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ItemTheorizing social change(Wiley Blackwell, 2010)We outline primary features of a theoretical perspective on processes of social change in human systems that deals with broadly defined kinds of process, the nature of variants that are expressed and consolidate as change occurs, and, with specific reference to agency, the ways in which intentional actors are implicated in the changes that befall them. Our aim is to contribute to a general theory of process that is not prejudiced by the possible misrepresentation of outcomes arising in particular contexts (e.g. modernity), or the contexts themselves, as being causal processes. We direct attention to four problems of a methodological and ethical nature that may arise when analysts strive for generality. Résumé Les auteurs ébauchent les premières grandes lignes d'une approche théorique des processus de changement social dans les systèmes humains, abordant des types de processus définis largement, la nature de variantes qui s'expriment et se consolident au fil des changements et, en faisant spécifiquement référence àl'agency, la manière dont les acteurs intentionnels sont impliqués dans les changements qui les affectent. Notre but est de contribuer à une théorie générale du processus qui n'est pas biaisée d'emblée par une possible erreur de représentation des résultats qui surviennent dans des contextes donnés (par exemple la modernité) ou des contextes eux‐mêmes, en tant que processus causaux. Nous consacrons notre attention à quatre problèmes de nature méthodologique et éthique qui peuvent se poser quand les analystes tentent de généraliser.
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ItemHating Israel in the Field: On Ethnography and Political Emotions(Stanford University Press, 2010)
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ItemNaturopathy Around the World: Variations and Political Dilemmas of an Eclectic Heterdox Medical System(Nova Science Publishers, 2009-01-01)
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ItemGlobal Warming and the Political Ecology of Health, Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions(Taylor & Francis, 2009)
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ItemReligion, Gender and Identity Construction amongst Pakistanis in Australia(Oxford University Press, 2009)
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ItemDancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender and Cook Islands Globalization(University of Hawaii Press, 2009)
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ItemGlobal warming as a by-product of the capitalist treadmill of production and consumption - The need for an alternative global system(AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-04-01)
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ItemNeoliberalism, mobility and Cook Islands men in transit(AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOC, 2008-08-01)
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ItemKimberley friction: Complex attachments to water-places in northern Ausralia(WILEY, 2008-03-01)ABSTRACT Water, in all its physical, symbolic and metaphorical guises, has an obvious interconnection with people. Without water, human and other life forms cannot (and do not) exist. Less obvious is water's potential as a site of anthropological investigation to explore attachments to place. Such attachments, as Arturo Escobar observes, facilitate a multiplicity of place‐based cultures, and emerge when ‘connectivity, interactivity and positionality’ are present. His observation makes epistemological room for what Anna Tsing conceptualises as the ‘friction’ that permeates environmental and indigenous projects. Via Australian‐based Kimberley ethnographic insights, this article examines people's attachments to place‐based cultures when they become meaningful through multi‐layered tensions about water.