Bøker av Phillip Vannini

Mobilities in Remote Places explores the meanings, challenges, and opportunities of remoteness as practiced and experienced by those who live and work in some of the world's most remote communities.

In the Name of Wild takes you on the five-year journey one family made across five continents to re-imagine the meaning of wildness.

Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. Presenting perspectives of local inhabitants, the authors ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, reimagining wildness as relational and rooted in vitality.

Focuses on articulating and illustrating one major approach to the sociology of the body. This book argues that from an interactionist perspective, the body is much more than a tangible, corporeal object. It is a vessel of meaning of great significance to the individual and society, and a social object.