Political & Economic Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific

   Foreign bodies in tinned tuna

   By Kate Barclay

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving rise to interesting new economic relationships, and interesting new interactions between nationalities. This book considers the role of the Japanese...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The State in India after Liberalization

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women, Identity and India's Call Centre Industry

   By J.K. Tina Basi

   Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series

   This book examines the concept of globalised identities and the way in which agency is exercised over identity construction by women working in India’s transnational call centre industry. Drawing on qualitative empirical data and extensive original fieldwork, the book provides a nuanced analysis...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. NGOs in India

   The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability

   By Patrick Kilby

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
6. Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power

   Edited by Liana Chua, Joanna Cook, Nicholas Long, Lee Wilson

   Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

   Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. The book works...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Surviving Dictatorship

   A Work of Visual Sociology

   By Jacqueline Adams

   Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

   Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses on...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

   Traversing the Margins

   By Chad Haines

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern Pakistan. Focusing on this highway, this book provides a unique analysis of the...

   Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

   Creativity Behind Barbed Wire

   Edited by Gilly Carr, Harold Mytum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

   This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics

    A Darrell Posey Reader

    By Darrell A. Posey

    Edited by Kristiana Plenderleith

    Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

    Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge