This review surveys an emergent methodological trend in anthropological research that
concerns the adaptation of long-standing modes of ethnographic practices to more complex …

Economic considerations in language policy constitute a relatively new development.
Traditionally, policy discourses about language have tended to rely on one of three main …

Wie verläuft die Persönlichkeitsentwicklung eines Kleinkindes? Wie wirkt sich die
Berufstätigkeit der Mutter oder verstärktes Engagement des Vaters bei der Erziehung aus …

Unthinking Eurocentrism, a seminal and award-winning work in postcolonial studies first
published in 1994, explored Eurocentrism as an interlocking network of buried premises …

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an
international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader …

This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of
society'and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time …

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime
of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate …

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action
which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the …

Dystopias may once have functioned to raise an emancipatory alarm about the present;
today they all too readily confirm the'worst case scenarios' of the policy planners, using the …

Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies
were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy …