Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.34 No.1
Published: April 2018.
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Doing and Teaching Anthropology: An Interview with David McCurdy
Doing and Teaching Anthropology: An Interview with David McCurdy
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
19 | 2018 – Caste-Gender Intersections in Contemporary India
Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework [Full text]
Supurna Banerjee and Nandini Ghosh
Towards a Horticultural Society: Class, Caste and Masculiniti…
After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons…
Beyond Utopia: Building Socialism Within and After Capitalism
The article focuses on several figures who are particularly interesting in terms of identifying a radical critique of capitalism that does not shrink from the possibility of designing and imaging a different future. Following Michael Löwy, in our study…
On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency
A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no…
Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progre…
Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically,…
Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination
Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) are prompting a growing chorus of both excitement and anxiety. A.I. is widely perceived as a significant emerging and future-shaping technological field that is developing at an accelerating rate. As such, fut…
Critical Future Studies – A thematic Introduction
Our 2017 essay “Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies” (Goode & Godhe 2017), published in this journal, was intended as both a provocation and an invitation to scholars concerned with the ways in which cultural texts not o…
Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination
Advances in artificial intelligence (A.I.) are prompting a growing chorus of both excitement and anxiety. A.I. is widely perceived as a significant emerging and future-shaping technological field that is developing at an accelerating rate. As such, fut…
Critical Future Studies – A thematic Introduction
Our 2017 essay “Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies” (Goode & Godhe 2017), published in this journal, was intended as both a provocation and an invitation to scholars concerned with the ways in which cultural texts not o…
On the Pending Robot Revolution and the Utopia of Human Agency
A hallmark of modernist thought is the belief in science and technology as a socially revolutionary force. Consequently, new technologies have often been sequenced by pictures of another world to be. The birth of electronic data processing (EDP) was no…
Hopeful Extinctions? Tesla, Technological Solutionism and the Anthropocene
Over thirty years since Jean-Francois Lyotard declared the death of metanarratives, we currently find two apparently incompatible discourses that dominate imagined planetary futures. On the one hand, we encounter a metanarrative of technological progre…
Marginalized Bodies of Imagined Futurescapes: Ableism and Heteronormativity in Science Fiction
This article aims to contribute to an understanding of marginalized bodies in science fiction narratives by analyzing how physical disability and homosexuality/bisexuality have been depicted in popular science fiction film and television. Specifically,…
After Work: Anticipatory Knowledge on Post-Scarcity Futures in John Barness Thousand Cultures Tetralogy
What would happen if we could create societies with an abundance of goods and services created by cutting-edge technology, making manual wage labour unnecessary – what has been labelled societies with a post-scarcity economy. What are the pros and cons…
Beyond Utopia: Building Socialism Within and After Capitalism
The article focuses on several figures who are particularly interesting in terms of identifying a radical critique of capitalism that does not shrink from the possibility of designing and imaging a different future. Following Michael Löwy, in our study…
Call for Papers: The Puzzle of Literature Reviews
How do we navigate the increasingly interdisciplinary and multivocal literature on any given topic of interest, when examining reality through the lens of social theory? How do we collect, identify and assemble the body of knowledge produced across both past and present, representing voices that are unequally represented? We invite literature reviews that highlight a […]
The Political Significance of Spotify in Sweden – Analysing the #backaspotify Campaign using Twitter Data
This article discusses the political significance of the streaming music company Spotify in Sweden, taking as a case a coordinated campaign in late spring 2016, known by the hashtag #backaspotify (translated as “support Spotify!”), which was mainly pla…
The Political Significance of Spotify in Sweden – Analysing the #backaspotify Campaign using Twitter Data
This article discusses the political significance of the streaming music company Spotify in Sweden, taking as a case a coordinated campaign in late spring 2016, known by the hashtag #backaspotify (translated as “support Spotify!”), which was mainly pla…
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Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Traces of Yeniseian people upon the East European plain Alexander Akulov In North and central part of the East European plain there are many hydronyms which are usually supposed to be of Finno-Ugric origin, but actually can’t be sufficiently explained through any of existing Finno-Ugric language. These hydronyms can be subdivided […]