Category: English

Due to ecological disturbances, the scarcity of natural resources, especially fish, is increasingly disrupting the rhythm of life of local fishermen Mousgoum in the flood plain to the point where Moumin and his family are integrating new activities to …

This article examines the portrayal of mental disability in Malawian literature. Through a critical analysis of selected poetry, short stories, and plays, the article argues that in the Malawian literary imagination, mental disability is usually approp…

Book Review

The Dawro, speakers of an Omotic language in Southwest Ethiopia, use personal names both to establish individuals’ linguistic identity and to reflect their culture and language. This article provides an explanatory analysis of “traditional” Dawro perso…

Book Review

Over the last twenty years, a number of anthropologists have questioned the discipline’s “epistemology of intimacy” to show that in some parts of the world, Otherness plays an integral role in the construction of social unity. While Otherness has been …

This article focuses on the ways in which a group of mostly gay, Afrikaans-speaking Christians interpret, appropriate, and deploy the institution of marriage at a small Pentecostal Charismatic Church in Pretoria. In so doing, it demonstrates that resea…

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have had soothing effects on social relationships over the last two decades: friends and families can easily locate and socialize with one another through smartphones, mobile phones, and the internet. Co…

Ethiopia was until recently perceived to be a strong state, with a coherent governing coalition party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front, dominated by its minority Tigrayan component party. The death of the party’s strongman Meles Z…

This article reflects on the current explanatory value of concepts such as postsocialism and Eastern Europe by exploring how they are represented in contemporary art projects in Estonia. Through an overview of recent exhibitions in which I collaborate…

This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate …

Though scholars in memory studies often deal with different aspects of cultural memory, it is rare to find any systematic framework to which memory adheres to and which would explain the emergence and maintenance of memories in general. In this article…

This paper draws on cultural gerontology and literary scholarship to call for greater academic consideration of age and ageing in our imaginations of the future.  Our work adds to the development of Critical Future Studies (CFS) previously publish…

In recent years, Canadian/US singer, songwriter, and author Neil Young’s production shows increased signs of environmental awareness, manifested in his promotion of biofuels, critique of genetic manipulation, biotechnology, and ecocide, as well as in h…

This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the offi…