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Post-Saddam Shiism and the end of the holy geography regret syndrome in Shiism [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2020
Religious systems spread across geographical contexts and thus form their own historical and geographical formations. The existing understanding and analysis of Shiite formulation is mainly concentrated on its time and historical developments.
J. Rahmani
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Negotiating Organizational Access as a Multifaceted Process: Comparative Research Experiences With Three Advocacy NGOs in Kenya

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021
Although research with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) has become an established practice, the process and politics of gaining access to such organizations often remains implicit in methodological literature on qualitative research.
Tara Saharan, Maaike Matelski, Emmanuel Kumi   +2 more
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Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

International Journal of the Commons, 2016
In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups.
Michael Schnegg, Theresa Linke
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Prostitution and Deservingness in Times of Pandemic: State (Non) Protection of Sex Workers in Spain

Social Sciences, 2022
During the COVID-19 health crisis, the Spanish Government launched a series of urgent measures to protect the population from its economic effects. At first, it seemed that sex workers would have access to this protection, given that, technically, their ...
Estefanía Acién González, Ángeles Arjona Garrido   +1 more
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]

, 2014
This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
Adam, Agamben, Agamben, Agamben, Anderson, Arendt, Arendt, Arendt, Asad, Barnes, Beistegui, Berger, Blackwell, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Braudel, Braun, Certeau, Davidson, Deleuze, Deleuze, Deleuze, Fabian, Fabre, Feenberg, Feenberg, Foucault, Foucault, Gell, Giddens, Grimanelli, Grimanelli, Gupta, Gurvitch, Hardt, Heidegger, Helmreich, Henare, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Hodges, Husserl, Jameson, Jameson, Koltunow, Koselleck, Landecker, Landecker, Latour, Le Goff, Leblanc, Lyman, Merleau-Ponty, Morson, Munn, Nora, Osborne, Passerin d'Entrèves, Pickering, Pickering, Rescher, Richards, Rose, Schutz, Serres, Smith, Thompson, Turetzky, Turner, Viveiros de Castro, White, Whitehead, Wolf   +74 more
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Beadwork and the Plasticity of Disability: (Un)Making Bodily Difference, Gender and Apprenticeship in Kinshasa, DR Congo

Societies, 2016
Plastic beads have recently become of importance in the lives of women with disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
Jori De Coster, Eric Metho Nkayilu, Patrick Devlieger   +2 more
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Transnationalism and Social Work Education [PDF]

, 2015
Transnational movements, networks, and relationships are everywhere in this “world on the move” (Williams & Graham, 2014, p. i1). Transnational peoples maintain relationships of interdependence and support with families and communities in their places of
Betts A., Bolzman C., Brindle D., British Academy, Castles S., Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, Crenshaw K. W., Johnson L. C., Kasinitz P., Righard E., Valtonen K.   +10 more
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"Ontological Choreography" as an Ethnographic Tool

Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology, 2015
In this article the term "ontological choreography", coined by Charis Thompson, is used as a heuristic analytical device to grasp the different realities of reproductive technologies.
Willemijn de Jong , Nolwenn Bühler, Yv E. Nay, Kathrin Zehnder   +3 more
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Review of: "Social-Cultural Anthropology in the Oldest Department of Anthropology in India: Writing History or the Suppression of Records?" [PDF]

, 2023
Soni Wadhwa
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Cross-cutting Ties and Coexistence: Intermarriage, Land Rentals and Changing Land Use Patterns among Maasai and Kikuyu of Maiella and Enoosupukia, Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya

Rural Landscapes: Society Environment History, 2015
This paper explores the value of cross-cutting ties and conflicting loyalties for the peaceful management of conflicts and the emergence of collective action across previously violently contested community boundaries in two communities in the Lake ...
Eric Mutisya Kioko, Michael Bollig
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