One of the productive manners by which democratic theorists respond to the complexity of modern political institutions is by exploring different ways to conceptualize the meaning of the democratic demos ( Cohen 1999 ; Gould 2006 ; Williams 2009
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Affected Interests and Their Institutions
Amit Ron
In Democratic Theory
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 66–81 (16 total)
Apprenticeship and Global Institutions
Learning Japanese Psychiatry
Joshua Breslau
How is the knowledge embedded in a global institution such as psychiatry integrated into taken-for-granted understandings and everyday medical practice in a non-Western setting such as Japan? How can ethnographic research address this question without simplifying institutional complexity and cross-cultural variations? This paper argues that the ethnography of apprenticeship can resolve these tensions between global and local sources of cultural knowledge. Recent work in cognitive anthropology and practice theory has demonstrated the value of examining apprenticeship as a window onto dynamics of institutional production and reproduction. As an ethnographic strategy, the study of apprenticeship makes the processes through which knowledge crosses cultural boundaries accessible to research. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research on the training of Japanese psychiatrists, I describe the institutional structure in which psychiatric knowledge becomes embedded in newly trained psychiatrists. This system, known as the ikyoku system, reproduces many characteristics of Japanese organizational patterns. Examining the details of this system offers additional insight into the particular way in which psychiatric knowledge becomes situated in contemporary Japanese society. The theory of apprenticeship, however, has a much broader potential for informing ethnographic research strategies for studying contemporary global institutions.
Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered
Wolfgang Merkel and Jean-Paul Gagnon
looks not only at input; it looks very much at institutional procedures as well (Buhlmann, Merkel et al. 2012) . In system-theoretical terminology we would call this a focus on throughput (see David Easton [1957] for more on input/output and Vivien
Personal and Professional Encompassment in Organizational Capacity Building
SOS Children’s Villages and Supportive Housing
Viktoryia Kalesnikava
What is the purpose of an organization? How does an institution enact or build its perceived capacity? These questions are hardly intriguing or new. Yet once we look past the bureaucratic tiers of regulatory policies and prescriptive practices
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 99–113 (15 total)
Returnees, Institutions, and Networks
Making Space for Technology Entrepreneurship in Beirut
William Benton
information economy in Beirut. Venture founders need both expertise and, as a venture grows, talented people to hire, and funders need to develop a fine-grained sense of local investment opportunities to fulfil their fund hypothesis. Local institutions
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 69–84 (16 total)
Student engagement in the management of accelerated change
Anthropological reflections on ‘Project 2012’ and The Offer
Anselma Gallinat
funding engendered considerable public debate around issues of fairness and access. It also launched intense activity in higher education institutions as they sought to adapt existing practices, structures and policies to the anticipated new reality. There
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 35–56 (22 total)
Thinking about Thinking
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Finding Continuity in US Military Veterans’ Embodied Minds
Anna Zogas
healing technologies and the disciplinary techniques of institutions. Veterans’ experience of their injuries, their cognitive impairments and the rehabilitative options available at the VA are entangled with the experience of leaving an archetypal
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 80–98 (19 total)
Wal-Mart Goes To Germany
Culture, Institutions, and the Limits of Globalization
Matthias Kaelberer
of German consumers and businesses. Domestic culture and institutions interact to constrain convergence towards a single model of doing business in the retail sector. The factors that benefit Wal-Mart’s market power in the United States and many other
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 1–18 (18 total)
Institutional Readiness for Community–University Alliances
Perspectives on Repatriation
Rebecca L. Bourgeois and Andie D. Palmer
Collaborative research between institutions and Indigenous communities in Canada has aimed to address injustices born out of oppressive colonial power imbalances. Although it is impossible to truly decolonise something that is the direct result of
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 11–26 (16 total)
Institutional Distrust, Institutional Participation, and Protest Behavior in the European Social Movement Sector
Matthew Schoene
How do institutional distrust and institutional participation influence various types of protest activity? Institutions, or shared and learned systems of behavior, are the building blocks of mass society and represent a bridge between public and