarship.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Anthropology and Public Service Published January 2019 Anthropology and Public Service The UK Experience MacClancy, J. (ed)

Many anthropologists are now finding jobs in commercial organizations or in government. This volume shows how anthropologists can set new agendas, and revise old ones in the public sector. Included are discussions of anthropologists’ work with the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Defence, the UK Border Agency, and their contributions to prison governance.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Contextualizing Disaster Published September 2016 Contextualizing Disaster Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)

Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb £15.95 Time & the Field Published November 2015 Time and the Field Dalsgaard, S. & Nielsen, M. (eds)

Despite numerous conceptual facelifts, definitions and demarcations of ‘the field’ have remained fundamentally anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. This collection serves a fresh invitation to a temporally oriented ethnography by radically rethinking the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Pb £23.95 Media, Anthropology & Public Engagement Published September 2017 Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement Pink, S. & Abram, S. (eds)

Contemporary anthropologists’ engagement with social and digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume’s contributors question whether, through these new practices, a fresh public anthropology is emerging.

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies

Pb £27.95 Public Anthropology in a Borderless World Published April 2017 Public Anthropology in a Borderless World Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (eds)

Today anthropologists carry out the discipline’s original purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology, likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve the modern human condition.

Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £31.95 Up, Down, and Sideways Published February 2016 Up, Down, and Sideways Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)

Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Toward Engaged Anthropology Published July 2013 Toward Engaged Anthropology Beck, S. & Maida, C. A. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £19.95 Ethics in the Field Published July 2015 Ethics in the Field Contemporary Challenges MacClancy, J. & Fuentes, A. (eds)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Allure of Capitalism, The Published March 2013 The Allure of Capitalism An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis Røyrvik, E. A.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Political and Economic Anthropology

Pb £23.95 Policy Worlds Published April 2011 Policy Worlds Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power Shore, C., Wright S., & Però, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology Sociology

Pb £23.95 Adventures in Aidland Published March 2013 Adventures in Aidland The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development Mosse, D. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Development Studies

Pb £23.95 Flexible Firm Published May 2013 Flexible Firm The Design of Culture at Bang & Olufsen Krause-Jensen, J.
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Virtualism, Governance & Practice Published December 2012 Virtualism, Governance and Practice Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Ethnography & the Corporate Encounter Published March 2010 Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Cefkin, M. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Visual Interventions Published September 2009 Visual Interventions Applied Visual Anthropology Pink, S. (ed.)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Media Studies

Pb £27.95 Fire In The Dark Published June 2011 Fire in the Dark Telling Gypsiness in North East England Buckler, S.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)

Pb £27.95 Skilled Visions Published November 2009 Skilled Visions Between Apprenticeship and Standards Grasseni, C. (ed)
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Applications of Anthropology Published December 2005 Applications of Anthropology Professional Anthropology in the Twenty-first Century Pink, S. (ed)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology

Pb £23.95 Anthropology And Consultancy Published August 2004 Anthropology and Consultancy Issues and Debates Stewart, P. & Strathern, A. (eds)
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £23.95 Corporate Scandal Published July 2004 Corporate Scandal Global Corporatism against Society Gledhill, J. (ed)
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

Pb £11.95 Expert Knowledge Published July 2004 Expert Knowledge First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology Morris, B. & Bastin, R. (eds)
Subject: Applied Anthropology

Pb £11.95 Current Policies & Practices in European Social Anthropology Education Published February 2004 Current Policies and Practices in European Social Anthropology Education Dracklé, D. and Edgar, I. R. (eds)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Educational Studies

Pb £27.95 Aging in Today's World Published May 2005 Aging in Today's World Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician Shield, R. R. & Aronson, S. M.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Medical Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Sealed & Secret Kinship, A Published May 2002 A Sealed and Secret Kinship The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption Modell, J.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Medical Anthropology Sociology

Pb £27.95 War on the Home Front Published February 2001 War on the Homefront An Examination of Wife Abuse Haley, S. & Braun-Haley, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Applied Anthropology

Pb £27.95 Anthropologists in a Wider World Published October 2000 Anthropologists in a Wider World Essays on Field Research Dresch, P., James, W. & Parkin, D.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Applied Anthropology

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