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New Media Ecologies, Old Occupational Subjectivities and Practices: Tensions and Contradictions in Online Crowdfunding for the Arts in the Netherlands

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many artists in Europe now turn to online crowdfunding to fund their creative practices against the backdrop of cuts in state‐funded subsidies for the arts. Based on an ethnographic analysis of online crowdfunding in the Netherlands, I suggest that this neoliberal context requires artists to cultivate occupational subjectivities and practices ...
Eitan Wilf
wiley   +1 more source

LiDAR‐Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial landscapes play deep into the imagination of American consciousness, with coal mining rooted in Appalachian culture as both identity and political flashpoint. In Tennessee, coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Carla E. Klehm, V. Camille Westmont
wiley   +1 more source

Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract How did Chinese citizens imagine their political subjectivity under the zero‐COVID regime? Our patchwork netnography of social media discussions (2020–22) analyzes how China's pandemic governance generalized and intensified “biopolitical paternalism”—a mode of rule that fused security, care, and economic rationality under the figure of a ...
Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, Naiyu Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Natures and the Anthropocene: Racial Capitalism, Violent Materialities, and the Colonial Politics of Representation

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
wiley   +1 more source

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