A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces

1. An Introduction to Alternative Spaces
Jens Dahl, Esther Fihl, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen

2. The United Nations and the Indigenous Space
Jens Dahl

3. The Legitimacy of South Indian Caste Councils
Esther Fihl

4. “Gambling is Gambling”: Creating Decontextualized Space at an Indian Racecourse
Stine Simonsen Puri

5. Frontier Zones of Diaspora-Making: Circassian Organizations in Turkey
Lars Funch Hansen

6. A Politics of Place: The Scaling and Rescaling of Events in Young Muslims’ Internet Use
Dorthe Høvids Possing

7. Voices and Exits in Oaxacalifornia: The Reconfigurations of Political Spaces in the US-Mexican Context
Lars Ove Trans

8. An Alternative National-Religious Space: The Danish Seamen’s Church in Singapore
Margit Warburg

9. A Space to Gaze from Hence to Thence: Chechens in Exile
Helen Krag

10. States of Exception: Effects and Affects of Authoritarianism Among Christian Arabs in Damascus
Andreas Bandak

11. Escalations: Spying and Totalitarianism in Western China and Beyond
Lars Højer

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Ethnography, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality