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'Boundary work' in a religious revival movement: The case of the 'teshuvah movement' in Israel 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
The concept of ‘boundary work’ generally refers to class, community, gender and ethnicity. This article shows how ‘boundary work’ can be usefully applied to the religious arena as well. Drawing on fie...
Beyond disbelief: A confession of religion, technology and academic conceit 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
My professional life has been built on taking a position of apostasy, or the rejection of belief, toward many if not all of the major articles of faith within the fields of literacy studies, teacher e...
Scales of attention in fieldwork: Global connections and local concerns in the Arctic 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
The social sciences face a set of complex challenges in an era of intensifying global connections that seem to undermine their constitutive object. Cultures, nations and even societies are not what th...
The yard face: The contributions of inmate interpersonal violence to the carceral habitus 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agency that provides services to formerly incarcerated individuals, it is argued that the ways that formerly incarcerated men come to emb...
Working between two worlds: Gang intervention and street liminality 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
This article analyzes ethnographic data collected from a gang intervention program to examine how former gang members use their experience to influence youth still involved in gang life. I argue that ...
Rehabilitating the 'drugs lifestyle': Criminal justice, social control, and the cultivation of agency 31 May 2013 | 11:50 am
In the face of rising imprisonment costs, drug treatment has become an increasingly popular alternative to incarceration. Yet little work has been done concerning the nature of the treatment systems f...
The ethnography of 'particularly sensitive' activities: How 'social expectations of ethnography' may reduce sociological and anthropological scope 5 Feb 2013 | 11:33 am
When ethnographers explore ‘particularly sensitive’ social activities, raising complex political, legal and ethical stakes, they sometimes work in contexts in which certain ethnographic descriptions a...
Song wennuan, 'sending warmth': Unemployment, new urban poverty, and the affective state in China 5 Feb 2013 | 11:33 am
The article examines the emerging welfare state in China through an analysis of the poverty-relief program of song wennuan, which sends the ‘warmth’ of the party in the form of gift to unemployed work...
Beyond coping? Alternatives to consumption within a social network of Russian workers 5 Feb 2013 | 11:33 am
Research on the post-socialist lived experience of the working poor often focuses on reciprocity and economic survival. It is equally important to examine how social networks facilitate self-provision...
Contested rural activities: Class, politics and shooting in the French countryside 5 Feb 2013 | 11:33 am
This article illustrates the impact of environmental protection measures on social attitudes and political behaviour in rural France through the prism of hunting. Fieldwork was conducted in France’s s...
