Tag: Ethnography

Free Download Care in a Time of Crisis: An Ethnography of Coercive Practices in Italian Acute Mental Health Provision by Eleonora Rossero
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3031344170 | 6.2 MB
The book presents the results of an ethnographic study examining the post-deinstitutionalized organization and provision of acute mental health care in Italy. While the achievements of the "Basaglia law" which imposed the closure of psychiatric hospitals in Italy in 1978 have been well-documented, this book sheds fresh light on its aftermath and possible continuing influence. The author examines two Italian regions – Piedmont and Friuli Venezia Giulia (internationally known to be the first Italian region to close down asylums) – respectively as representatives of the ‘restraint’ and ‘no-restraint’ models. Within each context, participant observation and discursive interviews have been conducted in Mental Health Centres (CSM) and acute psychiatric wards (SPDC) to explore care and coercive practices, as well as notions of ‘good care’ and values embedded in everyday working activities of these services. Situated suggestions for possible improvement of today’s acute mental health care are also proposed.

Free Download Katherine Verdery, "Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police"
English | 2014 | pages: 311 | ISBN: 6155225990 | PDF | 44,0 mb
Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell.With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments―among them Romania’s―opened their secret police archives. From those files, as well as her personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present.

Free Download Iain Walker, "Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367132877, 1138241016 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 4.2 mb
The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world.

Free Download Caroline Gatt, "An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism: Becoming Friends of the Earth "
English | ISBN: 036759420X | 2020 | 254 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical strivings of environmental activist members of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI), exploring how a transnational federation is constituted and maintained, and how different people strive to work together in their hope of contributing to the creation of "a better future for the globe." In the context of FoEI, a great diversity of environmentalisms from around the world are negotiated, discussed and evolve in relation to the experiences of the different cultures, ecosystems and human situations that the activists bring with them to the federation. Key to the global scope of this project is the analysis of FoEI experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making. The provisional results of FoEI’s ongoing experiments in this area offer a glimpse of how different notions of the environment, and being an environmentalist, can come to work together without subsuming alterity.

Free Download Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis By Susana Narotzky (editor), Victoria Goddard (editor)
2016 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 1138813982 | PDF | 3 MB
Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which – in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment – local and global actors engage with complexsocial processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work,affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.

Free Download D. Soyini Madison, "Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance Ed 3"
English | ISBN: 1483356779 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
What is critical ethnography? How do we use theory to interpret research data? What is performance ethnography? You can find answers to these fundamental questions in D. Soyini Madison′s engaging and highly multidisciplinary Third Edition of Critical Ethnography: Methods, Ethics, and Performance.

Free Download Critical Commentary on Institutional Ethnography: IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031334019 | 356 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
This edited volume gathers top scholars from across disciplines, generations, and countries to provide constructive commentary on the theory, methods and practices of institutional ethnography. These contributions explore themes of relevance to institutional ethnographers that are both enduring and newly emerging: how institutional ethnographers can take an expanded view of social institutions, how they might explore the dynamics of ruling relations over time, what results from understanding experience as dialogue (including internal or in-skull dialogue), the significance of "standpoint," and the opportunities for institutional ethnographers to move beyond texts as they discover and describe social relations.

Free Download Tahriib – Journeys into the Unknown: An Ethnography of Uncertainty in Migration
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031278208 | 240 Pages | PDF (True) | 5 MB
This book offers an innovative approach to migration by exploring Somali youths’ tahriib, their ‘journey into the unknown’. When young Somali men and women refer to the ‘unknown’, they recognize the uncertainty of their journeys. This uncertainty is partly due to the laws and policies that restrict the right to cross national boundaries and define their movements as illegal. Based on fieldwork conducted with Somali youth, mainly from Somaliland, the book details their perceptions of the journey and their practices on the way. The author shows how they position themselves in a constantly changing world before and during the so-called migration crisis that began in 2015. A vital part of tahriib is the constant search for information on possible routes ahead, a search that intensifies as the journey progresses. Specific policy responses, such as biometric registration, influence practices of gathering and sharing information. They have implications for the creation and shattering of hope and the experience of time en route. The book demonstrates that tahriib is ultimately about spending one’s time wisely and about creating and maintaining hope in what may seem hopeless situations.

Free Download What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk by Michael Lucey
English | May 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0226816656, 0226816672 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.4 MB
Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

Free Download Brian Morris, "The Power of Animals: An Ethnography"
English | ISBN: 1859732259 | 2000 | 276 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable study focuses on Malawi people and their rich and varied relationship with animals – from hunting through to their use as medicine. More broadly, through a rigorous and detailed study the author provides insights which show how the people’s relationship to their world manifests itself not strictly in social relations, but just as tellingly in their relatioships with animals – that, in fact, animals constitute a vital role in social relations. While significantly advancing classic African ethnographic studies, this book also incorporates current debates in a wide range of disciplines – from anthropology through to gender studies and ecology.