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The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
wiley   +1 more source

Youth media consumption within cosmopolitan experiences: between global entertainment and local practices

open access: yes, 2016
Este artigo apresenta como proposta a discussão sobre a conexão entre consumo midiático juvenil e experiências cosmopolitas. Trata-se de parte constituinte do projeto de pesquisa “Cosmopolitismos juvenis. Projeto Brasil. Etapa 1: Concepções e práticas cosmopolitas em jovens universitários brasileiros”, sediado pela ESPM-SP, vinculado ao projeto ...
Bekesas, Wilson Roberto   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Fossil Health: Deconstructing the Health and Energy Relationship to Reimagine a Viable Future. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv
Vivas L, Cash-Gibson L, Chiabai A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tales of “Good Indian Hair”: Race, Value, and Sensory Contact Zones in Afro‐Asian Delhi

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Hair, as a sociocultural bodily signifier, also becomes, once disembodied, a highly globalized and specialized commodity used for weaves, extensions, wigs and toupees around the globe. “Indian” hair is particularly valued in such commodity chains.
Bani Gill
wiley   +1 more source

The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

Some Notes on La Faiseuse D'anges (A Fazedora De Anjos, 1908), by Pedro Weingärtner

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 2, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Pedro Weingärtner's La Faiseuse d'Anges (A Fazedora de Anjos, 1908) stands as one of the most unsettling artefacts of Brazilian academic painting. Conceived in Rome but rooted in the Parisian fait divers of the ‘angel‐maker,’ it translates a sensational story of reproductive crime into a monumental moral tableau.
Gustavo Ruiz da Silva
wiley   +1 more source

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