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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Trecos móveis: a mobilidade em potência e o novo papel social dos objetos na publicidade das marcas
Signos do Consumo, 2021 Uma nova condição social que evidencia a propensão à mobilidade da vida contemporânea faz emergir os “trecos móveis” que oferecem, facilitam ou dão acesso à mobilidade em potência necessária à vida em constante movimento.
Maria Alice de Faria Nogueira
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Muerte segura: Violencia étnica en la Era de la Globalización
Relaciones Internacionales, 2006 En el artículo, escrito en 1998, se revisan los estudios antropológicos sobre violencia étnica que se habían llevado a cabo desde 1990. En estos estudios se había identificado la incertidumbre social como catalizador para este tipo de violencia ...
Arjun APPADURAI
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La PalabraEste artículo analiza “Woman Hollering Creek” de Sandra Cisneros desde los conceptos de mundos imaginados y paisajes del antropólogo Arjun Appadurai. Explora cómo los medios masivos influyen en las expectativas migratorias de Cleófilas, la protagonista,
Beatriz Jiménez Villanueva
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Raiva, medo e o pequeno número: O indigenismo bolsonarista a partir de Arjun Appadurai
Revista de Antropologia, 2023 As ações do governo federal no âmbito da política indigenista, no governo de Jair Bolsonaro, têm sido caracterizadas por um forte antagonismo aos direitos territoriais indígenas, consagrados na Constituição de 1988, e às políticas públicas de atenção a ...
Marcos Pereira Rufino
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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