Willim explores how emerging technologies gradually become invisible, woven into everyday life through routines, infrastructures, and unremarked behaviour. He introduces the concept of “mundaniaâ…
Schreiter explores how East and West Germany used industrial design, furniture production, trade fairs, and domestic aesthetics to negotiate national identity, ideology, and modernity amid Cold War…
Aslanbeigui and Oakes chronicle how Joan Robinson built her identity as a Cambridge economist during the 1930s, overcoming gender norms and academic obstacles. Drawing on correspondence and institu…
This edited volume explores how prehistoric, historical, and ethnographic evidence from Southeast Asia illuminates economic exchange as both material trade and social interaction. Contributors exam…
Robert Biel critiques the dominant industrial food and farming system, arguing it undermines ecological diversity and intensifies dependency on fossil fuels. He advocates for sustainable paradigms …
Empson uses long-term ethnographic research among five Mongolian women to explore life in the aftermath of Mongolia’s mining-fuelled boom. Facing rising debt, precarious futures, and conflicting …
“Leading Cities” examines city leadership in 202 cities across 100 countries, investigating how leadership works through individuals, institutions, and tools. Rapoport, Acuto, and Grcheva explo…
Fre investigates the Beni-Amer cattle herders of the western Horn of Africa, arguing their indigenous knowledge about cattle breeding, genetics, and environment is sovereign and scientifically valu…
Kim draws on ethnography with amateur investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches in South Korea to explore how financialized asset capitalism is sustained through popular discontent. The…
This edited volume analyzes how Ireland’s austerity from 2008 was shaped, contested, and endured. Contributors examine banking collapse, government policy, social welfare cuts, public protest, an…