Reflections on Face Value: Curating Vernacular Photography After The Material Turn
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Harnessing social media analytics for political ecology: Polish digital discourse on waste incinerators
This study explores how social media analytics (SMA) advances political ecology (PE) through a case study on Polish discourse around waste-to-energy facilities (March 2020–June 2023). Using a social media listening platform (SMLP) for sentiment analysi…
Ethical Striving with Other-Than-Humans in Contemporary Improvised Music
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the care and attention between other-than humans and musicians in the contemporary improvised music scene. From dominant Western perspectives, ethical relations are considered in anthropocentric terms: …
Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist
On a cold December evening, in the thick cloud of cigarette smoke and clatter of the cocktail shaker, two women, Suvi Rautio and He Beili tell stories of what it means to see through the eyes of an anthropologist. Speaking to a crowded room of seventy …
Errata 48 (3)
In Volume 48, Issue 3 of Suomen Antropologi, we published a Lectio Praecursoria by Ioana Țîștea, entitled ‘Creolising Nordic Migration Research: Entangled Knowledges, Migratisations, and Reflexivities’. In the lectio, Țîștea was drawing direct attentio…
Book Review: Routray, Sanjeev 2022. The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi
Sanjeev Routray The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2022. 347 pp. ISBN: 9781503630840 (cloth); ISBN: 9781503632134 (paperback); ISBN: 9781503632141 (E-book)
Book Review: Huttunen, Laura and Gerhild Perls (eds) 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing
Huttunen, Laura and Gerhild Perls (eds). An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. Berghahn. 2023. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-1-80539-072-5 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-80539-364-1 (ebook).
Book Review: Alava, Henni 2020. Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion
Alava, Henni. Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion. Bloomsbury. 2022. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3501-7580-8 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-3501-7583-9, ISBN: 978-1-3501-7582-2 (ebook).
The Value of Common Bracken Revisited
Based on a walking ethnography, this photo essay employs sensory ethnography to explore multispecies relationality in steljniki, plots of land traditionally used for grazing and the harvesting of common bracken. Through work in subsistence-based extens…
On Hesitation
What does it mean to die well? How does assuming responsibility for killing an animal feel?Who gets to decide who dies, who lives, and who kills? While orienting oneself to regenerating life is typical among small-scale diversified farmers, killing and…
(Re-)Learning to Relate to the More-Than-Human
The lack of concerted action by the majority of the population in the face of the global ecological catastrophe compels us to ponder the deeper cause of inaction: a troubled relationship with the more-than-human world. Redressing this relationship and …
Editorial Note: On Hope
Lately, our daily news is engulfed with billowing clouds of despair as democracy slips away and is replaced with emboldened form of authoritarianism. We live in dark times. Global disasters are multiplying with no end in sight. Powerful institutions ge…
Towards More-Than-Human Negotiation
Scholars from all disciplines are becoming increasingly conscious of the co-dependence between humans and more-than-humans. This special collection engages these debates, guided by a question both practical and theoretical: What makes good relationship…
Book Review: Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design by Boone, Catherine
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Invisible tenants in urban village redevelopment: Case studies from Shenzhen Megacity, China
China’s urban development is undergoing a critical transition from expansion to redevelopment. Justice is an important issue during urban redevelopment, particularly for millions of tenants in informal settlements megacities. Using critical political e…
Exploring the Roots of Humanity: A Journey Through Folklore from Around the World
Folklore is the ancient collective consciousness of a people – serving as a mirror of their traditions, customs, beliefs, and aspirations. This powerful tool is essential to understanding societies across the globe and through the ages. In this blog post, we journey across continents, exploring a variety of folklore topics that shape humanity. Europe: Ireland’s […]
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Living Legends: An Exploration into Varying Folklore
Welcome to an enchanting journey through the charming, harrowing, and captivating world of folklore. Whether it’s about breathtaking Kodama spirits from Japanese mythology or spine-chilling wendigos from Native American lore, every culture has a rich reserve of magical entities, origin tales, and mythical occurrences that continue to shape their identities. Scandinavian Folklore: The Allure of […]
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Scaling Feminist Activism
The continuous protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran since Jina Mahsi Amini’s death in the fall of 2022 are challenging common perceptions of resistance, and even revolution. Through looking at the politics of maneuvering of both exiled f…
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Knowing Digital Governance from Below
This paper considers the question of what it is to ‘know’ digital governance through an experiential, bottom-up lens, and presents some empirical detail from recent fieldwork with feminist movement actors in northern India – both formally or…
International Aid and Its Role in Shaping Agriculture Policy Narratives in Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. International aid in the form of development assistance helps developing countries meet their development needs. Aid is also used as a conduit to drive the interests of donor countries in recipient countries. In Ghana, …
Hypothetical Spaces
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The Price to Live
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Tracing Copies: A Dialogues Interview with Paul Duro
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Object Forgery and Reproduction: Modes of Recreation through Hannah Arendt’s Vita Activa
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