Climate Change and the Museum
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 64-78
The Arts as a Vocation
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 108-122
Memories from the Margins
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 95-107
National Showing Off and Telling Off
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 1-18
Exhibition Reviews
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 263-280
Managing Quality and Motivating Innovation
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 155-165
Air Connectivity and Proximity of Large Airports as an Added Value for Museums
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 136-154
Empowering Learners through the Integration of Museum Experiences and Digital Technologies
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 181-191
Virgin in a Condom and Te Papa: 25 Years On
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 166-180
Dispatches
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: 192-224
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.
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 …
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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The COVID-19 Pandemic, (Im)Mobilities, and Migration in Southeast Asia
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Mobilizing the (Im)Mobile Museum Through Hybrid Curation: A Story of Hybrid Curation of Cultural Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This narrative research report summarizes the experiences of Vivid Ethnicity, a mobile anthropological museum of the Museum of Cultural Anthropology at Mahidol University, Thailand, during the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022. Alt…
Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management
In the debates over environmental impacts on migration, migration as adaptation has been acknowledged as a potential risk management strategy based on risk spreading and mutual insurance of people living spatially apart: migrants and family members tha…
Indonesian International Students in Australia during the COVID-19-Pandemic: Coming Out Stronger?
Australia is a sought-after destination for international students, including from countries of the Global South such as Indonesia. Prior to the pandemic, the tertiary education of international students was its second largest export. At the onset of t…