Showing papers in "Critique of Anthropology in 2021"
TL;DR: The authors examines forms of citizenship and their everyday engagements with state and non-state actors, and proposes a definition of citizenship as a form of everyday engagement with the state and its agents.
Abstract: Anthropologists have posited that citizenship takes on multiple meanings and forms based on citizens’ everyday engagements with state and non-state actors. This article examines forms of citizenshi...
17 citations
TL;DR: If there are any charitable, philanthropic, or welfare-state activities in the de facto states of insurgent armies, they are generally interpreted in terms of utilitarian motives and the self-legit... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: If there are any charitable, philanthropic, or welfare-state activities in the de facto states of insurgent armies, they are generally interpreted in terms of utilitarian motives and the self-legit...
17 citations
TL;DR: In the Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa, piles of fresh concrete blocks vividly convey a sense of the momentous transformation under way in a place where building is now described as being 'in fashion' as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the Mozambican suburb of Inhapossa, piles of fresh concrete blocks vividly convey a sense of the momentous transformation under way in a place where building is now described as being ‘in fashio...
11 citations
TL;DR: It is now routine for anthropologists to study those who exercise power and control wealth and status in any number of societies as mentioned in this paper, and it is implicit in anthropology's long-standing commitment to apprehending...
Abstract: It is now routine for anthropologists to study those who exercise power and control wealth and status in any number of societies. Implicit in anthropology’s long-standing commitment to apprehending...
6 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the growing redundancy of living labour power in the capitalist production process has translated, since the last decades of the 20th century, into a surp... and draw on fieldwork in Madrid.
Abstract: Drawing on fieldwork in Madrid, I argue that the growing redundancy of living labour power in the capitalist production process has translated, since the last decades of the 20th century, into surp...
5 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze evolving urban governance in contemporary China, highlighting contradictory outcomes originating from the coexistence of the technologies of pervasive control, socialist legacies, and Maoist ideology.
Abstract: This article analyzes evolving urban governance in contemporary China, highlighting contradictory outcomes originating from the coexistence of the technologies of pervasive control, socialist legac...
5 citations
TL;DR: In the late 1990s, when I was conducting ethnographic fieldwork research in Lisbon, the 'dentists' case' had become a familiar trope for the presence of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: By the late 1990s, when I was conducting ethnographic fieldwork research in Lisbon, the ‘dentists’ case’ had become a familiar trope for the presence of Brazilian immigrants in Portugal. Although i...
5 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of infrastructures in the "bioinformational turn" in forensic science and examines processes through which evidence is constituted, validated or challenged in and thr...
Abstract: This article analyses the role of infrastructures in the ‘bioinformational turn’ in forensic science and examines processes through which evidence is constituted, validated or challenged in and thr...
4 citations
TL;DR: The authors suggests that anthropologists often assume that the people anthropologists work with are relatively powerless, and anthropologists tend to design their research and conduct their research in a way that assumes that these people are relatively powerful.
Abstract: This introduction suggests that anthropology often assumes that the people anthropologists work with are relatively powerless. Due to this default, anthropologists tend to design their research and...
3 citations
TL;DR: The child has long been a powerfully affective figure in development work as mentioned in this paper, whether as an abject victim or a joyful symbol of brighter future, and the power of children to produce emotions in do...
Abstract: The child has long been a powerfully affective figure in development work – whether as an abject victim or a joyful symbol of brighter futures. While the power of children to produce emotions in do...
3 citations
TL;DR: In 2007, Unilever, the world's largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest A...
Abstract: In 2007, Unilever, the world’s largest tea company, announced plans to source its entire tea supply sustainably, beginning with the certification of its tea producers in East Africa to Rainforest A...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for gendering affective citizenship and humanitarianism, and argue that both of these "regimes of care" are understood to work through benevolent affect, to mobilize citizens in the wake of tragedy.
Abstract: This article argues for gendering affective citizenship and humanitarianism. Both of these ‘regimes of care’ are understood to work through benevolent affect, to mobilize citizens in the wake of th...
TL;DR: This article explored how oil and gas experts negotiate social power and precariousness within the US hydrocarbon sector, drawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, and found that in an industry long associated with...
Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic research in Houston, Texas, I explore how oil and gas experts negotiate social power and precariousness within the US hydrocarbon sector. In an industry long associated with...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that French migrants in Abu Dhabi (UAE) are often portrayed as money-driven and greedy, notably by their compatriots, and that common representations of the Gulf area as extraordinarily af...
Abstract: French migrants in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates – UAE) are often portrayed as money-driven and greedy, notably by their compatriots. Common representations of the Gulf area as extraordinarily af...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore practices and ideologies of equality as the central mechanisms through which cosmopolitan Scandinavians in the capital of Mozambique simultaneously build themselves as a commu...
Abstract: This article explores practices and ideologies of equality as the central mechanisms through which cosmopolitan Scandinavians in the capital of Mozambique simultaneously build themselves as a commu...
TL;DR: Anthropological accounts of power remain characterized by an enduring tension as discussed by the authors, and social scientific theories of power allow anthropologists to situate subjects and mediate between contending perspecti...
Abstract: Anthropological accounts of power remain characterized by an enduring tension. Social scientific theories of power allow anthropologists to situate subjects and mediate between contending perspecti...
TL;DR: In recent decades, California's vast network of aqueducts and dams is often cited as the embodiment of a high-modernist approach to resource management as mentioned in this paper. But while once widely celebrated, in recent decades this i...
Abstract: California’s sprawling network of aqueducts and dams is often cited as the embodiment of a high-modernist approach to resource management. But while once widely celebrated, in recent decades this i...
TL;DR: In this paper, the author reviews the fine ethnographic analyses in this special issue and argues that they become more coherent if power is understood as a sociotechnological network.
Abstract: The author reviews the fine ethnographic analyses in this special issue and argues that they become more coherent if power is understood as a sociotechnological network. This further implies that a...
TL;DR: The authors offers a critique of Christian humanitarianism in Zambia. But it does so by engaging with the arguments of anthropologists who have begun to question the status of political critique w...
Abstract: This article offers a critique of Christian humanitarianism in Zambia. But it does so by engaging with the arguments of anthropologists who have begun to question the status of political critique w...