Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The article provides an empirical insight into urban initiatives that advocate for better urban mobility infrastructures and outlines a theoretical perspective of commoning infrastructures as a terrain for political struggles. Rather than constructing …
This article draws on participant observation in a legal battle at the Quebec Superior Court in 2022, where the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers) sought an injunction to halt excavation work around a hospital where Indigenous victims of med…
This article focuses on attempts by inhabitants of the island of Samothraki, in North-Eastern Greece, to make sense of rapid soil erosion and degradation. Through the use of ethnographic vignettes, collected during my first fieldwork on the island in A…
El reciente auge del ciclismo urbano en Santiago ha convertido la movilidad y planificación urbana en un tema central para pensar los espacios públicos. La adaptación de la morfología de la capital chilena en función de las necesidades del a…
La complejidad del desarrollo humano sustentable contiene imbricados una multiplicidad de factores convergentes, coincidentes y divergentes en el tiempo presente, que conllevan ciertas tendencias o proyecciones a medio y largo plazo. Los ele…
This article presents the findings of a 2022 doctoral study that examines the government’s communication for social cohesion in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipal Area, also known as the city of Durban, in South Africa. The findings and recommendatio…
This paper explores local partners’ communication strategies in the ExxonMobil Cepu Limited CSR program in Bojonegoro Regency, East Java. The research data comes from in-depth interviews with 25 informants. They consist of representatives of oil and ga…
Ethnonationalism based on religion has had a significant impact in the modern history of India. While celebrating its diversity as a democratic nation, the country has also witnessed numerous ethnic movements, tensions, violence as well as assertion of…
La vie et les mots est une traduction de l’ouvrage que l’anthropologue indienne Veena Das a originellement publié en 2007 sous le titre Life and Words : Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary. Tout au long des onze chapitres de cet ouvrage dense, Veena Das analyse la façon dont la violence fait irruption dans le quotidien, et le rôle des mots et du silence, dans le retour à une vie dite “ordinaire” après la violence. Elle articule son propos autour de deux événements particulièrement[…]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The article explores regulation practices governing access to the central market of Kinshasa. It argues that, contrary to conventional ideas, urban trading places do not escape state regulation, nor are they outside the…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper analyses the complexity of regulating the activities of small traders at the Grand Marché in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Markets in Africa are places where small-scale trading takes place par excellence, and t…
The Abakuá are an all-male ceremonial association founded in Cuba in the 1830s which persist to this day as exponents of a form of Afrocuban folklore. Legally recognized on the island for the first time in 2005, the Abakuá community has asse…
This article examines how individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds in Norway participate in anti-racist activism via social media. It investigates the nature of digital activism compared to traditional paradigms, highlighting the varied f…
En este artículo analizamos dos metodologías de pedagogía transformadora dirigidas a jóvenes de las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva (España), qué buscaron suscitar reflexiones críticas sobre sus prácticas alimentarias. Examinamos los resultados de las i…
The notion of sonic intimacy has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years, but less well-established has been what it means for a sonic encounter to be non-intimate. This essay proposes an opposite to sonic intimacy, namely so…
Bertrand Hervieu et François Purseigle. 2022. Une agriculture sans agriculteurs ; la révolution indicible. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po.
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This introduction provides an outline of what an approach to work regulation processes beyond the formal/informal divide might look like. The first section briefly reviews the different approaches to informal economies …
Political ecologists are increasingly interested in the dynamics of power and authority where mining and conservation converge. We contribute to this emerging literature by applying an ‘actor-oriented’ approach to explore the creation of protected area…
Degrowth and food sovereignty movements share commitments to social-ecological transformation, democracy and the flourishing of human and non-human life. Encounters between the two movements have been relatively limited, however. This contribution is b…
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This study addresses the struggles for housing among older women, including the meaning attached to ownership and control of urban houses among low-income households. It analyses the extent to which older women in low-income suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbab…
Anthropology & Aging
Canada’s care systems are ill-equipped to support its aging population, and this crisis intertwines with an acute shortage of affordable housing. Immigrants to Canada have a higher propensity to cohabitate multi-generationally, an arrangement that is s…