Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Australia’s border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument to prevent asylum seeker protection. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken wi…
Few other categories of things appear so bound up with questions of agency, power and responsibility as that of ‘drugs’. With over a century of global treaties and prohibition of such substances, we are accustomed to thinking of them as pote…
This article delves into the complex dynamics of khat (Catha edulis) prohibition in the UK, with a particular focus on a Somali community in north-west London. Despite the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs finding no substantial eviden…
According to political ecologists, today’s major challenge in environmental policy revolves around rethinking the ontology of the human-nature divide, which assumes “humans” to be fundamentally different from and superior to “nature”, contributing to e…
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexities might be distilled into the idea that how ‘the w…
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is December 10, 2024.
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory’s ongoin…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article is based on a series of observations made in the offices of the Dakar Labour Inspectorate between 2020 and 2023 and describes how labour is regulated by the inspection agents. The recent developments in the…
Pensar la antropología en clave posthumanista Josep Martí Pérez y Begonya Enguix Grau (Eds. 2022)Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas308 p.ISBN: 978-84-00-11037-6
Humanisme i posthumanisme. Eines per a unes ciències humanes en moviment Francesc Núñez Mosteo Agnès Vayreda i Duran (Coords)Begonya Enguix Grau Josep Martí Mara Martínez Morant (2022)Barcelona. UOC.211 p.ISBN: 978-84-9180-974-6
Las banderas son objetos nacionales capaces de guardar y mantener afectos divergentes y soltarlos en un momento determinado. El objetivo de este artículo es comprender el funcionamiento emocional de las banderas en el soberanismo catalán. Para ello tra…
Este artículo se basa en una investigación realizada sobre la relación entre política y emociones en el movimiento independentista catalán. Propone situar las emociones como un campo de estudio imprescindible en relación con las políticas contemporánea…
El període històric conegut com el Procés independentista Catalunya s’ha caracteritzat per una activació política extraordinària que ha portat a la generació de mobilitzacions massives. En aquest procés, l’experimentació individual i col·lectiva d’emoc…
Més enllà de la política que s’exerceix a i des de les institucions, els individus fan servir els seus recursos de poder per mantenir o reptar estructures polítiques mitjançant micropolítiques esperonades per tecnologies afectives, tot perseguint en te…
El objetivo de este artículo es proponer el interés que puede tener el análisis de la noción de confianza en los estudios del nacionalismo. Se parte de una perspectiva teórica que pone el acento en la vivencia emocional de la nación y el papel de la so…
Este artículo se centra en la puesta en escena de la política Alt-Right española a partir de dos aspectos concretos: la fetichización erótica de sus candidatos, convertidos en sujetos likeable (Sontag; Han, 2015) –fenómeno que englobamos dentro de la b…
El objetivo del artículo es ofrecer algunas herramientas analíticas para comprender la polarización en el contexto político y social catalán a partir de la literatura sobre la dimensión emocional en la política contenciosa. Apoyándonos en la perspectiv…
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Editor’s foreword Articles The Linear A tablets HT 102, HT 94 and HT 89: new data on different groups within Minoan society Alexander Akulov The Keftiw/Minoan language is a very close relative of Hattic. In the text of HT 102 are listed the following groups of people: sara/sarja, pani, dirina, and a group denoted by […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Legacies of colonial rule, continuing neocolonial extraction, and excessive carbon dumping have meant that the majority of those living in the Global South experience many of the consequences of climate change more acut…
On United States public lands, large-scale structural capitalocentric valuations are at odds with the embodied non-monetary valuations expressed by nature-based recreators. Valuing United States Forest Service lands through a capitalocentric lens does …
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 …
In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…
How do we do an ethnography of universalities? Is it possible to reconcile local specifi cities with universalities through/in ethnography? That is the question the authors in this special issue ask and engage with. If ethnography is about specificitie…
Covid-sceptics in the Czech Republic relate strongly to the idea of universal science. They understand this universality as emerging through the participation of ordinary citizens in scientific knowledge-making. Rather than then belonging solely to the…