Johannes Wilm, an organizer and activist from Oslo, Norway, goes off to live in and study Douglas, AZ, a border town to Mexico, for half a year. At first sight, Douglas looks like nothing but a run down company town - after the Phelps Dodge smelter left in the 1980s. Interestingly though, Wilm discovers that old modes of social stratification disappeared together with the jobs. This book has to be seen as a tribute to the progressive sides of the lumpenproletariat. "This is a well written, experience-near ethnography of marginality in every sense of the word: Douglas is literally on the margins between the USA and Mexico, it is geographically marginal, economically marginal and culturally marginal in the US context. Wilm weaves a convincing and compelling picture of the precarious, reckless and often paradoxical lives led by people in Douglas." -Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology (Oslo/Amsterdam)
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...well written, experience-near ethnography of marginality in every sense of the word ...a convincing and compelling picture of ...Douglas. -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology Oslo/Amsterdam
Douglas... boasts a cast of characters worthy of... Tennessee Williams... or at least a half hour on Jerry Springer. -- Joseph Bavier, War Reporter
Wilm gives us an insightful, sometimes frightening but always entertaining, look at a small corner of the superpower. -- Joe Bavier, American War reporter in Africa
Wilm weaves a convincing and compelling picture of the precarious, reckless and often paradoxical lives led by people in Douglas. -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology (Oslo/Amsterdam)
Douglas... boasts a cast of characters worthy of... Tennessee Williams... or at least a half hour on Jerry Springer. -- Joseph Bavier, War Reporter
Wilm gives us an insightful, sometimes frightening but always entertaining, look at a small corner of the superpower. -- Joe Bavier, American War reporter in Africa
Wilm weaves a convincing and compelling picture of the precarious, reckless and often paradoxical lives led by people in Douglas. -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology (Oslo/Amsterdam)
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This book has to be seen as a tribute to the progressive sides of what Karl Marx termed the 'lumpenproletariat'.
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AT first sight, Douglas might remind one of the Italian Street Corner Society of the 1930s in Chicago as it it described by Whyte (1993) - both have a diverse net of downtown hangouts, and in both you have quite a number of unemployed and semi-employed people that spend most or a lot of their time going from place to place and hanging around in various settings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Agua Prieta, New York, Johannes Wilm Picture, Bicycle Victor, Food City, Garry Mora, Adam Smith, Douglas Wendt, John Smith, Posada Lerman, San Diego, Sierra Vista, New Mexico, North Carolina, Phelps Dodge, Vincent de Paul, Shaine Dell, Sun Shaine, Super Walmart, The Confession, Alexis Sanders, Border Patrols, Cosmic Victor, Fox News New!
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AT first sight, Douglas might remind one of the Italian Street Corner Society of the 1930s in Chicago as it it described by Whyte (1993) - both have a diverse net of downtown hangouts, and in both you have quite a number of unemployed and semi-employed people that spend most or a lot of their time going from place to place and hanging around in various settings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Agua Prieta, New York, Johannes Wilm Picture, Bicycle Victor, Food City, Garry Mora, Adam Smith, Douglas Wendt, John Smith, Posada Lerman, San Diego, Sierra Vista, New Mexico, North Carolina, Phelps Dodge, Vincent de Paul, Shaine Dell, Sun Shaine, Super Walmart, The Confession, Alexis Sanders, Border Patrols, Cosmic Victor, Fox News New!
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