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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
wiley   +1 more source

EVIL EYE AND OTHER SORCERY. WITCHCRAFT AND HEALING IN EUROPE AND AMERICA: MEXICO, SPAIN, ROMANIA AND PORTUGAL

open access: yesRa Ximhai, 2017
The popular tradition has collected and maintained over generations, the belief in the evil eye. The base of this superstition, connected with envy, has its origins in antiquity and there is evidence that both Greece and Rome were ritual practices ...
Margarita Paz-Torres
doaj  

Mapping the Daoist Ritual Cosmos: A Social Network Analysis of Generals in Song–Ming Liturgies

open access: yesReligions
This study employs social network analysis to illuminate the intricate relationships within Daoist exorcism rituals from the Southern Song to the Yuan dynasty, as documented in two pivotal compilations: Pearls Left Behind from the Sea of Ritual (Fahai ...
Chen-Hung Kao, Yu-Jung Cheng
doaj   +1 more source

Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
wiley   +1 more source

Mental Illness - Chapter 5 of Counseling and the Demonic

open access: yes, 1988
Chapter 5 of Counseling and the Demonic by Rodger K ...
Bufford, Rodger K
core  

Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
wiley   +1 more source

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