Book Review: Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics Edited by Rui Lopes & Natalia Telepneva
Nordic Journal of African Studies
Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions
Special Issue “Health-Related Expertise in the Digital Age: Reconfigurations and Redistributions”, guest edited by Sandra Bärnreuther, Nolwenn Bühler and Giada Danesi.
The Role of Affective Labour in Expertise: Bringing Emotions Back into Expert Practices
In recent years, a lot of scholarly attention has been devoted to how practices of digitalisation and datafication require medical professionals to work together with different stakeholders, and to how such collaborations shape expertise (St…
Making Visible the Expertise of Data Workers in AI-Driven Healthcare: A Call to Action
Data constitute a crucial resource in healthcare systems increasingly reliant on digital technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). However, before these technologies can be used, they need to be ‘trained’ on large datasets ass…
Automating Dietary Expertise: The Challenge of Making a Food-Tracking App for Everyone
Digitally tracking food and eating has become a widespread activity. Scholars in anthropology, sociology and science and technology studies have problematised the personal and social implications of dietary tracking and the metrification of …
Data on the Mind: How the Data on the Use of Force in Psychiatry Interacts with Professional Judgment
Psychiatric clinicians and managers increasingly use data to monitor the use of force on psychiatric patients. In this study, we describe how Danish authorities simultaneously emphasise a need for close data monitoring and tell a story of fa…
Reconfiguring Psy Expertise in the Digital Age: Two Cases from India
Mental health platforms and apps provide technologies and techniques for self-work, diagnosis, and management of everyday crises. Therapeutic interventions designed to work outside the clinic, they distribute and reconfigure psy expertise. U…
Navigating the Bermuda Triangle: Exploring the Relationship between Migration Scholarship and Migration Governance
In this introduction to the special issue on migration research and governance, we identify three key issues at the heart of current migration discourses: a range of normative and ethical assumptions, the transnational dynamics of migration, and the ch…
Coming to Terms with Deep Uncertainty in the Study of Climate-Related Displacement
On average, an estimated 20 million people each year are displaced by climate-related hazards. This number will increase in coming years due to global warming, sea level rise, and rapid population growth in areas highly exposed to floods, storms and dr…
Trading Efficiency for Control: the AI Conundrum in Migration Management
This paper contributes to the discussions on AI initiatives applied to migration management by drawing attention to critical issues in the AI systems field. It suggests a research agenda to investigate how AI-generated insights inform policies and how …
Informal Employment and Inequality: Implications for Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
A sizable level of informal employment, often stemming from social disparities and limited economic opportunities, can have great implications for migration in Sub-Sahara Africa. Similarly, inequality, particularly unequal access to economic resources …
(Im)mobility and Environmental Change in the Coastal Sinking Cities of Java, Indonesia
Environmental degradation induced by climate change disturbs livelihoods and is, therefore, a critical issue in policy and academic discourses on immobility. This paper aims to investigate experiences of immobility in three coastal areas within Indones…
Communicating Science for Migration Policy: Refugee Protection in Germany 2015 and 2022
The relationship between researchers and policymakers has never been straightforward when it comes to using the best evidence to solve societal problems. This paper examines this relationship by analysing two major refugee events in Germany: the arriva…
Immigrant Inclusion and Municipalism in a Danish Context
This paper explores municipalism in a Danish context. The notion of municipalism has over the last decade gained both renewed academic traction and developed as a political practice, especially in a Southern European context. Within this framework, mun…
Commentary: Enhancing Immigration Policy Through Research
This commentary is about the ways in which research can enhance policy making. It opens with a broad discussion of the relationship between research and policy as many have traditionally conceived it, often through the metaphor of a policy cycle into w…
Entomophagie et étudiants maghrébins établis en France : barrières culturelles et opportunités d’adaptation
Cet article analyse les perceptions et attitudes d’étudiants maghrébins établis en France à l’égard de l’entomophagie, considérée comme une alternative alimentaire durable mais confrontée à d’importantes résistances. L’étude identifie trois prin…
Memory-Making in an Urban Park: Colonial and Contemporary Uses of Kumase’s Jackson Park
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Jackson Park in Kumase, Ghana, was designed to serve the recreational interests of its immediate African community. The article analyses how Asante citizens appropriated a colonial park and how it was refashioned by the…
Algorithmic Management of Workers through Food Delivery Platforms in India
This study explores the role of algorithmic management in India’s food delivery industry, specifically focusing on platforms like Swiggy and Zomato, which act more like employers than mere intermediaries. By harnessing extensive data, these …
GAYER Laurent, 2023. Le capitalisme à main armée : caïds et patrons à Karachi
Ce livre est un très beau livre. D’abord d’un point de vue matériel, ce qui mérite particulièrement d’être souligné en ces temps de production d’ouvrages de plus en plus bradés et de mauvaise facture. Il fait partie d’une nouvelle collection de CNRS Éditions, « Logiques du désordre », qui prête une attention particulière aux ouvrages qui y sont publiés en tant que produits. Ceux-ci sont imprimés sur du beau papier, ont de belles couvertures originales et incluent des photos et des[…]
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L’aigua val més que l’or: Resistència transnacional i la lluita per la justícia hídrica en el conflicte miner de Cerro Blanco
Aquest article analitza el conflicte miner de Cerro Blanco a Asunción Mita, Guatemala, com un cas clau d’activisme en xarxa a Amèrica Central. El 18 de setembre de 2022, el 89 % dels residents d’Asunción Mita van votar en contra del projecte miner metà…
Dones defensores del mar i el territori en conflictes per parcs eòlics a Oaxaca, Mèxic
La generació d’energia eòlica s’impulsa com una alternativa de mitigació al canvi climàtic per formar part de les transicions energètiques que implica migrar els combustibles fòssils a energies renovables. Tot i això, a partir de l’arribada d’aquest ti…
Governança socioambiental a la Selva Maya: avaluant la viabilitat d’una estratègia de conservació integrada per al 2030
Aquest article analitza la viabilitat de l’Estratègia Integral per a la Selva Maya (EISM) per al 2030, que té com a objectiu conservar el corredor biològic de la Selva Maya, un ecosistema transfronterer compartit per Mèxic, Belize i Guatemala. Reconegu…
Les condicions del canvi social. Ecologia, ontologia i materialisme a les teories sobre la cultura
Aquest assaig crític examina, a través d’una exploració teòrica i bibliogràfica, la revisió de la dicotomia natura/cultura proposada pel gir ontològic. En primer lloc, es subratlla la tendència d’inferir una teoria ideogràfica del canvi social de la re…
Infraspecie. Del fi de la natura al futur salvatge (2024). Ressenya del llibre d’Aníbal G. Arregui
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