Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.40 No.2
Published: December 2024.
Category: English
Precarious Residence? A study on the Impact of Restrictive Migration Policy on Migrants’ Subjective Well-Being and Stress
Migration policy in the Nordic welfare states is increasingly marked by restrictiveness. Although research has studied the consequences of this policy trend, there is limited knowledge about how it affects stress levels and the well-being of migrants. …
Del campo al plato: prácticas alimentarias y resistencia indígena en Colombia
En Colombia, los años 1970 marcaron el inicio de una lucha llevada por los pueblos indígenas para reivindicar su acceso a la tierra y la protección de sus modos de vida dentro de sus territorios colectivos. Dos décadas después, la constitución a…
Patrimonio alimentario indígena y políticas públicas en Brasil
Los Ugoro’gmo-Arara son un grupo indígena de lengua karib que habita en la cuenca del río Iriri, en la región Centro Este del estado de Pará en Brasil. Antes del contacto con la sociedad no indígena en la década de 1980 vivían de forma semi-nóma…
Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina
América latina, entre desigualdades y nuevas aspiraciones populares en torno a la alimentación
En la parroquia de La Merced, en la periferia oriental de Quito, Ecuador, un mural llama la atención. A pocos pasos de la iglesia, frente al peq…
Patrimoines alimentaires en Amérique latine
L’Amérique latine, entre inégalités et nouvelles aspirations populaires en matière d’alimentation
Dans la paroisse de La Merced, dans la périphérie Est de Quito en Équateur, une fresque attire l’attention. À quelques pas de l’église, devan…
Prácticas alimentarias en una comunidad rarámuri de la Sierra de Chihuahua, México
En México, la inseguridad alimentaria afectaba al 21% de la población (2020), aunado a las carencias en servicios básicos y problemas de salud vinculados con la alimentación. Las comunidades rurales y sobre todo los pueblos indígenas marginados …
Del patrimonio y la percepción alimentaria del pueblo jñatjro (mazahua) del Estado de México
El presente artículo busca ilustrar el patrimonio alimentario del pueblo jñatjro (mazahua) a partir de los principios culturales emic que fundamentan su percepción alimentaria: fuerza (s’ézhi), trabajo (b’épji), pasar hambre (kjogû trj’imi), com…
Los efectos de la patrimonialización de la cocina mexicana sobre el consumo de insectos
La patrimonialización de la cocina tradicional mexicana por la Unesco ha conllevado la revalorización de las cocinas indígenas y ha incentivado las ferias y el turismo gastronómicos, así como la creación de nuevos platillos y productos alimentic…
Saberes y patrimonios alimentarios locales en el Totonacapan veracruzano (México)
Este artículo tiene por objetivo reflexionar acerca de la importancia del trabajo que realizan las tineras, mujeres provenientes de las localidades totonacas de Papantla, Veracruz (México), que se dedican al cultivo y venta de alimentos frescos,…
Review of Lang et al. (Eds.). 2024. The geopolitics of green colonialism: Global justice and ecosocial transitions
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A Co-Generated Analysis of Thai Homestays: Overcoming SERVQUAL Deficiencies and Sustainability Barriers
Post-COVID-19, international travelers have brand assurance expectations that often surpass the benchmark set by the Thai Homestay Standard, leaving some operators struggling to position with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Thai homestays face si…
On Resisting Global Disposability, Regimes of Death-Making and Accumulation
The British writer Rupinder Parhar gave a talk on feminist acts of resistance at an art exhibition workshop in London in March 2024. While acknowledging the multitude of feminisms that exist today, Parhar in this transcript of the talk asks …
The narrative predictability of political ecology: Ethnographic refusals from the Ecuadorian Amazon
Drawing upon critical social theory and fine-grained empirical observations, political ecologists have long argued against hegemonic stories of the environment, development and capitalism. This commitment is held across the wide range of approaches in …
Traditional foodways of the Amadiba: A struggle for indigenous food sovereignty in Mpondoland, South Africa
We argue that an “actually existing alternative” to the industrial food system can be found in the Amadiba community in South Africa. Like other indigenous food systems, Amadiba traditional foodways are underpinned by principles such as interconnection…
Del campo al plato: prácticas alimentarias y resistencia indígena en Colombia
En Colombia, los años 1970 marcaron el inicio de una lucha llevada por los pueblos indígenas para reivindicar su acceso a la tierra y la protección de sus modos de vida dentro de sus territorios colectivos. Dos décadas después, la constitución a…
Challenging the Canon: BIPOC Scholarship at the Syllabi Core
This paper focuses on pedagogical changes to decolonize an upper-division Anthropology of Women course to focus on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) scholarly representation, thus challenging the anthropological canon. I will discuss the …
Political ecologies of professional practice: Plurality and possibilities in environmental governance, Introduction to the Special Section
This Special Section explores the plurality of professional practice in the environment and development sector, and centers the possibilities this offers for more transformative and just futures. We bring together and foreground a uniquely (feminist) p…
The coloniality of gender expertise in professional environment and development contexts
As international environmental research for development organizations and their funders continue to build a requirement to ‘mainstream’ gender equality into their programming, disquiet surrounding gender expertise has emerged among those who bring refl…
Book Review: Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai
InVisible Culture
Scales of dispossession: Institutionalizing resource access at the frontier
Institutions and frontier dynamics describe apparent opposites, yet they are mutually constitutive. While institutions are characterized by rules, regulation, and order, frontier dynamics represent destruction of existing rules, the elimination of esta…
Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scientific research and data that facilitate fossil fuel…
Introduction au Numéro Varia 2024
En 2008, le comité éditorial d’AoFood lançait une nouvelle formule de publication, « Varia, le numéro permanent ». L’objectif de ce numéro permanent est d’accueillir tout au long de l’année, des contributions variées de qualité, qui ne répondent…
Introduction to Varia 2024
In 2009, AoFood editorial committee launched a new collection: “Varia in progress”. The object of this collection is to welcome all year long quality and varied contributions, that would not be suitable for current call for papers or special iss…
“It’s kind of just another factory:” A political ecology of solar panel manufacturing in Perrysburg, Ohio
Political ecology has been slow to examine solar panel factories, even though manufacturing lower-carbon technologies sits at the crossroads of climate change mitigation and global markets. Influenced by environmental and energy justice, this article t…