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The anthropology of infrastructure: The boom and the bubble? by Buier, Natalia

“…Abstract This article engages with the constitution of the anthropology of infrastructure as an autonomous subdiscipline. Rather than laboring in the service…”
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Italian alliances between commoning and law: Framing new regulations by challenging rules in Naples by Vesco, Antonio, Kioupkiolis, Alexandros

“…Abstract The “commons” have become a rallying point of social mobilization against privatization and a linchpin of collective civic empowerment and democratic…”
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Rethinking affects of care through power: An introduction by Drotbohm, Heike, Dilger, Hansjörg

“…Abstract This introduction outlines the contemporary emergence of new forms of informal crisis-related care, which both complement and contradict classical…”
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The “system” as another sea: Contrasting mobility rules and migrant navigations by Haile, Dawit Tesfay, Schapendonk, Joris

“…Abstract This article analyzes how African migrants are confronted in Europe with contrasting mobility rules. We argue that mobility rules not only come from…”
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Ruling out rescue at sea?: Rohingya, maritime escapes, and the criminalization of smugglers-cum-rescuers in Indonesia by Missbach, Antje

“…Abstract This article examines a case in which three fishermen were sentenced for people smuggling after having rescued 99 refugees from their sinking ship…”
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Mobility rules: An anthropological introduction by Fradejas-García, Ignacio, Salazar, Noel B.

“…Abstract In this introductory article, we critically analyze which rules govern human mobility and how mobility regulations and codes are resisted,…”
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(Un)ruly relationalities: Navigating mobility rules in the Italian asylum system by Castellano, Viola

“…Abstract In this article, I discuss the interplay between the formal and informal mobility rules regulating migration, asylum, and reception regimes in Italy…”
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A mutable space: Identity in the ruins of a polyethnic town camp, Outback Australia by Brekelmans, Alana

“…Abstract As that which troubles simplistic binaries, ruins provide an entry point for scholars to conceptualize time, space, and identity as multiple,…”
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Acteon's tears reversed by Pina-Cabral, João

“…Abstract This article is a “thought experiment” that takes recourse to Lucien Freud's youthful portrait of himself as Acteon—the hunter whom the goddess Diana…”
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Infrapolitical mobilities: Precarious migrants and resistance to European rules of mobility by Fradejas-García, Ignacio, Loftsdóttir, Kristín

“…Abstract Precarious migrants must cope with various restrictions and exceptional policies while challenging anti-migrant images and crisis discourses. Using…”
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At the time of the “backway”: Mobility rules and moral breakdown from the standpoint of a rural Gambian community by Vitturini, Elia, Bellagamba, Alice

“…Abstract “Backway” is the Gambian term for the outflow of people, mostly via the Mediterranean and oceanic routes that during the 2010s turned the country into…”
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Along the twilights of care: Continuities of technomoral politics in São Paulo's pro-migrant activism by Drotbohm, Heike

“…Abstract This article explores central dimensions of different forms of asymmetric care that fall between the competences of overlapping civil society…”
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The proxy war in Ukraine: History, political economy, and representations by Hann, Chris

“…Overwhelming empathy with all the civilians and conscripts who have suffered from the ongoing violence in Ukraine, which began years before the Russian…”
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Care as political revolution? by Ticktin, Miriam

“…Abstract This afterword discusses the three articles in the theme section “Affective regimes of care beyond humanitarian crisis,” suggesting that they offer us…”
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Disappointment and awkwardness as ugly feelings: Humanitarian affect in a “Global East” by Brković, Čarna

“…Abstract  What does transnational humanitarianism look like when considered from the perspective of a “Global East”? Ethnographically studying the…”
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Whose death, whose eco-revival?: Filling in while emptying out the depopulated Balkan Mountains by Rajkovic, Ivan

“…Abstract When environmental activists in Serbia encountered decarbonization in form of predatory hydropower, they launched a massive campaign against an actual…”
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Planning, state building, and the days after in Palestine by Rabie, Kareem

“…Abstract Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research, this article examines three shifts in national-scale planning in Palestine. In the period…”
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After the boom: Petro-politics and the fate of revolution in Venezuela by Kappeler, Aaron

“…Matthew Wilde, A blessing and a curse: Oil, politics, and morality in Venezuela. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. Mariya Ivancheva, The…”
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Rejoinder by Hann, Chris

“…It is exciting to hear of numerous ethnographies of Ukraine and its inhabitants, both recently published and in the pipeline. One hopes that they remain free…”
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Rejoinder by Hann, Chris

“…It is exciting to hear of numerous ethnographies of Ukraine and its inhabitants, both recently published and in the pipeline. One hopes that they remain free…”
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