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Aeolian politics and the duograph
Get PDFCymene Howe and Dominic Boyer have crafted two eloquent accounts of the turbulent, aeolian politics that unfolded during their collaborative field research in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Geographical conditions render the region a convenient site for renewable energy production. Yet, local expectations have been overlooked. At the same time, the model of wind development that dominates the isthmus fails to unsettle the toxic kinds of relatedness behind our contemporary anthropocenic environments. Whereas Howe’s Ecologics focuses on human-nonhuman relations, Boyer’s Energopolitics attends mainly to the political complexities of wind power. Together they seek ways whereby energy transition can go hand in hand with political, social, and economic transformations
Focused archaeology on an inconstant subject
Get PDFThis is a book review for the edited volume: THOMAS G. GARRISON AND STEPHEN HOUSTON, editors, 2018, An Inconstant Landscape, The Maya Kingdom of El Zotz, Guatemala, Lewisville: University Press of Colorad
Anthropology’s many pasts: frustrations, engagements, and commitments
Get PDFAnthropology’s many pasts: frustrations, engagements, and commitment
Mind the Gap
Get PDFReview of: SUSANNA M. HOFFMAN & ROBERTO E. BARRIOS, 2020, Disaster upon Disaster: Exploring the Gap between Knowledge, Policy & Practice, New York: Berghahn Books, 343 pp., ISBN 978178920345
The Volatile Possibilities and Empty Gestures of Care Under Military Occupation
Get PDFThe Occupied Clinic could hardly be any timelier. Kashmir has been under siege by the Indian national government for thirty years, and its residents disenfranchised. In 2019, in part to suppress the region’s independence movement, Narendra Modi and his BJP made international headlines when they stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy. In a land that lives under continuous military occupation and has witnessed countless curfews, Saiba Varma asks, ‘what kind of care leaves people in pieces?’. The Occupied Clinic is the result of arduous fieldwork conducted under occupation in the Kashmir Valley, during the period 2009-2016. In this eloquent ethnography of clinic and its militarization under siege, Varma raises critically, ‘what is possible—clinically, ethically, socially, and politically—under occupation? What forms of care?’
Reconstruction of the Anthropology of Identity
Get PDFThis textbook presents reflexive reading for undergraduate anthropologists. The fourteen chapters have been prudently outlined. Each chapter contains a few anthropological traps which could be escaped through reflection. All in all, the textbook invites the reader to reflect on anthropological knowledge production
Refugee youth seeking social belonging in the context of Australian multiculturalism
Get PDFLaura Moran presents an analysis on how young migrant and refugee people in Brisbane, Australia, make and represent their identities as they seek to belong in friend groups and networks. Moran demonstrates how the multiculturalist framework in Australia expose refugee and migrant youth to a variety of conflicting expectations about self-representation. More specifically, while these young people are often expected to adapt and integrate into Australian society, their identities are highly racialized and fixed as outsiders with an emphasis on tolerance. Young refugees in Brisbane, then, absorb, negotiate, and respond to the competing messages about integration and tolerance and forge a sense of who they are and where they belong to. Asserting that children and youth are at the center of transnational migration and multiculturalist inclusion, Moran seeks to depict a comprehensive picture of how young refugees, as both outsiders and insiders of the Australian society, form their identities and belonging.Instead of measuring the successes and failures of the multicultural ideals by expecting refugee youth to prove their integration to society and participation in the tolerance rhetoric, the book points out the importance of understanding the perspectives and frames of youth as forms of participation. The book is exceptionally legible and accessible, as it is written clearly and concisely and is available as an Open Access volume. It will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines – such as education, anthropology, sociology, geography, ethnic studies, political science, social work, and public administration – as well as to general public that is interested in human rights, migration, youth, race, ethnicity, and multiculturalism.
The struggle for capacity: a historical ethnography of toxicology in Senegal
Get PDFBook Review, Tousignant, Noémi. 2018. Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the problem of capacity in postcolonial Senegal. Durham, London: Duke University Press. Keywords: medical anthropology; STS; toxicity; West Africa; temporality
How Global is Obesity?
Get PDFThis is a review of Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital edited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis. The central puzzle that this volume resolves to address is why people would adopt the new body norms with growing enthusiasm. This project came to fruition through a School of Advanced Research (SAR) Seminar (March 2014) organised by the editors. It yields a conversation between the various authors who dabble between a range of techniques and paradigms. The key theme is fat stigma, and the model adopted to address it is that of the symbolic body capital. The authors come together from a range of disciplines such as Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, and Psychiatry to unearth the changing global cultural norms on bigger bodies that play out locally