The Limits of the State: Coercion and Consent in Chinese Tibet by Pirie, F

“…While both dynamics are present on the Tibetan plateau, ethnographic fieldwork among the Tibetan populations of Qinghai and Gansu Provinces reveals that consent is primarily generated by local officials who negotiate a form of local order with religious and tribal leaders. …”

Study Profile: The Durban Diabetes Study (DDS): a platform for chronic disease research by Mccarthy, M, Hird, T, Young, E, Pirie, F, Riha, J, Esterhuizen, T, O'Leary, B, Sandhu, M, Motala, A

“…</p> <p>The DDS has an established infrastructure for survey fieldwork, data collection and management, sample processing and storage, managed data sharing and consent for reapproaching participants, which can be utilised for further research studies. …”

Power, fragility and corporate social responsibility: An ethnography of a mining corporation in Colombia by Hoff, A

“…A multi-sited ethnography, it follows the company’s CSR practices from its headquarters in Bogotá to its project sites in the departments of Tolima and Antioquia. Based on fieldwork with AGAC as well as anti-mining activists, it provides a unique account of the polarised dynamics surrounding AGAC’s activities in Colombia. …”

‘We are the nobodies': youth violence, marginality and social cleansing in Colombia by Butti, E

“…Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis explores the lives and perspectives of a group of adolescents who are starting to engage in criminal activities and the violence associated with them in the town of San Carlos and in the close-by city Medellín. …”

Order and insecurity under the mara: violence, coping, and community in Guatemala City by Saunders-Hastings, K

“…<p>Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in a poor and notorious neighbourhood, this dissertation examines how evolving dynamics of urban violence have affected life in a Guatemala City gang territory.…”

Cannabis legalization: an ethnography of the global movement and market forces by Steinberg, JN

“…This is based on multi-sited fieldwork in 11 countries, over 14 months, during which I attended different cannabis events and worked with different people and organizations, using participant observation and interviews. …”

Albanian law and nation-building in northern Albania and Kosovo by Pritchard, E, Eleanor Mary Pritchard

“…I draw on participant-observation fieldwork, archive work and extensive interviews.</p> <p>Nation-building is necessarily complicated and the Albanian case particularly so. …”