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Cet article analyse le vote pour le Brexit dans le contexte historique d'aliénation postindustrielle de la Grande Bretagne et dans le contexte conjoncturel récent de crise morale fabriquée autour de la question de la migration. Il explique comment l'agrégation unique de ces facteurs historiques a été capable de déstabiliser l'autorité du gouvernement britannique lors du référendum sur l'Union Européenne de 2016 et de le décentrer. Il s'appuie sur une enquête ethnographique conduite récemment dans le quartier est-londonien Barking and Dagenham, qui révèle les efforts quotidiens pour la survie dans les quartiers londoniens post industriels et postcoloniaux.

Inspired by Latour's aim to restore balance to the anthropological project by exoticizing the artefacts and procedures of so‐called 'modern knowledge', this essay gives an ethnographic description of emergent processes of knowledge production in the context of the planning and development of urban regeneration in London. Bureaucratic meetings are described as part of the organizational infrastructure that enables the crafting of new urban futures, and it is argued that, because the making of reality is always seen to be forward moving, there is a need, as in navigation, to plot a course. The essay focuses on the subversive potential of informal meetings, and argues, more generally, that meetings are the materially social, and affectively technical, manoeuvres that make possible direction‐finding and contestation about the way forward.

Are schools failing working class children or does working class life present alternative means for gaining social status that conflict with what it means to do well at school? Focusing on Southeast London, this book provides insight into class values and reveals the complex cultural politics of white working class pride

Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural contexts? What would a study of society viewed through the lens of friendship look like? Does friendship affect the shape of society as much as society moulds friendship? Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this volume offers answers to these questions and examines the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations