This text is about migrants' passage through dangerous terrains such as the Sonora Desert in Mexico, which is used as a tool of border enforcement in and of itself. After the Mexican law enforcement cracked down and implemented deterrence practices, migrants have had to find new routes into the US, which have also been a lot more dangerous and life threatening. The book also succeeds in showing how structural violence is inflicted on migrants by these policies.
The ethnography explores the game World of Warcraft and the emergence of the phenomenon of the ‘Massively multiplayer online role-playing game’ or ‘MMORPG’.
The ethnography explores the game World of Warcraft and the emergence of the phenomenon of the ‘Massively multiplayer online role-playing game’ or ‘MMORPG’.
The book is about a study carried out by the Carnegie Corporation in South Africa called the Poor White Study. It looks at antiblackness, white poverty, and white supremacy in the context of philanthopy.
In "Hope and Healing in Urban Education," Ginwright draws on several ethnographic case studies from urban settings around the United States to argue for a new approach to healing justice movements in community organizations, neighborhood groups, and schools. Situated in the post-recession years, many of the case studies in this book are saturated with an increased level of hopelessness due to factors such as crime, poverty, trauma, and compounded societal oppression. Healing becomes the central frame for the text: How is the practice of healing a community political? What does it look like to place healing at the center of our political, community, and educational policies? Ultimately, healing is used not only as a political strategy, but as a means for building solidarity and transformational organization.
This is an ethnography about how neoliberalization has impacted university campuses which have incorporated an organizational approach, like entrepreneuralism and other corporational characteristics, and how this impacts those in precarious employment such as custodians.
The sketch says the text is about the cultural impact of the webcam on Trinidadian, focuses specifically on the affordances of the webcam and its implications for human communication
The sketch describes the text as about what it means to be Zanzibari in post-Soviet Zanzibar, as well as the reconfiguration of the Swahili concept of ustaarabu.
This text is centered around globalization, capitalism, and the privatization and entrepreneurial enterprise surrounding certain medical procedures which it highlights through analyzing the phenomena of cross-national online communication and the pursuit of fetal cell transplant treatment in Beijing.
The text is about examining the compexities and paradoxes urban, Eyptian women face when deemed infertile, particularly in light of the Egyptian patriarchy during the 1980s-1990s. The author seeks to dismantle binaries of infertile versus fertile and mother versus non-mother, engaging in a feminist analysis of identity, community, family, and the political forces involved with the introduction of Western biomedicine and psychology. She engages with Egyptian women at the micro-level via interviews, and at the macro level with the history of gender relations and politics in the Middle East and in Muslim countries. She also utilizes photos of Egyptian women as ethnographic material for understanding gender politics, ultimately striving to comprehend what happens when certain notions of "motherhood" are not fulfilled or break down in a patriarchal society.