Sense of place is lauded as critical to developing an environmentally conscious and
responsive citizenry. Calls for place-based education have often arisen from an emotional …

Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox,
who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what …

This review brings anthropological accounts of place and placemaking into dialogue with
the concepts of precarity and precariousness. In recent years, precarity has become a …

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Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this
discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the …

Networks have recently become fashionable in social analysis but most of the new network
approaches have paid scant attention to the long history of reflections upon the potential of …

In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no
longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an …

In recent years, academic and professional researchers and designers working in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) have looked to ethnography to provide a perspective on …

Activism on the Web examines the everyday tensions that political activists face as they
come to terms with the increasingly commercialized nature of web technologies and sheds …

This article seeks to address how topological approaches to cultural change might be
combined with ethnographic analysis in order to suggest new ways of thinking empirically …