Editorial
Anthropology Matters
Category: English
OLIVIA ANGÉ, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2018
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RADHIKA GOVINDRAJAN. Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2018
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JAN-JONATHAN BOCK & SHARON MACDONALD, editors, Refugees Welcome? Difference and Diversity in a Changing Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2019
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We Survive Together: Utilising Transnational Resources as Community Income in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Life in Kakuma involves navigating daily crisis situations composed of food shortages, medical emergencies, and harassment by the police. This paper explores how these constant states of crisis are changing notions of family constitution and moral resp…
‘This is My Life after all’: The Social Reconstruction of the Personhood in a Taiwanese Experimental School
This article examines a Taiwanese ‘free’ school, which I name as Wholesome School, based on an ethnography of forty-six days participating and observing teachers’ and students’ lives on campus. Taiwan, a democratic country under the influence of the pr…
Stories about Past, Present and Future: Memory and Narrative between Refugee Pasts and Migrant Futures among Young People in Chiapas, Mexico
This article explores processes of memory among diasporic children and grandchildren of Guatemalan refugees, by reflecting on a postmemorial theatre project in Southern Mexico. The theatrical performances enable me to analyse how young research partici…
Turbulent Climate Discourses in Northern Sweden
I examine how tensions between locals, environmentalists, and State politicians in a small town in northern Sweden are reinforced through national discourses of climate change and sustainability. Turbulence emerges across different scales of responsibi…
A Collaborative Filming Method with Characters and Crew
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
Through Prisms
This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our s…
Provoking Film/Complicating Hierarchy
In 2014 and 2017, I accompanied the filmmakers Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho, and Helena Wittmann to the Sertão in the northeast of Brazil. In this desert-like region we gathered the material for Virar mar (2020), an experimental documentary…
Can Ethnographic Filmmaking Truly Be Shared?
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
Introduction
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
Image as a Weapon:
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
Never Silent Sights.
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
The Voice of the Sierra Nevada
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
IJAPS New Look & Section
IJAPS is pleased to make two important announcements: First, our website has been updated with a new banner and logo design that better reflects who we are and what our journal is about. Second, today we officially launch a new section titled Perspectives, which aims to capture significant views and voices about Asia Pacific in the … Continue reading
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Monetizing Amateurs. Artistic Critique, New Online Record Production and Neoliberal Conjuncture
This article examines an emerging academic discourse of new online record production. It represents amateur musicians and producers – with access to new digital production and communication tools – as entrepreneurial, aspiring professionals. The articl…
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Cultural Politics of Trust in the Dengvaxia Controversy
Vaccine hesitancy refers to the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite vaccine availability. At its very core lies the problem of trust. Yet, there is very little research on the role of trust in vaccine hesitancy, particularly…
Hospitality and the ethico-political
What is hospitality? Who is it addressed to? Hospitality aims at welcoming those who arrive; it demands giving space and time and sharing our own resources with others. In view of the current global migration crisis and in the midst of the social debat…
A mind of care
This article approaches issues arising out of being in the middle of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland in March 2020, both from the point of view of the lived experience of caring for people in our conference setting, and through analy…
Bound to hospitality
Church asylum, a practice aimed at assisting migrants with precarious residence statuses, has been enacted in Finland particularly since the 2010s. As a result of migrants’ insecure residency, their capacities of action are often restricted. They…
A lack of meaning?
This article explores the ‘lack of meaning’ in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘reactive nihilism’ following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explo…