Polluted Transformations of Fluid Commons in Bangladesh
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 44-64
Category: English
Reports
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 141-145
Blocking the Exit
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 42-56
Connected Learning Communities
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 17Issue: 2Pages: 1-26
Disfigured Commons
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 21-43
Master Servant Relationships in the Eastern Cape: the 1820 Settlement
by Amina Marzouk Chouchene Abstract This article is about the rebellious behavior of the servant class and the consequent threat it posed to the established social order in the 1820 settlement. There were deep anxieties amongst the higher echelons of the settlement about maintaining class distinctions. Upper and middle class settlers relied on informal and […]
Signal Cascades in Angola’s Independence Struggle, 1955-1975
by Candace Sobers Abstract This article considers one aspect of the international relations of the Angolan independence struggle: the prevalence in archives of records reflecting strong support for one of three rival Angolan national liberation movements (NLMs), the MPLA. Simple explanations, including the post-independence dominance of the MPLA in Angolan politics, offer unsatisfactory explanations for […]
Water thieves
The use of tropes is a defining feature of resource regulation and is fundamental to both the way legal theories have evolved and to the practical, localized interpretations and implementations of law. This article offers a discursive study of the “wat…
Big infrastructure and/as systemic flexibility: The Sites Reservoir story
If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California’s water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastruct…
Striking for public power: Workers, energy and the nationalization of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, 1933-1941
This article examines the role of working people in the energy transition that played out in Puerto Rico in the 1930s and 1940s – from a private, fossil fuel-based regime to a public, hydroelectric system. It argues that by withholding their labo…
Silent violence to the core: Environmental suffering and suffocating uncertainties in the Colombian Caribbean coal industry
For many, the coal industry in Colombia has been synonymous with progress, economic growth and access to education and housing opportunities on the Caribbean mining frontier. However, little has been said about the slow, dosed and silent violence that …
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The Production of the New Man Within the PKK [Full text]
Olivier Grojean
Surveillance, Normalisation, and Repression [Full text]
Gilles Dorronsoro, Olivier Grojean and Jeanne He…
The Slow Reading Ethnography Experiment
While much has been published in anthropological discourse and teaching forums about the skills, practices and positionality of ethnographic writing, very little attention has been paid to the practices and experiences of ethnographic reading. Our proj…
Les Afriques de l’alimentation : environnement et santé au cœur des changements globaux contemporains
Thinking ecologically about food reminds us that « eating is an agricultural act (enfing) the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth » (Berry, W. 1992)
A l’heure des changements sociaux et environnementaux glo…
Call for Papers: Food in the Africas; environment and health at the core of contemporary global changes
Thinking ecologically about food reminds us that « eating is an agricultural act (enfing) the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth » (Berry, W. 1992)
At a time of global social and environmental changes (Bla…
Review of Raul Matta’s book: From the Plate to Gastro-Politics, Unravelling the Boom of Peruvian Cuisine
Raúl Matta, 2023. From the Plate to Gastro-Politics Unravelling the Boom of Peruvian Cuisine. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. 300p.
La transformación que ha sufrido la gastronomía peruana en los últimos 20 años es, sin dudas, radical. Por dar un…
Geology as Unconforming Infrastructure For the Hosting of Nuclear Waste
As the dramatic consequences of climate change finally begin to motivate governments around the world to explore how to move away from a dependence on fossil fuels, nuclear power is back on the agenda in the UK as a potential energy source. However, th…
Spirit Mediums and the Art of Suggesting Stories
Fredrik Barth called attention to two ways ritually transmitted knowledge gains value: knowledge he associated with the figure of the ‘Guru’ valued for being widely shared versus knowledge associated with the figure of the ‘conjurer’ or ‘initiator’ val…
Jones, Reece. White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall. Beacon Press. 2021. 239 pp. ISBN: 9780807054062 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780807007266 (softcover), ISBN: 9780807054123 (ebook).
Jones, Reece. White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall. Beacon Press. 2021. 239 pp. ISBN: 9780807054062 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780807007266 (softcover), ISBN: 9780807054123 (ebook).
Games of Collaboration
This paper looks at the theme of collaboration through the prism of game design, and especially the example of serious games. At its heart, this is a consideration of two collaborative projects between experts. The first is a current collaboration betw…
Tracing Infrastructure and its Evolution in the Search for the Missing in Poland
Every day around the globe, people go missing for any number of reasons. Some disappearances are intentional, others are enforced by oppressive political regimes or the result of natural disasters. Whatever the reason, these disappearances produce fami…
Lectio præcursoria—The Politics of Knowledge in Late 2010s Hungary: Ethnography of an Epistemic Collapse
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Missing persons and infrastructures of search and identification
People go missing all over the world, but the reasons for disappearances are enormously diverse. Some people are intentionally disappeared by the state: totalitarian and military governments as well as various paramilitary and criminal organizations ha…
International Children and the Institutional Infrastructures of Schools in Finland
Growing numbers of children are moving between countries because of their parent(s)’ careers. The temporary labour migration of highly educated professionals – sometimes called career expatriates or transnational corporate elites (Amit 2002; Fechter 20…
Making Wetlands Agricultural Landscapes
In this essay, I examine the ‘politics of infrastructure’ by looking at the sociomaterial connections and disconnections, and the implications of wetland infrastructure promises and failures in Central Kalimantan (Anand et al. 2018; Harvey et al. 2017;…