Results 121 to 130 of about 71,069 (229)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 85-103, March 2026.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley +1 more source
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract This paper frames migrant makeshift camps as mobility infrastructures, bridging scholarship on informal dwellings and migration infrastructures with the case of Bihać, a transit city on the Bosnia–Croatia border. The central idea is that grassroots makeshift camps assembled in abandoned buildings or tents play a key infrastructural role in ...
Martino Zibetti (He/Him)
wiley +1 more source
Crossing Borderlands: The Face of Chicana Border Literature [PDF]
, 2005 Chicana literature details the trials and tribulations of Chicana life at the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. In particular it focuses on different challenges Chicana women face at the borderlands they must cross.
Ruiz, Irene
core +1 more source
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract The paper examines the existing relationships between universities and Frontex, investigating and problematising the intersection between the higher education sector and the violence of the European border regime. We introduce the concept of positivist dissonance to conceptualise these relationships within the wider “industrial‐military ...
Giulia Corgnier +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Tearing the Land From Underfoot: Environmental Racism at the Northern French Border
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Much attention has been devoted to the infliction of hostile environments on people on the move in political and discursive terms. However, less attention has been paid to the cultivation of physically hostile environments where they dwell. Building on critical border and environmental justice studies, this article examines how the natural ...
Maria Hagan
wiley +1 more source
Lessons from the history of Agave: ecological and cultural context for valuation of CAM. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2023 Davis SC, Ortiz-Cano HG.
europepmc +1 more source
Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley +1 more source
People, Land, Arts, Culture and Engagement: Taking Stock of the Place Initiative [PDF]
, 2014 This report serves as a point of entry into creative placemaking as defined and supported by the Tucson Pima Arts Council's PLACE Initiative. To assess how and to what degree the PLACE projects were helping to transform communities, TPAC was asked by the
core