The benefits of employment in resource extraction figure prominently in state rationales for
resource extraction. However, in Canada, the site of study, while the worker is a key figure in …

Anthropologists are involved in these encounters in a variety of ways—as engaged or ac
tivist anthropologists, applied researchers and consultants, and independent ethnogra …

Job readiness programs are a propitious site for investigating the literal making of the US
working class. With the imposition of workfarist policies, these programs have become a …

In this chapter, we present an ethnographic documentation of an employment program that
is provided by a charity located in East London. We generate a critical understanding of the …

Grounded in an analysis of the mixed economy of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada,
this article examines the contemporary relationship between surplus populations and …

This critical sociolinguistic study explores how mining work is governed in the name of
security in a mine in Arctic Finland. Although the mining industry is dominated by …

This study explores the role of language and migrant students' language use in the interplay
of chronotopes (Bakhtin 1981) and language ideologies (Blommaert 1999) in vocational …

The purpose of this report is to summarize literature reporting on major social, economic,
health and cultural impacts that may be experienced by Indigenous women in the context of …

Sustainability professionals believe their work has positive social and environmental
impacts in the “real world,” but they recognize that their impactfulness is contingent on a …

In The Ends of Research Tom Özden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research
initiatives that emerged in the wake of the “War in the Woods,” a period of anti-logging …