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Autor:
Sabsay, Leticia
Publikováno v:
Cultural Dynamics. 35:29-46
As conservative and neo-authoritarian tendencies in Europe move across political and geo-cultural borders, we bear witness to a renewed attack on gender and sexual rights. This is a challenge to democratic citizenship that demands that we think anew
Autor:
Banerjee, Mukulika
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Development Studies. :1-14
This paper examines the role that SHGs (self-help groups) have played in the creation of ‘civic growth’ and changing electoral politics in India. Based on ethnographic engagement in a village in West Bengal before and after the formation of these
Autor:
Feuchtwang, Stephan
Publikováno v:
The China Quarterly. :1-12
Socialist governance and popular sovereignty require state administration of care. In the People's Republic of China (PRC) today, such state care is provided in the form of public services and in the guarantee of social security. Ideally, different l
Autor:
Pauline Destrée
Publikováno v:
Critique of Anthropology, 2023, Vol.43(1), pp.24-43 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Funding: H2020 European Research Council Energy Ethics (715146). In the offshore oil industry of Takoradi, Ghana, white expatriate workers describe oil extraction as both ‘the work of the Devil’ and a ‘labour of love’. While companies strive
Autor:
Jan David Hauck
Publikováno v:
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 33:4-24
Linguistic anthropology has remained largely unaffected by debates about ontology in other subfields. In turn, the concept of language has been conspicuously absent from ontological debates. The past few years, however, have seen attempts at articula
Autor:
Ostendorf, Thalia
Publikováno v:
Dutch Crossing. 47:35-48
This article will compare two works by two Black Surinamese authors from the last century: Anton de Kom (1898–1945) and Edgar Cairo (1948–2000). While keenly aware that the Netherlands/the Dutch Empire has shaped their world by forceful and viole
Autor:
Daniel Knight
Publikováno v:
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. 30:37-53
Crisis provokes a sense of urgency often experienced as vertigo – the intense disorientation as to where and when one belongs on the temporal timeline of pasts and futures. The nauseating affects of urgency can be located in both crisis as sudden r
Autor:
Zehra Kazmi
Publikováno v:
Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 58:839-853
This article explores how changing cityscapes of (post)colonial urban transition contribute to the creation of nostalgic longing in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column. Drawing from recent scholarship, it focuses on the memorialization
Autor:
Steinmüller, Hans
Publikováno v:
positions: asia critique. 30:895-921
The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Liter
Autor:
Richard D.G. Irvine, Anne Bevan
Publikováno v:
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology. 26:179-195
Recent engagements with deep time within anthropology have urged an expansion of our time horizons in order to confront the contemporary ecological crisis. Here, we explore this theme by considering concrete’s material properties as a substance tha