Nordic Migration Research at a Crossroads
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Tag: Editorial
Social Identity across Time
Identities (and social identities) are studied in many different disciplines and approached with different theoretical tools and concepts. This special issue grew out of the need to enhance dialogue between disciplines and expand our common…
The Witching of Art History—or How to Approach Women, Art and Esotericism
The special issue “The Witching of Art History” examines how women and artists beyond gender binaries have navigated artistic and occult subjectivities, identities and agency within art and occulture since the 19th century. The articles ill…
Editorial SJSCA 31/2025
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Perspectives on Lived Religion and Lived Theology
This thematic issue brings together current research focused on lived religion and/or lived theology. Several of the articles have been developed from papers presented at the national Research Conference in Theology and Religion held in Turk…
MAT Editorial
Editorial for the Spring issue, 2025.
The Rightward Shift: Transformation of Global Migration Policy and Discourse
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Becoming Rebels
This is the editorial introduction to the special issue Becoming Rebels: From Everyday Acts of Protest to Radical Imaginaries and Societal Change. The editors discuss the global backdrop to contemporary protest politics, and argue for the im…
Einführung
Diese Einführung behandelt den Werdegang eines Bottom-up-Erinnerungskulturprojekts in Hamburg-Hammerbrook. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf der Kooperation mit Studierenden des Hamburger Instituts für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft und der dara…
Peace and Understanding: A Ricoeurian Perspective
Persistent and newly emerging conflicts around the world have made the search for successful conflict resolution imperative. We need insights into how to prevent violent clashes, and how to find ways to peace and reconciliation. Since the 19…
Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the September Issue, 2024
Seeking Knowledge in and for Troubled Times: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the September Issue, 2024
Editorial
Recently, scholars have paid increased attention to affect as a structuring principle of political life, aesthetic engagement, cultural practice, and social formation (Ahmed 2010, Brown et al. 2019, Lutz 2017, Neuman 2007, Papoulias and Call…
Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning
Learning penetrates religion in many ways. Primary religious socialisation – sometimes referred to as religious nurture – is the process by which children are explicitly and purposefully taught to do things religiously or they learn implicit…
Synergies: The Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology, MAT, and a Shared Vision
Editorial for the April issue, 2024.
Religion: Memory and Innovation
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2023, on the theme of “Religion: Memory and Innovation”. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for …
Appropriation as a perspective and topic in the study of religion and spirituality
Cultural appropriation is a timely topic that has been taking up a lot of space in public discussions. The concept is often applied in heated debates aimed at calling out’ different actors and actions as appropriation, or on the other hand t…
Editorial SJSCA 28/2022
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Digitalen? Einleitung und Problemaufriss
Der tiefgreifende Wandel der Digitalisierung und damit zunehmenden Medialität auch im (Wissenschafts-)Alltag ermöglicht veränderte Prinzipien der Wissensproduktion und eine paradigmatische Neuausrichtung der Kulturanalyse. Die Einleitung erö…
Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches (Gesamtausgabe)
Der Sammelband geht aus der 33. Studierendentagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) »Sex.Sex.Sex. Kulturwissenschaftliche Höhepunkte & Abgründe« hervor, die ursprünglich für den Mai 2020 gepl…
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Editorial
Universitas Humanística
Measuring Humans Through Money
This introduction to the special issue outlines important anthropological insights into debt relations and relations of indebtedness drawing on my own research on post-Soviet economies as well as on the contributions to this special issue. T…
Editorial
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Religious diversity
The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology. (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured against the yar…