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Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Autoridades, forças e violências em “Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho: entre a abertura ao desconhecido e a imaginação do futuro

open access: yesRemate de Males, 2018
“Casas de ferro”, de João Paulo Borges Coelho, nomeadamente a abordagem da estória aos indícios do mar Índico, funciona como um ponto de partida para uma reflexão sobre questões de lei, autoridade, força e violência.
Rui Gonçalves Miranda
doaj   +1 more source

Obstetric racism in Europe: Linguistic racism, exoticization, and uneven reproduction in the Netherlands

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
wiley   +1 more source

Quando não se pode mais conviver

open access: yesRevista de História, 2020
Resenha do Livro: MBEMBE, Achille. Políticas da inimizade. Tradução Marta Lança. Lisboa: Antigona, 2017.
Flavio Dantas Martins
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Achille Mbembe, Brutalisme

open access: yesLectures, 2019
Au moment ou les emeutes raciales liees au deces de Georges Floyd battent leur plein, la lecture du dernier livre d’Achille Mbembe offre un regard nouveau sur les vicissitudes du monde contemporain. Le lecteur decouvre un veritable essai philosophique relevant a la fois de la theorie critique et du postcolonialisme.
openaire   +2 more sources

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 960-981, July 2026.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Violent Separations: Refugee Workers, Racial Capitalism, and the Production of Debility

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on how Rohingya people, legally admitted as refugees to the United States, become available as workers by being violently separated from their places of origin, from family members, and even their own bodies. We argue that resettlement releases labor from its attachments to places and people, thus making it available for ...
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Shae Frydenlund
wiley   +1 more source

Biopower, Necropolitics, and the Afterlives of Infants: Uncovering the Ethics of Historical Anatomical Collections

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the 19th and early 20th centuries, many fetuses and infants were collected for anatomical study. Yet little research has explored their origins or the ethical implications of holding and using these individuals in teaching and research.
Siân E. Halcrow   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile

open access: yesThe Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
wiley   +1 more source

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