In this article Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Siddharth Sareen, Patrik Oskarsson and Devyn Remme argue that ruptures in democratic governance contexts embody temporally discontiguous and country-specific patterns. They argue that these are conjunctures of particular possibilities for bounded reconfiguration, and that such reconfiguration can intensify or shift the course of what the state is becoming.
In this article Hege Høyer Leivestad and Elisabeth Schober use the case of the HMM Algeciras to unpack some of the flipsides of contemporary shipping and address overcapacity and crisis in global shipping.
In the theme section of the 90th issue of the Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, edited by Keir Martin, Ståle Wig and Sylvia Yanagisako, you can find contributions from Lotte Danielsen, Ståle Wig and Keir Martin.
In this entry in the Cambride Encyclopeida of Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen argues that the anthropology of climate change represents a new approach to globalisation, that shifts the focus towards the ecological embeddedness of human life.
In this article Johanna Markkula explores how narratives about Filipino seafarers mobile labour shapes Filipino seafarers everyday experiences onboard ships today.
In the theme section of the 89th issue of the Focaal Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, edited by Johanna Markkula you can find articles by Elisabeth Schober and Johanna Markkula.
In this article Ola Gunhildrud Berta illuminates aspects of the arrival story of missonaries in the Marshall Islands that have been forgotten and overlooked by both islanders and academics alike.
In this article Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Patrik Oskarsson, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Brototi Roy analyse an Indian energy transition to carbon-intensive energy over the past two decades on a national level, and its localized manifestations and impacts through a case study of Goa state.
In this article Ola Gunnhildrud Berta, Elise Berman and Albious Latior explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Marshallese communities within and outside of the Marshall islands.
In the december issue of Anthropology Today, edited by P. Wenzel Geissler, you can find articles by Camelia Dewan, Charline Kopf and P. Wenzel Geissler.
In this article Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Solano Da Silva and Heather P. Bedi analyze the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa.
Kenneth Bo Nielsen has edited a special issue of Journal of Contemporary Asia. He has also written two articles in the same publication, volume 50, issue 5, 2020.
In this essay Arnd Schneider provides a critical analysis of a collaborative research project with artists Leone Contini in the colonial collections of the Italian National Ethnographic Museum L. Pigorini in Rome, that was part of the EU Horizon 2020 TRACES project.
In this article Camelia Dewan examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems.
In this essay Arnd Schneider revisits the "James Bay Project", a collaboration between artist Rainer Wittenborn and writer Claus Biegert with the Cree First Nation of Northern Québec, Canada.
Open access (click on the images and they come up large in a gallery, 39 total)
This anthology challenges and expands the concept of domestication.
Edited by Heather Swanson, Marianne Lien and Gro Ween
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In this edited book Arnd Schneider presents innovative ethnographic perspectives on the intersections between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage, drawing on the research groups from the interdisciplinary TRACES project.
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Signe Howell presents three studies in her paper. They show the relationships between politics and kinship but each of them do not show correlation in kinship and socio-political organization.
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In his essay Arnd Schneider contends that 'America' was the projection plane for European ideologies, but also that at the same time these ideologies became short-circuited, in other words, they 'ended' in America.
Nefissa Naguib explores Nordic brewing and the magic of yeast in this article published in Gastronomica, the journal for food studies.
In his essay, Arnd Schneider discusses the term "uneven hermeneutics" as a basis for understanding different world-views (alterities) and the possibilities of their 'translation' in the art-anthropology encounter.
María Guzmán-Gallegos and Astrid B. Stensrud have published chapters that deal with abandoned oil installations, water resources and life projects. Both contributions are based on fieldwork in Peru.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Ramola Ramtohul are editing topics ranging from political leadership, language, religion and interactions to the materiality of multiculturalism from when Mauritius proclaimed independence in 1968, up to our time.
A preview of the book is available here.
In this article published in Public Anthropologist Nefissa Naguib explores humanitarian shame among local providers of aid in Norway.
Martin D.Frederiksen text is leading the reader back and forth between observations on a place in its non-existence and detailed being, references to and analysis of nothingness versus nothing and the importance of a counterpart of nothing in everything. Katharina Stadler
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