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Storytelling in precarious landscapes: Insights from a photovoice project in rural Appalachia
The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in the small central Appalachian town of Rainelle, West Virginia cannot be understood separately from the broader human-environment relationships of this place. These relationships are grounded in landscapes that…
The Andean zinc rush: Green extractivism and climate vulnerabilities in the Peruvian highland waterscapes
Zinc is a green mineral that is increasingly required for manufacturing low-carbon technology. This demand has been promoted mainly by the Global North-led green policies to mitigate the impacts of climate change. However, simultaneously expanding zinc…
Climate services for food security in Guatemala: An exploration of institutional dynamics in a colonial and neoliberal system
Several governmental and nongovernmental institutions in Guatemala have been tasked with tackling the country’s problem of food insecurity. Although food insecurity has a variety of causes, the issue of climate change is beginning to attract initiative…
Embedding Municipal Green Bonds in Mexico City’s hydrosocial cycle: ‘Green’ debt and climate action narratives
Mexico City’s municipal “green” bonds (MGBs), issued in 2016 and 2018, financed two water infrastructure projects embedded in the city’s hydrosocial cycle (the reciprocal transformation of water and society). The issuance of the MGBs created an entangl…
Metodologické a emoční výzvy při terénním výzkumu sexuality
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Město pro všechny? Případová studie revitalizace a purifikace veřejného prostoru
The study focuses on the purification of public space as an accompanying phenomenon of its revitalization. As a result of purification, it is argued, public space is sterilized and its quality and heterogeneity are reduced. The aim of this paper is to …
Porovnání trenérských metod Anatolije Tarasova a Vladimíra Kostky ve světle pojetí hry Johana Huizingy
The study deals with the coaching methods of Anatoly Tarasov and Vladimir Kostka. Both of them helped their countries to build world-class hockey teams by a personal approach, which dominated world hockey for more than two decades. This paper focuses o…
Noetická tenze jako kulturní mechanismus: Případ ideového světa katolicismu
The text deals with the ideological world of Catholicism. A review of the current state of research has shown that we lack an adequate understanding of the phenomenon in which a particular parish priest occupies two mutually contradictory noetic positi…
Metodologické a emoční výzvy při terénním výzkumu sexuality
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Zpráva ze Studentské antropologické konference v Plzni (24. listopadu 2023)
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A Transformative Social Policy Perspective on Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Land and agrarian reform in former settler colonies is an overlooked aspect of social policy, especially in the African context. This is, however, changing with the recognition that it is a policy instrument with functi…
Gaza and the Right to Have Rights
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
La construcción de la realidad social
La realidad del ser humano se construye a través de sus percepciones. Y estas percepciones quedan condicionadas por la realidad que exponen los medios de información. Comprender su formación es entender la cosmovisión de nuestra cultura. Est…
Music, Phones and Bank Loans
This article explores the making of two branded Spotify playlists to critique the concept of ‘affective labor.’ Over the last few decades, scholars have argued that social media users and creative industries workers alike are engaged in a ne…
The Educated African and Colonialist Myths in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North
Through the example of Tayeb Salih’s novel Season of Migration to the North (1969), this article argues that education as provided by the colonial school system is an “undecidable” (Derrida), at once empowering and disempowering the educated…
Ditransitive Constructions in Lugbarati
This study examines how ditransitive constructions are realized in Lugbarati, a Central Sudanic language of the Moru-Madi subphylum. Lugbarati has both the double object construction (DOC) and what we refer to as the adpositional phrase construction (A…
The Introduction of Sugarcane in West-Central Africa
Due to the extreme scarcity of archaeological and historical data very little is known about the introduction of Southeast Asian crops such as banana, sugarcane, taro and greater yam in Africa and the role they played in the subsistence and …
Effects of Multilingualism on the Use of Linguistic Spatial Frames of Reference in Dholuo
The influence of multilingualism on the nature of spatial frames of reference remains largely unexplored in spatial cognition studies. The present study investigates verbal spatial representation amongst Dholuo multilinguals. It employs a photo-object …
Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has not abandoned ‘the dream of cosmopolitan peace’ (Alexander 2005). The adjective ‘cosmopolitan’ refers to the political and philosophical concept that all human beings are members of a single community. In th…
Home As a Mobile and Flexible Domestic Space in Amitav Ghosh’s Alternative Ideas of Cosmopolitanism
In this globalized cosmopolitan world, the concept of home has become one of the most crucial socio-cultural perceptions, playing a significant role in establishing community and transnational relationships both at the local and the global level. Amita…
Practice of Patriotism, Ethnocentrism, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in India: An Interrogation
The central concern of this paper is to examine intersectionalities between the ideals of cosmopolitanism, patriotism, ethnocentrism and nationalism in general, and their changing facets and interfaces in India. It argues that being a multiethnic and p…
Strategic Cosmopolitanism: Chinese Female Jadeite Live Streamers in Ruili
With China’s construction of free trade zones and the development of digital technology, immigrants from Myanmar and internal migrants from all parts of China have gathered in Ruili, a cross-border hub connecting the two countries. As a result of these…