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Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh—the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake—recently hit the headlines owing to an ecological crisis caused by the level of pollutants entering its waters. With political attention drawn to the lough, an emerging idea amongst environmental activists—inspired by the global ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) movement—is ...
Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
wiley   +1 more source

‘Home is not what it was’: making, unmaking, and remaking precarious homes among housing activists in Spain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Activists fighting evictions in Madrid develop various social, affective, and material connections with and disconnections from their homes. This is especially important for people who are immersed in a regime of economic austerity and neoliberal housing policies that have provoked the social and material unmaking and remaking of homes. These processes
Ana Paola Gutiérrez Garza
wiley   +1 more source

Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
wiley   +1 more source

Oral Medicine in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comprehensive survey of recognition, training, and practice. [PDF]

open access: yesMed Oral Patol Oral Cir Bucal
Saldivia-Siracusa C   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The value of transformation: Agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
wiley   +1 more source

“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

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