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Title A World of Insecurity : Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security / edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink
Published London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 300 pages)
Series Anthropology, culture and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Contents Human security and social anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Taking risks for security's sake : Bolivians resisting their state and its economic policies / Ton Salman -- State formation, imposition of a land market and silent resistance among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas / Bernard Venema (with Ali Mguild) -- Flexible migrants : Brazilian gold miners and their quest for human security in Surinam / Marjo de Theije and Ellen Bal -- 'Bharat-Wasie or Surinamie?' Hindustani notions of belonging in Surinam and the Netherlands / Ellen Bal and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Cultural identity as a key dimension of human security in Western Europe : the Dutch case / Edien Bartels [and others] -- 'I'd die without the cybersouk' : local experiences in a Dutch digital community centre / Lenie Brouwer -- Religion, identity and security among Pomeranian Lutheran migrants in Espírito Santo, Brazil (1880-2005) : a schema repertoire approach / André Droogers -- Changing notions of belonging : migrants and natives in an Amsterdam multicultural neighbourhood / Marion den Uyl -- Tales from a captive audience : dissident narratives and the official history of the Seychelles / Sandra Evers -- Harnessing ceremonial for political security : an Indian princely state on the verge of extinction / Dick Kooiman -- Ritual efficacy, spiritual security and human security : spirit mediumship in contemporary Vietnam / Oscar Salemink
Summary Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies. A World of Insecurity outlines a new approach to the subject. The contributors expose a contradiction at the heart of conventional accounts of what constitutes human security, namely that without taking non-material considerations such as religion, ethnicity and gender into account, discussions of human security, academically and in practical terms, are incomplete, inconclusive and deeply flawed. A variety of compelling case studies indicate that, in fact, material security alone cannot adequately explain or fully account for human activity in a range of different settings, and exposed to a variety of different threats. This forceful book will expand and deepen the entire concept of human security, in the process endowing it with political relevance. It is an essential read for students of development studies and anthropology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Social rights.
Social conflict -- Political aspects -- Case studies
Human security.
Ethnology -- Social aspects
Ethnicity.
Economic rights.
ethnicity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
Economic rights
Social rights
Social conflict -- Political aspects
Ethnicity
Human security
Sicherheit
Gesellschaft
Soziale Situation
Ethnologie
Sozialanthropologie
Identität
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.
Bal, Ellen.
Salemink, Oscar.
ISBN 9781849644419
1849644411
1783713720
9781783713721