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While the interest and search for identity through genealogy or family history is not new, the increased mediatization, access, and range of vehicles through which one can engage and learn are. What are the effects of this mediatization of identity and…

The music festival Statement was initiated as a response to sexual violence towards women at other festivals, and during the work of creating a safe festival, separatism became the feminist strategy. In this paper we analyse media reporting from Statem…

With its first issue appearing in the spring of 1992, the Nordic Journal of African Studies recently reached its 30-year publication milestone. In celebration of the journal’s history, and looking forward to its future, we offer this brief collection o…

Tiv associative constructions and prepositional phrases are characterized by what was originally a noun class agreement enclitic that has degenerated in some morphosyntactic contexts to a grammatical tone that remains invariant in noun class agreement….

In Ghana, the collision between the local reality of witchcraft and human rights sensibilities is manifested in local discourses and debates concerning the so-called “witch camps”. The recent killing of an elderly woman, Akua Denteh, accused of witchcr…

This article examines the agency of youth in Alavanyo and Nkonya, and how they navigate the social, economic, and political difficulties of life in the context of an ongoing land conflict dating back to the early 1900s. In Ghana, because land is the ba…

Old and recent migration studies have demonstrated the ubiquity of fear in acts, processes, and beliefs defining and characterizing various forms of human mobilities, particularly those involving transnational and transoceanic displacements. While much…

How is the oil extractive industry affecting the livelihoods of women in the Niger Delta? This study explores the nature of the oil extractive industry in Nigeria and its impact on the livelihoods of women. The paper further focuses on the role of civi…

This paper explores the repatterning of civil society, the social technologies of persuasion and information, and the role of socio-political contexts in Narrabri (an Australian country town, in Western New South Wales), and its surrounding region betw…

The discovery of oil in Chad in the 1960s and its subsequent exploitation triggered the idea by international institutions that oil extraction would lead to sustainable development. Furthermore, Chad in tackling the resource curse would use rents to so…

The mining sector, over a number of centuries, has become a strong cultural attribute of Minas Gerais. Due to its mining reserves, the state has the biggest concentration of tailings dams built to retain mining waste. This led to large-scale accidents …

The Serra do Curral is a mountain range that extends to the municipalities of Belo Horizonte, Sabará and Nova Lima, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It is already deteriorated by a long history of mineral extraction not followed by any environmental rest…

Since commercial production of oil and gas started in Ghana over a decade ago, the salt sector which has historically been dominated by artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) has seen renewed corporate interest. Aided by the state’s preference for larg…

In this intervention article, we cultivate an anti-colonial critique of the ideational genealogy and conceptual materialisation of the social licence to operate (SLO) in the extractive industries in order to open a conversation about the racialised and…

Street art, including graffiti, tags, stencils, art visualization and art installations, usually denounce an actual situation and conveys messages related to the societal, cultural, economic and political scene. Sometimes, it takes up a playful form, i…

Gambling involves a mixture of luck, knowledge, skill and nerve. Through interview discussions with my informant Stew I seek to analyse the ideologies of economy, money, and exchange that interplay into forming the moralities and motivations for Sports…

This paper builds on short-term fieldwork at an urban day shelter in Brussels which provides affordable showers and other essential services to homeless and undocumented people, respectively sans-abris and sans-papiers. In dialogue with Simone Weil’s w…

This article is based on a short ethnography conducted on the 10the day of the Hindu festival ‘Vijaya Dashami’ in Nepal. Although, symbolism is important, I use a phenomenological approach to demonstrate that this ritual shows reverence not just to rel…

Ethnographic drawings and poetry based on Thom van Dooren’s article ‘Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinction’ (2011).

This ethnography came out of a project by pre-honours Social Anthropology students, studying the space of the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-Operative in the beginning of 2020. I spent time renovating the basement with members of the Co-Operative and spo…

Abstract: What are the social processes that lead up to the moment of sale in Izmailovo Market, Moscow? Selling may seem like a ubiquitous practice, but it is one constructed in the context and incorporates localised understandings of labour, comm…

This is an exploration into how the self is performed on TikTok. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok – a social media app at the forefront of youth-culture – burst onto the screens of millions users. On the hilarious, inventive, frustrating an…

Abstract   This paper is about the relations between work, rhythm and life course among a group of elderly members of a rice paddy collective in Kyoto, Japan. Through the stories of people’s professional work, personal lives and recreational activ…