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The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity.

Information technology --- Precarious employment --- Precarious employment --- Young men --- Young men --- Economic aspects. --- Abidjan. --- Berlin. --- comparative urbanism. --- economic practice. --- gig economy. --- livelihood. --- relational sociology. --- symbolic capital. --- telecommunications. --- urban youth.

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From 1989 to 1991, Barry Dornfeld had an unusual double role on the crew of the major PBS documentary series Childhood. As a researcher for the series, he investigated the relationship between children and media. As an anthropologist, however, his subject was the television production process itself--examining, for example, how producers developed the series, negotiated with their academic advisors, and shaped footage shot around the world into seven programs. He presents the results of his fieldwork in this groundbreaking study--one of the first to take an ethnographic approach to the production of a television show, as opposed to its reception. Dornfeld begins with a broad discussion of public television's role in American culture and goes on to examine documentaries as a form of popular anthropology. Drawing on his observations of Childhood, he considers the documentary form as a kind of "imagining," in which both producers and viewers construct understandings of themselves and others, revealing their conceptions of culture and history and their ideologies of cultural difference and universality. He argues that producers of culture should also be understood as consumers who conduct their work through an active envisioning of the audience. Dornfeld explores as well how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television that promote entertainment at the expense of education. The book provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of a major documentary and demonstrates the value of an ethnographic approach to the study of media production.

Telecommunication services --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- Niet-commerciele televisie --- Non-commercial television --- Noncommercial television --- Openbare televisie --- Public television --- Television publique --- Documentary television programs --- -Public television --- Public broadcasting --- Television broadcasting --- Public service television programs --- Documentaries, Television --- Documentary programs, Television --- Telementaries --- Television documentaries --- Television documentary programs --- Documentary mass media --- Nonfiction television programs --- Production and direction --- #KVHA: Journalistiek --- #KVHA: Openbare omroep --- Direction --- Documentary television programs - Production and direction. --- Massmedia --- Dokumentärfilm --- Public television. --- sociala aspekter --- Production and direction. --- Ambrose Video. --- Antelope Films. --- Aries, Phillipe. --- Arlen, Michael. --- Aufderheide, Pat. --- Baka family. --- Bosk, Charles. --- Bourdieu, Pierre. --- Briggs, Charles. --- Cleveland Plain Dealer. --- Ginsburg, Faye. --- Hall, Stuart. --- Islamic education. --- Jocelin, Elizabeth. --- Kirkpatrick. --- Lawson, Jennifer. --- Marcus, George. --- Nakayama family. --- Newsweek review. --- Oliveira. --- Public Broadcasting Act. --- Quranic school. --- Ross, Andrew. --- Ruby, Jay. --- Sagan, Carl. --- Schieffelin, Bambi. --- Silverstone, Roger. --- Urban, Greg. --- Veraldi, Lorna. --- Wild Child. --- agency. --- cable television. --- cultural difference. --- editors. --- ethno-theory. --- evolutionism. --- family footage. --- fund-raising. --- genre theory. --- history in Childhood. --- interviews. --- middlebrow. --- multiculturalism. --- narrative. --- otherness. --- production value. --- public television. --- subtitles. --- symbolic capital. --- televisual humanism. --- title sequences. --- visual anthropology. --- United States of America

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"Over the last century, many Asian countries have experienced a remarkable transformation, including rapid economic growth, industrialization and urbanization, and spectacular development. One of the world's poorest regions has become its richest. Terming those countries in Asia that have experienced this growth "developmental Asia," Slater and Wong explore the puzzle of why only about half of the region has moved from authoritarianism toward democracy (despite the global correlation between development and democratization) and why we see no clear connection between levels of economic development and levels of democracy (as existing theories of democracy would expect). The authors' central argument is that Asia's most common pathway to democracy has been democracy through strength, with incumbent authoritarian regimes opening themselves up to free and fair electoral competition as a way of shoring up their own power-an argument that contrasts sharply with the conventional notion that dictators only give way under the most extreme, even existential pressures. With a focus specifically on the countries that did democratize, the authors demonstrate through detailed historical case studies that the strength of authoritarian regimes before democratization is reflected in democratic success afterwards. The authors also consider the implications for those states that have failed to democratize, most notably China. The result is a sweeping regional history that offers new insights on when and how democratic transitions happen, and what the future of Asia might look like"--

City planning. --- 1900-2099 --- Asia --- Asia --- Asia. --- Asia --- Asia --- Politics and government --- Politics and government --- Politics and government --- Politics and government --- Activism. --- Authoritarianism. --- B. J. Habibie. --- Beneficiary. --- Cambodia. --- Campaign for Democracy. --- Central government. --- Civil society. --- Cohabitation (government). --- Comparative politics. --- Conservatism. --- Consumer. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Currency. --- Decentralization. --- Democracy Index. --- Democracy in China. --- Democracy promotion. --- Democracy. --- Democratic Justice Party. --- Democratic Revolution. --- Democratic consolidation. --- Democratization. --- Developing country. --- Development aid. --- Developmental state. --- Developmentalism. --- Economic development. --- Economic growth. --- Economic integration. --- Economic policy. --- Egalitarianism. --- Electoral reform. --- Energy development. --- Forms of government. --- Freedom of association. --- Global governance. --- Golkar. --- Governance. --- Guided democracy. --- Hegemony. --- Humanism. --- Identity politics. --- Illiberal democracy. --- Imperialism. --- Indonesia. --- Innovation. --- Institution. --- Intentional community. --- Journey of Reconciliation. --- Kuomintang. --- Legislation. --- Legislature. --- Legitimation. --- Liberalization. --- Lobbying. --- Mahathir Mohamad. --- Malaysia. --- Market socialism. --- Marketization. --- Modernity. --- Modernization theory. --- Myanmar. --- National Awakening Party. --- National League for Democracy. --- National Policy. --- New Direction (think tank). --- Opportunism. --- Participation (decision making). --- Path of Democracy. --- People's Action Party. --- Political party. --- Politician. --- Progressivism. --- Promulgation. --- Proximate cause. --- Radical egalitarianism. --- Regime change. --- Regime. --- Representative democracy. --- Revolutionary movement. --- Secularization. --- Singapore Democratic Party. --- Social Democratic Party (Japan). --- Social transformation. --- Socialism. --- Socialist market economy. --- Society. --- South Korea. --- State (polity). --- Substantive democracy. --- Suharto. --- Symbolic capital. --- Tariff. --- Thailand. --- The New Masses. --- The Political Process. --- Types of democracy. --- United Malays National Organisation. --- Urbanization.