Unless the Water is Safer Than the Land

The film based on the selection of stories about the experience of journeys, shared by its participants (minor age unaccompanied refugees) during the 3 months of fieldwork in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. What they have gone through and been faced wit…

"Djeneba" a Minyanka Women of Southern Mali

Djeneba is a mother of nine children living in Kadioloko, southern Mali. Since her husband left the family some years ago Djeneba and her children manage the family’s millet fields without him. Recently the eldest boy, Madou, has brought his new wife, …

The Depth Beneath, The Height Above

The Depth Beneath, The Height Above consists in an exploration of the high alpine region of Robiei, southern Switzerland. Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the humans, animals, infrastruct…

In the Devil’s Garden

The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab men. As we move deeper into the desert, the site tu…

Call for papers: Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes in Brasil and Canada

Editores do dossiê: Stephen Grant Baines (UnB) e Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia (UBC)   Este dossiê é o resultado do painel, “Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes”, coordenado por Stephen G. Baines e Bruce G. Miller, realizado em 23 de novembro de 2019 na Conferência Internacional da CASCA/AAA em […]

Présentation

I. Introduction
La distinction est un objet classique en sciences sociales depuis au moins Hebert Spencer et nous disposons en la matière de nombreuses traditions analytiques toutes dignes d’attention. Mais lorsque le sujet se voit évoqué,…

Anxieties of Entitlement

Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 afflue…