Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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Health Fetishism Among The Nacirema: A Fugue On Jenny Reardon’s The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After The Genome (Chicago University Press, 2017) And Isabelle Stengers’ Another Science Is Possible: A Manifesto For Slow Science (Polity Press, 2018) [PDF]
, 2018 Personalized medicine has become a goal of genomics and of health policy makers. This article reviews two recent books that are highly critical of this approach, finding their arguments very thoughtful and important. According to Stengers, biology’s rush
Gilbert, Scott F.
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Literatura jako perverzní strategie: Alain Robbe-Grillet [PDF]
Svět LiteraturyThe perverse imagery was always one of the privileged and declared sources of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s artistic expression. This study tries to find a latent core under the surface of Robbe-Grillet’s sadis tic images, which reside in the splitting of the ...
Denis Katsaros
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Mise au Point, 2018 Atom Egoyan’s Artaud Double Bill (2007) foregrounds the parallel gazes of two female spectators in film theatres where Vivre sa vie (Godard, 1962) and The Adjuster (Egoyan, 1991) are shown.
Jean-François Baillon
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Mediating the Scottish independence debate [PDF]
, 2015 In the six months leading up to the referendum vote on 18 September 2014 Scotland experienced a period of exceptionally heightened political discourse, a widespread form of political participation unusual in western liberal-democracies.
Law, Alex
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Living for the weekend: youth identities in northeast England [PDF]
, 2009 Consumption and consumerism are now accepted as key contexts for the construction of youth identities in de-industrialized Britain. This article uses empirical evidence from interviews with young people to suggest that claims of `new community' are ...
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Resistance Values in Palestinian Hip-hop Music [PDF]
, 2012 This research aims to describe popular culture of Palestine Hip-Hop and the values of songs. This research has purposes 1) to describe popular culture in Palestine Hip-Hop, and 2) to find resistance value in hip-hop songs.
Alindah, L. (Lutfiyah)
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Comoditty fetishism and subjectivity fetishism: a comparative analysis on Zigmunt Bauman’s work
Revista Sem Aspas, 2012 Zigmunt Bauman’s work presents a diversity of themes and approaches that does not relate to disciplinary frontiers in the search of understanding human complexity.
Isabella Duarte Pinto Meucci
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“Ontological predation” and the conjuring of liberal fixations: ruminations on (inter)dependencies and “savage” (dis)possessions [PDF]
Revista do Instituto de Estudos BrasileirosThis essay explores (inter) dependency through the concepts of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s “floating signifiers” and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s “ontological predation”, placing them in dialogue with other social theories, such as Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s ...
Gustavo S. Azenha
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Disillusionment with Chinese culture in the 1880s : Wang Tao\u27s Three classical tales
, 2016 Leading scholars of modern Chinese literature have long discussed how the May Fourth became a hegemonic force and have sought to uncover the “burdens of May Fourth”; that is, those discourses eclipsed by the May Fourth intellectuals as they promoted the ...
SHI, Xiaoling
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