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ISBN: 0904152073 9780904152074 Year: 1984 Publisher: London British school at Rome

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An anthropology of nothing in particular
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ISBN: 1785356992 9781785356995 9781785357008 Year: 2018 Publisher: Alresford, Hampshire Zero Books is an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd

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There have been claims that meaninglessness has become epidemic in the contemporary world. One perceived consequence of this is that people increasingly turn against both society and the political establishment with little concern for the content (or lack of content) that might follow. Most often, encounters with meaninglessness and nothingness are seen as troubling. "Meaning" is generally seen as being a cornerstone of the human condition, as that which we strive towards. This was famously explored by Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning in which he showed how even in the direst of situations individuals will often seek to find a purpose in life. But what, then, is at stake when groups of people negate this position? What exactly goes on inside this apparent turn towards nothing, in the engagement with meaninglessness? And what happens if we take the meaningless seriously as an empirical fact? (provided by publisher)


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The ethical design handbook
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ISBN: 9783945749838 3945749832 Year: 2020 Publisher: Smashing Magazine GmbH

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Over the past 20 years, user privacy has become merely a commodity on the web: there, but hardly ever respected and often swiftly discarded. No wonder ad-blockers and tracking-blockers have gained traction, and in times when ad-blocking, browsers and new legislation (e.g. GDPR/CCPA) introduce constraints on data collection, we need viable alternative business models that companies can rely on. Models that respect customer choices and are built and designed with ethics in mind.But how do we get there? Meet The Ethical Design Handbook, our new guide on ethical design for digital products, with practical guidelines on how to help companies leave dark patterns behind and boost business KPIs along the way.You'll learn how to:explain what ethical design isjustify and prove a business case for ethical designgrow a sustainable business built on ethical design principlesstrike the balance between data collection and ethicsembed ethical design into your workflowget started with ethical transformationTable Of ContentsIntroductionThe need for ethics in designCreating positive changeRespect-driven designThe business of ethical designEthical design best practicesGetting startedBron: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/ethical-design-handbook/


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Ethnographies of grey zones in Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9781783084142 9781783084128 9781783084135 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Anthem Press

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Modern Folk Devils : Contemporary Constructions of Evil
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ISBN: 9523690558 952369054X Year: 2021 Publisher: Helsinki Helsinki University Press

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The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relationships between good and evil, and selves and others. But how are ideas of evil constructed in current times and framed by contemporary social discourses? Modern Folk Devils builds on and works with Stanley Cohen’s theory on folk devils and moral panics to discuss the constructions of evil. The authors present an array of case-studies that illustrate how the notion of folk devils nowadays comes into play and animates ideas of otherness and evil throughout the world. Examining current fears and perceived threats, this volume investigates and analyzes how and why these devils are constructed. The chapters discuss how the devilish may take on many different forms: sometimes they exist only as a potential threat, other times they are a single individual or phenomenon or a visible group, such as refugees, technocrats, Roma, hipsters, LGBT groups, and rightwing politicians. Folk devils themselves are also given a voice to offer an essential complementary perspective on how panics become exaggerated, facts distorted, and problems acutely angled.;Bringing together researchers from anthropology, sociology, political studies, ethnology, and criminology, the contributions examine cases from across the world spanning from Europe to Asia and Oceania.


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Peripheral methodologies : unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits
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ISBN: 9781003103646 9781350173071 9780367757625 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Routledge

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How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery-ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as ideals of modernity prevent us from approaching that which cannot be easily captured and framed into scientific boundaries, the book argues for remaining on the boundary between the known and the unknown in order to surpass this ethnographic limit. Peripheral Methodologies shows that peripherality is not only to be seen as a marginal condition, but rather as a form of theory-making and practice that incorporates reflexivity and experimentation. Instead of domesticating the peripheral, the authors engage in (and insist on) practicing expertise in reverse, unlearning their tools in order to integrate the empirical and analytical otherwise.


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Ethnographies of youth and temporality : time objectified
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ISBN: 9781439910665 Year: 2014 Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press,

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"As we experience and manipulate time--be it as boredom or impatience--it becomes an object: something materialized and social, something that affects perception, or something that may motivate reconsideration and change. The editors and contributors to this important new book, Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality, have provided a diverse collection of ethnographic studies and theoretical explorations of youth experiencing time in a variety of contemporary socio-cultural settings. The essays in this volume focus on time as an external and often troubling factor in young people's lives, and shows how emotional unrest and violence but also creativity and hope are responses to troubling times. The chapters discuss notions of time and its and its "objectification" in diverse locales including the Georgian Republic, Brazil, Denmark and Uganda. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the essays in Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality use youth as a prism to understand time and its subjective experience. In the series Global Youth, edited by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson"--


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Post-cosmopolitan Cities
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ISBN: 9781782386773 1782386777 9780857455109 0857455109 9780857455116 0857455117 1283655632 9781283655637 Year: 2012 Volume: v. 9 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the situation of having been incorporated in previous political regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while being exposed to new national politics and migratory flows of people.


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Ethnographies of grey zones in Eastern Europe : relations, borders and invisibilities
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ISBN: 1783084138 178308412X 1783084146 Year: 2015 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations from planned to market economics, and a desire to create 'new states' and internationally minded 'new citizens' has left some in poverty, unemployment and social insecurity, leading them to rely on normative coping and semi-autonomous strategies for security and social guarantees. This anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect contemporary Eastern Europe.


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Time and the Field
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ISBN: 9781785330889 1785330888 9781785330872 178533087X Year: 2015 Publisher: New York Oxford

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In recent years, ethnographic fieldwork has been subjected to analytical scrutiny in anthropology. Ethnography remains anchored in tropes of spatiality with the association between field and fieldworker characterized by distances in space. With updates on the discussion of contemporary requirements to ethnographic research practice, Time and the Field rethinks the notion of the field in terms of time rather than space. Such an approach not only implies a particular attention to the methodology of studying local (social and ontological) imaginaries of time, but furthermore destabilitizes the relationship between fieldworker and fieldsite, allowing it to emerge as a dynamic and ever-shifting constellation.

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