Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation

Yasmine Berriane is permanent researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Centre Maurice Halbwachs), France. Annuska Derks is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.Aymon Kreil is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium.Dorothea Lüddeckens is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• Chapter 1: Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation – An Introduction.- Part 1: Scales of Change.- Chapter 2: Scales of Change and Diagnostic Contradictions: Shifting Relations Between an Emigrant Community and its Diaspora.- Chapter 3: Seeing Social Change through the Institutional Lens: Universities in Egypt, 2011-2018.- Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Change in the Cuban Revolution.- Part 2: Biographies of Change.- Chapter 5: Social Change and Generational Disparity: Education, Violence, and Precariousness in the Life Story of a Young Moroccan Activist.- Chapter 6: Rescuing Biography from the Nation: Discrete Perspectives on Political Change in Morocco.- Chapter 7: ‘A Proper House, Not a Barn’: House Biographies and Societal Change in Urban Kyrgyzstan.- Chapter 8: When a Coterie Becomes a Generation: Intellectual Sociability and the Narrative of Generational Change in Sayyid Qutb’s Egypt.- Part 3: Change in the Making.- Chapter 9: Spatializing Social Change: Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Upper-Guinea.- Chapter 10: The Affects of Change: An Ethnography of the Affective Experiences of the 2013 Military Intervention in Egypt.- Chapter 11: Funeral Reforms in Taiwan: Insights on Change from a Discourse Analytic Perspective.