The Digital Divide
The Digital Divide

Author: Jan van Dijk

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1509534466

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Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years. In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he explores the motivations and challenges of seeking access and the development of requisite digital skills. He addresses key questions such as: Does digital inequality reduce or reinforce existing, traditional inequalities? Does it create new, previously unknown social inequalities? While digital inequality affects all aspects of society and the problem is here to stay, Van Dijk outlines policies we can put in place to mitigate it. The Digital Divide is required reading for students and scholars of media, communication, sociology, and related disciplines, as well as for policymakers.

Theory from the South
Theory from the South

Author: Jean Comaroff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1317250621

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As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory from the South provides new insights into key problems of our time.

Archaeology and Anthropology
Archaeology and Anthropology

Author: David Shankland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1000181626

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Though archaeologists have long acknowledged the work of social anthropologists, anthropologists have been much less eager to repay the compliment. This volume argues that the time has come to recognise the insights archaeological approaches can bring to anthropology. Archaeology's rigorous approach to evidence and material culture; its ability to develop flexible research methodologies; its readiness to work with large-scale models of comparative social change, and to embrace the latest technology all means that it can offer valuable methods that can enrich and enhance current anthropological thinking.Cross-disciplinary and international in scope, this exciting volume draws together cutting-edge essays on the relationship between the two disciplines, arguing for greater collaboration and pointing to new concepts and approaches for anthropology. With contributions from leading scholars, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines.

The Time of Anthropology
The Time of Anthropology

Author: Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1000182622

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The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research. The Introduction and Chapters 5, 6, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Shifting States
Shifting States

Author: Alison Dundon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781350125575

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The 13 chapters in this collection were specially selected from over 400 papers given at the 'Shifting States' conference at the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2017. The papers were selected on the basis of their empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions to the theme. The volume comprises an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, making it relevant across a range of contemporary issues. Part I of the volume, 'Dialectics of Security, Surveillance and Struggle', examines trajectories of state organization and security in the context of late-capitalism and technological saturation. Examples here are taken from Aboriginal Australia and urban North America, and include discussions of militarisation, post-colonial settlements, and the politics of migration. Part II, 'Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation and Mobilization', presents ethnographies of industrial, energy, and transportation infrastructures, and uses these to think about how such large scale projects not only reflect government aspirations, but engender new realms for state-citizen engagements. Examples here are taken from Latin America, Post-Socialist Europe and South-east Asia, and examines issues of contingency, citizenship, and human security. Part III, 'Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries', explores the sensual life of state formations, opening up discussion of the politics of embodiment and affect. Examples here are again drawn from Australia, Europe and the Pacific, and include discussions of public health interventions, bio-medical power more broadly, and the politics of intimate relations. Moving seamlessly from the specific to the nation-wide, the volume develops new theoretical understandings of the state and will be of value for scholars of anthropology, political philosophy and political science.