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Contested Solidarity
Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism
This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« sheds light on the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity.
Tobias Haller
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Claudia Zingerli
(eds.)
Towards Shared Research
Participatory and Integrative Approaches in Researching African Environments
This book investigates how to achieve a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments using shared research processes.
Susanne Epple
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Getachew Assefa
(eds.)
Legal Pluralism in Ethiopia
Actors, Challenges and Solutions
Legal pluralism is a challenge, but one that has stimulated remarkably creative responses to handling the many legal systems in Ethiopia today.
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia
Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community
What is the meaning of marriage when only few marry? This book tells the entwined stories of class formation and marriage decline in Namibia.
Florian Mühlfried
(ed.)
Mistrust
Ethnographic Approximations
Mistrust is usually treated as an annoying absence and a societal failure. This book takes a step back and explores what people actually do when they mistrust.
Urban Planning and Everyday Urbanisation
A Case Study on Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Urbanisation in Bahir Dar poses challenges to urban living conditions. This book argues that urban development therefore needs to be locally grounded, differentiated and inclusive.
Bonded Labour
Global and Comparative Perspectives (18th–21st Century)
After slavery, indentured labour stilled global capitalism's need for cheap labour. This volume investigates global variants of bonded labour that exist until today.
Spaces and Identities in Border Regions
Politics – Media – Subjects
The authors examine spaces and identities resulting from social practice in cross-border contexts in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Ethnicity as a Political Resource
Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods
Politics of ethnicity – this volume presents the first attempt to analyze ethnicity from an interdisciplinary angle in a comparative, global, and historical perspective.
Port Cities as Areas of Transition
Ethnographic Perspectives
Port cities have always been the gateway to the world. This anthology shows port cities as crucibles of globalization and trans-nationalization processes, developing their own kinds of urban structures.