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Title A comparative ethnography of alternative spaces / edited by Jens Dahl and Esther Fihl
Edition First edition
Published New York ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 252 pages) : illustrations
Contents An introduction to alternative spaces / Jens Dahl, Esther Fihl & Birgitte Schepelern Johansen -- The United Nations and the indigenous space / Jens Dahl -- The legitimacy of South Indian Caste Councils / Esther Fihl -- "Gambling is gambling" : creating de-contextualized space at an Indian Racecourse / Stine Simonsen Puri -- Frontier zones of diaspora-making : Circassian organizations in Turkey / Lars Funch Hansen -- A politics of place : the scaling and re-scaling of events in young Muslims' Internet use / Dørthe Høvids Possing -- Voices and exits in Oaxacalifornia : the reconfigurations of political spaces in the US-Mexican context / Lars Ove Trans -- An alternative national-religious space : the Danish Seamen's Church in Singapore / Margit Warburg -- A space to gaze from hence to thence : Chechens in exile / Helen Krag -- States of exception : effects and affects of authoritarianism among Christian Arabs in Damascus / Andreas Bandak -- Escalations : spying and totalitarianism in western China and beyond / Lars Højer
Summary Many people seek, in various ways, to carve out a space for themselves independently of the existing social and political realities of which they continue to be a part. Through a range of ethnographical cases, the contributors in this book address the innovative and complex ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, between states, between moralities, and between local communities and state authorities, thus creating new opportunities for agency in the modern world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Social structure.
Anthropology
anthropology.
social structure.
Social mobility.
Alternative lifestyles.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Society.
Ethnology
Tillämpad antropologi.
Etnologi -- metodik.
Form Electronic book
Author Dahl, Jens.
Fihl, Esther, 1953-
ISBN 9781137299543
1137299541
9781349452804
1349452807
1137299533
9781137299536