Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.31 No.3
Published: December 2015.
Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Published: December 2015.
Published: December 2015.
Izdano: prosinca 2015.
Izdano: prosinca 2015.
Published: December 2015.
Published: December 2015.
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Mein Jainismus, dein Jainismus? Unser Jainismus! [Volltext]
Mirjam Iseli
»Den Tau…
A critical approach to soft power: Grasping contemporary Turkey’s influence in the world [Full text]
Gabrielle Angey-Sentuc and Jérémie Molho
The rise and fall of Turkey’s soft power discourse […
Published: August 2015.
Published: August 2015.
Annelin Eriksen, Kari Telle: Redaksjonelt
Tord Austdal, Espen Helgesen: Introduksjon: Fremtidsforestillinger
Margit Ystanes: «Problemet er at vi ikke aner hvor dette bærer»: Dystopiske fremtidsforestillinger i sportsarrangementenes…
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This article presents an interdisciplinary vision for large-scale integrated emergency management that has been inspired by the transition from platform centric to integrated operations in the oil and gas fields, which uses remote emergency control cen…
This paper explores two key concepts: resilience and complexity. The first is understood as an emergent property of the latter, and their inter-relatedness is discussed using a three tier approach. First, by exploring the discourse of each concept, nex…
The international recovery system responds differently to disasters with similar characteristics. It answers to specific motivations that are not necessarily connected to the nature of the disaster. The variability of the answers given not only depends…
This article intervenes in a debate in cultural disaster studies that interprets disasters as objects, whose study opens up an understanding of societies’ fears, anxieties and vulnerabilities. Widening the scope of disaster studies, it proposes to view…
In 2010 the New York Times reported that ‘[t]ribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of “Avatar”’, James Cameron. The alliance was against the building of Belo Monte, a hydroelectricdam in the Xingu River in Brazil. Cameron made a documentary about Belo Monte…
On 19th December 1660, a severe storm raged over the Dutch isle of Texel, causing severe damage. It proceeded to destroy parts of the city of Amsterdam. Both the sailor and merchant Gerrit Jansz Kooch and the priest Joannes Vollenhove wrote a poem abou…
Over the past decade, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic disaster narratives seem to have become more popular than ever before. Since its inception in secular form in the first decades of the nineteenth century, however, the genre has experienced a numbe…
This paper looks as the animal horror genre as a way to discuss current notions of ecology in relation to a specific American idea of being “Nature’s Nation”. The central work for the discussion is the movie Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) by John Cardos…
This article aims at mapping the impact of ‘fears of disasters and crisis’ on European self-representations in terms of racial stereotypes, ‘white fantasies’, gender hierarchies, and heteronormativities. Its methodology is a critical discourse analysis…
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Politicians are both a help and hindrance in the provision of information to the public before, during and after disasters. For example, in Australia, the Premier of the State of Queensland, Anna Bligh, was lauded for her leadership and public communic…
We explore settlement structures and hierarchy found in different archaeological periods in northern, specifically the Khabur Triangle (KT), and southern Mesopotamia (SM) using a spatial interaction entropy maximization (SIEM) modeling and simulation m…
Published: April 2015.