Rajan, Sudhir Chella. 2020. A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
The Institutional Betrayal and Bureaucratic Violence of Higher Education
Teachers navigate funding cuts, political machination, sexual harassment and assault investigations, racism and White supremacy amid various locally constructed crises. Using bureaucratic violence and institutional betrayal – two interlinked, yet disti…
African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper is a response to Matthias Basedau’s article published in issue 55/2020 of the present journal. At a time when African Studies scholarship is rising beyond the flogging of dead horses, certain strands in the f…
“I try to tell myself that it’s a machine, but it doesn’t help”
The Swedish sci-fi drama TV series Real Humans (original title in Swedish: Äkta människor) can be viewed as a playground for trying out imagined possible future human-robot relationships that can tell us something regarding ideas about possible futures…
Seeing Images
In the cultural heritage digital archive, descriptive metadata makes images (re)searchable. Text-based searches seek terms that match metadata terms or terms referring to aspects of images that have previously been considered essential to select and de…
Threshold Concepts in Social Anthropology: Literature and Pedagogical Applications in a Bridging Project
This article considers what UK-based higher education researchers Jan Meyer and Ray Land describe as “threshold concepts,” asking how these concepts might apply to the field of social/cultural anthropology. This is explored in relation to the practical…
Lost in Metaphor
Mentally disabled people are a common sight on the streets of Malawi. One of the commonly cited reasons for this situation is that as a country, Malawi does not have enough facilities to accommodate the swelling numbers of the mentally ill. However, an…
Moving on, Looking Back: Letters from Australia
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Surviving “Car-diac Arrest”
The car dominates the imaginary of urban modernity. Such modernity links the car to living the good life, especially for the growing middle class. However, an environmentalist in my research laments that the unprecedented increase in car volume causes …
Decolonising the Museum?
As institutions that arose during the European age of imperial expansion to glorify and display the achievements of empire, museums have historically been deeply implicated in the colonial enterprise. However if we understand coloniality not as a resid…
The Careers of New Chinese Professional Women
This paper considers a specific cohort of new Chinese professional women born under the one-child policy in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It explores their perceptions and experiences of career in Australia through qualitative data collected fr…
To share and “be shared”…
I. Introduction
This article focuses on children whose sharing of family and siblingship is not limited to a single place or a family unit. Based on a phenomenological understanding, our research sheds light on how children’s participation…
Odor as a medium of cohesion and belonging
Within the social sciences, family research in sociology has in recent years – and for good reason – taken to adopting a “practical turn” to its subject. Drawing on the concepts of doing and displaying family, numerous authors have provided valu…
To share and “be shared”…
I. Introduction
This article focuses on children whose sharing of family and siblingship is not limited to a single place or a family unit. Based on a phenomenological understanding, our research sheds light on how children’s participation…
Comment la sociologie trouve-t-elle son fait ?
Le présent article cherche à connaître le fait, le fait social, à l’origine de la connaissance sociologique. Quel est-il ? Quelle est sa “matérialité” ? Comment se conçoit-il pour être l’objet de l’étude propre à la sociologie ? Après avoir envi…
Gérer l’alternance, ordonner un monde en mouvement
Au travers de l’analyse des discours de 21 adolescents belges âgés de 10 à 16 ans sur leur expérience vécue d’un mode de vie multilocal, cet article éclaire la manière dont la matérialité qui entoure ces jeunes leur permet d’ordonnancer leur mon…
“Doing family” on a global stage
I. Introduction
«The new family is here!» shouted a small, blond girl in German when my younger son and I approached the stop for the German school bus on one of our first days in Tokyo. The bus stop is located on one side of the neighbour…
Dans l’intérêt de la famille
Cet article étudie la création d’un sens du “chez soi” par le biais de la parenté volontaire et de l’ancrage social. Plus précisément, il explore comment les jeunes migrants de première génération et de génération 1.5 créent des liens de parenté…
Odor as a medium of cohesion and belonging
Within the social sciences, family research in sociology has in recent years – and for good reason – taken to adopting a “practical turn” to its subject. Drawing on the concepts of doing and displaying family, numerous authors have provided valu…
Reconfigurations familiales à travers l’espace
Cet article analyse les configurations familiales à travers l’espace transnational, en s’appuyant sur une ethnographie de longue durée. Il examine les liens entre ces configurations et des régimes d’(im-)mobilité spécifiques, et propose un langa…
Présentation
I. Une approche constructiviste relationnelle de la famille et de l’espace
Aujourd’hui, la mobilité – qu’elle soit spatiale, sociale, relationnelle… – est largement devenue un impératif normatif transversal aux différentes sphères de la …
Presentation
I. A constructivist and relational approach to family and space
Today, mobility (whether spatial, social, or relational) has largely become a normative imperative impacting various spheres of life, including family life (Urry, 2007; Minck…
Anthropology and Museums: Notes from a Course in Bahia, Brazil
This paper describes a course on Anthropology and Museums offered at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. The interface between anthropology and museums is of great relevance for the elaboration of an effective pedagogical strategy in teaching anth…
Review: Qualitative research methods (2nd ed.), by Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter and Ajay Bailey, London, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020, 345 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4739-0390-6. ISBN: 978-1-4739-0391-3 (paperback)
Review: Qualitative research methods (2nd ed.), by Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter and Ajay Bailey, London, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020, 345 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4739-0390-6. ISBN: 978-1-4739-0391-3 (paperback)
Review of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum
Review of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum