Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Drawing on the innovations of Norwegian atmospheric black metal and its nature-oriented themes, Cascadian black metal foregrounds ecology and the natural environment—particularly that of the Cascadia region—while distancing itself from some …
In recent decades, Australia has developed a public grammar for addressing the Stolen Generations through inquiries, testimony, apology, commemoration, legal action and partial schemes of reparation. This article draws on long-term ethnograp…
This short essay investigates why private search and rescue (SAR) crew members who bear witness to state violence against refugees in the Mediterranean Sea experience feelings of deep anger and outrage, what Dubreuil has called “moral anger”…
This article offers a critique of the lord and bondsman scene from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2004[1807]). The scene depicts the struggle between these two protagonists for recognition and material possessions. The outcome of the strug…
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in a correctional facility for male juveniles (aged 12 to 21) in Ghana, this article elaborates on institutional responses following two attempted escapes in 2018 and in 2021. The institutional resp…
In December 2024, during a parliamentary debate marking 75 years of the Indian Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) repeatedly invoked the 1975 Emergency as the ‘darkest’ moment in India’…
This article explores motivations of young people running away from residential care institutions. Running away from out-of-home care is often viewed as problematic due to its serious consequences for both the runaways, the other residents a…
This article analyzes Ulf Stark’s children’s book The Runaways as a narrative of age-based epistemic marginalization. Drawing on feminist epistemology, the author identifies ageism as an epistemic problem with profound ethical implications. …
Youth facing the juvenile justice system encounter, in Switzerland as in other European countries, a continuum of surveillance and constraints that stretches from the control of their bodies and environment to the regulation of their speech …
Scholarship on post-independence Zimbabwean soldiers ascertains that the military functions as perpetrators of political violence against unarmed civilians, with less emphasis on soldiers’ own dissatisfaction and disgruntlement with barrack …
When young people in Danish residential care escape their institutions without permission it is often understood as acts of ‘troubling behaviour’ among social workers. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork across three re…
This essay rethinks Heimat through the figure of Heidi, not as a sentimental icon of Alpine innocence but as a conceptual prism through which to understand the contemporary weaponization of nostalgia. Drawing on theories of restorative nosta…
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…
This afterword considers the thematic issue ‘The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,’ published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the rel…
This is the editorial introduction to the special issue Becoming Rebels: From Everyday Acts of Protest to Radical Imaginaries and Societal Change. The editors discuss the global backdrop to contemporary protest politics, and argue for the im…
The reshaping of global production through platform capitalism has been the subject of numerous studies around the world. Across these, it has been common to observe similar characteristics of this model of management and labour control via …
The continuous protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran since Jina Mahsi Amini’s death in the fall of 2022 are challenging common perceptions of resistance, and even revolution. Through looking at the politics of maneuvering of both exiled f…
This paper considers the question of what it is to ‘know’ digital governance through an experiential, bottom-up lens, and presents some empirical detail from recent fieldwork with feminist movement actors in northern India – both formally or…
This study explores the role of algorithmic management in India’s food delivery industry, specifically focusing on platforms like Swiggy and Zomato, which act more like employers than mere intermediaries. By harnessing extensive data, these …
This article considers predictive AI as a cultural epistemological form akin to divination, which is to say, a future-oriented technology of knowledge that concerns itself with risk and uncertainty. The article explores some of the cultural …
The gig economy is a rapidly growing global labour paradigm involving casualised labour across sectors as varied as transportation, freelancing, domestic help, programming and vacation rentals. The gig economy has been studied extensively wi…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
The British writer Rupinder Parhar gave a talk on feminist acts of resistance at an art exhibition workshop in London in March 2024. While acknowledging the multitude of feminisms that exist today, Parhar in this transcript of the talk asks …