Publications
06
December 00
Even in Sweden:
Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination
By Allan Pred
Geography Professor
Allan Pred's "Even in Sweden" documents the advent of racial
discrimination in a country once regarded as a model of social justice.
Quoting directly from parliamentary statements, newspaper articles,
and first-hand accounts from non-Swedish residents, the book reveals
an increasing ill will toward immigrants and refugees who took advantage
of Sweden's lenient immigration policy years ago.
Sources tell how
segregation is more evident in classrooms and residential areas, and
how a falling euro currency has left immigrants vulnerable to the rising
discontent of a nation whose economic prosperity had helped to maintain
tolerance.
University of California
Press
338 pages
Global Ethnography:
Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
By Michael Burawoy,
Joseph Blum, Sheba George, Zsuzsa Gille, Teresa Gowan, Lynne Haney,
Maren Klawiter, Steven H. Lopez, Seán Ó Riain and Millie
Thayer
One conventional
approach of ethnography is to study the cultural behavior of people
living within a bounded geographic location. The challenge presented
by Sociology Professor Michael Burawoy in "Global Ethnography"
is to do an ethnographic study on a social group distributed around
the world, if such a thing can be found.
Nine Berkeley ethnographers
in a dissertation group led by Burawoy take up his challenge, exploring
the global dynamics that can be inferred from their individual ethnographies
of subjects as varied as Irish software developers, shipyard workers,
Brazilian activists and homeless recyclers.
University of California
Press
394 pages
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