Book Review: Those Passions: On Art and Politics
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Indigenous territorial rights in the Global Biodiversity Framework: Creating a third pathway to 30×30
At the conclusion of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP15) in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, many rights-holders and allies commended the inclusion of language respecting Indigenous rights and know…
La fam com a experiència interseccional de gènere, raça, classe i territori: una anàlisi etnogràfica de les polítiques d’existència en una favela de Rio de Janeiro
Aquest article ofereix una anàlisi antropològica de la fam, basada en l’experiència viscuda de la Luiza, resident de la Favela Tripé a Rio de Janeiro. Basant-se en una etnografia de llarga durada que abasta set anys de treball de camp seguint la vida d…
The Emerging Dynamics of Identity Struggles: An Evaluation of the Subtle Efforts at Decoloniality in Contemporary African Society
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The need for identity has always been a major issue for humanity in its search for significance and meaning. In the context of African societies, colonisation has sparked extensive debate over the erosion of indigenous …
Easing Refugee Pressure on Host States and Communities: The Contribution of Faith-Based Organisations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The global refugee protection regime assigns to states the primary responsibility of protecting refugees. Nevertheless, the overwhelming number of refugees, combined with the growing hostility towards them, has led to s…
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Compte-rendu de lecture de Bricas, Conaré et Walser, Une écologie de l’alimentation
BRICAS N., CONARÉ D., WALSER M. 2021. Une écologie de l’alimentation. Hors collection. Versailles : Quæ. 312 p.
L’ouvrage vient marquer l’existence de 10 années de la Chaire UNESCO « Alimentations du monde » (créée en 2011). Il se veut un …
Trapped in Coloniality
This article explores how the popular Icelandic Nordic Noir series, Trapped Season 2, provides a nuanced perspective on the deeply rooted concepts of Icelandic and Nordic exceptionalism and homonationalism in popular culture. It offers a com…
The Mother of Awashi
In September 2020, a video circulating on social media plunged he country of Mozambique into a deep moral crisis. The video showed five young men, dressed in the uniform of the Mozambican army, cruelly whipping a naked woman along a road and…
Silozi Phrasal Tonology
In Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which …
Warriors and Colonizers
This study critically examines (post)colonial ideologies within the Nollywood epic Jagun Jagun (2023), directed by Adebayo Tijjani and Tope Adebayo and produced by Femi Adebayo. Through a colonial reading, the film emerges as a narrative tha…
Exhibition Review: Embodied Attunement and Material Agency in Richard Tuttle’s San, Shi, Go
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Nostalgia’s New Contexts
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…
Beyond the Image of the Pain of Others
This paper discusses the experiments with human subjects in clinical trials related to the investigation of African human trypanosomiasis at Lisbon’s Colonial Hospital during the first decades of the twentieth century. The research draws on evidentiary…
Counting What We Eat: Metrics and Optimization in the Food World
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. Geor…
Book Review: No Last Place to Rest: Coal Mining and Dispossession in South Africa by Dineo Skosana
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China’s Expanding Footprint in Nigeria: Implications of USAID’s Suspension on Development and Geopolitical Alignments
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This analysis examines the implications of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s 2025 aid suspension in Nigeria and China’s expanding role in its development landscape. Using a desktop researc…
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Dear colleagues,
The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 4, which will be published in mid-December 2025. The deadline for paper submissions is November 30, 2025.
El reciclatge de menjar en tres districtes de Barcelona i les dinàmiques socials que en sorgeixen
Aquest article analitza el reciclatge d’aliments als districtes de Gràcia, Sant Martí i Sant Andreu, a la ciutat de Barcelona, entenent aquesta pràctica com un fenomen social complex travessat per la migració, la reutilització de recursos, la cura medi…
Sāmoa at Large: The Sacred Circle and Travelling Fale and Measina
In the essay ‘Our sea of islands’, Epeli Hau‘ofa (1994:151–3) influentially argued for ‘what may be called “world enlargement” carried out by tens of thousands of ordinary Pacific Islanders right across the ocean.’ Hau‘ofa further stressed that ‘there …
Fa‘asāmoa Forever – The Sacred Circle. The Politics of Encompassment and Consensus
This article examines the remarkable permanence of fa‘asāmoa, Sāmoan custom, throughout the upheavals of history. The strength of this permanence lies in a particular configuration of what brings the community together at meetings when an important dec…
Tofiga: Place and Belonging in Samoan Architecture
The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within …
From Objects to Measina: Reanimating the Sāmoan Collection at the Übersee-Museum Bremen in Cooperation with the National University of Samoa
The last few years have seen increasing calls for German institutions to change their approach to collections from colonial contexts. Concomitantly, pressure has been put on museums to digitize and open up collections to new audiences, which has been f…
Of Slumbering, Patient Objects Awaiting our Arrival (Or Maybe Return)
It is my honour, as a German scholar and historian of Pacific-German connections, to send the collection of insights, thoughts and hopes edited by Safua Akeli Amaama and Philipp Schorch onwards and to wish it well. For a conclusion would mark the essay…
The workshop at home. Making sense of craft as a social practice among Tuareg artisans in Niger
This article draws on my dissertation on Tuareg craftsmanship in Niger as a social practice, which was published under the title ‘Die Unbeständigkeit der Dinge: Handwerk, Familie und Mobilität bei den Tuareg in Niger’ (The Impermanence of Things: Craft…