Lexington Books
Pages: 224
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-8407-4 • Hardback • August 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-8408-1 • eBook • August 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Håkon Fyhn is senior researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Harald Aspen is associate professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Anne Kathrine Larsen is associate professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Chapter 1: Building Creatures of Uncertainty: Crisis, Storytelling and Othering in the Norwegian Building Industry by Håkon Fyhn
Chapter 2: The Perfect Subject and its Discontents: Central Europe at a Crossroad by Martin Thomassen
Chapter 3: Protection as a Strategy: The Response of Bedouin Village Women to the Development of Dubai by Anne Kathrine Larsen
Chapter 4: Localizing Ontologies of Uncertainty in Neoliberal Tanzania by Liv Haram
Chapter 5: Aggravated Uncertainty: The Dubious Influence of a Modern Management Regime on Lake Chad Fisheries by Bjørn Arntsen
Chapter 6: Vulnerability and Trust: Migrants in Search of a Better Position in Urban Northern Cameroon by Trond Waage
Chapter 7: State, Peasant Society and Modernization in Ethiopia by Harald Aspen
Chapter 8: Globally Designed Accountability and Local Social Inequality; A Case Study of Two Maternal Deaths in Tanzania by Siri Lange, Dorcas Mfaume and Astrid Blystad
Chapter 9: Well-Being, Healthcare and Development in Turkana: Pre and Post Devolution by Marianna Betti
The seesaw between inclusion and exclusion, between nativism and cosmopolitanism, is analyzed through the dual prisms of global neoliberalism and ontological uncertainty in this excellent and eminently readable book, where the universally human and the locally unique comes together through people uncomfortably wedged between the hopes and fears of an unpredictable world. The case studies, most of them African, demonstrate the strength of the ethnographic attention to flesh and blood, detail and context, while also indicating why anthropology must go multiscale and interdisciplinary to make a difference.
— Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Edges of Global Transformation is a truly enlightening book. It brings together a wide variety of ethnographic studies of the neoliberal atmosphere of late capitalism and its effects in various locations in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and provides a sharp and multidimensional analysis of heightened uncertainty. The contributing authors all demonstrate in minute detail how and why the intensification of uncertainty and vulnerability is generated, as well as how it is experienced, resisted, and absorbed in local worlds. Both the empirical and analytical insights emerging from the chapters deepen our understanding of contemporary global articulations. The book deserves a wide readership.
— Halvard Vike, University of South-Eastern Norway