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Going Nowhere: Ambivalence about Drug Treatment during an Overdose Public Health Emergency in Vancouver. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Anthropol Q, 2021
Abstract The declaration of an overdose public health emergency in Vancouver has generated an “affective churn” of intervention across youth‐focused drug treatment settings, including the expanded provision of opioid agonist therapy. In this article, I track moments when young people became swept up in the momentum of this churn and the future ...
Fast D.
europepmc   +2 more sources

(Epistemic) Injustice and Resistance in Canadian Research Ethics Governance. [PDF]

open access: yesEthics Hum Res
ABSTRACT This article brings a philosophical perspective to bear on issues of research ethics governance as it is practiced and organized in Canada. Insofar as the processes and procedures that constitute research oversight are meant to ensure the ethical conduct of research, they are based on ideas or beliefs about what ethical research entails and ...
Clairmont S   +3 more
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"Do they do our Thozhil?": toxic industrialization, uncertainty, and refusal in North Chennai [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 543-569, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This article shows how acts of refusal mediated different experiences of uncertainty among the artisanal fishermen who lived and worked in Ennore's (Chennai, India) polluted landscape. In uncovering how some of these uncertainties were experienced as a result of histories of urban segregation that rendered peripheral locations like Ennore ...
Raghavan, R.
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The Artificial as an Intelligent Indigenous/Indigenizing System

open access: yesVisual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 458-474, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores the vital importance of the sensory at the nexus of the artificial and real life. Co‐existing within colonial histories, the artificial and lived are bound up with intractable violence and inequities driven by capitalist, militarist, and anthropocentric trajectories. Our collaborative article examines the 30‐year practice
r e a, Jennifer L. Biddle, Lily Hibberd
wiley   +1 more source

Producing Indigenous Media

open access: yesVisual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 128-143, Spring 2023., 2023
Abstract The following dialogue—with Indigenous filmmakers and anthropologists Dr. Angelo Baca (Diné/Hopi), Teresa Martinez‐Chavez (Zapotec), Dr. Teresa Montoya (Diné), and Dr. Ikaika Ramones (Kanaka ʻŌiwi)—charts the ethical protocols and decisions undertaken in the production of documentary films with and within Indigenous communities.
Teresa Montoya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refusing aid

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 103-114, February 2023., 2023
Abstract “Aid dependency” has long been a concern among development organizations, because it supposedly discourages the entrepreneurial spirit and thus hinders economic development. But what happens when beneficiaries refuse aid? In this article, I offer an ethnographic account of aid refusal in postconflict northern Uganda.
Sarah O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Religions: State of the field

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Native American and Indigenous religions are incredibly diverse in practice, belief, material culture, and organization, which shape distinct individual religious experiences and communal identities. The study of Native American and Indigenous religions is not the study of a singular religion or people nor does it refer to a singular ...
Brennan Keegan
wiley   +1 more source

“We All Live in One World”: Challenging Settler Mythologies With Sovereign Assertions

open access: yesAnthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how settler colonial myths perpetuate systemic inequities in the education of Native students in Southern Utah. It critiques the “two‐worlds” narrative used to justify marginalization and explores how Native parents use sovereign assertions to challenge these injustices.
Cynthia Benally, Donna Deyhle, Beth King
wiley   +1 more source

The data and the examples: Comprehensiveness, accuracy, and sensitivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Good grammars are read by diverse audiences with a wide variety of interests. One might not write a reference grammar in exactly the same way for all potential users, but particularly in the case of under-documented and endangered languages, it is likely
Mithun, Marianne
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“Labor for Love, Labor to Heal:” Human Rights Activism as a Politics of Refusal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The literature on social movements centers demands made on the state and theorizes collective action as rooted in specific times and the nation-state. I ague that this literature is analogous to “the veil,” a concept developed by W.E.B.
Fillingim, Angela E.
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