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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 277-292, March 2026.
Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 332-344, March 2026.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
wiley   +1 more source

Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 123-142, March 2026.
The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

Chaos theory and its applications in forensic anthropology. [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sci Int Synerg
Smith-Escudero S   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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