Images are 'everywhere'. They permeate our academic work, everyday lives, digital and
social media worlds, societal narratives and imagined futures. They inhabit and inspire our …

Recent attempts to challenge the primacy of reason--and its realization in foundationalist
accounts of knowledge and cognitive formulations of human action--have focused on …

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million
people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to …

The book explores the power dimensions of participatory development and research, and
looks at the shifts in power within communities and institutions which are needed for …

This ethnography of three Australian hospitals seeks to understand how and why new
accounting systems are “experimented” with in organizations. Latour's sociology of …

The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat
shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying …

In August 2004, a one-day symposium was held in Boston, MA, as part of the American
Marketing Association's annual summer conference. Entitled Does Marketing Need Reform …

This study shows systematically why local knowledge (often called indigenous knowledge)
has a big developmental potential and why its utilization for development is ambiguous …

Participant observation is perhaps the pivotal strategy of interactionism. It is a concrete
demonstration of the pragmatist emphasis on practice. The methodology uses the self of the …

This book looks at the multiple relations between the ethnographic representations of the
Montagnard ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and the changing historical …