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A Debt of One's Own
(2018-10-26)This thesis explores the disciplinary aspects of formal financial institutions, and in particular banks, upon population behavior. To that end, the political significance of banks is first traced throughout the European ... -
Class-based Structural Violence in Britain
(2018-10-25)This thesis identifies and analyses the major patterns of class-based structural violence (based on the differential access to class power) in some of the main areas of social organisation in Britain in the period from ... -
Making Stem Cell Niches: An Ethnography of Regenerative Medicine in Scotland and the United States
(2018-10-20)This thesis presents the findings from an ethnography of stem cell science based on fieldwork with researchers in two connected laboratories in Scotland and the United States. It explores stem cell scientists' complicated ... -
Professionalised Intimacy: How Dementia Care Workers Navigate Between Domestic Intimacy and Institutional Detachment
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018-06-17)This paper reports an ethnographic study of the handover routines in Germany’s first Dementia Village, with a central focus on how care is balanced between domestic intimacy and institutional detachment. The term ...
