A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces

ANDREAS BANDAK University of Copenhagen, DenmarkLARS FUNCH HANSEN Malmö University, SwedenLARS HØJER University of Copenhagen, DenmarkBRIAN ARLY JACOBSEN University of Copenhagen, DenmarkHELEN KRAG University of Copenhagen, DenmarkDORTHE HØVIDS POSSING University of Copenhagen, DenmarkSTINE PURI University of Copenhagen, DenmarkBIRGITTE SCHEPELERN Johansen University of Copenhagen, DenmarkLARS OVE TRANS University of Copenhagen, DenmarkMARGIT WARBURG University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces rather than oppositional structures and are both inside and outside their constituent elements.

Introduction: A Comparative Ethnography of Alternative Spaces; J.Dahl, E.Fihl & B.S.Johansen The United Nations and the Indigenous Space; J.Dahl The Legitimacy of South Indian Caste Councils; E.Fihl"Gambling Is Gambling": Creating De-contextualized Space at an Indian Racecourse; S. Puri Frontier Zones of Diaspora-Making: Circassian Organisations in Turkey; L.F.Hansen A Politics of Place - the Scaling and Re-scaling of Events in Young Muslims' Internet Use; D.H.Possing Voices and Exits in Oaxacalifornia:The Reconfigurations of Political Spaces in the US-Mexican Context; L.O.Trans An Alternative National-Religious Space: The Danish Seamen's Church in Singapore; M.Warburg A Space to Gaze from Hence to Thence - Chechens in Exile; H.Krag States of Exception: Effects and Affects of Authoritarianism among Christian Arabs in Damascus; A.Bandak Escalations. Spying and Totalitarianism in Western China and Beyond; L.Højer