Centering the Museum
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 225-233
Category: English
Look Left and Right
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 123-130
Dispatches
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 192-224
Review Essays
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 234-262
Virgin in a Condom and Te Papa: 25 Years On
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 166-180
The Future of Museums
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 131-135
Empowering Learners through the Integration of Museum Experiences and Digital Technologies
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 181-191
Book Reviews
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 281-293
Air Connectivity and Proximity of Large Airports as an Added Value for Museums
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 136-154
Editorial
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: vii-viii
Situating Latin American Critical Epidemiology in the Anthropocene: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccines and Indigenous Collectives in Brazil and Mexico
Diverse histories and traditions of critical epidemiology in Latin America provide an important, although underutilised, alternative framework for engaging with the embodied health inequalities of the Anthropocene. Taking COVID-19 as ‘a paradigmatic ex…
Structural Vulnerability and Toxicity Experiences in the Uruguayan Soybeanisation Process
Fuelled by agribusiness, transgenic soybean crops, genetically modified to withstand pesticide use, have increased in use during the last 20 years in the Southern Cone of Latin America. Plantations are understood as examples of ‘modular simplifications…
Toward a Broader View of Health in the Anthropocene: The COVID-19 Syndemic and the Clash of Cosmographies in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
The continual expansion of developmental frontiers has impacted dramatically upon Indigenous health in Brazil. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in Mato Grosso do Sul, its Indigenous populations were already living in circumstances of environmental deg…
Unruly Waters, Unsanitary Bodies Abject Terrains, Rehabilitation, and Infrastructures of Dispossession on the U.S.–Mexico Border
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among homeless deportees living in the Tijuana River canal, I examine how the ‘rehabilitation’ of toxic terrains can have corporeal and social consequences for those inhabiting such spaces. For decades, the Tijuana Riv…
The Plantation as Hotspot: Capital, Science, Labour, and the Earthly Limits of Global Health
Central American sugarcane plantations have become ‘hotspots’ of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Although CKD is frequently caused by diabetes or hypertension, most sugarcane plantation workers who have it have no history of either condition. They are am…
"Just Graphite": Corporate Representations of Particular Matter in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro
The unevenly distributed environmental burdens of the Anthropocene become evident in conflicts surrounding the extractive industries. ThyssenKrupp’s steel mill (TKCSA) in Rio de Janeiro is an illustrative example. The factory transformed its surroundin…
Toxic Legacies and Health Inequalities of the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Margins
Based on research in Matamoros (Mexico) and Naples (Italy), this article critically deconstructs embodiments and social histories of toxicity, addressing uneven power relations and health inequalities generated through late capitalism of the Anthropoce…
Sustaining (Dis)Embodied Inequalities in the(ir) Eurocene: Ancient Microbes, Racial Anthropometry, and Life Choices
Racialisation and colonialism are central to sustaining (dis)embodied inequalities. We bring together our distinct ethnographic projects to explore this. The first project accompanied a microbiome expedition involving Amazonian Indigenous non/human com…
Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
By understanding a community’s medical system, we are able to see its body ontology and how the people within it live in relation to the world, a historically constructed ideological position. Modernisation and development have restructured Indigenous …
Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene
Introduction to the special issue ‘Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene’, guest edited by Jennie Gamlin, Laura Montesi, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, Jean Segata, and Ceres Victora.
The COVID-19 Pandemic, (Im)Mobilities, and Migration in Southeast Asia
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Book Review: Ullah, AKM. A., & Chattoraj, D. (2022). COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Population in Southeast Asia: Vaccine, Diplomacy and Disparity
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Yaoi Media Consumption and Travel Motivation: Evidence From Filipino Viewers of Thai Boys’ Love Series
The Thai yaoi culture is getting a lot of attention in several parts of the world. Numerous Thai boy’s love (BL) series are a huge hit in Thailand and other countries. Despite the notable success of Thai yaoi and BL culture, there is less attention giv…
The Effects of COVID-19 on Refugees in Peninsular Malaysia: Surveillance, Securitization, and Eviction
This paper focuses on the largest group of refugees in Malaysia, the Rohingya. Many Rohingya have made Malaysia their home over recent years, even though they have no official legal status in the country. Refugees more broadly are often tolerated as wo…
Living With Pervasive Hazards: Place-Based Approach for Identifying Vulnerability and Coping Strategies in an Island Community in Cebu, Philippines
Studies about disasters have focused on large-scale and extreme weather events. However, slow-onset hazards such as drought-like seasons and monsoons also pose challenges since they are dynamic and experienced differently from place to place. This pape…