1. Individuals and Industries: Large-Scale Professional Gatherings as Ethnographic Fields -- 2. Scheduled Schmoozing: Notes on Interludal Practices at Responsible Investors’ Conferences -- 3. White Corporate Feminine Spirituality: The Rise of Global Professional Women’s Conferences in the New Millennium -- 4. The Therapeutic Square: The Psychotherapy Fair from an Anthropological Perspective…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Beasts and Beauties of Proliferating Burdens & Benefits in Local and Global arenas Miriam Adelman and Kirrilly Thompson -- Part 1. Gender -- Chapter 2. The Impact on Horse Keeping Practices Wrought by the Feminization of the Leisure Horse Sector: An Australia Study with Global Significance; Sandra Burr/Australia. Chapter 3. Men Riding Horses. Rethinking a Cowboy Traditi…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. How to Make Sense of “Developing a Sense of Belonging” through “Feeling like a Family” in the Light of Cultural and Societal Backgrounds -- 2. Three Reasons for Dealing with Disability, Education and the Majority Word -- 3. Facts and Challenges regarding Grounded Theory, the ICF and Ethical Issues -- 4. Reality Bites: Listening to Children, Parent…
Introduction -- Rise of the Red Capitalists: PRC Influence and the New Challenge of the Royalist-Chinese Business Alliance in Thailand -- Transnational Social Underpinnings of New Chinese Capitalism: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore -- The Development of Chinese Capitalism in Malaysia: the cases of H.S. Lee and Robert Kuok -- Politics, Policy, Culture and China: The Growth of the Top Eth…
This volume is a collection of papers that address multiple issues of contemporary Turkish politics, presented at the “Contemporary Turkey at a Glance: Turkey Transformed? Power, History, Culture” conference. Articles on foreign policy analyze the impact of the changing dynamics in the region following the Arab Uprisings. The pressing issues of the role of the strong one party government on…
1. Introduction: Pieties in Contact, Everyday Conflict and Pluralism in Muslim-Christian Indonesia -- 2. Generating Religioisities: The entangled history of Islam and Christianity in Java -- 3. Engineering Horizons: Controversies over Landscaping and Belonging in Salatiga -- 4. Regendering Community: Women Reshaping Javanese Rites of Passage in Mixed Communities -- 5. Regendering Ethnicity: Pen…
Introduction -- The extraction of subway graffiti: The late 1960s to 1989 -- The “clean train” era: Creating a space for the legal production of graffiti -- Responding to the new graffiti writing culture: Broader publics, art worlds, and the sphere of commodity exchange -- The moral panic over graffiti in New York City: Political elites and the mass print media -- Engendering desire for neo…
Chapter 1 New Directions and Transformations of Urbanization in China -- Chapter 2 New Urbanization and Industrial Performance: Implications for Western China -- Chapter 3 Regional Differences in China’s Urbanization: The Case of Northwestern City Agglomerations -- Chapter 4 Urban Development in China’s Ethnic Minority Areas -- Chapter 5 Infrastructure Development and Urbanization in China …
1. Introduction -- 2. Bougainville lessons for Rio Tinto.-3. Panama and indigenous peoples -- 4. Miners join the UN Global Compact -- 5. Headquarters inception -- 6. A systematic approach.-7. Artisanal mining and closure -- 8. Data and forms of CSR -- 9. Resettlement -- 10. Results -- 11. Appendices.This book outlines how Rio Tinto—one of the world’s largest miners— redesigned and rebuilt…
1. Introduction -- 2. Current Trends -- 3. Coming Out and Being Out -- 4. Religion and Spirituality -- 5. Family Life -- 6. The SJS Project: Phases of Research.This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico. The authors document and celebrate…