Book Review: Yamahata, C., & Anderson, B. (2022). Demystifying Myanmar’s Transition and Political Crisis
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Book Review: Fresnoza-Flot, A., & Liu-Farrer, G. (Eds.). (2022). Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood Across Social Spheres in Asian Migration
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Transnational Intimacies and Marriages: Gender and Social Class Complexities in two Northeastern Thai Villages
Studies of transnational intimacies and marriages thus far reveal how these intimate relationships are simulated and constrained by global and local circumstances, cultures, ideas, and practices relating to gender, marriage, and family as well as class…
Femininity in Transition: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Experiences of Thai Transgender Migrants in Europe
Many queer foreigners perceive Thailand as a gay paradise. They have an image of the country as having a tolerant attitude towards LGBTIQ+. However, for Thai LGBTIQ+, Western countries evoke wealth, progress, and acceptance where people with a differen…
Thai Immigrant Service-based Entrepreneurship in the UK: Mixed Embeddedness, Superdiversity, and Combined Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Capital
This paper examines Thai immigrant entrepreneurship in the UK, drawing on 17 inter-views with Thai migrants in Brighton, East Sussex. It explores how Thai immigrants from different socioeconomic backgrounds and migration pathways mobilize ethnic and no…
Transgender Kathoey Socially Imagining Relationships with Western Men in Thailand: Aspirations for Gender Affirmation, Upward Social Mobility, and Family Acceptance
This article studies the aspirations and experiences of kathoey (Thai male-to-female trans* people) from poor rural Isan in enduring cross-border relationships with Western men. Drawing from biographical life stories, we try to unpack the cultural scri…
Coming Home: Thai-Dutch Couples’ Spatial Trajectories at the Intersection of Mobility Capital, Gender, and Ageing
This paper applies the notions of mobility, mobility capital, gender, and ageing to analyze marriage migration and the trajectories of geographical and social mobility of Thai-Dutch couples moving from the Netherlands to Thailand. It is based on in-dep…
Multiform Transmission and Belonging: Buddhist Social Spaces of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium
The Thai migration to Belgium is numerically a woman-led phenomenon, which has captured social attention for the last decades. This attention entails stereotypes about Thai migrant women as ‘workers’ in the intimate industry and/or ‘exotic wives’ of Be…
Social Networks and Organization of Thai Migrants in Europe: An Interview with Chongcharoen Sornkaew Grimsmann, President (2019-2022) of Thai Women Network in Europe
The interview with Mrs. Chongcharoen Sornkaew Grimsmann, a long-term member and former president of Thai Women Network in Europe (TWNE), was originally conducted in English over email by Sirijit Sunanta and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot in July 2022. It was s…
Communication, Leadership, and Community-based Tourism Empowerment in Brunei Darussalam
Effective communication plays a part in the success and the sustainability of tourism and hospitality management, including community-based tourism (CBT). In Brunei Darussalam, communication barriers have affected the growth of the CBT industry at both…
Festivals and the Theory of Inclusive Development in Malaysia: Perspectives from a Festival Organizer
Festivals play a vital role in catalyzing inclusive development through their ability to in-crease social capital. They can enhance social ties through creating shared knowledge, building trust, and forming networks. In the Malaysian context, few studi…
Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration: Non-conventional Unions, Mobilities, and (Re)productive Labor
The migration flows connecting Thailand and Europe have constructed social spaces in which different stereotypes regarding Thais and Europeans emerge, perpetuate, and circulate, thereby affecting to various extents the lives of these individuals. To ch…
Special Issue: Intersections and Transformations in Medical Humanities: Defining and Conceptualising New Paths
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Expensive Health: Health-seeking Behaviours in Diversified Medical Markets
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Controlling Bacteria in a Post-antibiotic Era: Popular Ideas about Bacteria, Antibiotics, and the Immune System
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From Witch-Doctoring to Holistic Well-Being: Journalistic Representations of Three Influential Estonian CAM Doctors
With the aim to illustrate the complex relations between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and biomedicine, we examine how journalists have represented three influential Estonian CAM doctors. Our analysis of 36 journalistic texts published b…
Intercultural Mediation and its Conflicting Allegiances in Slovenia
The article examines intercultural mediation which is a relatively new profession aimed at assuring equity in access to various institutions, including those in the field of healthcare. Based on qualitative research with intercultural mediators in Slov…
“I’m not a jukebox where you push a button and then I sing”: Negotiating Medicine Access in Physician–Patient Encounters
This article aims to deepen understandings of physician–patient encounters by investigating views and perceptions held by Swedish physicians and care seekers on medicine access. Through a relational approach and a focus on materialities of medicines as…
Back to Copenhagen: A Few Words from the New JBA Editors
Journal of Business Anthropology
Erratum: Stereotipi e discriminazioni razziali nella letteratura brasiliana per l’infanzia: un viaggio tra le illustrazioni
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Pos(t)pornografía o Porno Queer en el cine de Albertina Carri. El cuerpo político y militante
Este artículo aborda el análisis de la evolución que se produce en el cine feminista latinoamericano con los cortometrajes Barbie también puede estar triste (2002), Pets (2012) y el largometraje –definido como porno lesbo-feminista– Las hijas del fuego…
Nomadismos simbiontes hacia la Tierra sin Mal: “Las aventuras de la China Iron”
Este trabajo propone una lectura de Las aventuras de la China Iron en relación con el canon literario y el imaginario étnico en Argentina, con la lengua de un Estado que se constituyó monolingüe y con la hegemonía heteropatriarcal. Para este propósito …
La interpelación desajustada como “acontecimiento habitual”. Imaginación política, constitución subjetiva y disidencia sexogenérica en la transición de Paul Preciado
En Un apartamento en Urano. Crónicas del cruce Paul Preciado presenta una escena que describe como un “acontecimiento habitual” en la vida de las personas trans al mostrar sus documentos de identidad. A partir de eso, y basándose en los cuestionamiento…
Ni explotación ni trabajo. Repensando el estatus de la prostitución a la luz de la historia del sexo compensado entre varones en Latinoamérica
El artículo problematiza la discusión prostitución/trabajo sexual en relación con la historia del sexo compensado entre varones en Latinoamérica en el siglo XX. Por un lado, se analiza cómo los cambios que afectaron al sexo compensado entre varones res…
Tra vittime e perpetratori: l’omosessualità come silenzio e implicazione nella guerra coloniale in Mozambico
La memoria della élite bianca omosessuale durante il tardo colonialismo in Mozambico è un archivio complesso e contraddittorio che colloca questo gruppo sociale tra l’essere vittima della repressione sessuale dell’Estado Novo salazarista e la collabora…