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Nordic Journal of African Studies
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Negotiating Home in the Long Poem
In this paper, I argue that Amatoritsero Ede uses the long poem to negotiate the idea of home in an African diasporic context. As a form that carries the implications of length, time, and space, the long poem has been used by poets to interr…
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Cloth Names in Ewe
The main aim of this paper is to explore the sociolinguistic significance of cloth names among the Ewe people. Additionally, the study investigates whether the use of cloth names as communicative modes is still a vital linguistic form in thi…
Reconfiguring Psy Expertise in the Digital Age: Two Cases from India
Mental health platforms and apps provide technologies and techniques for self-work, diagnosis, and management of everyday crises. Therapeutic interventions designed to work outside the clinic, they distribute and reconfigure psy expertise. U…
Data on the Mind: How the Data on the Use of Force in Psychiatry Interacts with Professional Judgment
Psychiatric clinicians and managers increasingly use data to monitor the use of force on psychiatric patients. In this study, we describe how Danish authorities simultaneously emphasise a need for close data monitoring and tell a story of fa…
Automating Dietary Expertise: The Challenge of Making a Food-Tracking App for Everyone
Digitally tracking food and eating has become a widespread activity. Scholars in anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies have problematised the personal and social implications of dietary tracking and the metrification of …
Making Visible the Expertise of Data Workers in AI-Driven Healthcare: A Call to Action
Data constitute a crucial resource in healthcare systems increasingly reliant on digital technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). However, before these technologies can be used, they need to be ‘trained’ on large datasets ass…
The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
In recent years, a lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to how practices of digitalisation and datafication require medical professionals to work together with different stakeholders, and to how such collaborations shape expertise (St…
Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions
Special Issue “Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions”, guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Bühler and Giada Danesi.
Commentary: Enhancing Immigration Policy Through Research
This commentary is about the ways in which research can enhance policy making. It opens with a broad discussion of the relationship between research and policy as many have traditionally conceived it, often through the metaphor of a policy cycle into w…
Immigrant Inclusion and Municipalism in a Danish Context
This paper explores municipalism in a Danish context. The notion of municipalism has over the last decade gained both renewed academic traction and developed as a political practice, especially in a Southern European context. Within this framework, mun…
Communicating Science for Migration Policy: Refugee Protection in Germany 2015 and 2022
The relationship between researchers and policymakers has never been straightforward when it comes to using the best evidence to solve societal problems. This paper examines this relationship by analysing two major refugee events in Germany: the arriva…
(Im)mobility and Environmental Change in the Coastal Sinking Cities of Java, Indonesia
Environmental degradation induced by climate change disturbs livelihoods and is, therefore, a critical issue in policy and academic discourses on immobility. This paper aims to investigate experiences of immobility in three coastal areas within Indones…
Informal Employment and Inequality: Implications for Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
A sizable level of informal employment, often stemming from social disparities and limited economic opportunities, can have great implications for migration in Sub-Sahara Africa. Similarly, inequality, particularly unequal access to economic resources …
Trading Efficiency for Control: the AI Conundrum in Migration Management
This paper contributes to the discussions on AI initiatives applied to migration management by drawing attention to critical issues in the AI systems field. It suggests a research agenda to investigate how AI-generated insights inform policies and how …
Coming to Terms with Deep Uncertainty in the Study of Climate-Related Displacement
On average, an estimated 20 million people each year are displaced by climate-related hazards. This number will increase in coming years due to global warming, sea level rise, and rapid population growth in areas highly exposed to floods, storms and dr…
Navigating the Bermuda Triangle: Exploring the Relationship between Migration Scholarship and Migration Governance
In this introduction to the special issue on migration research and governance, we identify three key issues at the heart of current migration discourses: a range of normative and ethical assumptions, the transnational dynamics of migration, and the ch…
Entomophagie et étudiants maghrébins établis en France : barrières culturelles et opportunités d’adaptation
Cet article analyse les perceptions et attitudes d’étudiants maghrébins établis en France à l’égard de l’entomophagie, considérée comme une alternative alimentaire durable mais confrontée à d’importantes résistances. L’étude identifie trois prin…
Memory-Making in an Urban Park: Colonial and Contemporary Uses of Kumase’s Jackson Park
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Jackson Park in Kumase, Ghana, was designed to serve the recreational interests of its immediate African community. The article analyses how Asante citizens appropriated a colonial park and how it was refashioned by the…
Algorithmic Management of Workers through Food Delivery Platforms in India
This study explores the role of algorithmic management in India’s food delivery industry, specifically focusing on platforms like Swiggy and Zomato, which act more like employers than mere intermediaries. By harnessing extensive data, these …
Fora de l’aula, dins de la facultat. Preguntes i reflexions sobre una activitat amb Casa Àsia. Antropologia de la societat contemporània, 1r curs
Aquest article té com a objectiu recollir el punt de vista d’alguns participants sobre la trobada que el 26 de febrer del 2024 va tenir l’alumnat de l’assignatura de primer curs d’Antropologia de la Societat Contemporània (grup de tarda) amb membres de…
Conflicte i justícia ambiental: El rol polític de les comunitats defensores de la vida
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
“Els antropòlegs heu de tornar a comptar calories”. Entrevista a Joan Martínez Alier
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
Resistència i conservació a la iniciativa Maestrazgo-Els Ports: les complexitats darrere de la conservació fallida
A finals del 2019 es presentava públicament la iniciativa Maestrat-Els Ports que tenia l’objectiu de crear una destinació ecoturística a nivell internacional de 550.000 ha situada entre les províncies de Castelló, Terol i Tarragona. En menys de set mes…
Veena Das i l’assetjament sexual: Punts de debat
L’article compara les contribucions de Veena Das a l’estudi de la violència amb les narratives de víctimes d’assetjament sexual a escoles. Inicialment, presenta la manera com Das comprèn el fenomen de la violència per, a partir d’aquí, emmarcar els ass…