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Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia Au‐delà des mots : raison publique non dialogique dans la Tunisie (post)révolutionnaire

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
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Post‐liberalism and the politics of liberation: Brazilian favelas as emergent territories of freedom Postlibéralisme et politique de la libération : les favelas brésiliennes, territoires de liberté émergents

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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Ghosting at the border: the racialization of extraterritoriality at the US Supreme Court Les limbes de la frontière : racialisation de l'extraterritorialité par la Cour suprême des États‐Unis

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The theoretical association of an inclusive public sphere with liberal democratic governing begs a closer examination. This article pursues forms of disqualification implicit in the idea of political community as a national project, ultimately finding that the exclusion of foreigners does not begin on the far side of the US border, but well within it ...
Carol J. Greenhouse
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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