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Review of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum

Review: Qualitative research methods (2nd ed.), by Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter and Ajay Bailey, London, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020, 345 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4739-0390-6. ISBN: 978-1-4739-0391-3 (paperback)

This paper describes a course on Anthropology and Museums offered at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. The interface between anthropology and museums is of great relevance for the elaboration of an effective pedagogical strategy in teaching anth…

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This article focuses on the intergenerational nature of migrants’ aspirations and the emotions that attach to them. Drawing on Ahmed’s (2014) notion of “affective economies” that emphasises that emotions circulate and accumulate affective value, I show…

Theoretically, cultural diplomacy has commonly been perceived as part of a broader family of connect…

Access to consumption, especially to objects that are challenging to obtain, is one of the features contributing to the successful spread of Pentecostalism in West Africa. Pentecostal pastors have become central public figures, ‘consumer stars,’ whose …

This paper is based on ethnographic work in organization that form part of what we term the Future Industry – such as think tanks, consultancies and governmental bodies – involved in the charting, description and analysis of geopolitical future sce…

Building on ethnographic research in Uganda, this paper discusses the mundane practice of rumour mongering and gossiping as anticipatory practices. Crude oil discovery in Uganda brought a small oil boom to the region endowed with the natural resource i…

This article explores the ways in which emergent police forces in conflict-affected Southern societies are shaped by cultural practices operating through social phenomena. It uses the record of the prototypical police forces found in the Somali cities …

This article analyzes the conceptions of anticipation and invention in the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilbert Simondon. In doing so, I analyze the questions how futures are anticipated and what role technologies play in the anticipation and inve…

In light of climate change, projected population growth, increasing conflicts over land and the question of food security, the Tanzanian government takes the respective visions of environmental futures as a cause and justification for particular measur…

This special issue brings together research from various disciplines to not only assess the current state of human rights, aid and development projects, and legitimate governing orders – often framed as factors of human security – but also to criticall…

In dealing with terrorism cases in Indonesia, the government must develop a strategy to eradicate terrorism, be it the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorism ideologies through awareness of the importance of human rig…

Abstract After World War II, an estimated five million people were on the move in Czechoslovakia. Between 1954 and 1970, over 16,000 of them immigrated to Australia. This paper is part of a larger research project that provides an in-depth inquiry of t…

The Papuan People’s Assembly (Majelis Rakyat Papua-MRP) is a cultural representation of the Papuan people, which has an important role in protecting the rights of the Papuan people in the fields of customs and culture, empowering women, and religious h…

This paper analyzes the policies for migrant economies as part of broader social and labor market in Germany. It points out that the current fragmented and contradictory policy action can be identified as an outcome of former ambiguities and the delega…

In pursuit of post-Kemalism [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek

À la poursuite du post-kémalisme [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek

Post-Post-Kemalism: In Search of a New …

  Synopsis (English) :  When Ammiya was 13 years old, while in her 6th year at school, her parents sent her to marriage without her consent. As is customary in the Fulani and Muslim communities in Cameroon, no one tried to stop this marriage….

Synopsis (English): The Oumarou family lived a nomadic way of life before settling on the outskirts of N’gaoundéré, in northern Cameroon.  Change of Perspective observes how the family adapts to their new life by focusing …

Djebba’s cabaret is the portrait of a young brewer of bilbil (Traditional millet beer). Djebba is a young woman who has trained as a teacher but has been unable to find work for 05 years. To survive in a big city like Ngaoundéré (Cameroon), she brews a…

In a small village in Northern Cameroon;  lives a respected Mboum head of the family with his many children.  The latter practices the Yiga kaka or Cockrel diagnosis where he earns his living by making the diagnosis and curing the sick throug…