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We ought to discuss the social construction of cadavers: Here's why and how
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Fatima Ehsan, Susan Lamb
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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ABSTRACT This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's destruction illuminates the current conjuncture as an intensification of earlier authoritarian neoliberal tendencies.
Aleksandra Piletić
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THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST‐WAR SARAJEVO
ABSTRACT In postwar Sarajevo, repair is mainly a masculine activity, and people lean on communal networks to get things fixed under dire economic circumstances. Yet increased numbers of women without men in their households as an effect of the war necessitate the mediation of other women in facilitating access to men's labor.
HALİDE VELİOĞLU
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ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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White (inter)nationalism, Europe and the ‘distribution of the sensible’
Abstract This intervention approaches the Southport tragedy from the perspective of a protest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the wake of the killings. Like many major towns and cities across the UK, Belfast witnessed anti‐immigrant demonstrations and violence, alongside counterdemonstrations in the aftermath of the events in Southport.
Niall Cunningham
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Ageing and Mental Health in Canada: Perspectives from Law, Policy, and Longitudinal Research. [PDF]
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