Editorial
Anthropology Matters
Category: English
Beyond the REDD+ neoliberal environmentality and its discontents in Southern Tanzania
This paper utilizes a Foucauldian approach to shed light on the claim that power relations are complex and dynamic, underlying neoliberal conservation mechanisms. Despite the ascendance of the Foucauldian governmentality lens to deconstruct neoliberal…
The political economy of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
The Colombian Amazon has experienced rapid forest loss in the past decades due to growing colonization, infrastructure development, and commercial agriculture expansion. While much of the analyses of deforestation in the Amazon have been in Brazil, the…
DISSONANT GRIDS: milk fills in the gaps
InVisible Culture
Facing Sameness: Reconsidering the Radicality of Tom of Finland
InVisible Culture
Demonizing Cumbia: The Skin and Flesh of Radamel 666’s Version of “Yo me llamo cumbia” (“My Name is Cumbia”)
InVisible Culture
Introduction / Issue 36: The Matter of Whiteness
InVisible Culture
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 2, that is going to be published in early June 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is May 20, 2024.
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of the COVID-19 …
How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’
Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the uterine lining develops outside the uterus; it ‘bleeds’ during periods, forms lesions, and causes chronic pain. Despite affecting around 10% of menstruating people, its aetiology is poorly unders…
Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience
Resilience—a term that originated in mathematical ecology—now commonly refers to the ability to thrive in the face of trauma and adversity. This Position Piece reflects on both the charisma and political lability of resilience in the early 21st century…
Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical ‘site’ of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Resea…
Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines
In this article I draw on the concept of anticipation to examine Finnish news discourse on the development, licensing and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. I explore the interplay of anticipation of vaccine-induced immunity and vaccine safety concer…
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of th…
Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge
What does it mean when pharmaceuticals are called ‘biologics’? This article follows a pregnant person who has been hospitalised on a Norwegian rheumatology ward after being taken off her monoclonal antibody (mab) medication. She is painfully trapped in…
Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical ‘site’ of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In…
The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations
Special issue ‘The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations’, guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow.
How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’
Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the uterine lining develops outside the uterus; it ‘bleeds’ during periods, forms lesions, and causes chronic pain. Despite affecting around 10% of menstruating people, its aetiology is po…
Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience
Resilience—a term that originated in mathematical ecology—now commonly refers to the ability to thrive in the face of trauma and adversity. This Position Piece reflects on both the charisma and political lability of resilience in the early 2…
Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge
What does it mean when pharmaceuticals are called ‘biologics’? This article follows a pregnant person who has been hospitalised on a Norwegian rheumatology ward after being taken off her monoclonal antibody (mab) medication. She is painfully…
The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations
Special issue ‘The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations’, guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow.
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of th…
Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines
In this article I draw on the concept of anticipation to examine Finnish news discourse on the development, licensing and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. I explore the interplay of anticipation of vaccine-induced immunity and vaccine sa…
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of the COVID-19 …
“County residents take the fight”
Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swed…