A comparative ethnography of alternative spaces /
edited by Jens Dahl and Esther Fihl.
- First edition.
- New York ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- x, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
An introduction to alternative spaces / The United Nations and the indigenous space / The legitimacy of South Indian Caste Councils / "Gambling is gambling" : creating de-contextualized space at an Indian Racecourse / Frontier zones of diaspora-making : Circassian organizations in Turkey / A politics of place : the scaling and re-scaling of events in young Muslims' Internet use / Voices and exits in Oaxacalifornia : the reconfigurations of political spaces in the US-Mexican context / An alternative national-religious space : the Danish Seamen's Church in Singapore / A space to gaze from hence to thence : Chechens in exile / States of exception : effects and affects of authoritarianism among Christian Arabs in Damascus / Escalations : spying and totalitarianism in western China and beyond / Jens Dahl, Esther Fihl & Birgitte Schepelern Johansen -- Jens Dahl -- Esther Fihl -- Stine Simonsen Puri -- Lars Funch Hansen -- Dørthe Høvids Possing -- Lars Ove Trans -- Margit Warburg -- Helen Krag -- Andreas Bandak -- Lars Højer.
Many people seek, in various ways, to carve out a space for themselves independently of the existing social and political realities of which they continue to be a part. Through a range of ethnographical cases, the contributors in this book address the innovative and complex ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, between states, between moralities, and between local communities and state authorities, thus creating new opportunities for agency in the modern world.