Editorial
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Category: English
Book Review: Bijl, P., & Chin, G. V. S. (Eds.). (2020). Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon.
This book dicusses the national, regional, and transnational appropriations of Kartini – a young Javanese woman who lived in Jepara, Central Java, between 1879 and 1904. She is recognised internationally as an iconic feminist and nationalist Indonesian…
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Punching above Weight: How the African Union Commission Exercises Agency in Politics
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Conventional narratives suggest that the African Union Commission (AUC), like most international public administrations and international organisations (IOs) housed in the less materially endowed regions of the world, e…
African Agency in Practice: Acquiring Agency and Institutional Change in the West African Health Organisation
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how practitioners in the West African Health Organization (WAHO) obtain and exercise autonomous political agency in the development of regional health policy. While many process-driven accounts…
“Special Circumstances” and the Politics of Climate Vulnerability: African Agency in the UN Climate Change Negotiations
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African countries are well recognised as being among the worst affected by the impacts of climate change. However, efforts to secure recognition of these “special circumstances” of African countries within the UN climat…
When alterity prevails: Pearls by Tullio Seppilli to Brazilian qualitative research
The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…
Health as a common good
The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…
Consciousness and life: A tribute to Tullio Seppilli
In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…
Risk, vulnerability, participation
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…
Assessing Creditworthiness in the Age of Big Data
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance. As such, we describe the…
Can Computers Automate Welfare?
Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This s…
In memory of Patrick Williams (1947-2021)
Remembering Patrick Williams (1947-2021), one of the most important anthropologists of Gypsy-Roma groups, is also paying homage to a specific anthropology, which Williams constantly and consciously contributed to establish: an anthropology which anchor…
Building a #COVIDSyllabus: Lessons for the Future of Collaborative Pedagogy
In early March 2020, Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) initiated a crowdsourced document entitled “Teaching COVID-19: An Anthropology Syllabus Project.” This essay reflects on TLA’s #COVIDSyllabus in the context of a broader shift toward the use…
“My Body is My Tool”… and the Pen is Mine! : An Exploration of Feminist Visual Practises
During my research with women performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I adopted drawing as my primary tool for collecting and analysing data. I found that the best way to capture the value of theatrical performances was through an effec…
Searching for Miss Menzies : Tracing the ghosts of eighteenth-century sex workers in Edinburgh.
Historical records allow the lingering presences of people of the past to be traced. This study documents a search for recorded eighteenth-century sex workers in Edinburgh, assessing whether ghosts can be brought under anthropological inquir…
Snapshots of Sanctuary : Self-definitions of immigrant support in Eugene, Oregon
Summary: Since its inception in the 1980s, the US ‘Sanctuary Movement’ has been the source of contentious political debate and academic discussion. Although originally a clergy-based effort of transnational activism, ‘sanctuary’ has since di…
Caring for the dead : affective relationship between people and human remains in Aguni, Okinawa
This essay will examine the affective relationships people have with human remains and by extent, the souls of the deceased in Aguni, Okinawa. In conceptualising care, I will explore how senkotsu (bone washing) and other emerging mortuary pr…
Scripted Politics : An analysis of the Scottish State’s reliance of Charisma
This essay analyses the goings on of First Minster’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament. Through the realisation that this spectacle is largely semi-scripted I make the argument that the idea of the state relies on the charisma o…
Soft Activism : Exploring pedagogic engagement in the ‘clean-tech playground’
Abstract:This essay will explore pedagogic engagement in a Dutch sustainability site, De Ceuvel. Self-labelled as the “clean-tech playground”, De Ceuvel is a publically accessible site which houses scientists, creatives and a café, an…
Painting the Self in a Study of Modernity : Using Art in Anthropological Research
This essay proposes the application of the concepts of ‘small’ and ‘big’ stories theorised by Lyotard (1984) to the discipline of visual anthropology, by focusing on the issues of ‘generalisation’ and ‘individuality’. The primary question on…
Running into trouble : Exploring the negotiation of public space between running groups and other users
This paper looks to investigate how running groups function in public space, both in terms of how they find their way and how they interact with other users. It builds on theories of wayfinding and the study of mobilities to examine how diff…
Expressions of Sacred Cultural Capital : A Spatial Temporal Exploration of Bengali Islam
This short photo essay presents an aspect of work in progress. First hand observational notes and photo recordings were taken around the socially structured field habitus of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, it’s religious spheres of…
Running into trouble : Exploring the negotiation of public space between running groups and other users
This paper looks to investigate how running groups function in public space, both in terms of how they find their way and how they interact with other users. It builds on theories of wayfinding and the study of mobilities to examine how different space…
Painting the Self in a Study of Modernity : Using Art in Anthropological Research
This essay proposes the application of the concepts of ‘small’ and ‘big’ stories theorised by Lyotard (1984) to the discipline of visual anthropology, by focusing on the issues of ‘generalisation’ and ‘individuality’. The primary question on which this…