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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Water for Oil. Fluid Dispossessions and Institutional Loopholes in Turkana’s Extractive Areas

open access: yesNomadic Peoples
In March 2012, the discovery of crude oil accelerated activities in the semi-arid northern ‘frontier’ of Turkana County (Kenya) (Elliott 2016; Peluso and Lund 2011). The joint venture between the Kenyan government and its international partner Tullow Oil
Elisabeth Schubiger
doaj   +1 more source

Disposal and Reinvention: Citizenship in an Era of Electronic Capitalism

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2018
Ever since the expansion of video-politics, television canalises citizens' criticism and demands regarding political authorities, conceiving of citizens as spectators.
García Canclini Néstor
doaj   +1 more source

Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Justice in Unequal Cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Housing Justice in Unequal Cities is a global research network funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1758774) and housed at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.
Bissell, Evan   +20 more
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

Life in the ‘Hum’: Belongings and Everyday Dispossession

open access: yesInternational Journal on Homelessness
Precariously homed people do not control the spaces they call home. As a result, their belongings are governed by the actions of people granted greater legal powers.
Marina Chavez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt. The Production of Undisciplined Knowledges in the Neoliberal Age

open access: yesInterAlia, 2021
"As an intervention into a domesticated academic knowledge production and an increasingly normative queer theorizing, Queer Indiscipline, Decolonial Revolt asks for the proliferation of other modalities of thinking and writing.
Tyna Fritschy
doaj   +1 more source

Rights or containment? The politics of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Aboriginal cultural heritage protection, and the legislative regimes that underpin it, constitute important mechanisms for Aboriginal people to assert their rights and responsibilities.
Porter, E.
core   +1 more source

Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
wiley   +1 more source

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