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Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Felix Ringel
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Assembling Multi-Temporal Resilience on the Eastern Coast of India Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Sirpa Tenhunen, Dayabati Roy
This article explores how the Sundarbans residents and migrants on the eastern coast of India build multitemporal resilience. While extreme weather events have different rhythms, local governance, ...
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Walking on Alpine Grass - Grass Socialities and their Global Connections. Perspectives From The Alpine Anthropocene Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Elisabeth Tauber
This article takes an ethnographic look at grass in the Italian Eastern Alps. The relationships between the grass of semi-natural grasslands and more-than-grass actors such as humans and animals un...
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Moments of Willing: On the Existential Power to Will a Change to Self and World Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Nigel Rapport
‘Will’ might be a term for the energy that moves individual lives forward. ‘Wilfulness’ references character: how exercises of will characterise an individual’s life. ‘Intention’ focuses on the aim...
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Will Work, Won’t Work? Getting Things Done in Buddhist Thailand Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Julia Cassaniti
This essay examines how volition and desire are connected to tangible outcomes for a group of Theravāda Buddhists in rural Chiang Mai, Thailand. Understanding the ways that actions are related to g...
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The Willing: Danish Soldiers on Endurance, Edgework, and Engagement in the Post-9/11 Era Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Thomas Randrup Pedersen
This article addresses the question of culture and subjective life by virtue of exploring soldierly self-fashioning in the context of military subjectification. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with...
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At the Limits of Willing: Anticipatory Attunements and Mooded Backgrounds Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 C. Jason Throop
This article proceeds along three interlinked pathways of thinking about the ‘will.’ First, a phenomenological analysis of willing is explored that pays special attention to what Edmund Husserl ter...
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Introduction | Will Work: New Anthropological Perspectives on Human Volition Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Mark Friis Hau, Thomas Randrup Pedersen
This special issue aims to deepen and diversify anthropological explorations of human volition. While volition is a central theme in philosophy and theology, its anthropological dimensions are less...
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Missionaries, Basketball and Stranger-Kings. Modernization and Power in Todos Santos, Guatemala, from 1950 to 1980 Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Andrea Freddi
This article explores ethnographically the impact of foreign missionaries in a Maya Mam community of Guatemala between 1954 and the end of the 1970s. As previously evidenced, the development-orient...
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Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent Times Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Martin Demant Frederiksen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Post-Camp Condition: Sub-Saharan Male Migrants Maintaining a Constellation of Refuge-Zones Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Louis Vuilleumier
Within migration studies, camp conditions have been extensively investigated, yet scholars have relatively overlooked the vital role that post-camp conditions play in migrants’ journeys. Drawing fr...
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Caging and Uncaging Pride: Di(s)visibility and the Borders of Budapest Pride Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-19 Hadley Z. Renkin
In 2008, following right-wing attacks in 2007, Budapest’s Pride march was ‘caged’ by a cordon of police barricades which remained until repudiated by march organisers in 2017. Both caging and uncag...
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Broadening Ethnographic Following: From Following Conflicts to Following Agreements and Silences in Vaccination Debates Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Zlatana Knezevic
George Marcus’s methodology for multi-sited ethnography is widely discussed and applied in anthropology and the strategy of ‘following the conflict’ has been a fruitful approach to studying controv...
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Zombie Startups: Time, Labour and Value in Singapore’s Innovative Entrepreneurship ‘Ecosystem’ Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Emily H. C. Chua
Zombie startups – which neither grow nor die, but persistently breakeven and inexplicably refuse to fold – are a staple presence in startup sectors globally. While dominant business discourses dism...
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Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Eimear Mc Loughlin
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Precarity of Masculinity. Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jesper Bjarnesen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How is it between us? Relational ethics and care for the world Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Urbee Bhowmik
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Nanna Gram Bentsen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Linda J. Seligmann
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Camilla Brændstrup Laursen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Translating Ontologies Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Thomas Schwarz Wentzer
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ola Gunhildrud Berta
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Calculating Care: Working Out Ways Through (Economic) Insecurity at a Neighbourhood Market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Sarah-Jane Phelan
Drawing on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the everyday practices of vendors at Marché Collé, a neighbourhood market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as they calculated th...
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‘Melting Worlds’ and ‘Climate Myths’: Diverging Stories of Climate Change in Longyearbyen, an Arctic ‘Frontline Community’ Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Alexandra Meyer, Zdenka Sokolíčková
Climate change is a powerful story in Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on Svalbard in the high Arctic. While most natural science agrees on accelerating climate change with profound environment...
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‘Emigration is Luck’: Destiny, Witchcraft and Uncertainty in Migratory Journeys from the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Magdalena Brzezińska
This text analyses religious interpretations of the uncertainty of migratory journeys – documented and clandestine – from West Africa to Europe, based on beliefs in Islamic destiny, ‘luck’, witchcr...
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Anthropologists are Talking – About Contemporary Plantations. Technologies, Violence, and Vulnerability Across Geographies and Genealogies Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sophie Chao, Christopher Krupa, Tania Murray Li
On the surface, plantations are vast settled spaces in which neatly aligned rows of crops and disciplined workers produce profits for corporations. Yet despite their seemingly orderly, regimented, ...
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Moses in Melanesia: Political Theology and Corpus Mysticum in Anthropology Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jaap Timmer
In this article, I offer a conceptual framework for ethnographic and theoretical investigations into the importance of the body of Christ (corpus mysticum) in shaping societal formations. Addressin...
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Elusive Gold and Uncertainty in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anna Frohn Pedersen
Artisanal and small-scale mining is one of the main non-farm rural livelihoods in the global south. Mostly, it is done with no geological data available to locate the minerals. This is also the cas...
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Mining Rituals in Vital Spaces: The Cosmopolitics of Gold and the Precarity of Mine Closure in Ghana Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Lauren Coyle Rosen
Recent spiritual contests swirling around a five-year shutdown of the Obuasi gold mine in Ghana, one of the world’s largest, have thrown into high relief key features of improvisational labour and ...
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Vernacular Humanitarianism in the Land of Associations: Negotiating Voluntary Organisation, Municipal Influence, and the Reception of Refugees among Venligboerne in Denmark Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Marianne Holm Pedersen
During the so-called refugee crisis in 2015, movements to welcome refugees became widespread in Northern Europe. While numerous studies have documented the activities and motivations of these civic...
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Mediums, Objects, and the Problem of Presence in the Western Himalayas Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Asaf Sharabi
In some religious contexts, mainly Protestant Christianity, anthropologists often contend with the problem of presence that preoccupies believers – the simultaneous presence and absence of God. How...
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River life and the upspring of nature Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Andrew Alan Johnson
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2024)
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The Trap: Care and Mystification in Carceral Governance Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Tali Ziv
As a component of the broader carceral state, criminal legal probation has become a defacto social safety net. In this essay, I argue that criminal probation mystifies time and space to create a su...
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CHIEFSHIP, PTY unLTD.: Reflections on Sovereign Un/Accountability, Past and Present Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 John L. Comaroff
A number of ‘customary’ African kings and chiefs – historically accountable to the will of their subjects – have sought to turn their offices into lucrative sources of accumulation; indeed, into a ...
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Infrastructural Care: Repairing Railway Trains, Maintaining Mumbai’s Lifeline Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Proshant Chakraborty
Mumbai’s suburban railway network is one of the largest, most densely-packed public transport systems in the world. Known as the city’s ‘lifeline,’ these trains carry eight million commuters every ...
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Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Kelly McKowen
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2024)
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Making Megaprojects: The Practices and Politics of Scale-Making Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Susann Baez Ullberg, Gabriella Körling, Cristiana Strava
ABSTRACT The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term ‘megaprojects’. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into
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Geopolitics, Infrastructure and Scale-Making in the Southern Gas Corridor Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Bilge Firat
ABSTRACT Like all infrastructure, geopolitical infrastructures tell important stories about particular intentions in physical form. Cross-border fossil gas pipelines that are built to promote interests that go beyond state borders and territories are considered geopolitical infrastructures par excellence. Taking to its ethnographic focus the Southern Gas Corridor, a fossil gas transit regime and logistical
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Scales of Exception: Water Infrastructure, Place, and ‘Half-island’ in Cyprus Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ezgican Özdemir
ABSTRACT This article studies how communities in northern Cyprus constitute their collective identities through their changing understandings of where northern Cyprus is – through the collective idiom of ‘half-island’. Looking at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus as a megaproject, I show how the pipeline and its connection of the two spaces steer communities of northern
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In the Time of Megaprojects: Classed Temporal Scales along a Moroccan Highspeed-Rail Corridor Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Cristiana Strava
ABSTRACT Capitalizing on its comparative political and social stability in the region, the Moroccan regime has been attracting global and regional investors with the promise of new ‘megaprojects’ that aim to radically transform local natural, economic and social landscapes. Inaugurated in 2018, Morocco’s (and Africa’s) first high-speed rail line (LGV) is a flagship megaproject. Part of a wider ‘development
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Water Works: Megaprojects and Timescaling in Peru Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Susann Baez Ullberg
ABSTRACT Driven by an increasing industrial and urban demand for water and other economic and political interests, the Peruvian State has invested heavily in water infrastructures. One such infrastructure is the Majes Siguas Special Project in the Department of Arequipa. This megaproject was envisioned already in the early twentieth century to supply the coastland with irrigation water and thereby
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The Big, the Small, and the Ugly: The Politics of Scale-Making in a Contested Railway Project in Italy Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Mateusz Laszczkowski
ABSTRACT This article explores the politics of scale-making in infrastructural development. It argues that ‘megaprojects’, rather than self-evidently ‘big’, are constructed and contested across a continuity of scales from the ‘global’ to the microscopic. Scalar struggles are constitutive of the projects as well as of their contestation. I examine this through a focus on a disputed high-speed railway
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That Which They Will Not See: Climate Denial as a Vector of Epistemological Crisis in the Contemporary United States Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Susannah Crockford
ABSTRACT Climate denial continues as a cultural epistemology for anthropogenic climate change in the United States, despite worsening impacts. This article offers an ethnographic account of rural areas in three states in the southern US – Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri – based on long-term participant observation and interview data. Engaging with the literature on agnotology, the social construction
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Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 David Lipset
Published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 89, No. 3, 2024)
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Care, Violence, and More-Than-Human Reproductive Ecologies in North India Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Eva Fiks
ABSTRACT This paper explores therapeutic interventions for subfertility as a domain where meanings and boundaries of care and violence are constituted. It centres around a fragment of one Rajasthani woman’s reproductive journey contextualised within marriage migration, upward social mobility, and affinal/natal kin relations. Grounded in 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, and ongoing
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Intimate Evictability: Urban Displacement, Familial Violence and Women’s Claim to Home in Urban Sri Lanka Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Asha L. Abeyasekera
ABSTRACT ‘Evictability’ describes the role urban displacements play in the governance of ‘unwanted’ citizens in Europe where eviction is imminent yet uncertain. This paper proposes ‘intimate evictability’. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the paper illuminates how the governance of the working-class poor via eviction and relocation interfaces with the intimate sphere to produce
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Haunting the Factory: Indonesian Modernity and the Spiritual Landscape of Central Kalimantan Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anu Lounela, Heikki Wilenius
ABSTRACT This article explores enchantments accompanying industrial development and the national discourse of modernity in the ecologically fragile swamp landscape of Central Kalimantan, situated in the southern part of Indonesian Borneo. Focusing on the experiences of the Ngaju Dayak, a local indigenous group, and mass-mediated narratives on enchantments of (national) development, we explore the promises
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Knut G. Nustad, Duncan Brown, Heather A. Swanson
Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbe...
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Afterword: Wet Ethnographies Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Franz Krause
This afterword discusses common questions and emerging themes from a special issue titled Fluid Dispossession. It focuses on the implications of water movements for economic processes and the redis...
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‘Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Camelia Dewan, Knut G. Nustad
This special issue on ‘“Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use ‘fluid dispo...
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Fluid Scalability; Frontiers and Commons in Salmon Waterworlds Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Marianne Elisabeth Lien
The fluid qualities of water include its propensity to yield, to dissolve, and to accommodate intrusive structures and projects. The possibilities for aquacultural expansion appear limitless, yet t...
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Shifting Sands, Land from the Sea: A Microhistory of Coastal Land Titling in Thailand Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp
This microhistory of a shoreline place in Thailand details the socio-natural process by which a piece of coastal land came to be recognised as private property by the state. It demonstrates that in...
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Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons: More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Camelia Dewan
This article examines processes of ‘more-than-economic dispossession’ arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs – the fluid commons – of the shipbre...
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The Art of Gleaning and Not Becoming Domesticated in Mollusc Waterworlds Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Sandro Simon
In the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, development actors strive to ‘develop’ female mollusc gleaning. In an apparently boundless amphibious environment, domestication underlined by discursive disposse...
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Bringing Intersectionality to the Core of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Scaling Holistic Intersectionality Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Viola Thimm
ABSTRACT Social and cultural anthropology is a descriptive, theorising and comparative social science. It has a holistic orientation, i.e. it directs its gaze to complex interrelationships between different subfields of cultural dynamics. However, this understanding is not a stand-alone feature of the anthropological approach, but is also valid for the intersectionality framework. This article seeks
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Chiropteran Reservoirs. Bat Keepers and Bat Carers in Ghana and Australia Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Frédéric Keck, Arnaud Morvan
ABSTRACT This article studies how zookeepers and wildlife rescuers build relations with bats using experimental apparatuses such as cages. Arguing that interspecies communication with bats as reservoirs of infectious diseases can be described through material environments, such as a bat shelter in Ghana and a bat refuge in Australia, rather than in the short contacts between bats and ‘virus hunters’
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Reefs as Multispecies Ruins: Abalone and Livelihood Making in South Africa Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Evelien Storme
ABSTRACT This study explores the illegal harvesting of wild abalone and plans for an abalone farm in South Africa as examples of communities seeking to establish a livelihood in degraded landscapes, a hallmark of the Anthropocene. The perspective of the reefs as multispecies ruins complicates the apparent dichotomy between the destructive character of illicit abalone harvesting on the one hand, and
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Forging Preferred Landscapes: Burning Regimes, Carbon Sequestration and ‘Natural’ Fire in Cape York, Far North Australia Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Mardi J. Reardon-Smith
ABSTRACT Fire management is a right and responsibility shared by all land managers in Cape York Peninsula, far north Australia, bringing together Aboriginal traditional owners, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers and settler-descended cattle graziers. The landscape of Northern Australia has been socialised by fire over millennia, resulting in a fire-adapted and fire-dependent landscape. While
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Weaving Partial Stories: More-than-human Entanglements and Environmental Governance Experiments in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Anna Sanders, Sophie Pascoe, Håkon da Silva Hyldmo, Rut Dini Prasti H.
ABSTRACT Different goals and assumptions enable and legitimise the ways that climate change is understood and governed through increasingly urgent, experimental, and heterogeneous interventions. We examine the ontological politics of ‘piloting’ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) by weaving together stories from our ethnographic fieldwork in Central Suau, Papua New
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‘We are Part of Nature’: Caring for Wastewater in an Infrastructural Experiment in the Flevopolder Ethnos (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Fenna Smits, Mandy de Wilde
ABSTRACT In this article, we pursue a route for understanding the decentralisation of wastewater treatment that moves away from thinking in terms of individual responsibility and technical determinism and mobilises the analytical lens of care to articulate more-than-human relationality as an organising principle of governing environmental infrastructures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch