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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Multi-sited fieldwork"”.
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… cultural globalisation based on two years of multi-sited fieldwork in South Africa, Australia, and China. Extending Goffman's (1956) theoretical frameworks of everyday dramatism such as the frontstage and the backstage, I adopt the middlestage as the primary conceptual lens of my …
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Food matters - escaping to the garden during Covid-19 lockdowns and (re-)connecting with food
… people took up gardening(HTA, 2021). From multi-sited fieldwork data, the themes of escape, memory, relations,and temporality emerged. The study explores how gardeners forge a relationship with their food when they grow it themselves in the garden taskscape (Ingold, 1993). Participants …
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The Political Geography of Regional Diplomacy in the Russian Federation
… Russian regions in this contested environment. Multi-sited fieldwork specifically focuses on three case study regions, each heavily engaged in paradiplomacy, but acting through deeply contrasting international political structures. Comparing the activities of the Republic of Tatarstan, the …
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Audiovisual Indigeneities and Cosmopolitics: Shifting Political Grounds in the New Landscapes of Communication and Resources of Hope in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
… increasing control of the land in the region by multinational agribusiness. It also examines how "new landscapes of communication" (Beck 2016, 112) created by the emergence of digital media-sharing platforms such as YouTube and Facebook open arenas for the "symbolic confrontation" (Gruzinski …
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After Wonder Drugs: An Ethnography of Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal
… drugs. Drawing on eighteen months of online, multi-sited fieldwork, and over one hundred interviews with patients, researchers, clinicians, and activists, I take the problem of withdrawal as an ethnographic object, setting up shop in the opening between accepted medical commonsense about these …
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Music in Urban La Paz, Bolivian Nationalism, and the Early History of Cosmopolitan Andean Music: 1936--1970
… archival research conducted in La Paz and multi-sited fieldwork in Bolivia, Argentina and France, this dissertation chronicles the gradual construction of urban folkloric versions of rural Andean indigenous musical practices as central emblems of Bolivian national identity. Strikingly, …
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A feminist anthropology of barriers to implementing the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act (CTOP)
… addressed community barriers (2000). I conducted multi-sited fieldwork between two townships in Cape Town, South Africa on the urban periphery of Cape Town, South Africa. The inhabitants of these two communities are black Xhosa speaking South Africans who live in a mix of informal shack, …
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Scaling down Judaism: The politics of tradition and change among liberal observant Jews in Israel
… past two decades. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Israel between 2014 and 2017 among religious congregations and nongovernmental organizations that belong to liberal circles of Religious-Zionist society. The revolution is about shifting the locus of religious authority from formal …
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The Dualities of Home: Hong Kong Citizens in a Mobile World
… as a deteriorating city in crisis. I conducted multi-sited fieldwork in three key locations: Hong Kong, their long-term place of residence; Fuzhou, their ancestral place of origin and return; and the Greater Bay, a new ‘Silicon Valley’ that actively incorporates Hong Kong into South China. …
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Nature, Nurture and Values in Development: Water as a Resource in Kazakhstan
… (IRCC)), this study has conducted two stages of multi-sited fieldwork in Kazakhstan (mainly in Almaty and Taraz) in 2018 and 2019 respectively where the empirical evidence presented shows that informal institutions can also be a viable means of governance in serving the common interests. The main …
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
This study focuses on the history, teachings and culture of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order whose roots in North Africa emerge in mid-19th century Palestine with the arrival of its founder, Shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti. To this end, this thesis constructs the biographies of the founder …