Zagaku
The majority of this article consists of an unadulterated piece of auto-ethnographic writing depicting a key experience from my anthropological fieldwork. For my PhD research on Japanese policing, I spent two years living in Tokyo and traini…
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Book Review: Uganda: The Dynamics of Neoliberal Transformation by Wiegratz Jörg, Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Life-Destroying Diagrams
Reviewed by Jacob Carter, University of Rochester Eugenie Brinkema. Life-Destroying Diagrams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 470 pages. Throughout Eugenie Brinkema’s Life-Destroying Diagrams, form is described as infinite, boundless, and generati…
Book Review: Life-Destroying Diagrams
InVisible Culture
Protected: Chamada: Dossiê “Laudos Antropológicos: questões teórico-metodológicas, éticas e de poder na América Latina hoje”
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Book review of Harpaz, Yossi 2019. <i>Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset</i>. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 203 pp
This is a review of Yossi Harpaz’s recently published book on comparative research in four different countries about dynamics of acquisition of dual citizenship. Published on 2022-09-27 09:47:55
Epistemic Violence Toward Immigrant Women in Iceland: Silencing, Smothering, and Linguistic Deficit
This paper is an examination of how stories shared as a result of the #metoo movement in Iceland exemplify aspects of how culture and institutions in Iceland are complicit in the silencing of immigrant women who experience violence, both in intimate pa…
Book Review of Krieger, Tim, Panke, Diana and Pregernig, Michael (eds.) 2020. <i>Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance</i>. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 240 pp
Published on 2022-09-27 09:58:56
Book review of Parekh, Serena 2020. <i>No Refuge. Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 280 pp
Published on 2022-09-27 09:54:14
The Golden Opportunity? Migration to Svalbard from Thailand and the Philippines
The contribution focuses on international migration to rural peripheries in the Arctic, specifically Thais and Filipinx in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Longyearbyen is entangled both in global migration trends and Norway’s geopolitical interests in the Arct…
What Is in a Word? An Exploration of Concept of ‘the Ghetto’ in Danish Media and Politics 1850–2018
Since the early 2000s, the concept of ‘the ghetto’ has been used excessively in Danish public debate and national policies targeting the integration of non-Western immigrants. This study, theoretically inspired by historian Reinhart Koselleck’s concept…
Civic Integration through Commissioned Communities: On the Cross-Sector Co-Production of Conditioned and Clientised Participation
Policymakers across Western welfare states increasingly make full citizenship contingent on refugees adapting to liberal democratic values and practising active citizenship. Simultaneously, the New Public Governance paradigm has reinvigorated policymak…
Inspired by Iceland: Borealism and Geographical Imaginations of the North in Migrants’ Narratives
In this article, we apply the concept of borealism as introduced by Kristinn Schram (2011) as well as anthropological literature on the role of images in producing different forms of mobilities (Salazar, 2011; 2013), in order to unravel the ways throug…
What Can We Learn from the Reception of Ukrainian Refugees?
Published on 2022-09-27 11:12:55
Learning Insular Nordic Languages: Comparative Perspectives on Migrants’ Experiences Learning Faroese and Icelandic
This article explores migrants’ language learning experiences in two small language communities in the West Nordic Region. We provide a comparative perspective based on an online survey and ethnographic interviews conducted in Iceland and qualitative r…
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Call for papers: Social inequality at the crossroads
We invite articles, research notes, essays and book reviews that discuss how the phenomenon of social inequality is created and recreated in the context of accelerated social changes and critical junctures. We welcome texts from multiple disciplines and genres. Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 30th, 2022 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu. We live in a time […]
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Zychowicz, Jessica. Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Illustrations. 424 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0168-6.
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A Life in Central Europe
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Letter from the Editor | Anthropology of East Europe Review
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Agricultural issues are currently in the limelight. They appear on the agenda of many institutions and governments. All over the world they provoke protests and demonstrations on the part of producers and consumers – involving…
Death of Mary Douglas, an Obituary
I have had the privilege of collaborating with Mary Douglas in the framework of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF) since 1978, but our paths first crossed much earlier, in 1962 when she was a member of the Internati…