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Introduction
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
Image as a Weapon:
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
Never Silent Sights.
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
The Voice of the Sierra Nevada
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
A Collaborative Filming Method with Characters and Crew
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
Through Prisms
This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our s…
Provoking Film/Complicating Hierarchy
In 2014 and 2017, I accompanied the filmmakers Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho, and Helena Wittmann to the Sertão in the northeast of Brazil. In this desert-like region we gathered the material for Virar mar (2020), an experimental documentary…
Can Ethnographic Filmmaking Truly Be Shared?
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
Sara Roncaglia, <em>Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai</em>, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183
Book review of Sara Roncaglia, Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183.
Giuliana Sanò, <em>Fabbriche di plastica. Il lavoro nell’agricoltura industriale</em>, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 236
Book review of Giuliana Sanò, Fabbriche di plastica. Il lavoro nell’agricoltura industriale, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 236.
Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, <em>Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives</em>, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335
Book review of Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.
Simonetta Grilli, <em>Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee</em>, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315
Book review of Simonetta Grilli, Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315.
Alessandro Mancuso, <em>Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene</em>, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307
Book review of Alessandro Mancuso, Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307.
Andrea Ravenda, <em>Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi</em>, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207
Book review of Andrea Ravenda, Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207.
Antonio Gramsci, Waddah Charara and Walter Benjamin: A walk on the wild side of intellectual militancy
Review article of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione, Milano, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182; Fadi A. Bardawil, Revolution and disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the binds of emancipation, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, pp….
Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, <em>Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI</em>, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239
Book review of Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239.
<em>Candomblé</em>, intolerance, and racism in Bolsonaro’s days: History repeats itself?
The followers of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé cult feel today more than ever threatened by various dangers, in particular by the aggressiveness of the evangelical churches. The contribution poses some questions and formulates some hypotheses to be expl…
Regimes of intensity and techniques of the self: Ethnography of <em>làmb</em> training in Dakar
How to become a làmb (Senegalese wrestling with punches) wrestler in Dakar? Starting from an ethnography based on an “observant participation” method, this article analyzes wrestlers’ “techniques of the self” by focusing on the articulation between dis…
Violence and space: A comparative ethnography of two Italian “badlands”
This paper compares two marginal neighbourhoods and Italian “badlands”: the Zona Espansione Nord (ZEN) of Palermo and San Siro in Milan. It concerns multiple types of violence that affect them and their connections with different multi-scale processes….
“Children are our pension”: Livelihood diversification, social security, and kinship constraints among East African refugees
Stereotypical ideas about poverty and life in refugee camps make it difficult to understand the choices that individual refugees make when moving from one place to another within Africa, including from refugee settlements to town, to refugee camps and …
Shifting women: Mobilizing intimate kinship in a Punjabi diaspora domestic narrative
Based on extensive multi-site fieldwork with Punjabi immigrants in Italy, the article discusses the institute of transnational marriage and kin reunification among Indian diasporas, interlacing the drive for upward mobility, the normative frame of fami…
Families at a distance, distances within families: Borders and emotional bonds among migrants from Eritrea
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed commun…