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ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
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Race, intelligence and genetics: colonialism in the era of neurotechnology. [PDF]
Pyrrho M.
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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Converging crises and maternal and child health: colonialism, extreme weather, and COVID-19. [PDF]
Valentín-Cortés M +5 more
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Indigenous pregnancy: Agency and strength of Batwa women challenging colonialism and gender inequity. [PDF]
Patterson K +8 more
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Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption
Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty +5 more
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