Editorial SJSCA 28/2022
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Kaufmann. Lena. 2021. Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Lustenberger. Sybille. 2021. Judaism in Motion: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Perception of Refugees in Lithuania
This article offers a partial answer to the question, “why are the vast majority of Lithuanians opposed to refugees immigrating to Lithuania?” I use cultural model theory (CMT) to find the salient characteristics Lithuanians attribute to r…
Charle. Matthieu. 2019. Cœur d’Alene: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Predatory Fleas, Sterile Flies, and the Settlers : Agricultural Infrastructure and the Challenge of Alien-Native Dichotomies in Israel/Palestine
Cultural Anthropology
Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air: Gadbad and the Sensate Ecologies of Driving Work in Contemporary Mumbai
Cultural Anthropology
Evasion: Prison Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro
Cultural Anthropology
Of Feral and Obedient Cows: Colonization as Domestication in the Paraguayan Chaco
Cultural Anthropology
Opening Editorial
Cultural Anthropology
Sleights of Hand: Free Ports, Bordering, and the Racial Capitalist Roots of Economic Nationalist Strategies in the US and the UK
Sleight of hand economic nationalist strategies by recent administrations of the US and UK emphasizing the “freedom” of those selectively imagined as belonging to the nation while quietly but pivotally discouraging human mobility and encouraging elite …
Living and Working Research Policies: The Case of International Scholars in Latvia
The article examines the incorporation of international scholars into the Latvian higher education and research system from the perspective of labour. Whilst recent research policies in the country are aimed at increasing international cooperation to s…
Rural mobilites and urban norms
This article deals with everyday life in sparsely populated parts of northern Sweden. It investigates the relationship between local practice and political discourses. The discussion is based on fieldwork carried out in two northern municipalities. Emp…
Hartmut, Rosa 2020. The Uncontrollability of the World. Cambridge, Medford: Polity Press. 140 p.
Rosa, Hartmut. The Uncontrollability of the World. Cambridge, Medford: Polity Press. 2020. 140 p. ISBN: 9781509543151 (hardcover); 9781509543168 (softcover)
Lounela, Anu, Berglund, Eeva and Kallinen Timo (eds) (2019) Dwelling in Political Landscapes. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
Lounela, Anu, Berglund, Eeva and Kallinen Timo (eds) (2019) Dwelling in Political Landscapes. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Helsinki: SKS. Studia Fennica Anthropologica 4. 293 p. ISBN 978-951-858-087-7 (Print), ISBN 978-951-858-114-0 (PDF)…
Lectio praecursoria. Carving out Possibilities: Refugee Background Young Men and Mundane Political Agency
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Articulations of power: Guns on campus and the protests against them
When carrying concealed handguns on campus was legalised at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin in 2015, students and faculty positioned themselves in relation to the new law in very different ways, ranging from large demonstrations and the use of v…
Lectio praecursoria. Weeds of Sociality: Reforms and Dynamics of Social Relations at the University of Helsink
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Lectio Praecursoria: Transgressive participation: Housing struggles, occupations and evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Editors’ note: On rent extraction in academic publishing and its alternatives
In this editorial we introduce new members of our editorial team and the contents of this issue. In addition we discuss open access developments of the journal, namely our new license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common license tha…
From ‘Anglophone Problem’ to ‘Anglophone Conflict’ in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since 2017, an armed conflict has been raging in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon between separatist forces and the Cameroonian military. This review analyses the historical origins and root causes of the confli…
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Digitalen? Einleitung und Problemaufriss
Der tiefgreifende Wandel der Digitalisierung und damit zunehmenden Medialität auch im (Wissenschafts-)Alltag ermöglicht veränderte Prinzipien der Wissensproduktion und eine paradigmatische Neuausrichtung der Kulturanalyse. Die Einleitung erö…
Wie Apps erforschen? Zum Zusammentreffen neuer Forschungsgegenstände und alter Methoden
Mobile Apps sind Alltagsbegleiter, die als digitale Objekte die Kulturanthropologie theoretisch-konzeptionell und empirisch herausfordern. Ob wir neue Methoden für die Erforschung digital gestalteter Alltage benötigen, wird in dem Beitrag an…
Digitale Landwirtschaft untersuchen. Method(olog)ische Überlegungen zu einem neuen Forschungsfeld
Der Text geht am Beispiel einer explorativen Forschung zur Digitalisierung der Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz der Frage nach den methodologischen Erfordernissen zur Erforschung von Digitalisierungsprozessen und Digitalitäten nach. Es wird daf…
Computergestützte ethnografische Datenanalyse (CEDA): Potenziale und methodische Affordanzen von QDA-Software in der ethnografischen Forschung
Der Beitrag diskutiert die Potenziale einer ›Computergestützten ethnografischen Datenanalyse‹ (CEDA), insbesondere mit Blick auf die Empirische Kulturwissenschaft / Kulturanthropologie. Er argumentiert, dass aus Qualitative Data Analysis Sof…