Edges of Global Transformation - Ethnographies of Uncertainty

Based on ethnographic studies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, this book explores the edges of the global transformative forces that are associated with the neoliberal order of today. At the edge, the situation is characterized by uncertainty, despair, hope, and vulnerability as old social patterns are consumed and new emerge.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Building Creatures of Uncertainty: Crisis, Storytelling and Othering in the Norwegian Building Industry by Håkon Fyhn
Chapter 2: The Perfect Subject and its Discontents: Central Europe at a Crossroad by Martin Thomassen
Chapter 3: Protection as a Strategy: The Response of Bedouin Village Women to the Development of Dubai by Anne Kathrine Larsen
Chapter 4: Localizing Ontologies of Uncertainty in Neoliberal Tanzania by Liv Haram
Chapter 5: Aggravated Uncertainty: The Dubious Influence of a Modern Management Regime on Lake Chad Fisheries by Bjørn Arntsen
Chapter 6: Vulnerability and Trust: Migrants in Search of a Better Position in Urban Northern Cameroon by Trond Waage
Chapter 7: State, Peasant Society and Modernization in Ethiopia by Harald Aspen
Chapter 8: Globally Designed Accountability and Local Social Inequality; A Case Study of Two Maternal Deaths in Tanzania by Siri Lange, Dorcas Mfaume and Astrid Blystad
Chapter 9: Well-Being, Healthcare and Development in Turkana: Pre and Post Devolution by Marianna Betti

About the author

Edited by Håkon Fyhn; Harald Aspen and Anne Kathrine Larsen - Foreword by Nigel Rapport - Contributions by Harald Aspen; Bjørn Arntsen; Marianna Betti; Astrid Blystad; Håkon Fyhn; Liv Haram; Siri Lange; Anne Kathrine Larsen; Dorcas Mfaume; Martin Thomasse

Summary

Based on ethnographic studies in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, this book explores the edges of the global transformative forces that are associated with the neoliberal order of today. At the edge, the situation is characterized by uncertainty, despair, hope, and vulnerability as old social patterns are consumed and new emerge.

Product details

• Authors: Hakon Aspen Fyhn
• Assisted by: Harald Aspen (Editor), Aspen Harald (Editor), H. Fyhn (Editor), Hakon Fyhn (Editor), Håkon Fyhn (Editor), Anne Kathrine Larsen (Editor), Nigel Rapport (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781498584074
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8407-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Anthropology, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, African History