Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Bolivia has seen changing food patterns during the last decades. In the city of Cochabamba, processed, calorie-rich and fried food with saturated fats and sugar is becoming popular at the expense of traditional, nutritious plant-based whole food…
Tamarix spp., also known as salt cedar or tamarisk, has garnered a reputation in the United States as an invasive plant, with widespread policy and research advocating for its eradication in the Chihuahuan Desert region that spans the United States and…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article explores the nature of the diasporic connections that are emerging among Ethiopians and Eritreans in Nairobi and Khartoum and Eritreans in Addis Ababa. The article looks at their daily lives and interaction…
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a global framework that promotes climate, social, and biodiversity goals through tropical forest management. An ongoing challenge is integrating equity for “full and effective” part…
Peasant movements are key to thinking and acting creatively in food and socio-ecological transformation processes. Drawing bridges between feminist political ecology and critical ecofeminisms, this article analyzes Chile’s National Association of Rural…
This is a companion piece to the “Voices of Green” film. Watch the film here: Voices of Green This companion piece to the ethnographic film Voices of Green by Hannah Birch examines local perspectives on green transitions in Denmark, focusing on how in…
Buenos Aires, Argentina is one of the least green cities in the world, with estimates of 1.5 – 6m² of green space per person – far below the World Health Organization’s recommended minimum of 15m². Neoliberal policies continue to fragment and priva…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Geographical place is key in the production and contestation of migrant belonging. Cities are welcoming or hostile, while migrants practice belonging in relation to place of origin, deepening or contesting their relatio…
In Uganda, green charcoal – briquettes made of carbonized biochar from agricultural residues – has the potential to replace wood charcoal. This can contribute to halting deforestation and reducing national carbon emissions. Yet, the acceptance of green…
InVisible Culture
The anthology of interviews and short works by Michel Foucault, Power, edited by James D. Faubion with an introduction by Colin Gordon, presents a well-rounded overview of Foucault’s analysis of power dynamics, knowledge production, and the constructio…
This article examines the dynamics of water grabbing in Lake Toba, Indonesia, focusing on how corporate aquaculture and emerging tourism developments have reshaped access to and control over water resources. Drawing on previous studies, policy analysis…
InVisible Culture
At the conclusion of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP15) in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, many rights-holders and allies commended the inclusion of language respecting Indigenous rights and know…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The need for identity has always been a major issue for humanity in its search for significance and meaning. In the context of African societies, colonisation has sparked extensive debate over the erosion of indigenous …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The global refugee protection regime assigns to states the primary responsibility of protecting refugees. Nevertheless, the overwhelming number of refugees, combined with the growing hostility towards them, has led to s…
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BRICAS N., CONARÉ D., WALSER M. 2021. Une écologie de l’alimentation. Hors collection. Versailles : Quæ. 312 p.
L’ouvrage vient marquer l’existence de 10 années de la Chaire UNESCO « Alimentations du monde » (créée en 2011). Il se veut un …
This article explores how the popular Icelandic Nordic Noir series, Trapped Season 2, provides a nuanced perspective on the deeply rooted concepts of Icelandic and Nordic exceptionalism and homonationalism in popular culture. It offers a com…
This study critically examines (post)colonial ideologies within the Nollywood epic Jagun Jagun (2023), directed by Adebayo Tijjani and Tope Adebayo and produced by Femi Adebayo. Through a colonial reading, the film emerges as a narrative tha…
In Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which …
In September 2020, a video circulating on social media plunged he country of Mozambique into a deep moral crisis. The video showed five young men, dressed in the uniform of the Mozambican army, cruelly whipping a naked woman along a road and…
InVisible Culture
This paper discusses the experiments with human subjects in clinical trials related to the investigation of African human trypanosomiasis at Lisbon’s Colonial Hospital during the first decades of the twentieth century. The research draws on evidentiary…
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…