Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
“Contextos alimentarios en transformación: discursos, prácticas e iniciativas” se enmarca en una realidad marcada por profundas y aceleradas transformaciones sociales, económicas y políticas que afectan el sistema alimentario a nivel global y local. En…
Necromáquina: Cuando morir no es suficienteRossana Reguillo (2021)NED Ediciones / ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara. 244 P.ISBN: 9788418273483
A fuego lento. Avistamientos interdisciplinarios sobre alimentación, cultura, poder y sociedad Giménez, G., González, J. y Gravante, T. (Coords) (2023).Plural Editores. 427 P.ISBN: 978-9917-625-75-9
Basant-me en el meu llibre The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty ([2023] 2025)3, presento una defensa en favor de la “construcció densa” com una aproximació racionalista que ens serveix per emmarcar i dur a terme l’etnografia. Impregnat per l’epist…
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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…
This article explores diasporic cultural texts that document suffering in homeland contexts. Analysing contemporary visual art produced by Nigerian artists based in Canada and Belgium, and engaging with canonical scholarship on witnessing, s…
Nordic Journal of African Studies
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Special Issue “Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions”, guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Bühler and Giada Danesi.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…