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The extension of wind power and the installation of wind turbines in the low-mountain regions of Germany against the background of the national transition to renewable energies is meeting with opposition from some nature conservationists, who perceive …

Justice entrepreneurs are increasingly being proclaimed as ‘game-changers’ within global development discourses coalescing around ‘sustainability.’ With the leveraging of digital solutions for social service provision during the Covid pandemic and the …

In this article, ‘the offing’ is used as a metaphor to think about demands for justice. The offing literally refers to the most distant part of the sea in view, while the phrase ‘in the offing’ means that something that is about to happen, or about to …

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

This introduction to the special issue on ‘Justice in the Anthropocene’ is animated by the central intuition that the new anthropology of justice should be brought into closer conversation with current debates about the Anthropocene. Unpacking this ass…

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

In 2010, following the approval of the constitutional right of Bolivia’s indigenous peoples and nations to political autonomy, the new Ministry of Autonomies is rushing to enforce it in various pilot indigenous municipalities. One of the candidates is …

In the Peruvian Amazon’s lower Marañón basin, the prospect of an indigenous assembly appears unlikely: how can previously semi-nomadic groups, historically immersed in recurrent warfare, come together in a cohesive political entity? This transformation…

In Spain, the 15M movement organised itself into self-managed assemblies in public squares, going beyond the militant circles to which these practices had hitherto been confined. Based on an ethnographic study conducted over a ten-year period in Madrid…

This special issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology focuses on assembly practices as a tool for collective decision-making within human groups that claim multiple forms of political autonomy from States. The aim of this dossier is to …

Book review of “Haller, Tobias, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, and Rahel Wunderli (eds.). Balancing the Commons in Switzerland. Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations. 2021. London: Routledge.

This article focuses on attempts by inhabitants of the island of Samothraki, in North-Eastern Greece, to make sense of rapid soil erosion and degradation. Through the use of ethnographic vignettes, collected during my first fieldwork on the island in A…

This article draws on participant observation in a legal battle at the Quebec Superior Court in 2022, where the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) sought an injunction to halt excavation work around a hospital where Indigenous victims of med…

The article provides an empirical insight into urban initiatives that advocate for better urban mobility infrastructures and outlines a theoretical perspective of commoning infrastructures as a terrain for political struggles. Rather than constructing …

This article presents the findings of a 2022 doctoral study that examines the government’s communication for social cohesion in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipal Area, also known as the city of Durban, in South Africa. The findings and recommendatio…

This paper explores local partners’ communication strategies in the ExxonMobil Cepu Limited CSR program in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java. The research data comes from in-depth interviews with 25 informants. They consist of representatives of oil and ga…

Ethnonationalism based on religion has had a significant impact in the modern history of India. While celebrating its diversity as a democratic nation, the country has also witnessed numerous ethnic movements, tensions, violence as well as assertion of…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The article explores regulation practices governing access to the central market of Kinshasa. It argues that, contrary to conventional ideas, urban trading places do not escape state regulation, nor are they outside the…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper analyses the complexity of regulating the activities of small traders at the Grand Marché in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Markets in Africa are places where small-scale trading takes place par excellence, and t…