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Operation Welcome: an analysis of power relations between military personnel, humanitarian workers and Indigenous peoples [PDF]
Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian AnthropologyIn response to the increased flow of Venezuelans arriving in Brazil via the state of Roraima, in the north of the country, thereby generating a ‘humanitarian crisis,’ the Brazilian government created Operation Welcome, configured around the neoliberal ...
Gabriel Tardelli
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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Cuadernos de Antropología Social, 2009 En este artículo analizamos cómo las regulaciones sociales, implicadas en toda formulación e implementación de políticas públicas, y educativas en particular, apelan a la inclusión educativa con un sesgo que, muchas veces, parte desde una visión ...
María Paula Montesino, Liliana Sinisi
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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ETNICIDAD Y NACIONALISMO EN LA ANTROPOLOGÍA DE WOLFGANG GABBERT [PDF]
Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red¿Cómo comprender y conceptualizar, cómo analizar y acompañar los movimientos sociales y políticos que surgen de las luchas de los pueblos originarios por su reconocimiento como actores etnopolíticos en el marco de los Estados-naciones contemporáneos ...
Gunther Dietz, Eloy Gómez-Pellón
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract The world of Colombian gaited horses, or cultura caballista (horse‐riding culture), is often linked with uribismo, the right‐wing identity associated with former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict‐torn Antioquia reveals how horse‐human practices of training, breeding, and competition cultivate orientations toward ...
Gwen Burnyeat
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia 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
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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