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Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The Covid‐19 Pandemic and Pre‐Existing Migration Infrastructures: Differentiated Impacts on Nepali Migrants in Japan

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic disproportionately affected international migrants worldwide. However, not all international migrants were uniformly impacted. While much of the literature has focused on the pandemic's effects on migrants relative to citizens, the impacts faced by different groups of migrants remain less understood.
Ramesh Sunam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Obsessed Persons - Useful Ritual Officials?

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2008
Da­ni­je­l Si­na­ni­, Op­sed­nu­tost i eg­zor­ci­zam u Sr­bi­ji. An­tro­po­lo­ški pri­stup. Srp­ski ge­ne­a­lo­ški cen­tar i Ode­lje­nje za et­no­lo­gi­ju i an­tro­po­lo­gi­ju Fi­lo­zof­skog fa­kul­te­ta u Be­o­gra­du, knj. 31, Be­o­grad, 2007, str. 190.
Dragana Antonijević
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Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
wiley   +1 more source

Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry

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Short Abstract This paper investigates the impact of Covid‐19, border closure, and the military coup on the mining and trading of Kachin amber in northern Myanmar. Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have dramatically affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Myanmar.
Seng Lawn Dan, Alessandro Rippa
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐linear pathways of/for social and spatial justice research

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Short Abstract This commentary challenges the linear connection between research, engagement and activism in geographical scholarship, emphasising how these elements often intersect, overlap and conflict in complex, non‐linear ways. It reflects on the author's personal experiences as a human geographer and activist in the UK and Spain, exploring the ...
Mara Ferreri
wiley   +1 more source

Possessed persons - useful ritual functonaries?

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
Review of the book by Danijel Sinani, Opsednutost i egzorcizam u Srbiji. Antropološki pristup (The Obsession and the Exorcism in Serbia. Anthropological Approach), Srpski genealoški centar i Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u
Dragana Antonijević
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