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Active Waiting and Changing Hopes: Toward a Time Perspective on Protracted Displacement by Brun, Cathrine

“…This article introduces a time perspective on 'protracted displacement' and seeks to theorize 'agency-in-waiting' through a focus on the ways in which people…”
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The Ontological Turn: Taking Different Worlds Seriously by Pickering, Andrew

“…In this article I discuss different scientific and non-modern worlds as they appear in a performative (rather than representational) idiom, situating my…”
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Governing through Uncertainty: Experiences of Being a Refugee in Turkey as a Country for Temporary Asylum by Biehl, Kristen Sarah

“…This article addresses the question of how to theorize the relation between uncertainty and governmentality with regard to displacement and its consequences…”
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Introduction: Flight and Exile—Uncertainty in the Context of Conflict-Induced Displacement by Horst, Cindy, Grabska, Katarzyna

“…This introduction addresses the ways in which flight and exile create particular types of uncertainty, including both radical and protracted, in people's…”
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Introduction: Incarnate Politics beyond the Cross and the Sword by McAllister, Carlota, Napolitano, Valentina

“…This introduction outlines an anthropological concept of ‘theopolitics’ emergent from ethnographic engagements with the oldest site of European colonialism—the…”
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Introduction: Tax Beyond the Social Contract by Makovicky, Nicolette, Smith, Robin

“…Abstract This special issue decenters tax as an analytic device for understanding the relationship between state and citizen while examining the limits of…”
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Living an Uncertain Future: Temporality, Uncertainty, and Well-Being among Iraqi Refugees in Egypt by El-Shaarawi, Nadia

“…While displacement has always involved the refiguring of space, scholars of forced migration have recently begun to consider how temporality might be crucial…”
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Reframing the ‘Reasonable Officer’ and Victim/Suspect in the Trial of Philip Brailsford by Nave, Carmen

“…Abstract Policing has long been theoretically linked to the power of the state, but the relationship between police and state has more often been assumed than…”
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Learning Shame, Learning Fear: A Comparison of Socializing Emotions in Helsinki, Finland, and Santa Marta, Colombia by Sequeira, Maija-Eliina

“…Abstract Drawing on the concept of socializing emotions, I compare emotionally charged childrearing practices in two urban contexts. In Helsinki, shame is…”
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Methods for Multispecies Anthropology: Thinking with Salmon Otoliths and Scales by Swanson, Heather Anne

“…This article proposes that multispecies anthropology and its curiosities about non-humans constitute a ‘minor anthropology’ that poses challenges not only to…”
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Off the Rails: Thin Moral Thinking and Stylized Ethical Dilemmas by Heywood, Paolo, Reed, Adam

“…This introduction situates the trolley problem and other such dilemmas in anthropological debates about contextualization and abstraction both within and…”
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Sexbots Playing the Imitation Game by Bialecki, Jon

“…Anthropologists generally reject philosophical issue-based scenarios such as trolley problems, viewing them as thin and decontextualized in comparison to…”
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Trolleyology and the Anthropology of the Ethical Imagination by Lillehammer, Hallvard

“…It matters what people do. It also matters what people would do in counterfactual circumstances. Perhaps less obviously, it matters what people think or say…”
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A Thought Experiment in the Wild by Heywood, Paolo

“…This article aims to complicate the opposition between "thick description" and "thin" thought experiments by constructing a thought experiment of its own. It…”
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Truth or Trick: Thinking of Trolley Problems as Tinkering by Kuan, Teresa

“…"Truth or Trick" takes the trolley problem thought experiment as a found object and compares it to the psychotherapist's probe in responding to the…”
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Life on the Lifeboat: Stylizing Ethical Dilemmas in the Philosophy and Activism of Animal Protection by Reed, Adam

“…Animal protection activism has a longstanding relationship to formal philosophizing, most notably through the philosophy of animal rights. Within that…”
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Conscientious Objection or Objecting to the Conscience? Notes Toward an Anthropology of the Conscience by Houston, Christopher

“…In certain domains of contemporary life, political action connected to people's conscience is of central significance. But what is the conscience, and how may…”
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Afterword: Switching Tracks by Candea, Matei

“…If trolley problems are accused of simplifying, does this mean anthropologists only ever make things more complex? This afterword focuses on anthropology's own…”
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From Integration to Deportation: Grammars of Selves and Exogenous "Others" in the State of Denmark and Beyond by Rytter, Mikkel

“…Following the so-called "paradigm shift" in Danish refugee policy in 2019, the previous ambition of "integration" was replaced by a state strategy of…”
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Productive Decontextualization: Philosophical Conversations in the Pub by Venkatesan, Soumhya

“…Anthropologists are often averse to the decontextualized approaches of moral and other forms of philosophy, arguing that they lack the thickness required to…”
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