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In recent years – in the context of debates on post-truth, Covid-scepticism and decolonization – the idea that science represents universal knowledge has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Despite (or because of) this, science and the prom…

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Inspired by broader calls to decolonize knowledge, psychologists in Africa have recently started debating the necessity and feasibility of creating a distinctly African psychology as a new academic discipline and field of practice. Some view this idea,…

For astronomers in Africa, both amateurs and professionals, the universality of the scientific investigation of the universe holds out the promise of navigating inequalities on earth. Universality is attractive: it allows astronomers from Africa to ent…

This article examines how scientists sense the rewilding of wolves in Italy through camera traps. Specifically, I elaborate on two cases when footage of these elusive animals did not allow scientifically sound conclusions but instead lent itself to sto…

Science played a crucial role in the early days of Indian nationalism. This has not changed since India’s independence. With recent political transformations, the significance of science has acquired a new dimension. Contemporary apologists of Hindu na…

Covid-sceptics in the Czech Republic relate strongly to the idea of universal science. They understand this universality as emerging through the participation of ordinary citizens in scientific knowledge-making. Rather than then belonging solely to the…

How do we do an ethnography of universalities? Is it possible to reconcile local specifi cities with universalities through/in ethnography? That is the question the authors in this special issue ask and engage with. If ethnography is about specificitie…

In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…

This paper uses life-skills training courses and an automated therapeutic self-help app from Bengaluru, India, as lenses through which to investigate universalizing processes of psychology and therapy and some of its frictions. How is psychological uni…

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology