Teorías e Historia de la Ciudad Contemporánea (2017). Ressenya del llibre de Carlos García Vázquez
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
Mariposas, brujas, conjuros, doncellas y caballeros andantes. El miedo en el cine, la arquitectura y otras manifestaciones culturales referidas al Antiguo Régimen (2022). Ressenya del llibre de Montserrat Jiménez
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
Medicalització, paradigma de control i relacions de poder. Mirant des de la societat pal·liativa
En aquest article hem sintetitzat un diàleg reflexiu interdisciplinar sobre els motius pels quals els medicaments, i diverses substàncies farmacològicament actives, estan sent usades més enllà de la malaltia, i cap a la recerca incessant de benestar. A…
Dolores Juliano: antropòloga, feminista i abans de res mestra
En aquest article es recullen lleugerament corregides les paraules que l’autor va pronunciar en la taula rodona “Dolores Juliano, memòria i llegat”, de l’acte d’homenatge que la Comissió d’Igualtat de les Facultats de Filosofia i Geografia i Història d…
Twitter com a oportunitat: identitats LGTB+, comunitat i seguretat
Aquest treball de fi de grau proposa submergir-se en la xarxa social Twitter amb l’objectiu d’abordar tres preguntes fonamentals en referència al col·lectiu LGTB+. Al llarg d’aquesta investigació, es pretén explorar el paper que exerceixen les xarxes s…
Call for Papers: Issue 37: Automated Images
InVisible Culture
Cultural dynamism in the jewelry and body-marking practices among the Igbo in Nigeria
The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial, itinerant, and adaptive tendencies, thus exemplifying the essence of cultural dynamism. This paper studies two aspects of Igbo dress culture, jewelry and body marking, to unravel the changes that occ…
Silencing the Voice: the fossil-fuelled Atlas Network’s Campaign against Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australia
Australians will soon vote in a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australia in its 1901 Constitution and establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament. A year ago, polling suggested the referendum proposal of the 2017 National Constitutional Conventio…
Worshipping Musically Online During Covid-19
The Covid-19-pandemic and resulting infection control measures drastically impacted the ability of Christian worshippers to gather and practice their faith. As a result, online solutions emerged as the primary option for maintaining religiou…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is December 1.
Festung L.A. (2006 [1990])
Kapitel aus: Davis, Mike (2006 [1990]): City of Quartz – Ausgrabungen der Zukunft in Los Angeles. Berlin: Assoziation A, 257-304. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Jan Reise.
Mike Davis: Erinnerungen an einen Giganten der Großzügigkeit
Mike Davis (1946-2022) war ein einzigartiger öffentlicher Intellektueller, der wissenschaftliches, aktivistisches und populäres Denken in so unterschiedlichen Forschungsbereichen wie Stadt, Arbeiterbewegung, Marxismus, städtische politische Ökologie, G…
„Es wäre ein verlegerisches Verbrechen, Mikes Bücher nicht zu übersetzen und herauszugeben.“
Ein Gespräch mit Rainer Wendling vom Verlag Assoziation A zu City of quartz und seiner Bedeutung für die deutschsprachige Stadtforschung und -bewegung.
Zwischen radikaler Stadtanalyse, Aktivismus und kultureller Intervention
Im Abgleich mit vergleichbaren Tendenzen in deutschen Städten wirkte die politische Rezeption von City of quartz als Keimzelle für zunächst lose Zusammenkünfte aktivistischer, künstlerischer und stadterforschender Initiativen in Frankfurt am Main und B…
Historiografien der Extreme: Mike Davis, Reyner Banham und das Schreiben über Los Angeles
Mike Davis schrieb zeitlebens aus einer zutiefst kritischen, durch Aktivismus geschulten Perspektive heraus zu raumpolitischen Entwicklung in Los Angeles. Sein Blick auf die Stadt hätte kaum weiter von dem eines weiteren präsenten Autors im Feld abweic…
Verhärtungen unter der Oberfläche – Mike Davis im Plattform-Urbanismus
Anhand des Stadtteils Bunker Hill beschrieb Mike Davis Anfang der 1990er-Jahre, wie bewusste sozialräumliche Strategien im Zuge der Reagan-Jahre die Oberfläche von Los Angeles zunehmend verhärteten. Im Herzen des Plattform-Urbanismus im San Francisco d…
Introduction: Rethinking Time and Gender in African History
This special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take these notions for granted in our practices of resear…
Gender Time, Gendered Time: In Parts of Africa
Over the long term, Africans socially constructed time and gender through struggle and invention, the stuff of history. But to get at this broad salience we must toggle between scales of region and period, among different kinds of evidence, …
Carnival, Power, and Queer Joy: Chrono-normativity, Carnivalesque Transgressions, and the Spectacle of Gender in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (ca. 1950–1975)
This article is an exploratory study of the history of carnival as a popular festival in late colonial Lourenço Marques (contemporary Maputo), the capital of Mozambique. Drawing on archival sources and on oral history interviews, it explores…
Queer Femme Drag Futures
To document an inclusive and comprehensive queer history means to write about queer femininity and queer femmes. Depending on their perceived outward form, queer femmes are often the most hypervisible and overtly queer, yet at other juncture…
“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid fo…
“There Was No Change”: Kenyan Women, Temporality, and Decolonization
While Kenyan colonial subjects became citizens at independence, women were excluded from state resources, social services, and full political enfranchisement. This was neither the decolonizing future they had been promised nor the one they had envision…
Shared Symbols, Different Symbolism? Blending Gender Categories in Northern Sotho Initiation Rock Art, Makgabeng, South Africa
This article explores the cultural significance of initiation rites among the Northern Sotho in South Africa, with a particular focus on the blending of symbolic gender motifs in rock art. Scholars on Northern Sotho rock art have associated …
“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Rethinking Gender, Colonialism, and Narratives of Modernity from the Northern Namibian Sound Archive
This contribution to the special issue develops an argument about time and gender in African history in relation to historical sound recordings. Revisiting a case study from the Namibian sound archive I demonstrate innovative methodological …
Re-visiting ‘African Tradition’, Re-thinking Gender and Power: Learning from Fieldwork in Northern Mozambique
This article takes its point of departure in the author’s research experience in matrilineal northern Mozambique in the early 1980s as an employee of the National Women’s Organization, the OMM (Organização da Mulher Moçambicana). Confronted …