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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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Nagie życie zwierząt. O wartości użytkowej Giorgio Agambena
Zoophilologica, 2015 The aim of this article is to discuss Agamben’s distinction between dzoē and bios and verify if the category of bare life would be relevant to the life of animals.
Michał Krzykawski
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Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming
Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
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Социология властиThe political teachings of Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt imply fundamental ontological structures that reflect the processes of the genesis, assertion, and destruction of political being.
V. I. Brodskiy
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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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Isegoría, 2013 El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre el pensamiento de la comunidad en Giorgio Agamben y Roberto Esposito. Ambos interrogan lo común desde una perspectiva impolítica que intenta deconstruir los presupuestos de la metafísica y de la filosofía política ...
Matías Saidel
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Nietzsche y la historia. La infelicidad del animal y la esperanza del hombre
Ideas y Valores, 2014 La Segunda consideración intempestiva delimita una relación funcional con la historia: esta beneficia a la vida cuando se posiciona desde una perspectiva ilusoria, disimulada y estratégica.
Tuillang Yuing Alfaro +1 more
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