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  • HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A PANDEMIC
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    HOW TO LIVE THROUGH A PANDEMIC
    SIMONE ABRAM, HELEN LAMBERT AND JUDE ROBINSON
    This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are experienced and what we can learn from Covid-19 as well as previous instances that might inform future responses and help to alleviate suffering. The chapters highlight current research and longer-term reflections from different countrie...

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  • TOURISTS AND TOURISM
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    TOURISTS AND TOURISM
    SIMONE ABRAM / JACQUELINE WALDREN / DONALD V.L. MACLEOD
    The fact that tourism is a major global industry forecast to continue its dramatic growth well into the twenty-first century is often cited as a rationale for its analysis. However, while the connection between individual locations and the world's global markets is an obvious product of tourism, the heart of the tourist experience is the construction of identity: the relation o...

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  • ELECTRIFYING ANTHROPOLOGY
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    ELECTRIFYING ANTHROPOLOGY
    SIMONE ABRAM / ‎BRIT ROSS WINTHEREIK / ‎THOMAS YARROW
    What kinds of expertise and knowledge relate to electricity, and where is the space for alternative voices? How can the new roles for electricity in social and cultural life be acknowledged? How can we speak about ‘it’ in its own right while acknowledging that electricity is not one thing? This book re-describes electricity and its infrastructures using insights from anthropolo...

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  • RATIONALITIES OF PLANNING
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    RATIONALITIES OF PLANNING
    JONATHAN MURDOCH / SIMONE ABRAM
    What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK and the rationality of 'sustainable development'. Supported by a wealth of empir...

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  • CULTURE AND PLANNING
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    CULTURE AND PLANNING
    SIMONE ABRAM
    In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk about culture. This book brings that focus to planning research, examining cultu...

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  • ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
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    ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
    ABRAM, SIMONE / WALDREN, JACQUELINE
    This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. All the contributors use rigorous anthropological methods of analysis to sh...

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