Book Review
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Author: Tereza Kuldova
Rebel Attentiveness
Living under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face countless controls over their daily lives and movement. This research focuses on the reflections of cycling group founders and participants in the occupied West Bank, who ride despite effort…
There is More to the Story than Skipping School
This article offers a reflective exploration of the storied experiences of young climate strikers in Bristol through a narrative inquiry approach. In-depth analysis of the narratives of the young people collected at two distinct timepoints i…
Book Review
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Book Review
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Calling the Ancestors to Dance
The Abakuá are an all-male ceremonial association founded in Cuba in the 1830s which persist to this day as exponents of a form of Afrocuban folklore. Legally recognized on the island for the first time in 2005, the Abakuá community has asse…
Water Drops
This article examines how individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds in Norway participate in anti-racist activism via social media. It investigates the nature of digital activism compared to traditional paradigms, highlighting the varied f…
Hold Music
The notion of sonic intimacy has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years, but less well-established has been what it means for a sonic encounter to be non-intimate. This essay proposes an opposite to sonic intimacy, namely so…
Stuck in Representation
This article aims to discuss how Muslims participating in the Norwegian public debate experience what we refer to as representation work activism. Building on Conner’s and Rosen’s understanding of activism ‘as acts that challenge the status …
Politics of Race, Belonging and Community in Yeboyah’s music video ‘Elovena’
The Elovena maiden is, for some, one of the most important cultural symbols of the Finnish identity. This character has traditionally been portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed white woman and repeatedly used in artistic and commercial contexts. I…
Afterword
In this Afterword, I use the observations from the special issue ‘Music, Affect and Politics’ to discuss what I see are recurring questions in the studies of music and affect: (1) the tension between new materialism and historical materialis…
Editorial
Recently, scholars have paid increased attention to affect as a structuring principle of political life, aesthetic engagement, cultural practice, and social formation (Ahmed 2010, Brown et al. 2019, Lutz 2017, Neuman 2007, Papoulias and Call…
Affective Turn, or Return?
The ‘affective turn’ suggests that we pay attention to how affects create subjectivities, build communities, and shape new forms of politics in the making. It invites us to move beyond established humanities and social science paradigms and …
Editorial
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
On Private Views, Luxury and Corruption
Despite the iconic nature of the Manhattan skyline, there are only four places the public can see it from and those are the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, ONE World Trade Center and the recently opened EDGE at Hudson Yards. A…
Rajan, Sudhir Chella. 2020. A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Editorial
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Editorial: Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance
Artificial intelligence, deep learning and big data analytics are viewed as the technologies of the future, capable of delivering expert intelligence decisions, risk assessments and predictions within milliseconds. In a world of fakes, they promise to …