On the Margins - US Americans in a border town to Mexico
Paperback, 236 pages
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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...More >
"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...More >
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Product Details
| ISBN | 978-1-4116-6175-2 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Johannes Wilm |
| Copyright | ©2006 by Johannes Wilm (Standard Copyright License) |
| Language | English |
| Country | Norway |
| Publication Date | August 29, 2006 |
| Lulu Sales Rank | 11772 |
| Page Count | 236 pages |
| Size | U.S. Trade |
| Binding | Perfect Bound |
| Interior Color | Black And White |
