Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.30 No.1
Published: December 2018.
Category: English
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.2
Published: August 2018.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.2
Published: August 2018.
Etnološka istraživanja, No.23
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
Etnološka istraživanja, Vol. No.23
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
CAES Vol. 4, № 4
Editor’s foreword Articles: Comparing Çatalhöyük with the palace of Knossos by matrix-vector method Alexander Akulov Çatalhöyük and the palace of Knossos look much alike: they both seem to be samples of the same architectural tradition. Matrix-vector method represents the plan of any building as a 3D vector and allows estimating degree of resemblance of any […]
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.1
Published: April 2018.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.1
Published: April 2018.
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19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
Beyond Utopia: Building Socialism Within and After Capitalism
The article focuses on several figures who are particularly interesting in terms of identifying a radical critique of capitalism that does not shrink from the possibility of designing and imaging a different future. Following Michael Löwy, in our study…
After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons…
Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically,…
Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progre…
On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency
A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no…
Critical Future Studies – A thematic Introduction
Our 2017 essay “Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies” (Goode & Godhe 2017), published in this journal, was intended as both a provocation and an invitation to scholars concerned with the ways in which cultural texts not o…
Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination
Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) are prompting a growing chorus of both excitement and anxiety. A.I. is widely perceived as a significant emerging and future-shaping technological field that is developing at an accelerating rate. As such, fut…
Call for Papers: The Puzzle of Literature Reviews
How do we navigate the increasingly interdisciplinary and multivocal literature on any given topic of interest, when examining reality through the lens of social theory? How do we collect, identify and assemble the body of knowledge produced across both past and present, representing voices that are unequally represented? We invite literature reviews that highlight a […]
The Political Significance of Spotify in Sweden – Analysing the #backaspotify Campaign using Twitter Data
This article discusses the political significance of the streaming music company Spotify in Sweden, taking as a case a coordinated campaign in late spring 2016, known by the hashtag #backaspotify (translated as “support Spotify!”), which was mainly pla…
Fostering a More-than-human World View
by Paul Hansen (Hokkaido University)hansenanthro@gmail.com September 17, 2018 Growing up a farm boy near Canada’s Rocky Mountains, I was surrounded by, enmeshed in, what I thought of as a world of non-human friends and foes (dogs, cats, and cows; coyot…
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Steps to an Ecology of Spirits
Comparing Feelings of More-than-Human, Immaterial Meshworks? by Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) deantoni@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp June 20, 2018 “So, do you believe in spirits?” I have been asked this question countless times, by my research p…
CAES Vol. 4, № 3
Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Traces of Yeniseian people upon the East European plain Alexander Akulov In North and central part of the East European plain there are many hydronyms which are usually supposed to be of Finno-Ugric origin, but actually can’t be sufficiently explained through any of existing Finno-Ugric language. These hydronyms can be subdivided […]
The Son’s Coming Home: Narrative Economies of Joseph Beuys’ Art
This article deals with the narration of Joseph Beuys’ art in Germany. My focus is set on the ways that particular curatorial strategies have been applied to Beuys’ artistic practice in the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. I contextualize the readings in t…