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Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice by Whyte, Kyle

“…Settler colonialism is a form of domination that violently disrupts human relationships with the environment. Settler colonialism is ecological domination,…”
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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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Unbuilt and Unfinished: The Temporalities of Infrastructure by Carse, Ashley, Kneas, David

“…Infrastructures have proven to be useful focal points for understanding social phenomena. The projects of concern in this literature are often considered…”
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Anthropology from Home: Advice on Digital Ethnography for the Pandemic Times by Goralska, Magdalena

“…The coronavirus pandemic has made ethnographic fieldwork, as traditionally conceived in anthropology, temporarily impossible to conduct. Facing long-term…”
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Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines by Spice, Anne

“…In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. This article tracks how the state…”
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Mino-Mnaamodzawin: Achieving Indigenous Environmental Justice in Canada by McGregor, Deborah

“…This article explores the potential for advancing environmental justice (EJ) theory and practice through engaging with Indigenous intellectual traditions. When…”
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Who is Afraid of the Ontological Wolf?: Some Comments on an Ongoing Anthropological Debate by de Castro, Eduardo Viveiros

“…This article, which was delivered as the 2014 Annual Marilyn Strathern Lecture, outlines both some of the stimuli that led to the 'ontological turn' in…”
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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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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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Reassembling Democracy: Ritual as a Cultural Resource by Teisenhoffer, Viola

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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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Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography by Ogden, Laura A., Hall, Billy, Tanita, Kimiko

“…This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy,…”
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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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Child Protection Social Work in COVID-19: Reflections on Home Visits and Digital Intimacy by Pink, Sarah, Ferguson, Harry, Kelly, Laura

“…This article brings together digital anthropology and social work scholarship to create an applied anthropology of everyday digital intimacy. Child protection…”
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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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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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Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism by Moulton, Alex A, Salo, Inge

“…Black geographies and Black ecologies are epistemological frameworks that attend to the ideological, philosophical, and material portent of Black movements in…”
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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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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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