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MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-12 Categories: English

Editorial for the Spring issue, 2025.

Thinking Through Voice with a Somali (Love Doctor) Poet

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-12 Categories: English

During research on love songs and political poetry in Somaliland, one of my closest interlocutors has been a poet named Weedhsame who describes his work as arising from a duty to ‘give voice to the voiceless’. Collaborating with a musician a…

Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.41 No.1

Published: June 2025.

Of Ethnographic (Mis)Translations on a Ward

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

In this Field Note, I take the opportunity to reflect on some of the concrete dilemmas that I was faced with in trying to negotiate, secure and maintain access to my field-site. These reflections derive from my engagement with infectious dis…

Silence as Presence

Iza Kavedzija Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

‘Giving voice’ can be an empowering metaphor for the process of creating space for another’s perspective, allowing for their experience to be noted and attended to. Yet it is also a metaphor that relies on a particular form of articulation. …

Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

In this article, I investigate the case of a deaf woman, Silivia, who lived in western Uganda. Silivia did not use standardised sign language and was commonly considered to be ‘mad.’ However, some of her interlocutors disagreed, arguing that…

The Intriguing World of Folklore: A Tapestry of Tales

Aubrey Morris Published: 2025-06-09 Categories: English

Folklore, the age-old tradition of storytelling, boasts an intriguing tapestry of tales, transporting us to different worlds and timeframes through myth, legend, and superstition. This article will explore various aspects of folklore and their everlasting relevance in our modern setting. Understanding Folklore Folklore is a cultural manifestation passed down through generations, either by word of […]

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Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-07 Categories: English · Spanish

Reckless Local and Ill-Fated Stranger: Reimagining Vietnamese National Sentiment during COVID-19

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-05 Categories: English

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam, the media has meticulously covered disease prevention and reported on infection cases. This article will explore the current and shifting gender relations of Vietnam’s state and societ…

El malestar es otra cosa: Sobre la necesidad de ampliar nuestra noción de sufrimiento (2025). Ressenya del llibre de Javier Erro

Associació Antropologies i Departament d'Antropologia Social (UB) Published: 2025-06-02 Categories: English · Multilingual · Spanish

(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social

Review of Gustav Cederlöf. 2023. The low-carbon contradiction: Energy transition, geopolitics, and the infrastructural state in Cuba

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-01 Categories: English · Spanish

Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-01 Categories: English · Spanish

The Indian Sundarbans, the world’s largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management…