In Close Quarters: Archival Reimaginations Between Absence and Abundance
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Painting Against the Colonial Dream: MAHKU and Abolitionist Aesthetics
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Introduction / Diffraction
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Co-subalternity and the political ecology of human–elephant conflict in Odisha, India
Dominant biocultural conservation discourses on human–elephant conflict in India and elsewhere often reduce local communities to a victim/perpetrator binary. Even seemingly divergent models— fortress conservation, and rights-based approaches— reproduce…
42 | 2026 – Alevi Pasts Contested
Over recent decades, Alevi Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary field drawing on history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religious studies. While this institutional and scholarly consolidation marks significant progress…
Contested Land Governance in Cameroon: Legitimacy, Tradition, and Conflict Mediation in Kom and Bali
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper examines how traditional authorities in Kom and Bali, Cameroon, assert control over land amid competing state power and legal systems. Using ethnographic data, it shows that the fons employ hybrid strategies-…
State selectivities in Mexico’s 4th transformation: Indigenous consultation in the San José Mining Project, Oaxaca, Mexico
The role of the state in social participation related to extractive projects in Latin America is relevant topic for political ecologists, because it intervenes and shapes the relationship between society and nature. The state is often accused of having…
The Amiche in Ethiopia – Multiple Displacement and Liminality
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The Amiche are Eritreans who were born or brought up in Ethiopia before Eritrean independence. This article focuses on the Amiche group’s political and social situation. It explores the way its members perceive themselv…
The Political and Moral Economy of Telecom Corporate Social Responsibility in Somalia
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article focuses on a commercial sector deeply entwined with diaspora humanitarianism: transnational Somali telecommunications. Telecom companies in Somalia are celebrated for innovations in digital finance and are …
In-between Belonging and Longing
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…
Breaking Sixty Years of Silence
Adopting an informal, autoethnographic approach, two British academics with working-class heritage reflect in this essay upon their repeated attempts to challenge criminology’s intellectual conventions and dominant ideological and institutio…
Plant disease detonators: Lamp oil, agrarian change, and the historical-material making of the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in southern Italy
Over the past decade, thousands of centuries-old olive trees in the Southern Italian region of Apulia dried out and the whole olive farming sector have teetered on the brink. Despite having been framed, by the phytosanitary authorities, as an exclusive…
Interview: The Other Side of Algorithms: Reclaiming the Body, Voice, and Labor
A Conversation Between Nicolas Gourault & Juntao Yang
Escape from Willful Hermeneutical Ignorance
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. …
Gobernanza del agua: Historia y gestión del agua en el Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente (Islas Canarias, España)
Este artículo examina por qué las políticas de protección ambiental no han logrado transformar las estructuras de control privado sobre los recursos hídricos consolidadas desde el siglo XVI, analizando el caso del Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Tabur…
New issue available: Vol. 21 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue: Engaging Anthropology
Sites is pleased to advise that a new issue is now available: WORKING BEYOND ANTHROPOLOGY ACROSS DIFFERENT EPISTEMIC CULTURES Julie Spray, Laura McLauchlan, Pauline Herbst, Alexandra Palmer, Mythily Meher & Julie Park POIPOIA TE MAURI O TE REO: Bui…
All The Rage: Falling Apart in the Managerial World of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company
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Repertoires of Access: Corporate–Community Engagement in Chinese Bauxite Mining in Guinea
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Using a repertoire lens, this article examines business–community encounters around two large-scale greenfield projects operated by Chinese state-owned enterprises in Guinea’s bauxite frontier. The heuristic highlights …
Editorial: Authority, Meaning, and Justice in Everyday Southeast Asia
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A Proxy of Social Justice? A Co/Autoethnographic Account of Language Testing and Translation Training for Migrant Workers in Thailand
This article explores the possibilities and limits of advancing social justice through language-related support for migrant workers in Thailand. Using collaborative autoethnography, we reflect on our experiences in two university-led initiatives with M…
Robots at the Table: Unveiling Employee Experiences of Robot Integration in Malaysia’s Hospitality Industry
This study examines how frontline restaurant employees in Malaysia experience and interpret the integration of service robots within a labor-scarce hospitality sector characterized by reliance on a migrant workforce and high-touch service traditions. D…
Marina Hassapopoulou. Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 328 pages.
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Constructing France: Shifting Media Representation in Mali, 2017–2024
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how France has been represented in Malian media and how major geopolitical events have driven these shifts. Using a corpus of 822 Maliweb articles published between 2017 and 2024, the study int…
The geographical imaginaries of Galapagos: Scientific laboratory, tourist paradise, bureaucratic prison, or lifeworld?
Drawing on a year of ethnographic fieldwork on the Galapagos Islands, conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021), this article argues that the multiple geographical imaginaries of the archipelago as a ‘laboratory’ or ‘pristine nature’ that are …
Home–School Cooperation in Children’s Education: Narratives of South Asian Immigrant Parents in Finland
While extensive research on home–school cooperation has been conducted both in Nordic countries and beyond, the perspectives of immigrant parents have received little attention. To bridge the gap, this qualitative study examines the narrativ…