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SOIL FORENSICS: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 753-778, November 2025.
ABSTRACT As Colombia attempted to achieve peace, the city of Medellín aimed to move beyond its violent past, breaking ground on ambitious green development projects to bring parks and infrastructure to the city's most peripheral neighborhoods. But these projects threatened to evict local residents, as city planners deployed maps of soils at risk of ...
MEGHAN L. MORRIS
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Migraciones y apertura cosmopolita de la ciudadanía

Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura, 2012
Este artículo pretende mostrar, por una parte, cómo las migraciones contribuyen a transformar la realidad y la comprensión de la ciudadanía. Alteran la composición social y cultural de las sociedades receptoras, y la percepción de sus miembros sobre su ...
Javier Peña Echeverría
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‘The place where you should have been born’—Conservation practitioners sacralising wilderness and developing a sense of belonging in the Manu National Park, Perú

People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 6, Page 1413-1424, June 2025.
Abstract The management of protected areas is often portrayed as an enterprise guided by objective knowledge and technical criteria, a claim that situates conservation practitioners in positions of power relative to other actors in these spaces. Challenging these claims of objectivity by exploring conservation practitioners' subjective views is vital ...
Eduardo Salazar Moreira
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Loss remakes you

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 149-157, March 2025.
Abstract This article tells the story of my research on Dutch wax cloth, a highly prized textile and cultural artifact in Togo, my home country. I examine the fate of the cloth and of the Togolese women who made it into an object of great significance in the wake of political upheaval starting in the late 1980s, the same upheaval that led to my family ...
Amah Edoh
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Niñez migrante venezolana en la región andina

Revista Andina de Educación
A partir de un levantamiento bibliográfico con alcance en el ámbito regional andino, se analizan investigaciones con foco en la vida escolar de la niñez migrante procedente de Venezuela, en tres países de acogida (Colombia, Perú y Ecuador ...
Indira Granda
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At a crossroads: Historicizing encounters with new racializations in the Central American and Mexican migratory landscape

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 30, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract This collection explores how contemporary racialization processes shape and are shaped by migration dynamics in the Central American and Mexican context. Marked by histories of migration and displacement, the region has become a critical crossroads for increasingly diverse populations on the move, from journeys of African, Asian, and Caribbean
Nanneke Winters, Caitlin E. Fouratt
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An ethnography of joy: Entrepreneurship among Latinx communities in East Los Angeles

American Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 4, Page 635-646, December 2024.
Abstract How do people living at the intersection of various forms of injury seek out collective experiences of joy? I explore this question through fieldwork with Latinx female and queer artists and entrepreneurs, some of them undocumented, who consciously seek out and enact joy in their communities in East Los Angeles.
Yana Stainova
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¿Trascender la “construcción de identidades”? Identificación, imagen social, pertenencia

Revista Colombiana de Antropología, 2017
El presente análisis crítico no busca discutir textos sobre un mismo tema. Más bien propone articular una serie de trabajos con distintos puntos de vista2: un texto teórico de Rogers Brubaker; los estudios sobre la sociohistoria de la burocracia desde ...
Martina Avanza, Gilles Laferté
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Flavour, culture and food security: The spicy entanglements of chile pepper conservation in 21st century Mexico

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 5, Page 1111-1120, September 2024.
Political interests and power structures shape state‐led crop conservation and food policy. As a crop that relates to culture and belonging, the chile crop is ideal for exploring how food security policy and crop conservation schemes integrate aspects beyond staple crops, calories, and/or electoral incentives.
Daniela Sclavo
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Discursos de odio: formas actuales de antisionismo y antiisraelismo gubernamental

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
Este artículo examina los límites del compromiso de las Naciones Unidas y de sus Estados miembros con la promoción del entendimiento mutuo y el respeto entre naciones.
Viviana Masciadri
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