Methodological approaches to societies in transformation : : how to make sense of change / / edited by Yasmine Berriane, Annuska Derks, Aymon Kreil, Dorothea Lüddeckens.

This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people expe...

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Superior document:Anthropology, Change, and Development.
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Anthropology, Change, and Development
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation – An Introduction.- Part 1: Scales of Change.- Chapter 2: Scales of Change and Diagnostic Contradictions: Shifting Relations Between an Emigrant Community and its Diaspora.- Chapter 3: Seeing Social Change through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011-2018.- Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution.- Part 2: Biographies of Change.- Chapter 5: Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist.- Chapter 6: Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco.- Chapter 7: ‘A Proper House, Not a Barn’: House Biographies and Societal Change in Urban Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 8: When a Coterie Becomes a Generation: Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb’s Egypt.- Part 3: Change in the Making.- Chapter 9: Spatializing Social Change: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Upper-Guinea.- Chapter 10: The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt.- Chapter 11: Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective.