Introduction: Communists, writers, and other outsiders -- The ragged proletariat: itineraries for a transient concept -- Richard Wright and the lumpenproletarian desire for revolution -- From Oklahoma City to Tuskegee, from Harlem to Dayton: the sites, levels, and travels of Ral…
by Frederiksen, Martin Demant, Exploring the Grey Zones: Governance, Conflict and (Ind.)security in Eastern Europe (Conference), Denmark), Knudsen, Ida Harboe
fromAnthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies
by Bourgois, Philippe, Schonberg, Jeff
fromCalifornia series in public anthropology
"This collection of essays studies the rhetoric of Otherness and explores how outsiders to mainstream sites for rhetorical participation find ways to make themselves heard while retaining marginal identities. The question that this collection answers is: how do people who are de…
"Tells the story of migrants and communities in the Southeast Asian borderlands. The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing in the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for control of…
This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical cont…
This penetrating book re-examines t̀he project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative èthnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contex…
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Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this…
