Enacting Citizenship
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 16Issue: 1Pages: 92-110
Not even a word: Politics of speech and silence in Palestinian memories
This article explores the memories of female Palestinian former political prisoners, via a rethinking of the interrogation moment as liminal space. This arena reveals and triggers productive processes of recognition of self and other, construction of m…
Self-harm in Turin’s Centre for undocumented migrants (CPR): The camp, agency, and subjectivation
Italian detention centres for undocumented migrants (Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio – CPRs) have received little attention in the field of social sciences. This article focuses on the issue of self-harm, unanimously reported to be a very frequen…
Struggling lives and symbolic boundaries: Violence, young people and trauma in post-conflict Belfast
In Belfast, despite everyone knowing the conventional date that put an end to the Northern Irish conflict, commonly known as The Troubles, many people still suffer from its legacies to this day. In this article, I consider both post-conflict dynamics a…
Remembering through suffering: Agency, nostalgia and mourning in the Turkish left
Based on an ethnography conducted in Istanbul, this article analyses nostalgia and the perpetuation of mourning among former leftist militants of revolutionary organizations, who were the main targets of the political repression following the 1980-1983…
Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308
Book review of Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308.
Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268
Book review of Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268.
Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382
Book review of Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382.
Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199
Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.
Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655
Book review of Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655.
Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247
Book review of Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247.
Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298
Book review of Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298.
Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182
Book review of Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182.
Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383
Book review of Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383.
Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination
Reviewed by Luke Jarzyna, University of Rochester Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 248 Pages. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination (hereafter SPBI) brings toget…
Editorial
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team calls for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, № 3 that is going to be published in late September 2021.
Performative masculinities in Basketmouth’s stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is the performance of culture and identities. The aim of this paper is to explore the performance of gender identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the discourse construction of manliness in the comed…
CAES Vol. 7, № 2
Think pieces: Estimating the degree of resemblance of assemblages of stone axes/adzes Alexander Akulov To estimate the index of resemblance of two collections of stone axes/adzes, it is necessary to compare the following characteristics: 1) the total numbers of items of the compared collections, 2) the distributions of the material of which the items were […]
Le genre en train de se faire : trouble dans le terrain
La revue Ethnographiques.org invite les chercheuses et chercheurs en sciences sociales à se saisir de la question du genre pour (re)visiter et problématiser leurs terrains.
Date limite de soumission : 15 juillet 2021
Don’t feed the trolls?
This study applies the concepts of interpretive communities and conversational interactions to show how investigative journalists initiated a relatively new method of reporting and generated support among their colleagues for becoming anti-Nazi activis…
Solving Bangkok’s Traffic Problems
Bangkok is reported to have the worst traffic in the world, a situation that has a detrimental effect on the economic, social and financial development of the city. This mixed-methods study of the enforcement of Thailand’s Road Traffic Act, B.E. 2522 (…
On ‘being Australian’: Korean migrants in ‘post-multicultural’ Australia.
This paper reports on the findings of research into what Korean Australians thought about the process of ‘becoming and being Australian’, drawing on measures of social cohesion and ‘Australianness’. The aim of the research was to find out what Korean A…
Moral Responsibility and Wholeheartedness: A Source of Cohesion in Javanese Society
In social life, humans cannot be separated from social interactions with others. This is based on the fact that humans are social creatures, which in their lives cannot live alone but need help from others. This makes people need help and assistance in…
Mapping local and regional governance: reimagining the New South Wales Aboriginal sector
With reference to four case study localities in New South Wales, this paper offers new insights into calls from Indigenous Australians for recognition within the national political discourse. Examining the literature on the history of the Aboriginal se…