Anthropology and Entrepreneurship Research: Introduction to the Themed Essays
Journal of Business Anthropology
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In Search of Newness
Journal of Business Anthropology
Lessons from the 4th Global Business Anthropology Summit
This was not a typical summit. It was an extraordinary event that offered a unique and immersive experience. Diverging from traditional conferences, the organizers crafted alternative participation formats, engaging activities, and inspiring venues. Th…
Book Review: The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship: Cultural History, Global Ethnographies, Theorizing Agency by Richard Pfeilstetter. London and New York: Routledge
Journal of Business Anthropology
“Prepared to Face the Unexpected”: Dynamic Enterprises in Italy as a Model of Resilience
Businesses that demonstrate organizational flexibility, characterized by dynamic problem-solving skills, in-house production processes, and a robust human capital, appear to be successful and resilient in times of crisis. Drawing on my fieldwork in med…
Sounding Affective Consensus
This paper explores how New Orleans Black dockworkers created affective communities by utilizing brass bands, as evidenced by newspapers, union records, and testimonies from jazz musicians. In an attempt to weave together congruences between…
New issue: Volume 20 (2023)
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 20 contains the dossiers Ethnography of Governance Institutions and Utopias of Recycling and Circularity.
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 1, that is going to be published in late February or early March 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is February 15, 2024.
Digital Truth-making Among the New Chinese Online Fandom Nationalists: Between Online Popular Culture and Political Participation
In recent years, the rise of digital populist and/or nationalist movement and the post-truth phenomenon have affected the political landscapes of many countries, including China. This article focuses on how pop-cultural practices and practices of polit…
“Truthy” and “Sticky” Narratives of Euroscepticism: Narratological Approaches to Appropriateness in Digital Contexts
This article addresses markers of plausibility and felicity in Eurosceptic narratives on social media that are not based on facts but on sociocultural and contextual appropriateness. Appropriateness is understood here as the contextual fit for specific…
“Feminine, Not Feminist”: Trad Truth-making on Social Media
This article investigates the truth-making practices of networks of antifeminist women on social media who identify as “traditional” or “trad” for short. Demonstrating how trad truth-making emerges in response both to the tensions inherent in right-win…
Collaborative Mistrust: The Communicative Function of Alternative Facts in Social Media Interactions
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Feeling the Truth: Emotions and Digital Truth-making within Right-wing Populist Networks on Twitter/X
Based on an investigation of how everyday users participate in right-wing populist discourse on social media platforms, this article explores the emotional practices that shape and legitimise purported truths about the threat posed by Islam to the West…
Special Issue: Digital Truth-making: Anthropological Perspectives on Right-wing Politics and Social Media in “Post-truth” Societies
How do users of social media platforms produce, shape and share truths online? In this introduction, we outline our understanding of digital truth-making as a process that builds on the affordances of digital infrastructures to entangle information wit…
Internal and Internalised Borders of Havana
In this ethnographic snapshot, I reflect on the experience of the internal borders of Havana. I consider how these borders become internalised, impacting everyday lives and the movements of my research partners across the city. I focus on the marginali…
Spain and the Old Regime of Post-truth: Freedom of Speech, Ritualised Politics, and Postmemory on Social Media
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Spain and the Old Regime of Post-truth: Freedom of Speech, Ritualised Politics, and Postmemory on Social Media
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Social and Spatial Aspects of Loneliness: Challenges to Belong and Acquiring a Sense of Home in a Senior Housing Facility in Denmark
This paper contributes to the literature on loneliness by exploring how loneliness is impacted by a sense of home and experiences and negotiations of belonging. With an ethnographic point of departure in a newly established senior housing facility for …
It Takes Another Kind of Village: How Older Husbands in Rural Spanish Communities Experience Caregiving
This article explores how older husbands’ caregiving experiences are interwoven with the social representation of ‘the village,’ understood herein as an intimate, local community that actively contributes to long-term care on a daily basis. The concept…
Questions of (non)Disclosure among People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease in Denmark
This article explores questions of (non)disclosure among people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, arguing that whether to reveal one’s diagnosis to family and friends is not a straightforward choice. I use the term (non)disclosure to emphasize the fl…
Book Review: Being Dead Otherwise
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
Anthropology & Aging
Book Review: Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft
Anthropology & Aging
Facilitating pura medicina
In this article, based on my doctoral research, I discuss the appropriation of religious elements from South America by Finnish ‘mystical tourists’. The plant medicine ceremonies are approached as spiritual commodities. Imagining local beliefs and prac…
Is appropriation a useful category for scholarship on religion?
Concluding remarks for the special issue of Approaching Religion, ‘Appropriation as a Perspective and Topic in the Study of Religion and Spirituality’.