Reviews
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 31Issue: 2Pages: 47-53
Category: English
Discretionary Care
Journal Name: Journal of Legal AnthropologyVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 20-45
Fire-Prone Landscapes and the Commons That No One Wants
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 138-153
A Clash of Science Policies
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 31Issue: 2Pages: 38-46
Stories of Systemic Failure?
Journal Name: Journal of Legal AnthropologyVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 46-76
Extinction in Uncommon Worlds
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 154-170
Honour, Survival and Protection
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 31Issue: 2Pages: 13-23
Anthropology against Borders
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 112-118
Teaching criminological theory in higher education
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 17Issue: 2Pages: 94-116
Justice for Glaciers
Journal Name: Journal of Legal AnthropologyVolume: 8Issue: 1Pages: 1-19
Bringing Commoning into View
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 99-118
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…
Forum: Infrastructure
It was Europe’s wake up call: the news reported that a huge gas pipeline running across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany had exploded (Oltermann 2022). The explosion caused a release of gas and ruptured the pipeline, abruptly stopping the flow of …
Reflections on Ethnographic Re-enactment
“The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on ethnographic methodology” is a new essay series that peers into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all its multimodal forms. We invite all contributions …
Editorial Note: A Time of Succession
Since the beginning of February this year, Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society has navigated a succession. The previous editors-in-chief, Heikki Wilenius and Tuomas Tammisto, passed their roles on to me, Suvi Rautio, and I ha…