( Namibian 1995a , 1995b , 1995c , 1995d ). In response, the government chose a course of action that drastically diverged from the typical course of reintegration programs—mass public employment. 4 Through this effort called ‘Peace Project’ more than 18
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In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 186–201 (16 total)
W(h)ither New Age Studies?
The Uses of Ethnography in a Contested Field of Scholarship
Matthew Wood
Since the 1980s, there has existed a field of scholarly inquiry into a range of phenomena termed New Age. The relative lack of ethnographic studies in this field was identified several years ago, in response to research that focused merely on the discourses within alleged key writings. However, the employment of ethnographic methods does not by itself resolve the problems inherent in other modes of research; attention also has to be paid to how ethnography is used in practice. This article examines ethnographies of the New Age in terms of the extent to which they contextualize data within their immediate social frames, by paying attention to actors' practices and interactions, and to the ways in which beliefs and discourses are constructed and contested. The article demonstrates the strong tendency among New Age ethnographic studies to veer from 'the social' and to rest instead on analytically problematic conceptualizations of agency. It argues that epistemological revision is required to form the basis of a more sociologically adequate understanding of the phenomena addressed.
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Mar 2010
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- 76–88 (13 total)
Shadow Soldiering
Shifting Constellations and Permeable Boundaries in “Private” Security Contracting
Maya Mynster Christensen
retrained for purposes of armed security work, she suspended the company. Following their failure in Liberia, Sabre International initiated collaboration with the Sierra Leone government. Here, the recruitment was launched as an official youth employment
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 24–41 (18 total)
Between Labor Migration and Forced Displacement
Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Côte d’Ivoire Transnational Space
Jesper Bjarnesen
return due to personal misfortune. As the persecution of Burkinabe “strangers” in Côte d’Ivoire intensified after Laurent Gbagbo’s contested electoral victory in 2000, so did the flows of returnees, who left their plantations, wage employment, or small
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 52–67 (16 total)
Corinna Mullin and Ian Patel
’s 2003 “Anti-Terror” law ( ICG 2016 ). This Amnesty Law also stipulated financial compensation for former political prisoners and reinstatement into employment ( Amnesty International 2011 ). Furthermore, several ad hoc reparations measures were enacted
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 104–124 (21 total)
Co-constituting Bodyguarding Practice through Embodied Reflexivity
Methodological Reflections from the Field
Paul Higate
I could tell, there was no formal, industry-wide agreed-upon qualification to work in so-called hostile regions; rather, it was the training company’s reputation that facilitated employment (or otherwise) in the role of armed CP. In sum, though
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 42–59 (18 total)
Amanda J. Reinke
associated box on employment applications; those that try juveniles as adults or place juveniles in solitary confinement; or those that have a “three-strikes law” in which offenders are imprisoned for life after committing three serious or violent felonies
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- 135–150 (16 total)
Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Locating Structural Violence at the Interstices of Bureaucracies
Megan Sheehan
migrants and more than two-thirds of Peruvian women working in this sector ( Cano and Soffia 2009 ). Migrants also find employment as sales personnel, street vendors, waitstaff, kitchen assistants, landscapers, construction workers, street sweepers, and
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 151–166 (16 total)
The Meanings of the Move?
From “Predicaments of Mobility” to “Potentialities in Displacement”
Stephen C. Lubkemann
situation in Mozambique, particularly, in Machaze, remained bleak. The vast majority of men who returned to Machaze after the war quickly realized that migration to South Africa for employment was still their only earning option. However, at the same time
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 16–36 (21 total)
Invisible Veterans
Defeated Militants and Enduring Revolutionary Social Values in Dhufar, Oman
Alice Wilson
's revolution? In the Oman of Sultan Qaboos, in theory all Omanis are equal with respect to being citizens and subjects of the state. Social mixing certainly does occur in schools, dormitories, and places of employment. Nevertheless, in Salalah, as elsewhere in
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 132–149 (18 total)