Book Review

Rice, Stephen K. and Michael D. Maltz, eds. 2018. Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Cham: Springer.

Threatening the Social Order

One of the most productive loci for the analysis of the security – morality nexus is the making of security laws and norms which reveals the ways in which the social order is perceived to be under threat. This article argues for a critical examination …

From Excerpt to Cosplay. Paths of Knowledge in the Nordic Museum Archive

The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurately, the research question relates to the process that starts with many ethnologists who, over time, come to increasingly view formerly important materials as less relevant to their own academic issues.

Crafting Spaces of Value: Infrastructure, Technologies of Extraction and Contested Oil in Nigeria

Using the example of the Bodo community in Ogoniland, where local youths operate refineries constructed with local materials and technology, I show that such refineries represent an emergent form of energy capture that transforms the creeks of the Niger Delta into islands of carbon sale and challenges state and corporate power.

Book Reviews

Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 148-162

Book Reviews

Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 205-228

Afterword

Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 176-185