Book Review: Rafael, V. L. (2022). The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte.
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Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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The literature on the gender gap in political science and international relations (IR) has increased significantly in the last couple of decades. However, little is known about how male and female scholars are publishing their works in non-Western-base…
After implementing a comprehensive reform in 1986, Vietnam witnessed change in many aspects. One of these changes is that agricultural land has been converted into industrial and urban land. Increasing land demand, leading to land acquisition, is inevi…
Most governments claim that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs benefit poor people. This study aims to analyze the impact of conditional cash transfers on low-income individuals in Indonesia. This study used consumption expenditures as a poverty …
The latest law on the protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMWs), Law Number 18 of 2017 (Law 18/2017), obliges the Indonesian government to conduct economic protection through remittance management by involving certain institutions. Nonetheless, t…
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So far, the study of indigenous people’s attitudes towards Indo-Europeans in the era of decolonization, especially in Indonesia, has focused on native militia violence against Indo-Europeans. Serious studies on the desire of the indigenous people to pe…
Migrant students have been increasing in Thai public schools due to their parents’ labor mobility within the ASEAN community. There are, however, gaps concerning roles and responsibilities of educational stakeholders and migrant parents who are key to …
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Textbooks have always played a significant role in the field of English language teaching (ELT). They are the main source that conveys cultural values and information in the language classroom. However, compared to the increasing number of migrants in …
In recent years, the migration of people from Myanmar into Thailand has increased tremendously. Since 2005, when the Thai government officially allowed migrant children to enroll in Thai government schools, there has been a steady increase in the numbe…
This paper reports on heritage fieldwork by the Mahidol Cultural Anthropology Museum, carried out from 2019 to 2020, with a group of four Karen villages in Doi Si Than, or ‘Four Creeks Mountain’, a valley in the remote Northwest of Thailand. The resear…
The past 20 years have witnessed major shifts in language and education policy in Malaysia. This reflects a range of social, economic, and political forces that influence and shape the policymaking in this multi-ethnic and multicultural country. Past r…
Myanmar is home to over 54.8 million people, consisting of over 100 ethnolinguistic groups with distinct linguistic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. Since Myanmar gained independence from Great Britain, education has been used as the main politic…
Souvenirs have become an integral part of consumptive tourism with marine curios being a common offering in coastal destinations. The Philippines, an emerging coastal destination is also a large exporter of marine shells. There is some overlap in the s…
In 2017, the Indonesian government launched the ‘100 Smart Cities’ initiative to mark the rise of smart city concepts in urban development. Rather than replicating what has been done by developed countries, Indonesia has experienced somewhat different …
Dieser Beitrag diskutiert, wie in Beteiligungsverfahren Anliegen von Interessensvertretungen von Menschen mit Behinderung politisch bearbeitbar gemacht werden. Mit dem Konzept der ›reflexiven Juridifizierung‹ wird die Arbeit der Interessenvertretungen …
Die Beiträge dieses Panels beleuchten die Rolle von Geschlechterwissen in antifeministischen Diskursen, in femo-nationalistischen Instrumentalisierungen von Frauen- und Homosexuellen-Rechten und in neoliberalen Vereinnahmungen von ›Gender‹.
Der Begriff ›Anthropozän‹ bezeichnet nicht nur den unumkehrbaren Schaden, den die Menschheit dem Planeten und seiner Biosphäre zufügt, sondern markiert auch ein neuerliches Interesse der Anthropologie an Umwelt-Mensch-Beziehungen. Dieser Aufsatz diskut…
Regionenvergleiche sind eine relevante Praxis der symbolisch-diskursiven Produktion des Ruhrgebietes über Instagram. In diesem Beitrag werden sie als alltagsweltliche Skalierungspraktiken verstanden, die in der Verschränkung von regionalem Handeln und …
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Anonymity-Sunset-Dance-Party provides a commentary on the essays ›Anonymität Tanzen‹ by Paula Helm and ›Crypto Parties‹ by Linda Monsee. It draws on Whitehead’s metaphor of the sunset, as an event that defies the bifurcation of nature, and the empirica…
The paper underscores the value and continuing relevance of indigenous and local knowledge for environmental protection and climate change adaptation in Africa. It argues that while Africa stands to gain from global science and international best pract…
Weltausstellungen versammeln Wissen auf paradoxe Weise: trotz ihrer seit Beginn konstatierten Ineffizienz, trotz der Selbstkritik von Weltausstellungsmacher*innen besteht das Format fort. Wir suchen nach einer Umdeutung dieses Weltwissens, die eine ema…
Dieser Beitrag plädiert für eine Emanzipation des Begriffs des Kuratierens von rein musealen Kontexten und seine Ausweitung auf verschiedene andere Phänomene und Formate, die sich mit mnemotischen Feldern auseinandersetzen. Anhand einiger Beispiele aus…