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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
wiley   +1 more source

‘Home is not what it was’: making, unmaking, and remaking precarious homes among housing activists in Spain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Activists fighting evictions in Madrid develop various social, affective, and material connections with and disconnections from their homes. This is especially important for people who are immersed in a regime of economic austerity and neoliberal housing policies that have provoked the social and material unmaking and remaking of homes. These processes
Ana Paola Gutiérrez Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Platform capitalisms and platform cultures. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Cult Stud
Steinberg M, Zhang L, Mukherjee R.
europepmc   +1 more source

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