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The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states. Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplinary team of scholars examines the concept of colonialism from a historical and socio-political perspective. They show how the language of investment, development aid, mutual interest, or philanthropy is used to cloak the virulent forms of exploitation on the continent, thereby perpetuating a state of neocolonialism that has left many African people poor and in the margins.

Sovereignty --- Economic aspects --- Africa --- Economic conditions --- Colonial influence. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Political science --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Law and legislation --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Europe --- Economic history. --- Economic aspects.

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Over organisatiecultuur wordt veel geschreven, gezucht en gesproken. Cultuur is van oudsher het aandachtsgebied van antropologen. De corporate antropologie kijkt met dezelfde verwonderde blik naar organisaties, boardrooms en leiders zoals antropologen dat naar tribale samenlevingen doen. Lezers van dit boek worden meegenomen op een reis langs verre vreemde volkeren. Om vervolgens met een andere, nieuwe blik te kijken naar de eigen organisatie. In zo'n dertig meeslepende verhalen wordt een andere blik op organiseren en organisaties gegeven. Exotisch, maar met praktisch toepasbare denkwijzen, tips en verandermodellen. Door het lezen raak je prettig in de war én goed toegerust met een antropologische blik en een gereedschapskist om met de eigen organisatiecultuur of die van klanten aan de slag te gaan. Danielle Braun en Jitske Kramer zijn corporate antropoloog. Zij beschouwen organisaties als tribes, structuren als verwantschapssystemen, leiders als chiefs, visie documenten als totempalen. De auteurs gaan op zoek naar de onderstroom van organisaties, de bezieling, de mogelijkheden voor natuurlijke transitie en de soms bizarre rituelen die maken dat samenwerken, leiden en veranderen lastig, maar zeker niet onmogelijk is. Wie dit boek leest, wordt een beetje antropoloog en kijkt nooit meer hetzelfde naar organisaties. 'De Corporate Tribe' is een boek voor leiders, consultants, trainers, coaches, veranderaars die de geëigende modellen en scans voor cultuurverandering voorbij zijn. Die willen werken met de onderstroom van organisaties. Die voeding zoeken voor leiderschap en verandering in een nieuwe tijd. Die anders willen organiseren. De antropologische verhalen in dit boek geven inzicht en praktische tools en modellen voor organiseren, veranderen en leiden van organisaties. We kijken de kunst af bij verre vreemde volken. Omdat we al lang weten hoe we moeten organiseren. We zijn het soms alleen even vergeten.Bron : http://www.bol.com

management --- organisatiecultuur --- Organization theory --- organisatiepsychologie --- social anthropology --- culturele antropologie --- intermenselijke relaties --- Change strategie beleid cultuur verandering success gedrag communiceren agile agility wendbaarheid veerkracht --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A500 --- #SBIB:35H300 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Organisatiesociologie: algemeen --- Organisatieleer: algemene werken --- PXL-Business 2018 --- organisatiekunde --- antropologie --- managementfilosofie --- Organisatieleer --- Antropologie --- Arbeidssociologie --- Organisatieculturen --- Organisatiesociologie --- Organigrammen --- Het nieuwe werken --- Veranderingsmanagement --- Motivatie --- Leidinggeven --- Organisatiecultuur --- Management --- Organisaties, verandering --- Organigram --- Leiderschap --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Communicatie. --- Management. --- Organisatiecultuur. --- Organisaties. --- Architectuur. --- Kunst.

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Mongolia over the last decade has seen a substantial and ongoing gold rush. The widespread mining of gold looks at first glance to be a blessing for a desperately poor and largely pastoralist country where people's lives were disrupted by the end of the USSR and tens of millions of livestock were killed in devastating droughts in the early 2000s. Volatility and uncertainty as well as political and economic turmoil led many people to join the hopeful search for gold. This activity, born out of uncertain times, poses an intense moral problem; in the "land of dust," disturbing the ground and extracting the precious metal is widely believed to have calamitous consequences. With gold retaining strong ties to the landscape and its many spirit beings, the fortune of the precious metal is inseparable from the fears that surround mining. Tracing the continuities and discontinuities between human and nonhuman worlds, Mette M. High follows the paths of gold as it is excavated and converted into "polluted money," entering local shops and Buddhist monasteries, joining the illegal gold trade, and returning as "renewed" money for the "big bosses" of the gold mines.High has done several years of fieldwork in Mongolia, spending time with the "ninjas," as the miners are known locally, as well as the people who disapprove of their illegal activities and warn of the retribution that the land and its inhabitants may suffer as a result. This book is about radical change, or as many Mongolians put it, when life becomes "strange" and "chaotic." High has gained a deep understanding of the processes by which Mongolians square a morally questionable activity with the lure of profit. How do they involve themselves with tainted sources of money, and can it ever be cleansed and made usable? Addressing how our lives and those of others are intimately intertwined, Fear and Fortune offers an expansive and capacious approach to understanding the high stakes involved in human economic life.

Gold mines and mining --- Economic development --- Gold --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Etnografie: Azië --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Economic sociology --- Industrial economics --- Mongolia --- Specie --- Native element minerals --- Precious metals --- Transition metals --- Money --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Buddhism

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Business consultants everywhere preach the benefits of innovation-and promise to help businesses reap them. A trendy industry, this type of consulting generates courses, workshops, books, and conferences that all claim to hold the secrets of success. But what promises does the notion of innovation entail? What is it about the ideology and practice of business innovation that has made these firms so successful at selling their services to everyone from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies? And most important, what does business innovation actually mean for work and our economy today? In Creativity on Demand, cultural anthropologist Eitan Wilf seeks to answer these questions by returning to the fundamental and pervasive expectation of continual innovation. Wilf focuses a keen eye on how our obsession with ceaseless innovation stems from the long-standing value of acceleration in capitalist society. Based on ethnographic work with innovation consultants in the United States, he reveals, among other surprises, how routine the culture of innovation actually is. Procedures and strategies are repeated in a formulaic way, and imagination is harnessed as a new professional ethos, not always to generate genuinely new thinking, but to produce predictable signs of continual change. A masterful look at the contradictions of our capitalist age, Creativity on Demand is a model for the anthropological study of our cultures of work.

Creative ability in business --- Corporate culture --- Organizational behavior --- Business anthropology --- Industrial management --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A60 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Economische sociologie --- Creative ability in business. --- Corporate culture. --- Organizational behavior. --- Business anthropology. --- Industrial management. --- Unternehmenskultur --- Innovation --- Neuerung --- Innovationsverhalten --- Innovationen --- Fortschritt --- Firmenkultur --- Unternehmen --- Corporate Culture --- Kulturelle Identität --- Corporate Identity --- Organisationskultur --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Corporate anthropology --- Industrial anthropology --- Management anthropology --- Private sector anthropology --- Public sector anthropology --- Anthropology --- Behavior in organizations --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Culture, Corporate --- Institutional culture --- Organizational culture --- Business creativity --- Success in business --- Anthropological aspects --- Sociological aspects --- United States. --- business schools. --- business. --- consultants. --- ethnography. --- innovation. --- workshops.

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'The Digital Factory' reveals the hidden human labour that supports today's digital capitalism. The workers of today's digital factory include those in Amazon warehouses, delivery drivers, Chinese gaming workers, Filipino content moderators, and rural American search engine optimizers. Repetitive yet stressful, boring yet often emotionally demanding, these jobs require little formal qualification, but can demand a large degree of skills and knowledge. This work is often hidden behind the supposed magic of algorithms and thought to be automated, but it is in fact highly dependent on human labour.

Internet industry --- High technology industries --- Assembly-line methods --- Unskilled labor --- Industrial management --- Technological innovations --- Computer industry --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Laborers --- Low-skilled labor --- Low-skilled workers --- Labor --- Assembly lines --- Production-line methods --- Manufacturing processes --- Mass production --- Plant layout --- Production engineering --- Automation --- Employees --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- #SBIB:316.334.2A520 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A554 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A80 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Organisatiesociologie: arbeidssituatie en arbeidsomstandigheden: algemeen --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: technologische verandering en zijn effecten op structuur en inhoud van de arbeidsposten --- Bijzondere arbeidsproblemen: algemeen --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Sociology of work --- Internet industry - Employees --- High technology industries - Employees --- Industrial management - Technological innovations --- Technological innovations - Social aspects --- Technological innovations - Economic aspects --- Assembly-line methods. --- Unskilled labor. --- Employees. --- E-books --- Labor, factory, automation, platforms, migration, infrastructure, digital capitalism, digital Taylorism, gig economy, class.