Just Recognition and Biocultural Rights
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
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Povos da terra and originary rights
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Politics as War: The Ideology of the Attack on Indigenous Territorial Rights
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Territorial Rights in Brazil: Chronic Difficulties and New Approaches to Sustaining Traditional Landscapes
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Brazilian Indigenous Peoples: Territories, Legal Rights and The Obstacles of Structural and Institutional Racism
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The Judicialization of Indigenous Territories in Brazil: Judicial Power and the Obstacles to Demarcation
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Writing and Drawing: Knowledge of “Traditional Indigenous Midwives”
This paper aims to discuss the construction of the “traditional indigenous midwife” category in the context of public health policies on pregnancy, labor and childbirth care in Roraima, Brazil. Based on statements given by indigenous women and men …
Community Health Workers in Central-Southern Amazonia: An Ethnographic Account of the Munduruku People of Kwatá Laranjal Indigenous Land
We describe the range of different positions assumed by Community Health Workers (CHW) employed to work among the Mundurucu in order to analyze their emergence as new actors in the social field of indigenous health and the implications of CHW parti…
Health Agents on The Move: Yanomami Agency and The Struggle For Wellbeing
This paper examines the sanitary and sociopolitical impact of the work of a Yanomami Health Agent in the Upper Ocamo area of the Venezuelan Amazonas State, and its relationship with the national health system, and argues that these build up into an…
Gendered Geographies of Care: Women as Health Workers in an Indigenous Health Project in the Peruvian Amazon
This article examines how women as primary gatekeepers for well being became involved as health promoters in a local indigenous health care project in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, Peru. Here, I provide a case study of the processes and tr…
Indigenous Health Agents in Amazonia: Creative Intermediations and a Poiesis of Care
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Covid-19 and the Future of Work
This paper offers a critical reflection on the impact of Covid-19 and government public health measures on patterns of work in the UK. This paper will focus specifically on remote or home workers as this generates myriad questions about the …
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…
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
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…
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…
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…