Up, Down, and Sideways

Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-223-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 418 g

Reihe: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology

Using a “vertical slice” approach, anthropologists critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic uses and abuses of power and the survival of the human species. The contributors scrutinize modern institutions in a variety of regions—from Russia and Mexico to South Korea and the U.S. Up, Down, and Sideways is an ethnographic examination of such phenomena as debtculture, global financial crises, food insecurity, indigenous land and resource appropriation, the mismanagement of health care, andcorporate surrogacy within family life. With a preface by Laura Nader, this isessential reading for anyone seeking solid theories and concrete methods to inform activist scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stryker, Rachael

Gon, Roberto J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Laura Nader

Introduction: On Studying Up, Down, and Sideways: What’s at Stake?

Roberto J. González and Rachael Stryker

PART I: STUDYING WEALTH AND POWER

Chapter 1. On Debt: Tracking the Shifting Role of the Debtor in U.S. Bankruptcy Legal Practice

Linda Coco

Chapter 2. On Commerce: Analyzing the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-1998

Jay Ou

Chapter 3. On Bureaucracy: Excessively Up at the International Labour Organisation

Ellen Hertz

PART II: STUDYING ENVIRONMENT AND SUBSISTENCE

Chapter 4. On Dispossession: The Work of Studying Up, Down, and Sideways in Guatemala’s Indigenous Land

Rights Movements

Liza Grandia

Chapter 5. On Food: Manufacturing Food Insecurity in Oaxaca, Mexico

Roberto J. González

Chapter 6. On Environment: The “Broker State,” Peruvian Hydrocarbons Policy, and the Camisea Gas Project

Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto

PART III: STUDYING RELATIONSHIPS AND BUREAUCRACIES

Chapter 7. On Family: Adoptive Parenting Up, Down, and Sideways

Rachael Stryker

Chapter 8. On Truth: The Repressed Memory Wars from Top to Bottom

Robyn Kliger

Chapter 9. On Common Sense: Lessons on Starting Over from Post-Soviet Ukraine

Monica Eppinger

Chapter 10. On Caring: Solidarity Anthropology (or, How to Keep Health Care from Becoming Science Fiction)

Adrienne Pine

On Power: Concluding Comments

Barbara Rose Johnston, Roberto J. González, and Rachael Stryker

Notes on Contributors

References

Über Autor(innen)

Gon, Roberto J.
Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of several books including Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (Texas, 2001), American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain (Prickly Paradigm, 2009), and Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State (Left Coast, 2010). He co-produced the documentary film Losing Knowledge: 50 Years of Change and is a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists.

Stryker, Rachael
Rachael Stryker is Assistant Professor in the department of Human Development and Women’s Studies at California State University, East Bay. Her work comparatively explores emotion socialization, with a focus on attachment formation and representation, and her publications include The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family (Cornell, 2010), as well as articles for the Childhood, International Migration and Children and Youth Services Review journals.

Rachael Stryker is Assistant Professor in the department of Human Development and Women’s Studies at California State University, East Bay. Her work comparatively explores emotion socialization, with a focus on attachment formation and representation, and her publications include The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family (Cornell, 2010), as well as articles for the Childhood, International Migration and Children and Youth Services Review journals.