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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledge ments -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: Power, Documentation, and Resistance -- 1 Narrating Cultural Resurgence: Genre and Self-Representation for Pan-Mayan Writers -- 2 Autoethnography as Political Resistance: A Case from Socialist Romania -- 3 The Power of Biography: Criminal Policy, Prison Life, and the Formation of Criminal Identities in the Swedish Welfare State -- Part Two: Exile, Memory, and Identity -- 4 Lives Writ Large: Kabyle Self-Portraits and the Question of Identity -- 5 Leaving Home: Schooling Stories and the Ethnography of Autoethnography in Rural France -- 6 Narrating the "I" versus Narrating the "Isle": Life Histories and the Problem of Representation on Corsica -- Part Three: Voice, Representation, and Genre -- 7. The Taming of Revolution: Intense Paradoxes of the Self -- 8. Writing Birthright: On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation -- 9. Blurred Genres and Blended Voices: Life History, Biography, Autobiography, and the Auto/Ethnography of Women's Lives -- Bibliography -- Index.

For the French in London, as for other citizens of the European Union, the Brexit process resulted in the end of free movement for EU citizens relocating to the United Kingdom and affected the rights of those already living there. This article traces how Brexit shaped the spatial choices of middle-class French citizens whose status in London changed as they became international migrants with diminished rights in the United Kingdom. This case study, based on longitudinal ethnographic research between 2014 and 2022, sheds light on how relative privilege operates in migration processes and draws attention to the diversity of experience among middle-class migrants when new bordering arrangements are enacted.

Pierre Bourdieu conducted ethnographic research in his native region
of Béarn and in Algeria during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He
rarely drew explicit comparisons between the two sites, despite striking
parallels in themes such as notions of honor in Mediterranean peasant
ethos, the habitus as internalized dispositions, and peasant malaise
in the face of socioeconomic change. Bourdieu called his Béarn
ethnography an inversion of Lévi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques,
as a way to "objectify" the familiar. I suggest that constructions
of traditional and modern that informed Bourdieu's early research in
both sites led to a nostalgic view of "tristes paysans."

In this chapter, I discuss ethnographic work in a residential unit for Alzheimer's patients located in the southeastern part of the United States. The borders of home and work in this nursing home are analyzed in order to unpack meanings of 'home' for residents. Postmodern discussions of location and dislocation for contemporary identities have relevance for an analysis of this setting. The concepts of non-place ( non-lieu) from the work of Marc Augé and of location ( lieu) from the work of Pierre Bourdieu are employed in the analysis. In this unit, well-to-do white residents are cared for by working-class black women. Intersections of race and class, as well as gender and age, form an important context for social relationships within this space. The case of one resident who daily asked for her car so that she could go home is used to illustrate the social and spatial arrangements in this setting and the 'location' of both patients and staff.