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The border as temporal horizon: a borderlands massacre and the contested futures of federalism in eastern Ethiopia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.
Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

The artisanal underground: gold, subsistence, and subsurface materiality in Colombia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 353-375, June 2025.
Abstract This article focuses on subsurface materiality to explore how small‐scale gold miners in Colombia navigate formal politics. In much critical research, the underground appears as a space of great developmentalist ambition, whose resources enable corporate expansion and bureaucratic rule.
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Objectively measured environmental factors in relation to school travel mode among adolescents: a decision tree analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Behav Nutr Phys Act
Malnes L   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Women who pay their own brideprice: reimagining provider masculinity through Uganda's thriving wedding industry

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 493-512, June 2025.
Abstract In Uganda, the ‘traditional’ wedding, wherein a groom brings money and gifts to his father‐in‐law's home, has long been understood as the ultimate demonstration of a man's social maturity. Yet masculine adulthood is becoming increasingly elusive as weddings become more difficult to afford.
Erin V. Moore, Nanna Schneidermann
wiley   +1 more source

Mining and/in outer space: Verticality, analogy, and infrastructural mediation in subarctic Sweden Les mines et/dans l'espace : verticalité, analogie et médiation infrastructurelle dans les régions subarctiques de Suède

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 605-625, June 2025.
Space activities in subarctic Sweden are predicated on older infrastructures of underground resource extraction. The ongoing expansion of the country's rocket launch site outside Kiruna relies on the Swedish state's historical construction of the region as a resource frontier.
Chakad Ojani
wiley   +1 more source

SPORT‐RELATED GENTRIFICATION: Behind the Spectacle of Settler Colonial Urbanism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban studies scholars and sociologists of sport have critically examined the production and consumption of world‐class sports spectacles that are constitutive elements of urban growth agendas and broader accumulation processes by dispossession.
Jay Scherer, Rylan Kafara, Jordan Koch
wiley   +1 more source

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