Chamada para dossiê: “Periferia é Periferia em qualquer lugar”: produção cultural em periferias urbanas

Editoras de organização Adriana FacinaPrograma de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Silvia CapanemaUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, pesquisadora de Pléaide/Campus Condorcet, pesquisadora bolsista CNRS CREDA-IHEAL (2024-2025) Sobre a língua de publicação e número de artigos previstos: Serão aceitos trabalhos em francês, espanhol ou inglês. Datas importantes: • Atribuição e […]

Announcement: Change in Publication Month

Dear Readers and Contributors, We would like to inform you of an important update regarding our journal’s publication schedule. Starting 2025, we will be changing the publication cycle, with the issues published in February and August instead of January and July. This decision has been made to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest … Continue reading

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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES

The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…

Rethinking Language

The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…

Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education

This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample was formed…

The Poetics of Second Liberation

This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’, ‘good deco…

Spying and doing fieldwork in the East

This article reflects on the anthropological scholarship of Katherine Verdery, especially her last book, My life as a spy, to explore the conditions of doing fieldwork and producing knowledge in the European East during the Cold War and onwards. In par…

What was fascism?

In her influential monographs and essays, Katherine Verdery transformed understandings of state socialism and the command economy at its heart. I reflect here on how scholars might similarly reframe understandings of Italian fascism through renewed att…

Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination

This article celebrates Katherine Verdery’s impact on the discipline of cultural anthropology through an exploration of the intersection of suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination in ethnographic research, drawing on Verdery’s experiences duri…

On fuzziness

This article is a consideration of the conceptual power of Verdery’s concept of “fuzzy property.” “Fuzzy property” has helped me understand the phenomenon of lupiaje in Guanajuato, Mexico—where men enter silver-gold mines at night to extract ore—by fol…