Ethnographies of Social Support

Introduction; Markus Schlecker 1. Housing Support for the "Undeserving": Moral Hazard, Fires, and Laissez-faire in Hong Kong; Alan Smart 2. "Who Will Love You if They Have to Look after You?": Sakhalin Koreans Caring from a Distance; Dorota Szawarska 3. Access to the Social: The Ethics and Pragmatics of HIV/AIDS Support Groups in South Africa; Marian Burchardt 4. The Changing Scale of Imprisonment and the Transformation of Care: The Erosion of the "Welfare Society" by the "Penal State" in Contemporary Portugal; Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha 5. The Compassion of Strangers: Intimate Encounters with Assistance in Moscow; Melissa L. Caldwell 6. Young Chinese Volunteers: Self/Interest, Altruism, and Moral Models; Friederike Fleischer 7. Engagements and Interruptions: Mapping Emotion at an Athenian Asylum Advocacy NGO; Heath Cabot 8. Life, Labor, and Merit: War Martyrdom as Support Encounters in Late Socialist Vietnam; Markus Schlecker 9. Empathy, Salvation, and Religious Identity: Hindu Religious Movements and Humanitarian Action in India; Frédérique Pagani 10. Epilogue; Bartholomew Dean