Call for Papers: Issue 40, Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
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Exhibition Review: “Love Lessons: Tender Loving Care at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Toni Armstrong reviews the Collections Exhibition, Tender Loving Care, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The Troublemaker as a Non-intentional Social Activist
There is a tension in Ricœur’s thinking between the undeniable presence of violence and his trust in a primordial goodness of existence. This tension is linked to Ricœur’s understanding of the human being as ambiguous and fragile, torn betwe…
Peace and Understanding: A Ricoeurian Perspective
Persistent and newly emerging conflicts around the world have made the search for successful conflict resolution imperative. We need insights into how to prevent violent clashes, and how to find ways to peace and reconciliation. Since the 19…
Some Remarks upon the Memorial Writing of W.G. Sebald
In two well-known passages from Paul Ricœur’s work (Ricœur 1990b, 187; 2006, 260), the author proposes approaching memorial writing of the Holocaust not necessarily in the same terms as historiography. On the basis of these passages, the aim…
Occupied Spatiality: Non-Peace in Self-Affirmation
Paul Ricœur considered the theme of non-peace in self-affirmation to have such existential and phenomenological bearing that he devoted his intellectual capacity to explore the self that is never immediately present to oneself or at immediat…
Narrative and Violence in Just Institutions
Beginning with images of rampant destruction and violence in our day, Paul Ricœur’s reflections on the political paradox and his “little ethics” (contained in Oneself as Another) are responses to peace and understanding. Ricœur is concerned …
The Narrative Possiblity of Peace and Understanding
With its emphasis on action and new possibilities opened by imagination, Paul Ricœur’s narrative theory offers insights to understanding each other in a world of polarized views. His theory is helpful in describing the potential that narrati…
Toward an Ontology of Peace II
Following Part I, this essay (Part II) continues my attempt to develop an ontology of peace by drawing resources from Ricœur’s thought. I begin with Augustine, Dionysius, and Aquinas to show that peace is not contrary to our humanity but is …
Toward an Ontology of Peace I
This essay is the first of two seeking to draw out an ontology of peace from Paul Ricoeur’s thought. This first essay (Part I) argues that Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of creation provides the best starting point because of its insistence on…
Reassessing Ricœur’s Contribution to Inter-religious Dialogue amidst Contemporary Critiques of Religion
This article critically examines Paul Ricœur’s philosophical contributions to inter-religious dialogue, focusing on his treatment of religion as a presumed universal category. Ricœur’s insights into religious violence and post-religious fait…
‘Never again’? Resonances of the past in contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child removal
Kevin Rudd’s 2007 Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples acknowledged the devastating impact of child removal on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities and included a commitment that ‘the injustices of the past must never, ne…
Reasserting Gija women’s role in mine site reclamation: A perspective from the Argyle Diamond Mine
The Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, ceased production in late 2020 after 37 years of operations and producing 865 million carats of rough diamonds. Opening in 1983, it was the first major diamond-mining operation…
“What does Closure even mean?” at Century Mine: Multiple companies, mine closure trajectories and disputation
During the peak of its operation, Century mine, in Australia’s western Queensland, was the third largest lead, zinc and silver mine in the world. The mine has had a turbulent history. It was resisted by the indigenous Traditional Owners, and then an un…
Los pescadores artesanales en Arica (norte de Chile) Itinerancias etnográficas en torno a la crianza de la mar
Se propone describir en intensidad el modo de vida pescador y recolector en la Caleta de Arica. A partir de ciertas ecologías de prácticas y tecnologías de vinculación, abordamos las vivencias heterogéneas que entretejen un entorno socionatural distint…
Yo tengo que buscar algo que me ancle a la tierra. Entrevista a campo traviesa con Victoria Castro Rojas
El texto presenta una entrevista realizada a Victoria Castro Rojas en el contexto del primer podcast dedicado a la antropología en Chile, A campo traviesa. Luego de una introducción en donde se remarcan dos aspectos del quehacer de Castro Rojas -la sup…
Hedionda negro sobre ante. La cerámica altiplánica desde el Pucara de Turi, norte de Chile (900-1600 d.C.). Una revaluación póstuma
La cerámica “Hedionda”, cuyo nombre proviene del sitio de una laguna homónima del suroeste de Bolivia donde fue reconocida por primera vez, también fue identificada en la década de los setenta y ochenta en las quebradas altas del Loa Superior, específi…
Victoria Castro Rojas en el recuerdo. Práctica investigativa y formación de una mirada
Este texto reflexiona y destaca aportes fundamentales de la investigadora Victoria Castro Rojas. Nos referimos a la particular visión del ejercicio académico e investigativo que promovió a lo largo de su carrera, y de la arqueología como una disciplina…
La cultura material y la construcción de identidad de género en el siglo XIX en el contexto escolar (Santiago, Chile)
Se presenta una investigación histórica acerca de la construcción de la identidad de género durante el siglo XIX en el contexto educacional chileno, mediante la creación de una muestra de estudio obtenida de objetos del sitio arqueológico Pique Hospita…
El Grupo Toconce en sus años iniciales (1977-1984) Recuerdos y reflexiones personales
Testimonio de investigación de los primeros años del Grupo Toconce, una agrupación de origen universitario formada a mediados de los setenta para investigar el pasado prehispánico de la cuenca alta del río Salado, principal afluente del río Loa. A lo l…
Reflexiones sobre el giro etnográfico en arqueología y su aporte al relacionamiento con los pueblos indígenas
En este artículo ofrezco una reflexión sobre el giro etnográfico en arqueología y su aporte en la vinculación con los Pueblos Indígenas a través del desarrollo de las arqueologías pública, colaborativa e indígena. Este trabajo no pretende ser exhaustiv…
Vicky, vida y legado de una mujer y arqueóloga latinoamericana
En este artículo presentamos una introducción al dossier dedicado a la memoria de Victoria Castro Rojas (1944-2022), destacando su legado en el contexto de las discusiones nacionales e internacionales sobre el aporte de las mujeres al desarrollo cientí…
“I am just getting to know who my father was”
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Anthropology’s Need for Trauma-Informed Approaches: Recognising the Prevalence of Trauma, Navigating its Impacts, and Considerations for Teaching.
Traumatic experiences are prevalent across all cultures and all Higher Education contexts will almost certainly have survivors of trauma in the classroom as students or teachers. Focusing on the UK Higher Education context, this article draws on data i…
Field of Screams Revisited: Contending with Trauma in Ethnographic Fieldwork
This article explores ways that trauma can come into tension with anthropological methods, specifically during fieldwork. It is based on findings from a survey conducted among anthropologists in 2023, which sought to understand preparation for fieldwor…