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Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh—the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake—recently hit the headlines owing to an ecological crisis caused by the level of pollutants entering its waters. With political attention drawn to the lough, an emerging idea amongst environmental activists—inspired by the global ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) movement—is ...
Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill
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Nomos aversion and the art of being somewhat governed among Jewish outpost settlers in the West Bank

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Since the mid‐1990s, in clandestine co‐operation with state agencies, West Bank settlers have been establishing what have become known as the illegal outpost settlements. These are typically rustic communities located deep inside the frontier.
Amir Reicher
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Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro‐ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/ peripatetic divide in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
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The perplexity of Christmas trees: ageing, errantry, and intersectional time La perplexité des arbres de Noël : vieillissement, errance et temps intersectionnel

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What is offered by considering ageing, ethics, and intersectionality from a critical phenomenological perspective that draws upon critical race theory? Based upon an extended ethnography of African Americans raising children with illnesses and disabilities, I consider the Christmas trees that a grandmother lovingly decorated each year.
Cheryl Mattingly
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