CER Books
Jim Crow. Le terrorisme de caste en Amérique
By Loïc Wacquant. We associate the notion of caste with Brahmanical India but, in the South of the United States between the 1890s and 1960s, blacks, descendants of slaves, were treated as a sub-caste, true “untouchables” in the country...Read more about Jim Crow. Le terrorisme de caste en Amérique
Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère
By Loïc Wacquant.Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère (The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, published by Raisons d’agir Éditions, “Cours et travaux,” 2023) is a book of ethnographic epistemology, theory, and advocacy: a critique...Read more about Misère de l’ethnographie de la misère
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
By Jovan Scott Lewis - Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the...Read more about Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa
Potholes in the Road: Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School
By Martín Sánchez-Jankowski - Education has been increasingly lauded as the path to achieving the American Dream, and in this book Martín Sánchez-Jankowski uses extensive ethnographic research to explore the dynamics of the interrelated barriers that low-income students...Read more about Potholes in the Road: Transition Problems for Low-Income Youth in High School
Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair
By Jovan Scott Lewis - Jovan Scott Lewis tells the story of three young and poor men striving to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. Scammer’s Yard describes how these young men,...Read more about Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Manata Hashemi - Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Coming of Age in Iran, Manata Hashemi takes us inside the lives of poor Iranian youth, showing how these...Read more about Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity
Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography
Corey M. Abramson - The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how...Read more about Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography
The End Game: How Inequality Shapes our Final Years
Corey Abramson - Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among...Read more about The End Game: How Inequality Shapes our Final Years
Burning Dislike: Ethnic Violence in High Schools
Martín Sánchez-Jankowski - Violence in schools has more potential to involve large numbers of students, produce injuries, disrupt instructional time, and cause property damage than any other form of youth violence. Burning Dislike is the first book to use...Read more about Burning Dislike: Ethnic Violence in High Schools
Violence at the Urban Margins
Edited by Javier Auyero, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and Philippe Bourgois In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that...Read more about Violence at the Urban Margins
Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts
Edited by Manata Hashemi and Martín Sánchez-Jankowski This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global...Read more about Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts
Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory
Edited by Annalisa Sannino, Harry Daniels, and Kris Gutiérrez - The book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed and applied by Yrjo Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of Vygotsky and Leont’ev and...Read more about Learning and Expanding with Activity Theory
Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
Martin Sanchez-Jankowski - Woven throughout with rich details of everyday life, this original, on-the-ground study of poor neighborhoods challenges much prevailing wisdom about urban poverty, shedding new light on the people, institutions, and culture in these communities...Read more about Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
Nancy Scheper-Hughes - From Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” to Joseph Conrad’s “fascination of the abomination,” humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology’s most passionate voices on this subject, Violence...Read more about Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
Commodifying Bodies
Edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant - Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics...Read more about Commodifying Bodies
Global Ethnography
Edited by Michael Burawoy - In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the...Read more about Global Ethnography
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes - When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness...Read more about Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Ethnography Unbound
Edited by Michael Burawoy - In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern...Read more about Ethnography Unbound
