Ethnographies of Social Support

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Housing Support for the “Undeserving”: Moral Hazard, Fires, and Laissez-Faire in Hong Kong

Chapter 3 “Who will love you if they have to look after you?”: Sakhalin Koreans Caring from a Distance

Chapter 4 Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/AIDS Support Groups in South Africa

Chapter 5 The Changing Scale of Imprisonment and the Transformation of Care: The Erosion of the “Welfare Society” by the “Penal State” in Contemporary Portugal

Chapter 6 The Compassion of Strangers: Intimate Encounters with Assistance in Moscow

Chapter 7 Young Chinese Volunteers: Self/Interest, Altruism, and Moral Models

Chapter 8 Engagements and Interruptions: Mapping Emotion at an Athenian Asylum Advocacy NGO

Chapter 9 Life, Labor, and Merit: War Martyrdom as Support Encounters in Late Socialist Vietnam

Chapter 10 Empathy, Salvation, and Religious Identity: Hindu Religious Movements and Humanitarian Action in India