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History-Making: The Communist Party of Thailand’s Attempt to Shape Hmong and Lua Narratives
Armed conflict between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and the military of Thailand in northern Thai-land began in mid-1967. By the end of the 1960s, there were a number of CPT stronghold bases in the remote uplands of Northern Thailand. Large nu…
La perspectiva de gènere en investigacions sobre inseguretat alimentària: pertinències i desafiaments
La inseguretat alimentària (InSAN) passa quan hi ha manca en l’accés a aliments suficients, innocus i nutritius amb la finalitat de cobrir les necessitats energètiques diàries, ha estat objecte de múltiples aproximacions, en què s’han identificat difer…
"L’alimentació és un dret, no un privilegi" ("Essen ist ein Recht – kein Privileg"): La lluita contra la inseguretat alimentària urbana a través de l’acció directa en una Küfa vienesa
En el context de la política prefigurativa, una pregunta clau és: Com podem viure en solidaritat i donar-nos suport mútuament de manera interdependent sense crear dependència? Certes accions anarquistes proporcionen un model per a un tipus de societat …
La qüestió alimentària en una ciutat intermèdia de l’Argentina durant el govern de Milei: un estudi de cas sobre la inseguretat alimentària i les intervencions comunitàries i estatals a Tandil (2024)
Aquest article analitza la qüestió alimentària a Tandil durant el 2024, en un context d’ajust fiscal, desmantellament de polítiques públiques i crisi socioeconòmica agreujada per la inflació, que va suposar una major precarització de la vida. Mitjançan…
Brossa a les xarxes: Percepcions de la contaminació entre els pescadors d’arrossegament de Barcelona
La contaminació per plàstics i altres residus a la costa de Barcelona reflecteix una interacció complexa entre processos humans i no humans, connectant dinàmiques socials, econòmiques i ecològiques a diferents escales. Aquest fenomen ha transformat la …
City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future
This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food transition support animal liberation and restore access…
Review of Esther Sánchez-Pardo & María Porras Sánchez (eds.). 2024. Myth and environmentalism: Arts of resilience for a damaged planet
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Review of Kallis G., Paulson, S., D’Alisa, G. & Demaria, F. 2020. The case for degrowth.
Soberania alimentària i desenvolupament territorial autodeterminat: Anàlisi de dos casos a Buenos Aires i Tucumán (Argentina)
A l’Argentina, els agricultors familiars i els pobles originaris constitueixen sectors històricament vulnerables i invisibilitzats. En aquest treball s’analitzen estratègies emmarcades en contextos de desigualtats territorials-alimentàries i incomplime…
Décrire pour continuer d’exister
Les vins de qualité se sont construits en France autour de la notion de « terroir ». La définition de celle-ci est cependant très controversée. Geneviève Teil oppose, dans ses travaux, la dichotomie entre un terroir qui serait défini par les sci…
Un dîner presque parfait
L’utilisation croissante en cuisine de nouveaux robots multifonctions connectés génère des sentiments polarisés, qui vont de l’enthousiasme démonstratif au rejet radical. Ces affects interrogent les imaginaires et enjeux associés au « cuisiner-m…
Embarrassment and wild caught meat
In the initial COVID-19 pandemic, much speculation was made about what, exactly, Chinese appetites involved, and whether Chinese had a penchant for sourcing and consuming wild caught meat. Accusations abounded, principally (but not exclusively) …
« Se nutrimenter » pour dégraisser et gagner du muscle
Cet article s’intéresse aux relations entre un coach et son groupe de body-builders examinées à la suite d’une enquête ethnographique de longue durée dans une salle de musculation du Sud de la France. Les aspects alimentaires des régimes qui son…
Racialized land tenure and the colonial present: Political ecologies of dispossession in Northeast Brazil
The article introduces the concept of racialized land tenure to illuminate how colonial land governance systems in Brazil continue to shape dispossession and ecological degradation in post-colonial contexts. Drawing from historical and ethnographic res…
Engineering Power: The Classification of Presidential Constitutional Manipulation in Sub-Saharan Africa (1990–2020)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper investigates the phenomenon of presidential constitutional engineering (PCE) in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2020. It introduces a novel conceptual framework and classification system that captures the…
Maquiagem: Concealing the politicized nature of urban disaster and housing policy in Petrópolis, Brazil
Under the intertwined environmental crises of capitalist urbanization, we argue that policies on housing and disaster are merging in order to (further) conceal widespread socio-ecological degradation and disaster risk creation. Following two extensive …
IJAPS Vol. 21, No. 2
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contrib…
Ostentation et débordements alimentaires à la fête de Sant’Ana (Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brésil)
La fête de Sant’Ana, déclarée patrimoine immatériel de l’État du Rio Grande do Norte en 2010, est l’occasion pour les fidèles de revenir dans leur ville d’origine et de démontrer bruyamment leur foi dans leur sainte-patronne. Bien plus qu’une cé…
What brought us forward: Ciulaku women and their fight for land rights in Taiwan
Drawing on ethnographic research and oral histories, the article highlights how Ciulaku women play a pivotal role in preserving and transmitting collective memories of displacement. These memories, often rooted in personal and intergenerational trauma,…
Seminole Health and Population Change in South Florida, 1855-1917
This study, carried out by a team of anthropologists, historians, and a public health professional, taps the methods of historical content analysis to reconstruct Seminole health in South Florida between 1855 and 1917. For the Seminoles, the period was…
Book review of Sealy, Thomas, Uberoi, Varun and Meer, Nasar (eds.) 2024. The resilience of multiculturalism: Ideas, politics, practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 328 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Interpreters’ Experiences of Asylum Interviews in Sweden. Working Conditions and Interpreting Literacy
This article seeks to investigate interpreters’ experiences of interpreting in asylum interviews. The empirical basis of the paper is ethnographic interviews with nine public service interpreters in Sweden, collected as part of a large…
Book review of Schimanski, Johan and Nyman, Jopi (eds.) 2023. Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 276 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Making Home with Plants
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 43Issue: 2Pages: 33-50