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Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation : How to Make Sense of Change.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berriane, Yasmine.
Other Authors: Derks, Annuska., Kreil, Aymon., Lüddeckens, Dorothea.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Anthropology, Change, and Development Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation-An Introduction
  • Ethnography and Change: A Key Social Science Issue
  • The Assets of Ethnography for Studying Change
  • Periodization and the Naming of Change
  • The Indeterminacies of Lived Change
  • Studying Snapshots of Change: An Analytical Framework
  • Book Outline
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part I Scales of Change
  • 2 Scales of Change and Diagnostic Contradictions: Shifting Relations Between an Emigrant Community and Its Diaspora
  • Scale as Scope and Valence
  • Change and Diagnostic Contradictions
  • Economic Change and Continuity in Social Organization
  • Erasure of the Past and the Eternity of the Lineage
  • Local Change and the Changing Relationship with the Diaspora
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Seeing Social Change Through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011-2018
  • "We All Support the Revolution": Private Egyptian Universities in 2012
  • Public Universities During the Revolutionary Years, 2011-2013
  • Change After 2013
  • Conflicting Metanarratives of Change: Revolution and Internationalization
  • Where Is Change, and How Can It Be Studied?
  • Conclusion: What Does an Institutional Lens Tells Us About Change?
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution
  • Revolution: Change and Continuity
  • Metanarratives of Change: Reform or Revolution?
  • The Death of Fidel Castro
  • Aleyda: From the Solar to the Casa Particular
  • Conclusion: When Change Is the Norm
  • Bibliography
  • Part II Biographies of Change
  • 5 Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist
  • Introduction
  • Intergenerational Transmission as a Subject of Life Stories.
  • Interview: Shafik
  • The First Day of School as an Emblematic Scene
  • Peer Violence and Liminality
  • Language and Collective Identity
  • Politicization at University
  • After University: Politics and Precariousness
  • Discussion: Intergenerational Disparity, Peer Violence, and the Production of the Precariat
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • 6 Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco
  • Main Witnesses and Master Narratives of Political Change
  • Biographies, Traces, and Nonhegemonic Accounts of the Nation
  • Biography as Archivistic Imaginary of Continuity
  • Memory Practices and Biographic Fieldwork
  • Discrete Perspectives on Political Change
  • Bibliography
  • 7 "A Proper House, Not a Barn": House Biographies and Societal Change in Urban Kyrgyzstan
  • Introduction
  • The Birth of Ak Jar and Its Inhabitants' Concerns
  • The Houses of Ak Jar: More Than just Bystanders
  • Gradual Change in Chinara's Shack
  • 2012: Early Days in a Dark and Stuffy Room
  • 2013: Growing More Solid Through New Acquisitions
  • 2014: Standing Firm-Gated and Fenced
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 8 When a Coterie Becomes a Generation: Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb's Egypt
  • Generational Rhetoric in Interwar Egypt: Transmission and Rupture
  • Intellectual Networks and the Shifting Registers of Argumentation: Generation and Shilaliyya
  • Moment One: Sayyid Qutb and the Battle of Literary Criticism in 1934: From Peers to a Mentor
  • Moment Two: Sayyid Qutb and the Battle of Juniors and Seniors in 1947: From Mentors to Peers
  • Writing Oneself Into and Out of Generations: The Cases of Naguib Mahfuz and Sayyid Qutb
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part III Change in the Making
  • 9 Spatializing Social Change: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Upper Guinea.
  • Mines as Liminal Spaces
  • Coffee and Cigarettes: Challenging Gendered Expectations
  • A Doorway to a Modern World?
  • Mines as Ephemeral Spaces?
  • Hyper-Mobility: Mine(Rs) on the Move
  • Micro-Urbanization: Mining Territorialization
  • Conclusion: Understanding Social Change Through the Analysis of Spaces
  • Bibliography
  • 10 The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt
  • The Rhythms of a Revolution and Its Aftermath
  • Early February, 2011: Downtown Cairo
  • Later in February, 2011: Downtown Cairo
  • January, 2015: Downtown Cairo
  • The Massacre and the Trauma
  • Sensing Change: A Study of Change Grounded in Empirical Research
  • Assets and Limits of the Methodology
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • 11 Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective
  • Introduction
  • Funeral Reforms in Taiwan and Their Historical Context
  • Methodology
  • Studying Change with Discourse Analysis
  • Discourse
  • The Data: Press Articles
  • Funeral Reform in Public Discourse
  • The Measurement of Space
  • The Economy of Cremation
  • The Beautification of Cemeteries
  • Anti-Superstition
  • Secularization
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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