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Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Some Theoretical Incursions; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Part II: Representing People through Music; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Part III: Music and Social Order; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part IV: Music as Exchange; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Part V: Applying Knowledge; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Contributors

Quantum Electronics was a Brazilian startup in the 1990's that was acquired by an American equity fund in 2012. They are currently the largest manufacturer of vehicle tracking and infotainment systems. The company was founded by three college friends, who are currently executives at the company: Camilo Santos, Pedro Barbosa and Luana Correa. Edward Hutter was sent by the equity fund to take over the company's finances, but is having trouble making organizational decisions with his colleagues. As a consultant, I was called to help them improve their decision making process and project prioritization. I adapted and deployed our firm's methodology, but, in the end, its adequacy is shown to be very much in question. The author of this case study intends to explore how actual organizational decisions rely on different decision models and their assumptions, .as well as demonstrate that a decision model is neither absolutely good nor bad as its quality is context dependent.

This article builds on the earlier notion of a visual ethnography (PINK, 2007a) to suggest the idea of a visual ethnography in/of movement. Recent anthropological discussions have drawn attention to the importance of studying other people's "routes and mobilities" (LEE & INGOLD, 2006). Following this work I examine what visual ethnographers might learn from an analysis of how routes and mobilities are represented in local visual culture. Drawing on my recent research about the Cittàslow (Slow City) movement in the UK, I analyse a series of locally produced experiential, audiovisual and photographic narratives. I propose that such a focus can provide visual ethnographers with significant understandings of how place is made.

Ausgehend von der Aussage, dass Leben in der Konstruktion von Texten hergestellt wird, werden Autobiographien auf ihre Eigenarten als Genres von Erzählungen hin untersucht. Dabei werden unter anderem die folgenden Fragen diskutiert: (1) Welche Anforderungen werden gestellt, was ist kulturell kanonisiert, wieso müssen Konventionen eingehalten und verletzt werden? (2) Wie entsteht in Markierungen von Wendepunkten Individualität? Autobiographie wird beschrieben als eine Weise des Sich-in-die-Welt-Setzens und als ein Vorgang, in dem das konstruierte Selbst und seine treibenden Kräfte zum Gravitationszentrum der Welt werden. In dieser Beziehung wird auch Welt "hergestellt".

Abstract: Two dominant, contrasting, narratives characterise public discourse on queer sexualities in Cape Town. On the one hand, the city is touted as the gay capital of South Africa. This, however, is troubled by a binary framing of white zones of safety and black zones of danger (Melanie JUDGE, 2018), which simultaneously brings the 'the black lesbian' into view through the lens of discrimination, violence and death. This article explores lesbian, queer and gay women's narratives of their everyday lives in Cape Town. Their counter narratives reveal how they 'make' Cape Town home in relation to racialized and classed heteronormativies. These grey the racialised binary of territorial safety and danger, and produce modes of lesbian constructions of home, notably the modes of embedded lesbianism, homonormativity and borderlands. These reveal lesbian queer life worlds which are ephemeral, contingent and fractured, making known hybrid, contrasting and competing narratives of the city.

1. Introduction to anaerobic digestion and biogas -- 2. A history of anaerobic digestion and biogas -- 3. Digester feedstock/substrate -- 4. AD plant types and processes -- 5. Inputs and outputs -- 6. Plant scale -- 7. AD plant economics -- 8. Legislation, permits and regulation -- 9. AD and local communities -- 10. The market for digestate -- 11. Case studies -- 12. AD around the world.