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Claiming the Isle? Islandness and Territorial Demands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the relationship between insularity and territorial demands, focusing on whether island territories are more likely to support regionalist and secessionist parties. To address this question, we compare electoral support for such parties across island and mainland territories using a large‐N dataset.
Pau Torres, Marc Sanjaume‐Calvet
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Integrative Framework for Understanding (Im)mobility Across Geographical Contexts

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we present an integrative analytical framework for understanding (im)mobility across different geographical and thematic contexts. We contend that previous literature on (im)mobility has underplayed the psychosocial mechanisms underlying perceived capabilities and aspiration formation.
Aneta Stoker, Kristýna Kvasničková, Eliška Masná, Takuya Nakagawa, Mohammed Yeboah, Josef Novotný   +5 more
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Direito e cidade: um estudo sobre os "cortiços" na região portuária do Rio de Janeiro e a criação da Área de Proteção do Ambiente Cultural da Saúde, Gamboa e Santo Cristo – APAC SAGAS (1980-1990)

Cadernos Cajuína
O artigo reconstrói a trajetória social dos cortiços na região portuária, partindo de uma antropologia das coisas como propõe Appadurai (2008). Essa trajetória está organizada no trabalho a partir de três marcos – rotas, desvios e enclaves (Appadurai ...
Maira de Souza Moreira
doaj   +1 more source

The Origins of Fashion

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
wiley   +1 more source

Repensar el dualismo de-colonial

Re-visiones
‘Repensar el dualismo de-colonial’ propone una crítica parcial al proyecto decolonial propuesto por Ramón Grosfoguel a partir de dos perspectivas diferentes: la primera toma los estudios sobre la Globalización y la ‘Teoría de los Paisajes’ de Arjun ...
Pau Cata
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

Arjun Appadurai, 2014, Il futuro come fatto culturale. Saggi sulla condizione globale

Antropologia, 2015
Il futuro come fatto culturale. Saggi sulla condizione globale Milano: Cortina.
Daria Settineri
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Between Burdens and Dreams: Reasons for Migration and Future Aspirations of Adolescent Female Head Porters in Accra's Agbogbloshie and Makola Markets

Diversity &Inclusion Research, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Migration among adolescent girls in Ghana, particularly adolescent female head porters locally known as Kayayei (singular: Kayayoo), is well‐documented, yet the interplay between migration drivers and future aspirations remains underexplored. This study investigates why migrant girls engage in head porterage in Accra's Makola and Agbogbloshie ...
Sylvester Kyei‐Gyamfi
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The song remains the same? Sobre las biografías sociales y personalizadas de las canciones

El Oído Pensante, 2013
Al pasar revista desde una posición crítica a la teoría adorniana del fetichismo musical, el presente artículo, siguiendo la propuesta de Arjun Appadurai para el estudio de los objetos, explora la posibilidad de desarrollar métodos de análisis de la ...
Julio Mendívil
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Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
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