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Class, CO2 and urban climate change mitigation: On saving energy in a post-industrial German city (2018)
Book Chapter
Ringel, F. (2018). Class, CO2 and urban climate change mitigation: On saving energy in a post-industrial German city. In A. Szolucha (Ed.), Energy, Resource Extraction and Society: Impacts and Contested Futures (124-139). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351213943

As part of its urban redevelopment strategies, the city of Bremerhaven transformed itself into Germany’s centre for the offshore wind energy industry. Locally produced wind turbines have come to embody the promises of the city’s regeneration in the c... Read More about Class, CO2 and urban climate change mitigation: On saving energy in a post-industrial German city.

Conflict and Security (2018)
Book Chapter
Lyon, S. M. (2018). Conflict and Security. In P. Sillitoe (Ed.), International encyclopedia of anthropology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2011

Conflict and security although related, imply different domains. Conflict has long been a pre-occupation of anthropology. Underlying assumptions about how best to understand conflict have shifted over the years, but it is probably fair to say that an... Read More about Conflict and Security.

Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US (2018)
Book Chapter
Tomori, C. (2018). Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US. In S. Dowling, K. Boyer, & D. Pontin (Eds.), Social experiences of breastfeeding: building bridges between research, policy and practice (115-130). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv4rftfc.14

Expectant parents in the US usually receive advice on all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and infant care from multiple medical experts. This guidance reflects cultural assumptions that childbearing requires specialised medical knowledge, which divi... Read More about Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US.

Charity and philanthropy (2018)
Book Chapter
Alexander, C. (2018). Charity and philanthropy. In H. Callan (Ed.), International encyclopaedia of anthropology : anthropology beyond text. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1689

Anthropological analyses of charity are often based on Maussian theories of gift exchange and inequalities between donor and recipient, sometimes compounded by spectacular displays of giving or by aid, both humanitarian and faith-based, from the glob... Read More about Charity and philanthropy.

Tobacco (2018)
Book Chapter
Russell, A. (2018). Tobacco. In H. Callan (Ed.), International encyclopedia of anthropology : anthropology beyond text. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1661

The study of the relationship between people and tobacco is of more than ethnobotanical interest; it spans many fundamental issues of current concern for anthropologists in general and for medical anthropologists in particular. These include topics s... Read More about Tobacco.

Mobility, transport and older people’s well being in sub-Saharan Africa: review and prospect (2018)
Book Chapter
Porter, G., Tewodros, A., & Gorman, M. (2018). Mobility, transport and older people’s well being in sub-Saharan Africa: review and prospect. In A. Curl, & C. Musselwhite (Eds.), Geographies of transport and ageing (75-100). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76360-6_4

This chapter presents a review of the very limited research on older people’s mobility and transport needs in urban and rural contexts across Anglophone countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This is followed by reflections on recent mixed-methods research... Read More about Mobility, transport and older people’s well being in sub-Saharan Africa: review and prospect.

‘Memory’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Mookherjee, N. (2018). ‘Memory’. In R. Bleiker (Ed.), Visual global politics. Routledge

Corpo e Persona tra i Guna (Kuna) di Panama (2017)
Book Chapter
Fortis, P. (2017). Corpo e Persona tra i Guna (Kuna) di Panama. In S. Botta, & M. Ferrara (Eds.), Corpi Sciamanici: La Nozione di Persona nello Studio dello Sciamanesimo (299-319). Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2017). Foreword. In C. Deane-Drummond, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), The evolution of human wisdom. Lexington Books