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"Methamphetamine: A Love Story presents an insider's view into the lived experience of immersion in the world of methamphetamine. In-depth interviews were conducted with 33 adults formerly immersed in using, dealing, and manufacturing. Detailed accounts bring insight into the intoxicating aspects of the lifestyle including sex, money, power, and the ability to create methamphetamine. Social networks and environment play an important role in shaping and influencing drug-related decisions. The transformation of the lifestyle from one that is intoxicating to one that becomes risky and ultimately dark explains the unsustainability and the challenges exiting the life"--Provided by publisher.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Part I Objects, Images and Meanings: Methodological Interventions -- 1 Negotiating the Visibility of 'Habitus' of 'the Nagas' and their Photographers -- Introduction -- Pierre Bourdieu, 'Habitus' and 'Hexis' -- The Nagas and Their Photographers -- Visual Sources of the Nineteenth Century -- Imagery After the Turn of the Century -- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf -- Hans-Eberhard Kauffmann -- Photography After World War II and in the New Millenium -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 'We Were the Others': Visuality in Colonial Writings -- Anecdote from the 'Others' -- Construction of the 'Other' -- Colonial Writings and the Nagas -- Photo Analysis and Photo-Elicitation -- The 'Other' Needs to Be Objectified in Order to Construct the 'Self' -- Interpretations and Contextualisation -- When the 'Others' Spoke Up -- Final Word: Reflexivity -- References -- 3 Conversation Pieces: How Digital Technologies might Reinvigorate and reveal the Social Lives of Objects -- Introduction -- Source Communities -- Who Owns Naga Heritage? -- Combined/Collaborative Methodologies -- Exhibition -- How Did We Get Here? -- The Body and Agent of Human Experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Material and Visual as Vehicles of Power and Hegemony: Adaptations and Negotiations -- 4 Mai-Baaps and Minis: Spatiality, Visuality and Materiality in Assam's Tea Gardens -- Introduction -- Constructing the 'Garden' -- Understanding the Gendered Plantation -- Plantation: Time, Work and Representation -- Beyond the Plantations: Representation of Minis in Advertisements -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs -- Introduction -- The Coming of the State.

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times, especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, as well as the exploration of race, gender, politics and conflicts, urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia, Finland, France, Iran, Italy, Morocco, India and the USA. It also asks the question whether, along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities, a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social, cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies, media, popular culture, digital culture, sociology, digital sociology and anthropology, and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki.

"This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits, and analyses how personal, political and professional choices shape knowledge production and effect social transformation. The narratives revisit long standing debates on objectivity, subjectivity, self and other, and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences till now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region, the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist, and in doing so, blurs the distinction between theory, research, pedagogy and activism. A unique and compelling contribution, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, creative writing, education, politics, biography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers"--

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jimmy Carter -- Introduction -- Part I The Early Years 1900-1965 -- 1 The Educational and Scientific Revolution: Higher Standards and Changing Priorities -- 2 The Consumer Revolution: Increasing Accessto Medical Care -- Part II In the Wake of Medicare and Medicaid 1965-1985 -- 3 Emerging Tensions between Regulation andMarket Forces: Dealing with Growth -- 4 Education for the Health Professions:The Impact of Growth -- Part III Moving to the Present 1985-2005 -- 5 The Entrepreneurial Revolution: A Changing Face for Medicine -- 6 Beyond the Dollars: Progress in Health and theRole of Public Health -- Part IV Anticipating the Next Revolution 2005 and Beyond -- 7 Medical Challenges and Opportunities -- 8 Increasing Equity: Achieving Universal Health Insurance -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part one. Becoming an Ethnographer -- 1. Going Native with Evil -- 2. Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork -- 3. Unearthing Aggressive Advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography -- 4. Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct -- Part two. team ethnography -- 5. Hide-and-Seek: Challenges in the Ethnography of Street Drug Users -- 6. Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis -- 7. Conducting International Reflexive Ethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Struggles -- Part three. navigating the unusual -- 8. Hidden: Accessing Narratives of Parental Drug Dealing and Misuse -- 9. Navigating Stigma: Researching Opioid and Injection Drug Use among Young Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in New York City -- Part four. the emotional impact of doing ethnography -- 10. Dangerous Liaisons: Reflections on a Serial Ethnography -- 11. The Emotional Labor of Fieldwork with People Who Use Methamphetamine -- 12. Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail -- Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward -- List of Contributors -- Index

Medieval Christian use of Hebrew and postbiblical Jewish texts -- Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: mediating Hebrew traditions for a Christian audience -- The challenge of unbelief: knowing Christian truth through Jewish scripture -- Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's quodlibetal questions and anti-Jewish polemic -- Christian ownership of Jewish text: Nicholas of Lyra as an alternative Jewish authority

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- I On Daniel J. Lasker and his Scholarship -- Prof. Daniel J. Lasker – Scholar, Teacher, and Friend -- Daniel J. Lasker and His Treatment of Jewish Polemics -- List of Publications -- II Jewish Polemics and Exegesis in the Islamicate World -- Polemical Logic: Al-Muqammaṣ's Refutation of Christianity -- The Role of Gog in Daniel al-Qūmisī's Eschatology -- Theological Consideration of the Gift of the Land and the Radical Treatment of the "Seven Nations" in Medieval Judeo-Arabic Exegesis -- Epistemology in the Service of Polemic: Yūsuf al-Baṣīr's Kitāb al-Istiʿānah: Text and Translation -- Maimonides on the Status of Judaism -- Abraham Maimonides on Reclaiming Judaism's Lost "Perfection" from the "Imperfection" of Islam -- III Jewish and Anti-Jewish Polemic and Exegesis in the Christian World -- Abraham bar Ḥiyya (d. ca. 1136) on "The Pure Soul" -- Asmakhtaʾ and Abraham ibn Ezra's Exegesis -- The Finding of the "True Cross" in Judah Hadassi's Eškol ha-Kofer and the Polemical Parody Toledot Yešu -- The Book of Nestor the Priest and the Toledot Yešu in the Polemics of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid -- Rashi on Isaiah 53: Exegetical Judgment or Response to the Crusade? -- "The Best of Snakes. . .": A Polemical Midrash in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition -- The Discussion of the Messiah in Crescas's Refutation -- Joshua Ha-Lorki on the Meaning of Emunah: Between Religion and Faith -- Jewish Anti-Semites: The Case of Medieval Apostates -- Daniel in the Lions' Den: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Medieval Text and Image -- IV Jewish-Jewish and Jewish-Christian Relations -- Understanding the Uneven Reception of Rabbenu Tam's Taqqanot -- Ritual Imagery Gone Wrong: A Fifteenth-Century Siddur in a Christian Workshop -- Transliteration Charts -- Index of Names

Introduction : On Otherism and Othering / Diana Dimitrova -- The Religion of Coolitude / Rashi Rohatgi -- Religion and "Otherness" in a New World : The Radhasoami Tradition in Transnational Space / Diana Dimitrova -- "Othering" through Language : The Construction of Two Languages and Communal Identities in British India / Rahman Tariq -- The Idea of a Nation : H.R. Bacchan's Palimpsestian House of Wine / Anne Castaing -- The Politics of "Otherness" : The Hindi Plays of Urdu-Hindi Author Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996) / Diana Dimitrova -- Imagining the Powerful "Other" : Representations of Razia Sultan / Urvi Mukhopadhyay -- Queer Bollywood : Same-Sex Sexuality, Gender Transgression and "Otherness" in Indian Popular Cinema of the 1990s / Thomas Waugh -- Towards an Inclusive, Fluid Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Commercial Indian Cinema(s) / Sunny Singh

In 'Reading the Rabbis' Eva De Visscher examines the Hebrew scholarship of Englishman Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194). Chiefly known as the loyal secretary and hagiographer of Archbishop Thomas Becket and enemy of Henry II, he appears here as an outstanding Hebraist whose linguistic proficiency and engagement with Rabbinic sources, including contemporary teachers, were unique for a northern-European Christian of his time. Two commentaries on the Psalms by Herbert form the focus of scrutiny. In demonstrating influence from Jewish and Christian texts such as Rashi, Hebrew-French glossaries, Hebrew-Latin Psalters, and Victorine scholarship, De Visscher situates Herbert within the context of an increased interest in the revision of Jerome's Latin Bible and literal exegesis, and a heightened Christian awareness of Jewish "other-ness"