Opinion Piece for The Ascona Transformation Charter
This opinion piece discusses the relevance of The Ascona Transformation Charter in the Peruvian case.
Book Review of Frontiers of Belonging
Book review of: Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Ascona Charter Response—Towards a Just Academia
This contribution proposes a primary focus on academia as a relational economy that subtends academics as individuals, rather than on relationships running between academics and the outside world—such as research participants. In this rega…
Anthropoesy
What might the transformation in transformative anthropology entail? While several responses might be generated, one element that is generally kept to the background is transformation from within. This “inner enquiry” is not necessarily of…
Introduction to the Special Issue Reciprocal Vulnerability
In this special issue, we seek to uncover the vulnerabilities of researchers in anthropological fieldwork and academia, tracing their political and epistemological potential for the creation of ethnographic knowledge that is based on pract…
Social history of industry, between environmental violence and working-class ecology. A case study on the chemical plant in Spinetta Marengo, Italy
The Spinetta Marengo chemical plant, located in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont, is one of the most important industrial facilities still operating in northern Italy. Now almost 120 years old, it is the only perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) factory in…
Morocco–French Relations and Foreign Policy in Africa: Postcolonial Legacy and Disruptions
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. France and Morocco have long maintained close relations. These relations have historically led them to be stable allies in defending their respective interests in Africa. However, this relationship has undergone profoun…
How a Failed Coup D’Etat Can Shape the Trajectory of a State: The Events and Consequences of 6 April 1984 in Cameroon
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the failed coup d’Etat of 6 April 1984, in Cameroon, asking what it can teach us about Cameroon’s post-1984 political path. The article makes two main contributions. First, it offers evidence that…
Review of Matthew Archer. 2024. Unsustainable: Measurement, reporting, and the limits of corporate sustainability
Business Anthropology: Always In-The-Making
Journal of Business Anthropology
Anthropology: An Entrepreneurial Discipline
In this essay, I take stock of the existing entanglements and possible future symbiosis between anthropology and entrepreneurship, both as a field of research and as a practice of venture creation. While anthropologists have studied entrepreneurship as…
Framing the Future of Climate Migration in Finnish and Dutch News Media: Understanding Future Visions by Investigating Underlying Normative Judgement
In this article, we analyse the kinds of futures envisioned by Finnish and Dutch news media in relation to climate migration. We find four frames that are used to present the future: a catastrophe frame, a migrant‑positioning frame, an injus…
‘More Than Sufferers’: Digital Boundary‑Making and Belonging Through Work Among Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Finland
Following Russia’s initiation of full‑scale war against Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainian forced migrants in the EU, including Finland, were granted immediate access to the labor market under the Temporary Protection mechanism. This paper exa…
School Grades and Neighbourhoods – A Natural Experiment
Adolescents with an immigrant background have poorer educational performance than their native counterparts, which may partly be explained by the quality of their neighbourhood area upon immigration to Sweden. An important part of neighbourh…
Review of Anitra Nelson with editorial adviser Vincent Liegey. 2025. Routledge Handbook of Degrowth.
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Food, lifestyle and diabetes in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Bolivia has seen changing food patterns during the last decades. In the city of Cochabamba, processed, calorie-rich and fried food with saturated fats and sugar is becoming popular at the expense of traditional, nutritious plant-based whole food…
Editorial: Inequalities and Representation in Southeast Asia
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Bridging Currents: Emerging Trends in Indonesian Anthropology
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Book Review: Storey, I. (2025). Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Legislative Representation Through the Philippine Party-List System
This qualitative study examines whether the Philippine party-list system effectively enables indigenous peoples’ legislative representation by reviewing documents from the Philippine Commission on Elections, the Philippine Congress, the Philippine Supr…
Book Review: Pollock, T. R. (2024). Fire Dancers in Thailand’s Tourism Industry: Art, Affect, and Labor.
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Understanding Low Ecovillage Adoption in Southeast Asia: Insights from Malaysia Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory
The world is facing multiple intertwined crises, like environmental degradation and socioeconomic inequalities. The impacts of these crises are disproportionately severe in emerging nations, such as those in Southeast Asia. Ecovillages are emerging as …
Masculinidad carnívora
Este artículo hace un recorrido a través de las relaciones entre la masculinidad y los consumos de carne, atendiendo a la construcción sociocultural y de género que se ha ido elaborando en torno a este producto a lo largo del tiempo. Se trat…
La tierra es una mezquita
El presente texto discute cómo, a través de comprender y experimentar la noción islámica de tawhīd (Unicidad de la existencia), lxs musulmanes “conversos”/reversos de la Ciudad de México construyen una musulmanidad política. También indaga e…
España y Ecuador a través de la realidad penitenciaria
Este artículo se centra en abordar el marco de intervención específico que realiza el Trabajador Social en el ámbito penitenciario español y ecuatoriano. Para ello se ha llevado a cabo un análisis del desarrollo de esta profesión en el Centr…