Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin

Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin
Author: Reginald Byron
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 042977740X

First published in 1999, this volume offers contrasting views from a variety of academic disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, economics, geography, management studies, planning, and sociology, which focus on the single two-fold problem of how to understand these issues and what, practically, might be done about them.

Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin

Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin
Author: John Hutson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351742884

This title was first published in 2001. Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade. These communities are in the peripheries of advanced industrial nation-states, such as Canada and supra-national alliances, such as the European Community, yet despite this, there are no easy solutions to the development of these regions. This volume argues that the productive assets of these regions, and how they can be used to sustain household incomes, need to be better understood. The assets need to be converted into products and services and they need to be marketed profitably. The diminshing flow of young people who leave these areas to obtain higher education and who do not return must be turned around and efforts must be concentrated on the creation or strengthening of economic conditions which satisfy the younger generation's employment aspirations, consumer requirements and social needs.

Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin

Community Development on the North Atlantic Margin
Author: John Hutson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2017-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351742876

This title was first published in 2001. Isolated communities, dependent upon fishing, farming and forestry, which are scattered around the North Atlantic coast, have shared a disastrous decline during the last decade. These communities are in the peripheries of advanced industrial nation-states, such as Canada and supra-national alliances, such as the European Community, yet despite this, there are no easy solutions to the development of these regions. This volume argues that the productive assets of these regions, and how they can be used to sustain household incomes, need to be better understood. The assets need to be converted into products and services and they need to be marketed profitably. The diminshing flow of young people who leave these areas to obtain higher education and who do not return must be turned around and efforts must be concentrated on the creation or strengthening of economic conditions which satisfy the younger generation's employment aspirations, consumer requirements and social needs.

Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin

Sustainable Development of the North Atlantic Margin
Author: Reginald Byron
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429796390

First published in 1997, this timely collection of papers takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining sustainable development in a wide range of countries such as Ireland, Norway and Wales on the North Atlantic Margin. It features specialists in geography, social anthropology, tourism, sociology, regional studies, business, municipality studies, health policy and the rural economy. The contributors argue that a free marketplace and natural-resource sustainability are not always incompatible for green policies to be successful.

Social Sustainability of Forestry in Northern Europe

Social Sustainability of Forestry in Northern Europe
Author: Marjatta Hytönen
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2001
Genre: Forest management
ISBN: 9789289306799

S. 113-404: Papers presented at the workshop "Socio-economic sustainability of forestry" in Petrozavodsk, Russia, June 2000.

A Companion to Organizational Anthropology

A Companion to Organizational Anthropology
Author: D. Douglas Caulkins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 767
Release: 2012-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118325575

The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizations Offers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizations Details how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology’s key concept of culture, inspiring new insights into organizational dynamics and development Highlights pioneering theoretical perspectives ranging from symbolic and semiotic approaches to neuroscientific frameworks for studying contemporary organizations Addresses the comparative and cross-cultural dimensions of multinational corporations and of non-governmental organizations working in the globalizing economy Topics covered include organizational dynamics, entrepreneurship, innovation, social networks, cognitive models and team building, organizational dysfunctions, global networked organizations, NGOs, unions, virtual communities, corporate culture and social responsibility Presents a body of work that reflects the breadth and depth of the field of organizational anthropology and makes the case for the importance of the field in the anthropology of the twenty-first century

The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II

The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II
Author: Perri Six
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1198
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351887653

These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications. Sometimes called 'grid-group analysis' or 'cultural theory', they derive from the work of Durkheim in the 1880s and 1900s and develop the insights of the anthropologist Mary Douglas and her followers from the 1960s on. First redefined within social and cultural anthropology, the theory's influence is shown in recent years to have permeated all the main disciplines of social science with substantial implications for politics, history, business, work and organizations, the environment, technology and risk, and crime and consumption. Today, the institutional theory of culture now rivals the rational choice, Weberian and postmodern outlooks in influence across the social sciences.

Island Voices

Island Voices
Author: John Charles Kennedy
Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9059721039

Like their counterparts in developing countries, rural people living on the periphery of developed nations are increasingly vulnerable to forces beyond their control. Farmers, miners, and fishermen must cope with periodic resource scarcities, fluctuating global markets, and neoliberal trade pacts. Island Voices explores this struggle through the perspective of people living on Arnøya, an island off northern Norway. John C. Kennedy spent years collecting their stories, each of which offers resounding proof of how change, both local and global, has unevenly benefited the island's four villages.

British Subjects

British Subjects
Author: Nigel Rapport
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100018059X

The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism and transnationalism are found reflected in the lives of a wide range of British 'subjects'--from farmers to dancers, children to retired miners, new-agers to entrepreneurs. In disputing traditional claims that anthropology 'at home' and 'of one's own' is misconceived, unnecessary or unperceptive, this book clearly establishes that an anthropology of Britain can set excellent standards of subtle ethnography and complex analysis. Providing a nuanced appreciation of the intricacies of British society, this book shows how the anthropological study of Britain can offer an enlightening paradigm for the study of individual lives.