Fracking and Democracy in the United Kingdom
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 66Issue: 3Pages: 41-61
Category: English
Measuring Humans Through Money
This introduction to the special issue outlines important anthropological insights into debt relations and relations of indebtedness drawing on my own research on post-Soviet economies as well as on the contributions to this special issue. T…
Protected: Roaming-with quiltros
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Picturing the Group: Combining Photo-elicitation and Focus Group Methods
The aim of this paper is to address the potential of combining the focus group method with photo-elicitation in ethnographic research. The paper is based on my own experience with a photo-elicitation focus group (PEFG) consisting of five communi…
Combining Two Disciplines
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of the use of anthropology by photographers. Based on my personal experiences of two distinct ethnographic fieldworks, I argue that these two practi…
Visual Trust
The aim of this article is to present the research programme Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Scientific, Religious and Social Images. The main objective of this programme is to explore how people from different countries…
From Consensus to Diffraction
How does one map and visualise the complex arrangements of computer vision technologies used in the field of security in a collaborative setting where the research participants come from different scholarly traditions? This paper is an account o…
Circular Digital Relations
Abstract= Interactive documentary are epistemological tools that can help shaping and fostering comparative reflections in collaborative ethnographic projects. This paper analyses the process of planning and coding a digital platform – an intera…
Collaboration, Mediation, and Comparison
Four of the five articles in this special issue are authored by members of the Food Citizens? team. Together with our colleagues from the Security Vision project (fifth article), we reflect on the epistemological and methodological practices fol…
A Possible Framework for Digital Visuality.
With the ongoing penetration of digital technologies and tools across the world, the act of conducting visual research increasingly entails a capacity to incorporate a broader horizon characterised by multimodality and multisensoriality, by algo…
Visions of the Urban Green
The article investigates urban gardening in Turin with ethnography, historical analysis and photography, using both the authors’ photography and sources from social media and private archives. The authors collaborate to analyse ‘community’ garde…
Giving Care a Platform: The Use of Instagram by Mothers of Children with Chronic Illness
In this article, we explore the ways that the social media platform Instagram shapes the intersubjective experience of caring for children with chronic illnesses. Based on long-term immersive social media research and in-depth interviews with women mai…
“Our Blood Itself Is Disabled!”: Haemoglobinopathy, Certificate Anxiety, and Contested Constitutionalism in Disability Legislation in India
On 28 December 2016, the Government of India passed a national disability act which for the first time recognised genetic blood disorders—thalassemia, sickle cell disease, and haemophilia—as disabilities, entitling affected individuals to affirmative a…
Chamada: Dossiê “Utopias da Reciclagem e Circularidade”
Antropologia inova seus estudos teóricos e empíricos e denuncia a urgência de uma ordem ecológica. Nessa chamada para artigos, convidamos a pesquisadoras/es que queiram apresentar seus resultados e reflexões sobre experiências de outro mundo possível, já que compartilhamos da narrativa que não há um “Planeta B” e a Pachamama/Mãe terra/Gaia/Planeta Terra é nossa casa. Pesquisas […]
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Visualized Trauma, Sensitized Resilience: Urban Art among the French Hmong Community
Various types of urban art emerged and prospered in recent decades when degenerating cities were embracing art as a marketing strategy. This urban-rejuvenation approach sheds less light on the agency and motivation of artists. This paper examines how e…
Sustaining Urban Public Spaces through Everyday Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: The Case of the Art Center Recyclart
This article explores how social artistic interventions provide forms of everyday aesthetic cosmopolitanism – an intellectual and aesthetic openness towards objects, places, experiences, activities that relates to the everyday life of people regardless…
Urban Art and Cosmopolitanism
In this special issue on urban art and cosmopolitanism, we explore emergent inquiry and explorations into the role of arts, artists and the reception of arts in the urban public space as cosmopolitan articulations, interventions and methodologies. Base…
Urban Semantics through Law and Photography
The visual design of urban public spaces (hereinafter “cityscape”) has an important impact on city life – it can channel interpersonal communication into certain directions while excluding others; it can powerfully communicate notions of what is social…
Physical and Digital Placemaking in a Public Art Initiative in Camden, NJ
The process of placemaking entails the use of physical and digital representations of place. An understudied element of these representations is how users’ agency and interaction with physical and digital placemaking contributes to sense of place withi…
Protected: The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
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Relations of Debt and Credit Networks in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Russia and Kazakhstan
Any relations and practices of debt within credit networks include not only pure economic exchange, such as barter or non-monetary exchange, but diverse kinds of social relations of debt. In this article, we consider case studies embedded in…
Does Spotify Create Attachment?
This paper seeks to measure the extent to which algorithmically generated playlists, conceptualised herein as cultural intermediaries (Bourdieu 1984), create ‘attachment’ between consumers of music and producers of music. This was undertaken following …