Settling Nature: The conservation regime in Palestine-Israel (2023). Ressenya del llibre d’Irus Braverman.
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
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(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
L´extractivisme representa una forma específica de desenvolupament destructiu orientat des de la lògica econòmica global, amb múltiples implicacions per als territoris, la salut i la vida. Ancorat a una història de transformacions globals per a l’human…
Els senglars són animals que a moltes parts del món es poden entendre com una plaga degut als danys que fan a l’agricultura. Més enllà d’una cosa molesta i nociva, plaga és una condició emergent en que es pot convertir qualsevol criatura, humana o no h…
We propose to discuss the importance of artistic methods during the three stages of scientific research: data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. Using examples from our own practice, we show how these methods help us to see, hea…
Within the framework of an anthropology of techniques and material culture focused on the relationship between humans and non-humans in a context of ecological crisis, the objective of this article is to contribute to a discussion on the functio…
In this article, I reflect on my practice of drawing during fieldwork and throughout the analysis and writing process of my PhD Thesis. The aim here is to explore the heuristic potential of drawing, well before any illustrative use. Rather than …
Cet article aborde ma démarche de recherche-création dans une thèse en anthropologie portant sur l’expérience de l’agoraphobie en Norvège. J’aborde comment j’ai entrecroisé deux types d’écriture pour mener ma recherche, soit la poésie et l’écr…
Dans cette contribution, je propose de m’attarder sur quelques moments ayant ponctué mon « cheminement perceptif » (Wathelet et Candau 2013) auprès de deux taxidermistes rencontrés dans le cadre d’une recherche autour de la modélisation du vivan…
Over the past fifteen years, the social sciences have witnessed an increasing integration of artistic approaches into our academic practices. Following on from the ‘postmodern critical turn’ that began more than three decades ago (Clifford and M…
Cet article se penche sur la réflexivité des enquêté·e·s et sur les outils permettant de la saisir. Il s’intéresse en particulier à l’étude du processus de création d’une image comme moyen d’analyser le regard des créateur·rice·s, car permettant…
Cet article propose une ethnographie des pratiques d’entraînement en qigong (discipline corporelle chinoise) développées par le professeur et ancien moine-combattant Shi Yanlei. Celles-ci ont été observées à l’occasion d’un camp d’été de deux se…
From 1919 through the early 1950s, agricultural scientists affiliated with the University of California and agricultural scientists setting up settlements in Mandatory Palestine traveled between California and Palestine on a series of research trips. B…
The gold rush in the Faleme catchment between Senegal and Mali involves artisanal miners from the sub-region, European and American multinationals, and medium-sized Chinese companies. These miners, with their disproportionate financial and material res…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Justice entrepreneurs are increasingly being proclaimed as ‘game-changers’ within global development discourses coalescing around ‘sustainability.’ With the leveraging of digital solutions for social service provision during the Covid pandemic and the …
In this article, ‘the offing’ is used as a metaphor to think about demands for justice. The offing literally refers to the most distant part of the sea in view, while the phrase ‘in the offing’ means that something that is about to happen, or about to …
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Justice in the Anthropocene’ is animated by the central intuition that the new anthropology of justice should be brought into closer conversation with current debates about the Anthropocene. Unpacking this ass…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
This article follows Mihnea Tănăsescu’s (2022) call for critical scholarship on rights of nature to examine empirically how and why such rights are used. It does so using the example of resistance to mining in the Ecuadorian Íntag region. Drawing on fi…