Introduction / Issue 36: The Matter of Whiteness
InVisible Culture
Níger: ¿una natalidad desbocada?
Situando el foco de investigación en el control de la fecundidad como estrategia política para el desarrollo en Níger, en este texto se observa cómo se recrean determinadas retóricas y prácticas del desarrollo que, a la sombra del paradigma …
Alteridad
En los últimos tiempos ha habido un amplio y reiterado discurso político incluyente de la diversidad social. En tiempos de pandemia curiosamente aparece una postura única global y hegemónica. Un discurso y unas medidas que la mayoría de la p…
Actualización del relato de navidad en forma de belén social
El artículo analiza los comentarios que suscitó un nacimiento de carácter social instalado en la Plaça de la Vila de Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) el año 2021. Se utilizó una metodología inductiva clasificando en siete categorías los dife…
Agencia femenina en y a través de los territorios cuerpo, casa y ciudad
Con este artículo se muestra que hay una manera diferente de aproximarse al estudio de los territorios desde la experiencia de las mujeres. Para ello, se recuperaron entrevistas narrativas dirigidas a recoger información sobre las dimensione…
Desde la historia de la antropología cultural hasta el neorruralismo
En el siguiente trabajo se analiza de manera cualitativa las fortalezas y las ventajas de vivir en espacios rurales a través de la mirada de personas que viven en dichos entornos. Se ha realizado una encuesta online dirigida a personas que v…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 2, that is going to be published in early June 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is May 20, 2024.
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of th…
Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines
In this article I draw on the concept of anticipation to examine Finnish news discourse on the development, licensing and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. I explore the interplay of anticipation of vaccine-induced immunity and vaccine sa…
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of th…
The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations
Special issue ‘The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations’, guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow.
Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge
What does it mean when pharmaceuticals are called ‘biologics’? This article follows a pregnant person who has been hospitalised on a Norwegian rheumatology ward after being taken off her monoclonal antibody (mab) medication. She is painfully…
Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience
Resilience—a term that originated in mathematical ecology—now commonly refers to the ability to thrive in the face of trauma and adversity. This Position Piece reflects on both the charisma and political lability of resilience in the early 2…
How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’
Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the uterine lining develops outside the uterus; it ‘bleeds’ during periods, forms lesions, and causes chronic pain. Despite affecting around 10% of menstruating people, its aetiology is po…
Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical ‘site’ of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In…
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of the COVID-19 …
The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations
Special issue ‘The Immune System, Immunity and Immune Logics: Troubling Fixed Boundaries and (Re)conceptualizing Relations’, guest edited by Andrea Ford and Julia Swallow.
Bio-imaginaries: ‘Biologics’, Bricolage, and the Making of Pharmaceutical Knowledge
What does it mean when pharmaceuticals are called ‘biologics’? This article follows a pregnant person who has been hospitalised on a Norwegian rheumatology ward after being taken off her monoclonal antibody (mab) medication. She is painfully trapped in…
Anticipating Immunity: Vaccine-induced Immunity and Vaccine Safety in the Finnish News Coverage of COVID-19 Vaccines
In this article I draw on the concept of anticipation to examine Finnish news discourse on the development, licensing and administration of COVID-19 vaccines. I explore the interplay of anticipation of vaccine-induced immunity and vaccine safety concer…
Pandemic Life-lines: A Multimodal Autoethnography of COVID-19 Illness, Isolation, and Shared Immunities
As a crosscutting concept in biology, anthropology, and philosophy, immunity has been a critical ‘site’ of debate on the relations between self and other, organism and environment, risk and responsibility, the corporeal and the political. In this Resea…
Relations as Immunity: Building Community Resilience
Resilience—a term that originated in mathematical ecology—now commonly refers to the ability to thrive in the face of trauma and adversity. This Position Piece reflects on both the charisma and political lability of resilience in the early 21st century…
How to Categorise Disease? Endometriosis, Inflammation, and ‘Self Out of Place’
Endometriosis is a condition where tissue similar to the uterine lining develops outside the uterus; it ‘bleeds’ during periods, forms lesions, and causes chronic pain. Despite affecting around 10% of menstruating people, its aetiology is poorly unders…
Mapping Microbial Selves: Field Notes from a Dirty Parenting Project
Microbes exist everywhere on, in and around us. They are both ubiquitous and largely invisible, at least until they make their presence, or absence, felt. Recent years have seen a heightened sensitivity to microbial threats in the wake of the COVID-19 …
Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.
This special issue of Culture Unbound directs attention beyond cities, to small towns and rural communities, and the practices taking place there. Referring to a previous special issue on ‘Rural Media Spaces’ from 2010, this special issue revisits the …
Gauging the Google gaze
This study explores the visual representation of Great Yarmouth, a British coastal town caught between the urban and the rural, as seen through the quasi-monopolistic image search engine Google Images. The research examines levels of pluralistic or bia…