Search Results - "American ethnologist"

Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life and death by HOLMES, SETH M., CASTAÑEDA, HEIDE

“…ABSTRACT The European refugee crisis has gained worldwide attention with daily media coverage both in and outside Germany. Representations of refugees in media…”
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Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States by BONILLA, YARIMAR, ROSA, JONATHAN

“…As thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to protest the fatal police shooting of unarmed African American teenager Michael…”
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Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation by JURIS, JEFFREY S.

“…This article explores the links between social media and public space within the #Occupy Everywhere movements. Whereas listservs and websites helped give rise…”
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From Brexit to Trump: Anthropology and the rise of nationalist populism by GUSTERSON, HUGH

“…ABSTRACT Brexit and Donald Trump's election victory are symptoms of a new nationalist populism in western Europe and the United States. This political and…”
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The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime by CABOT, HEATH

“…ABSTRACT Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves”…”
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Ontological anthropology and the deferral of critique by BESSIRE, LUCAS, BOND, DAVID

“…What does ontological anthropology promise, what does it presume, and how does it contribute to the formatting of life in our present? Drawing from our…”
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A world without innocence by TICKTIN, MIRIAM

“…ABSTRACT What exactly is innocence—why are we morally compelled by it? Classic figures of innocence—the child, the refugee, the trafficked victim, and the…”
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Deprovincializing Trump, decolonizing diversity, and unsettling anthropology by ROSA, JONATHAN, BONILLA, YARIMAR

“…ABSTRACT After Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election, there was widespread public and scholarly outcry that particularized this…”
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Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam by SCHWENKEL, CHRISTINA

“…No material resource and public good is more critical to sustaining urban life than water. During postwar reconstruction in Vietnam, planners showcased urban…”
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Crossing Mexico: Structural violence and the commodification of undocumented Central American migrants by VOGT, WENDY A.

“…The undocumented-migrant journey across Mexico has become a site of intense violence, exploitation, and profit making within the logics of capitalism. While…”
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Emptiness: Capitalism without people in the Latvian countryside by DZENOVSKA, DACE

“…ABSTRACT In Latvian towns and villages, post‐Soviet capitalism has produced a palpable change that locals describe as “emptiness.” People point to empty houses…”
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État de siège: A dying domesticating colonialism? by HAGE, GHASSAN

“…ABSTRACT The sentiment of being “surrounded by barbarians” was once specific to settler‐colonial societies. But as the European refugee crisis made headlines…”
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Offshore work: Oil, modularity, and the how of capitalism in Equatorial Guinea by APPEL, HANNAH

“…Oil scholarship often focuses on oil as money, as if the industry were a mere revenue-producing machine—a black box with predictable effects. Drawing on…”
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When infrastructures attack: The workings of disrepair in China by CHU, JULIE Y.

“…Residents fighting eviction in China often come into intimate knowledge of the insidious workings of infrastructure. This is especially true as redevelopment…”
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Patchwork ethnography by Günel, Gökçe, Watanabe, Chika

“…Many ethnographers feel the pressure to suspend familial and professional ties to separate “the field” from “home” for prolonged periods. Since 2019, we have…”
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Immobilizing mobility: Border ethnography, illiberal democracy, and the politics of the "refugee crisis" in Hungary by KALLIUS, ANNASTIINA, MONTERESCU, DANIEL, RAJARAM, PREM KUMAR

“…ABSTRACT In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between,…”
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Clean fake: Authenticating documents and persons in migrant Moscow by REEVES, MADELEINE

“…What does it mean for Kyrgyzstani migrant workers in contemporary Russia to be legally legible to the state when informal agencies market fictive residency…”
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How many worlds are there?: Ontology, practice, and indeterminacy by NADASDY, PAUL

“…ABSTRACT Questions about the nature of reality have lately become something of a preoccupation in anthropology. One prominent approach to such questions holds…”
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Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge by GEISSLER, P. W.

“…Unknown knowns—or "public secrets"—may play an integral part in publicly funded medical science. In one large transnational field research site in Africa, such…”
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Waste to energy: Garbage prospects and subjunctive politics in late‐industrial Baltimore by AHMANN, CHLOE

“…ABSTRACT If it had been built, the Fairfield Renewable Energy Project would have been the largest trash incinerator in the United States, burning 4,000 tons of…”
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