The History of Thyssenprovides a summary of a research project funded by the Thyssen Foundations. It is both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Other Borders is a deeply thorough, multi-site ethnographic research volume that brings forward the rudari lingurari family’s social and economic cultural organization and the mobilities developed in their migratory paths.
Reviewing the story of prosperity in Central and Eastern Europe up to current debates,... Læs mere
Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.
Today the UNHCR is present in more than 130 countries and takes care of some 90 million people. This book looks at how it... Læs mere
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
This collection gathers together, for the first time in English, some of H.G. Adler’s most important scholarly essays on the Shoah and... Læs mere
This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan... Læs mere
Heritage under Socialism enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies. Its transnational... Læs mere