A World in Pieces?
Journal of Business Anthropology
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Book Review: The Market of the Gods: How Religious Innovations Emerge. From Judaism to Christianity by Dominique Desjeux. 2024. Bruxelles: Peter Lang
Journal of Business Anthropology
Corporate Utopias: The Tech Elite’s Visions and the Global Crises of Democratic Problem-Solving
In this article, I argue that the utopian novels of the past have given way to corporate visions. Those who today challenge the dominant structures of power through radical reengineering of systems are tech CEOs and investors. The article examines Soyl…
Transforming Dead Knowledge into Living Help: Balancing Hope, User-Ambivalence, and Expertise in Fire Safety Digitization
Many industries worldwide are digitizing professionals’ expertise to boost productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve knowledge sharing. The current spread of increasingly capable AI technologies has accelerated this transformation further. But s…
Vacuums with Meaning: The Observation of Vacuity in Coworking Spaces
This field report analyzes the unexpected challenges faced during participant observation in coworking spaces and how these challenges required a process of trial and error to be understood. Between 2018 and 2022, I studied the urban transformation of …
Book Review of Horsti, Karina 2023. Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 286.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Martin, Lawrence M. 2024. Foreigners in their own country: Identity and rejection in France. New York: Berghahn. pp. 268.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book Review of Helms, Elissa and Pulkkinen, Tuija. (eds.) 2023. Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 181.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.
The main aim of the recent Handbook on Home and Migration was to overcome the case study-based fragmentation of the discussion on homemaking among people on the move, and to elevate it to a substantive thematic, conceptual and theoretical le…
The Rightward Shift: Transformation of Global Migration Policy and Discourse
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
From Roots to Digital Realms: Jordan Jamieson on Revitalising Indigenous Culture through Archaeology and Technology
This interview with Jordan Jamieson explores the intersections of archaeology, technology, and the revitalisation of Indigenous cultural practices. With over ten years of experience in archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), Jamieson reflec…
Self-Determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across Indigenous nations
This introductory article provides a synthesis of and a conceptual framing for, the five contributing articles in the Special Section “Self-determination in mine closure and mine site transition across nations”. These articles explore the intersections…
Memes and the Indonesian 2024 Presidential Elections: Performative Politics in an Illiberal Setting
Memes played a significant role in the 2024 Indonesian presidential election, particularly in shaping illiberal and elite discourse. This study focuses on Gibran Rakabuming Raka, the eldest son of President Joko Widodo (2014-2024) and, since October 20…
Editorial: Sustainability, Governance, and Conflict
Fieldschool Is Not What It Used to Be: Innovations in Teaching and Learning Ethnographic Methods
This article examines how teaching and learning ethnographic methods could be adapted to contemporary times, considering shifting understandings of ethnography and practical attention to the experiences of new fieldworkers. Using the European Field Stu…
Book Review: Karlsson, K. A Sense of Place and Belonging: The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia.
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Early Adopters or Forever Resisters? Singapore Veg*ns’ Views Toward Alternative Protein Foods
Alternative protein foods, which provide significant quantities of protein but do not use conventional animal sources, can be an important component of sustainable diets. This paper presents the results of an autoethnographic study by an activist refle…
Book Review: Prajak Kongkirati. (2024). Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression.
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Language and De-/Escalation of Conflict in Aceh, Indonesia
This article examines the role of language in the de-/escalation of the Aceh conflict. Our analysis is situated at the crossroads of the literature on language and conflict and the literature on the micro-dynamics of violent conflict and everyday peace…
InVisible Culture’s Statement on the Graduate Worker Strike
InVisible Culture
Homegrown Internationalism? Challenging Epistemic Dialogue in Africa’s Development Cooperation
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Homegrown concepts are increasingly viewed as indigenous alternatives to challenge long-standing Western hegemony in development co-operation and insert non-Western agency. Drawing on two African cases from Ghana and Rw…
Out of the West: An Essay on Racism in Contemporary Africa
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Cultural racism – the racialisation of groups with culturalist arguments – is a somewhat universal phenomenon that exists in virtually all multi-cultural societies in the world. However, the concept has been predominant…
Prioritizing Accessibility in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Anthropology Introductory Courses
This paper discusses a project to develop an introductory course in Cultural Anthropology that prioritizes accessibility. Drawing inspiration from Universal Design for Learning and other teaching strategies, we explore ways of making course materials, …
Reading mine closure through Tłı̨chǫ self-determination
In Northern Canada, the Tłı̨chǫ have experienced a long history of settler-imposed mining. The history of the mines is written into Tłı̨chǫ place names that hold the knowledge of ecological harm and repair, the community re-purposing of mining equipmen…
The Beau Idéal Has Been Disconnected:
Within immediate modernity, increases in the multitude of psychological, social, emotional and behavioural disruptions affecting human actors, categorised under the (reductive) label of ‘anxiety’ are reaching an apex. This peak can be conceptualised bo…