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Unpacking mediation: technologies and religious atmospheres

Mana Published: 2020-09-07 Categories: Portuguese · Spanish

Resumo Neste artigo aponto para certos limites intrínsecos ao conceito de mediação, que tem dominado debates recentes sobre a relação entre religião e tecnologia na antropologia e além. Inspirado etnograficamente pelas técnicas e tecnologias de oração …

Bumps, numbness and fissures: On the daily stitching of imprisoned bodies

Mana Published: 2020-09-07 Categories: Portuguese · Spanish

Resumo A proposta do texto é apresentar e discutir táticas de resistências corporais acionadas por pessoas presas em uma penitenciária feminina no esforço cotidiano de viver na/à prisão. Posto que o confinamento serve a políticas governamentais de cont…

A “we” intercessor: when ethnography is also magic

Mana Published: 2020-09-07 Categories: Portuguese · Spanish

Resumo O material que aqui apresento constituiu parte de minha pesquisa junto à Comunidade Kilombola Morada da Paz, situada em Triunfo/RS, formada majoritariamente por mulheres negras. As pessoas que lá residem são consideradas filhas de uma preta velh…

Threatening the Social Order

Ana Ivasiuc Published: 2020-09-07 Categories: English

One of the most productive loci for the analysis of the security – morality nexus is the making of security laws and norms which reveals the ways in which the social order is perceived to be under threat. This article argues for a critical examination …

From Excerpt to Cosplay. Paths of Knowledge in the Nordic Museum Archive

Culture Unbound Published: 2020-09-07 Categories: English

The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurately, the research question relates to the process that starts with many ethnologists who, over time, come to increasingly view formerly important materials as less relevant to their own academic issues.

Introduction: Fuelling Capture: Africa’s Energy Frontiers

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Published: 2020-09-01 Categories: English

As heatwaves, droughts, floods and other climate change catastrophes pile up, the decarbonization of the global economy has become the century’s signature political issue.

Uneasy Entanglements: Solar Energy Development in Zanzibar

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Published: 2020-09-01 Categories: English

The future of energy independence promised by solar development is complicated by a legacy of political conflict and new relationships of dependence and inequality.

Crafting Spaces of Value: Infrastructure, Technologies of Extraction and Contested Oil in Nigeria

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Published: 2020-09-01 Categories: English

Using the example of the Bodo community in Ogoniland, where local youths operate refineries constructed with local materials and technology, I show that such refineries represent an emergent form of energy capture that transforms the creeks of the Niger Delta into islands of carbon sale and challenges state and corporate power.

Carceral Repair: Methane Extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda

The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Published: 2020-09-01 Categories: English

This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016–2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction.