Introduction: Exemplifying Climate Change
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History, Exemplarity and Improvements: 18th Century Ideas about Man-Made Climate Change
Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722–80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway…
The Past as a Mirror: Deep Time Climate Change Exemplarity in the Anthropocene
During the past decades, notions of Earth dynamics and climate change have changed drastically, as anthropogenic CO2-emissions are linked to measurable Earth system changes. At the same time, Earth scientists have discovered deep time climate changes t…
Response: Let This Be an Example: Three Remarks on a Thematic Cluster about Climate Change Exemplarity
This thematic section of Culture Unbound brings together five articles which in very different ways invite us to reflect on the importance of examples in the discourse on climate change. At first glance, such an invitation might be surprising, if not p…
The Moral Economy of Thrift: The Production of the Indebted Self in the Reality Series Getting out of Debt and Life or Debt
In this article, the intersection of the economic and social dimensions of thrift is analysed under the special condition of debt. The debt context serves as a focal glass exposing agents, their social practices and strategies of accumulation capitals …
Thrift Television: Narratives of Enduring, Saving, and Living Well. A Thematic Introduction
Concepts of thrift and dwelling are central to how societies live together. Thrift refers to a complex and morally-loaded set of economic practices that people engage with out of necessity, choice, or both. Whilst home-making or dwelling refers to soci…
Landsacpes of Thrift and Dwelling: Dwelling and Sociality in Midsomer Murders
In its long history of airing the popular crime series Midsomer Murders does not only present various murder cases but also a glimpse into the opinions on gender, sexuality, age and ethnicity. These opinions mirror the attitude of the producers as well…
Women and Money Management: Problematising Working-class Subjectivities in French Television Programmes During and after the Post-war Boom
This article looks at French television during and after the post-war period to explore the relationships that programmes systematically established between home-making in social housing, housekeeping money management and women. It sheds light on the g…
Touchstones for Sustainable Development: Indigenous Peoples and the Anthropology of Sustainability in Our Common Future
The Anthropocene is regularly invoked as an occasion for the rethinking of the Anthropos, for instance through a reexamination of human origin stories. This article examines one such anthropological origin story; the construction of an exemplary and su…
Making do on not much: High Energy Striving, Femininity and Friendship in Broad City
In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis (“GFC”), feminist media scholarship has drawn attention to the gendered calls in Western media culture to remake subjectivity in line with imperatives of thrift required in conditions of austerity…
Thrift, Imperfection and Popular Feminist Apartment Plot on Television
This paper will explore the ways in which thrift operates as a signifier of a specific type of lprecarity and imperfection in young women’s lives in several popular series associated with the current ‘golden age’ of women’s television production. The t…
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 03-04/2019
Peter I. Crawford, Ada I . Engebrigtsen: Redaksjonelt
Nils Bubandt: Koralteori, eller hvad koraller kan lære antropologien om multispecies socialitet
Helle V. Goldman, Martin T. Walsh: Classifying, Domesticating and Extirpating the …
Do Students and Professors Agree on the Attributes that Make up a Good Community College Professor?
Common terms used by students to describe a good professor, especially on websites like ratemyprofessor.com, a website that allows students to rate their professors, include “understanding,” “nice,” “engaging,” “lenient” and “kind,” all of which are in…
Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space. Place …
2020-01-20 – Decía Henri Lefebvre en su célebre obra Le droit à la ville que en todos los subsistem…
IJAPS Vol. 16, No. 1 (2020) Published
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan 2020) is now online, featuring the following contributions: Local community and policy maker perspectives on sustainable livelihoods, tourism, environment and waste management in Siem Reap/Angkor, Cambodia, by Tahmina Rashid Empowerment issues … Continue reading →
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“As a Native Person,Why Should I Adapt?”:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
In-Between Space/Time:
Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print
Autorrepresentación y subsistencia de los … – Aibr
2020-01-06 – RESUMEN. El concepto de «campesinado» ha sido históricamente objeto de debate, desde p…
Review of The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States Since 1945
Review of The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States Since 1945
Using Photovoice as a Critical Pedagogical Tool in Online Discussions
Anthropology classrooms challenge instructors to critically engage students in theories of the field and how these are visible in everyday life. At the same time, the rise of online education has made new technologies and tools available that allow for…
Reading Alex E. Chávez’s Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño (Duke University Press, 2017), a Pedagogical Lesson
In this article we argue for a slow, methodical, and collaborative approach to difficult texts. This article is the story of how, thanks to the efforts of the students and professor, a book that rewards diligent effort, and some creative pedagogical st…
Call for Paper: The Sixth International Conference on Tainan Studies, 2020 Art and Material Culture in the Tainan Area
Please note that IJAPS merely publishes this announcement. For inquiries regarding contents of the announcement, please liaise using contact details provided below. CONFERENCE TOPIC Tainan is spontaneously seen as a place with a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This has its roots in the history of lowland indigenous people and Han immigration, but also … Continue reading →
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About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 33, Number 1 Richard Hughes Gibson Richard Hughes Gibson is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community (2015). With the designer Jeremy Botts, he directs the Manibus Press, an occasional publisher of artists’ books. Shem Miller Shem Miller is Assistant Teaching Professor of Religion at […]
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Editors’ Column
Volume 33 marks a major transition for Oral Tradition. After thirty-two fruitful years at the University of Missouri, the journal has now found a new home at Harvard University. In the “Editor’s Column” that prefaced the first issue of Oral Tradition in 1986, John Miles Foley justified the creation of the new journal by speaking of the need […]
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29 | 2019 – Recherche en danger
Sciences en danger, revues en lutte [Full text]
Camille Noûs and Collectif des Revues en lutte
Why French Academic Journals are Protesting [Full text]
Camille Noûs and Collective of Jo…