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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Performance política y plataformas digitales: estrategias discursivas en la difusión de desinformación en el caso de Nikolas Ferreira

open access: yesConexión
Este artículo analiza un video publicado por el diputado federal brasileño Nikolas Ferreira, figura de la extrema derecha en Brasil, sobre la supuesta imposición de impuestos al Pix, un sistema de pagos ampliamente utilizado en el país.
Gabriela Agostinho Pereira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

Rebelde(s): consumo e valores nas telenovelas brasileira e mexicana

open access: yesComunicação & Educação, 2013
Resumo: Partindo de duas pesquisas que se debruçaram sobre produtos midiáticos afins – Rebelde (veiculada no Brasil entre 2006-2007) e Rebeldes (2011) –, lançamos mão de seus discursos e buscamos traçar conexões sobre questões relacionadas a consumo, a ...
Maria Aparecida Baccega   +2 more
doaj  

Os Meios de Comunicação e a Figura da Mulher: uma reflexão sobre a personagem Clara da telenovela Em Família

open access: yesCuestiones de Género: de la Igualdad y la Diferencia, 2016
O presente artigo tem por objetivo refletir acerca da construção da figura da mulher operada pelos meios de comunicação, através de um dos seus produtos culturais, a telenovela brasileira.
Maria Aparecida Baccega   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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