Book Review
Nordic Journal of African Studies
Naming, Power, and Gender
In this paper, we examine personal names among the Kiga people of southwestern Uganda. We demonstrate how naming practices reflect gender power relations, cultural beliefs, values, and traditions among the Kiga. Based on a dataset of about 7…
From Scandinavia to Soweto
Black metal, a genre known for its radical musical and ideological transgressions, originated in the early 1980s and consolidated in Norway during the 1990s. While traditionally linked to a raw sound, Satanic themes, and a misanthropic world…
The Industrial Wastelands of Tabacoop
Industrial wastelands resulting from the decline of industries from the colonial period are now an industrial heritage and a major challenge for urban renewal in Algerian cities. These wastelands are characterized by long transitional phases…
Witnessing Joy: Translating Perpetrators’ Emotions before International Criminal Tribunals
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
La valeur heuristique d’une ethnographie « impossible »
Basé sur l’expérience d’une chercheuse en immersion au sein d’une organisation anti-avortement polonaise, cet article propose d’analyser une enquête ethnographique rendue impossible. L’impossibilité dont il s’agit est double et renvoie à l’hosti…
DEBARY, Octave, 2025. Retourner le monde : arts, anthropologies, ressemblances.
Avec ce nouvel ouvrage, Octave Debary livre le fruit de vingt ans de recherche autour de l’anthropologie des restes et de la mémoire. Réunissant un corpus d’« arts de la mémoire » (p. 33), ce livre offre une relecture transversale des thèmes et des terrains qui ont jalonné les travaux antérieurs de l’auteur : De la poubelle au musée : anthropologie des restes (2019) ; La ressemblance dans l’œuvre de Jochen Gerz (2017) ; Les fantômes de Christian Boltanski (2023), pour engager une réflexion[…]
Michael M. Cernea
1931-2026 Dr. Michael M. Cernea, the Romanian-born sociologist who helped place people at the heart of the World Bank’s approach to development, died on September 10, 2026, aged 94. His career rested on a conviction: development must be judged not only by economic returns and infrastructure, but by its consequences for people, their livelihoods and […]
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Book Review: Hongsaton, P., & Chan, Y.-K. (Eds.). (2025). New Directions in Thai Studies.
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Editorial: Resistance, Critique, Hope. Global Crises and Southeast Asian Experiences.
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Rethinking the Crisis of Reading: Literary Ecosystems and Reading Culture in Contemporary Thailand
This article challenges the widely circulated claim that Thailand is a non-reading society. Public dis course frequently reduces reading culture to quantitative indicators such as the number of books read per year, obscuring the complex institutional e…
Visualizing water struggles: Using Photovoice for research and community empowerment in northwest Vietnam
Research on hydropower development in Southeast Asia has documented processes of dispossession and environmental change, yet small hydropower projects and their cumulative, everyday impacts on community life remain comparatively underexamined. This art…
Embracing ‘slow life’ in the field: Navigating research delays, politics, and environmental care as early-career scholars
This article examines the possibilities and challenges of slowing down in field research. It follows four early-career scholars of Southeast Asia with varied positionalities and roots in the region, attempting to conduct reciprocal research and activis…
Boundary Objects in Practice: Business Incubators as Translation Devices
Business incubators have become central organizations within global entrepreneurial ecosystems, and their intermediary position between local entrepreneurs and multinationals calls for closer, more nuanced examination. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork…
So you want to come do research in Bali? Rethinking research collaborations in Southeast Asia and their decolonial possibilities
In this article, I describe my long-standing experience of engaging with ‘foreign’ researchers when I was asked to provide support and partner as a local fixer, research assistant, tour guide for field studies, recruiter of enumerators, and field facil…
Book review of Bönisch‑Brednich, Brigitte, Christou, Anastasia, Meyer, Silke, Karner, Marie, and Escher, Anton Jakob (eds.) 2024. Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. London: Routledge, 226 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Winters, Nanneke, Drotbohm, Heike, and Guevara González, Yaatsil (eds.) 2024. (Un)Settling Place: Diverse and Divergent Place‑Making of People on the Move. Berghahn Books, 241 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Huttunen, Laura and Perl, Gerhild (eds.) 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 298 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Heusala, Anna‑Liisa, Aitamurto, Kaarina, and Eraliev, Sherzod (eds.) 2024. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 341 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Dickinson, Eliot 2023. Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 256 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Markkanen, Airi and Åberg, Kai (eds.) 2024. The Culture of the Finnish Roma. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 137 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Traces of a Magical Class Struggle
The Tattarisuo Mystery was a sensationalized witchcraft case in Finland in the early 1930s. At its centre was a group of displaced working-class individuals, called by the press the Tattarisuo coven, who sought through magical rituals to re…
Inner Role-taking and Emotion in New Religious Movements and Contemporary Spirituality
In Finland, kirtan—communal call-and-response singing rooted in Indian devotional traditions—has become a diverse practice across both new religious movements and contemporary spirituality. This article asks how culturally learned symbols c…
A Revelation You Can Taste
How do practitioners learn to recognize divine presence? Drawing on apprentice ethnography in the Court of Aine, a Swedish Wiccan coven—four interviews and some twenty ritual occasions—this article argues that revelation is best understood …
Religion: Concealed and Revealed
Within religion, spirituality and esotericism aspects of concealment and revelation are a recurring theme. This thematic issue brings together articles developed from papers presented at the summer school and conference Religion: Concealed …