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Argues that the Government's response to Shek Kip Mei fire was grudging and incremental and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. This book aims to make a contrarian contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong.

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human.

Designed to explain posthumanism to those outside of academia, this brief and accessible book makes an original argument about anthropology's legacy as a study of "more than human." Smart and Smart return to the holism of classic ethnographies where cattle, pigs, yams, and sorcerers were central to the lives that were narrated by anthropologists, but they extend the discussion to include contemporary issues like microbiomes, the Anthropocene, ...

Globalization is often seen as driven by large corporations and supranational organisations. Enterprises operated by petty capitalists may be small, but there is nothing petty about their significance for the operation of economies or our understanding of contemporary societies, families, and localities. "Petty Capitalism and Globalization uses ethnographic research to examine how small firms in Europe. Asia, and Latin America have been compel...

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Argues that the Government's response to Shek Kip Mei fire was grudging and incremental and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. This book aims to make a contrarian contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong.

Examines how small firms, like large ones, are mobilizing to compete in a global economy.