Psychoactive Agents: Drugs, Morality, and Responsibility
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Labile Bodies: A Hospital Ethnography of Medical Professionals’ Struggles in Deceased Organ Donation
This article presents an ethnographic study of the donor body in deceased organ donation. Drawing on the science and technology studies’ incitement to study bodies being enacted and acted upon in situated practices, I explore the body being done and be…
Mother of All Labour: Vulnerability and Immunity in Times of Ebola
Wonkifong Ebola treatment unit was unique at the time of the outbreak that hit the Guinea in 2014. Contrary to other infrastructures run by Western workers, Wonkifong mainly employed personnel from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, a…
Pandemic and Politicisation in Argentina: Nursing Professional Trajectories in the Conurbano Bonaerense Region
The article analyses the politicisation of nursing personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, focusing on the trajectories of nurses trained in the public universities of the so-called ‘conurbano bonaerense’, especially in the youn…
The Glass Witness: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding
Donation-based crowdfunding platforms invite people to tell stories of unmet health needs in a hybrid form—using both words and images—but research to date has not addressed the role of visual practice in this setting, in any detail. In this…
Making Homes in a Nursing Facility in Athens
This Photo Essay seeks to visualise the room-homes of the residents in one of the largest semi-public nursing homes in Athens, Greece. Unlike in other facilities, residents are given the opportunity to intervene in their individual rooms, to…
Hope and Haunting Images: The Imaginary in Danish Parkinson’s Disease Rehabilitation
Much in life is imagined: hoped for, dreamed about, or dreaded, as we engage with potential futures. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive and neuro-degenerative disease, currently incurable. During long-term fieldwork among Danish rehabilite…
The Glass Witness: Visual and Tactile Engagements with Online Medical Crowdfunding
Donation-based crowdfunding platforms invite people to tell stories of unmet health needs in a hybrid form—using both words and images—but research to date has not addressed the role of visual practice in this setting, in any detail. In this…
The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
In recent years, a lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to how practices of digitalisation and datafication require medical professionals to work together with different stakeholders, and to how such collaborations shape expertise (St…
Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the September Issue, 2024
Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia
Australia’s border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument to prevent asylum seeker protection. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken wi…
The human-nature divide in European Union environmental policy
According to political ecologists, today’s major challenge in environmental policy revolves around rethinking the ontology of the human-nature divide, which assumes “humans” to be fundamentally different from and superior to “nature”, contributing to e…
On the political ontology of making things up in political ecology critique: An engagement with Bormpoudakis (2019) and Knudsen (2023)
I engage with two recent articles published in the Journal of Political Ecology, both of which critique political ecology engagements with ontological and epistemological complexities. These complexities might be distilled into the idea that how ‘the w…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is December 10, 2024.
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory: Beyond the Binary of the West Versus Africa
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory’s ongoin…
Towards a Critical Decolonial Turn/Theory: Beyond the Binary of the West Versus Africa
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As writing on decolonisation in African Studies has surged, efforts to avoid the concept becoming a mere metaphor, bandwagon, ideological trope, or mantra have grown, with scholars emphasising decolonial theory’s ongoin…
Governing Labour Relations Despite the Law: The Routine of Labour Inspection (Dakar)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article is based on a series of observations made in the offices of the Dakar Labour Inspectorate between 2020 and 2023 and describes how labour is regulated by the inspection agents. The recent developments in the…
Ni oblit ni perdó: mobilitzacions afectives i regulació política de les emocions. Presentació
Presentació
Pensar la antropología en clave posthumanista
Pensar la antropología en clave posthumanista Josep Martí Pérez y Begonya Enguix Grau (Eds. 2022)Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas308 p.ISBN: 978-84-00-11037-6
Humanisme i posthumanisme. Eines per a unes ciències humanes en moviment
Humanisme i posthumanisme. Eines per a unes ciències humanes en moviment Francesc Núñez Mosteo Agnès Vayreda i Duran (Coords)Begonya Enguix Grau Josep Martí Mara Martínez Morant (2022)Barcelona. UOC.211 p.ISBN: 978-84-9180-974-6
Entre banderas: La movilización política y afectiva de las banderas en el soberanismo catalán
Las banderas son objetos nacionales capaces de guardar y mantener afectos divergentes y soltarlos en un momento determinado. El objetivo de este artículo es comprender el funcionamiento emocional de las banderas en el soberanismo catalán. Para ello tra…
"Qui sembra la misèria, recull la ràbia": el fluir de las emociones en el independentismo catalán actual
Este artículo se basa en una investigación realizada sobre la relación entre política y emociones en el movimiento independentista catalán. Propone situar las emociones como un campo de estudio imprescindible en relación con las políticas contemporánea…
Repressió, por i mobilitzacions afectives a l’independentisme català: apunts etnogràfics sobre concepcions i estratègies al voltant de la por
El període històric conegut com el Procés independentista Catalunya s’ha caracteritzat per una activació política extraordinària que ha portat a la generació de mobilitzacions massives. En aquest procés, l’experimentació individual i col·lectiva d’emoc…
Micropolítiques i tecnologies afectives a la Catalunya del Procés
Més enllà de la política que s’exerceix a i des de les institucions, els individus fan servir els seus recursos de poder per mantenir o reptar estructures polítiques mitjançant micropolítiques esperonades per tecnologies afectives, tot perseguint en te…
Confianza y vivencia emocional de la nación en el procés independentista catalán
El objetivo de este artículo es proponer el interés que puede tener el análisis de la noción de confianza en los estudios del nacionalismo. Se parte de una perspectiva teórica que pone el acento en la vivencia emocional de la nación y el papel de la so…