Category: Anthropology

The chapters during this quantity study the racial and ethnic panorama of england in a modern period of neoliberalism and fiscal challenge. A key element of neoliberal proposal is the assumption that we are living in a ‘post-racial’ during which the issues of racism and xenophobia were triumph over. even though, cultural retrenchment and coded xenophobia were sweeping the political terrain, observed by way of ‘new racisms’ and ‘new racial topics’ that in basic terms shut contextual research can unpick. The scholarship contained during this assortment demanding situations those that recommend that we are living in a post-racial time. by means of targeting specific destinations in Britain at a specific second, the quantity explores neighborhood tales of ‘race’ and racism throughout altering sociopolitical floor. This booklet is vital analyzing for students and scholars of race, racism, diaspora, multiculturalism, post-colonialism, transnationalism and post-race.

This booklet used to be initially released as a unique factor of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

The suggestion of political tourism is new to cultural and postcolonial reviews. still, it's a inspiration with significant implications for scholarship. Political Tourism and Its Texts appears on the writings of political travelers, travelers who search harmony with foreign political struggles. on the subject of the shuttle writing of, between others, Nancy Cunard, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, Ernesto Che Guevara, and Salman Rushdie, Maureen Moynagh demonstrates the ways that political tourism could be a technique of exploring the formation of transnational affiliations and commitments.

Moynagh's goals are threefold. First, she appears to be like at how those travelers create a feeling of belonging to political struggles no longer their very own and exhibit their own and political harmony, regardless of the complexity of such cross-cultural relationships. moment, Moynagh analyses how those authors place their readers relating to political events, inviting a feeling of accountability for the struggles for social justice. eventually, the writer situates key twentieth-century imperial struggles with regards to modern postcolonial and cultural experiences theories of 'new' cosmopolitanism.

Drawing on sociological, postcolonial, poststructuralist, and feminist theories, Political Tourism and Its Texts is instantly an insightful learn of recent writers and the explanations that encouraged them, and a choice to handle, with political urgency, modern neo-imperialism and the politics of worldwide inequality.

• Offers the 1st accomplished connection with the anthropological learn of complicated organizations
• Details how organizational conception and study in company has followed anthropology’s key inspiration of tradition, inspiring new insights into organizational dynamics and development
• Highlights pioneering theoretical views starting from symbolic and semiotic ways to neuroscientific frameworks for learning modern organizations
• Addresses the comparative and cross-cultural dimensions of firm agencies and of non-governmental companies operating within the globalizing economy
• Topics coated comprise organizational dynamics, entrepreneurship, innovation, social networks, cognitive versions and workforce development, organizational dysfunctions, international networked agencies, NGOs, unions, digital groups, company tradition and social responsibility
• Presents a physique of labor that displays the breadth and intensity of the sector of organizational anthropology and makes the case for the significance of the sphere within the anthropology of the twenty-first century