Methodological approaches to societies in transformation how to make sense of change

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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Other Authors: Berriane, Yasmine (-), Derks, Annuska, Kreil, Aymon, Lüddeckens, Dorothea, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer Nature 2021
2021.
Series:Anthropology, Change, and Development
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654094506719
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.