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Inspired by political philosophy, critical studies of border regimes often reduce human rights and relief work to some accomplice role in migratory control and surveillance. Drawing on ethnographic ... coordination between local authorities, civil associations, and international organizations. Revealing the political dimensions of service delivery-not reducible to domination-these assemblages of modes of
In this article, I take the principle underwriting Gramsci’s philosophy of praxis that ‘all men are philosophers’, as a point of departure to interrogate the anti-cosmopolitan everyday conceptions of ... emphasise one final element of Gramscis’ philosophy which needs to be part and parcel of any anthropological engagement with common sense. Besides shedding light on the social and political nature of everyday
, political mobilization was focused on achieving that transition, and Marxist debate provided some of the tools we needed. Godelier’s political perspective—especially his interest in explaining what produced ... explain the political economic and socio-cultural positions we observed, which responded to pressures to “modernize” and increase productivity, while embedded in “traditional” conceptual elements. Hence
disclosed as the primary mode both of existence and of practice. Ultimately, and in order to demonstrate the current political ramifications of Gramsci’s understanding of common sense, I turn to his figure of ... . London: Verso. Althusser , Louis. 1971 . Lenin and Philosophy and other Essays . New York and London: Monthly Review Press. Arendt , Hannah. 1992 . Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy . Chicago: The
structures and reaffirm that class struggles articulate our present. In this essay, I would like to retrace the last few months in order to understand the political process from the wave of protests at the end ... the virus a class character, the intensity that political dynamics reached in the last few months did not seem foreseeable.2 For some months, the pandemic restrictions and the severity of the struggle
such human remains. Thirdly, it discusses how recognition of past oppression, dispossession and exploitation ties to broader political goals and attempts at redistribution. ... embodies a plurality of diverse spiritual and political meanings and agendas, all aimed at addressing diverse historical and contemporary injustices—a complexity which escapes singular definition or
-day political landscape. Gramsci’s role in the article is threefold. First, since he was a keen observer of fascist developments, I relate his observations on fascism and inquire into their relevance ... political gains means neglecting a specific philosophy that informs their social assistance practices. In proposing their clearly defined and carefully organized social assistance program, LA members
attitudes to caste, and with often antagonistic political interests. Classes of Labour also demonstrates that Giddens’ concept of “class structuration” offers a suitable theoretical grounding for identifying ... very different—indeed often antagonistic—political interests. The divide runs between those who—in local categories—“have naukri (service)” and those who “do kam (work)”, that is, between those who are
efforts purporting to support “trafficking victims.” I argue that the higher goal of building a counter-trafficking apparatus — in itself a political objective — limits the rights of “victims,” making ... processes that claim to be part of their protection de facto neo-liberal anti-political exercises in reenforcing bureaucratic state power. Critical trafficking studies; Human trafficking; Portugal
have been expressly framed as perpetuated by coloniality. I argue that the Namibian protests amount to new political forms of intersectional decoloniality that challenge the notion of decolonial activism ... ) headquarters. Together with the Reiterdenkmal (see below) and the Christuskirche (Christ Church) consecrated in 1910, it conveyed an encompassing message of an intertwined political–military and spiritual
There is an ongoing debate in anthropology on the kinds of subject positions activists ascribe to the marginalized actors they encounter and the political consequences this brings about. Drawing from ... rights activism, and political activism and argue to reframe the analysis. Instead of looking for the “right” subject position activists should ascribe to the people they engage with, the anthropology of
Using a comparative, hemispheric perspective on Wayúu history and historicity in the Guajira peninsula, the essay outlines the political aims, projects, and laws of the Wayúu in relation to memory ... past in relation to kinship and lineage and jurisdiction, as well as how they make use of new technologies in pursuit of political legitimation and cultural preservation. On a blisteringly clear day in
Age elements and principles of a more advanced science, prejudices from all past phases of history at the local level and intuitions of a future philosophy which will be that of a human race united the ... masses of workers that would provide the foundation for necessary political narratives. It is this assumption that lies behind his assertion, which makes some anthropologists Vol.:(012134536789
about kinship as a building block of society, its form crystallizing political and economic organization (Carsten 2004). But anthropologists found that they could not extend the same logic to large-scale ... conservative male-breadwinner and female-homemaker model. After reunification in 1990, eastern Germany assumed the western German political and juridical system, including its family policies. But, as Tatjana
on movement, knowledge and description . London: Routledge. Jessop , Bob. 2005 . Gramsci as a spatial theorist . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 ( 4 ): 421 - 437 ... cities within global political-economic configurations. At the same time, opportunities for migrants are linked to specific historical conjuncture (Çağlar and Glick Schiller 2018) . For Çağlar and Glick
This article analyses the production of Bitcoin through two contradictory approaches to value: the labour theory of value as formulated by Karl Marx and value as an effect of political control ... labour-time of the workers’ reproduction). Capitalism is a specific historical, social form where power is exercised not through political domination but through economic incentives and property relations
Town , South Africa 1 Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology Institute, University of Göttingen , Göttingen , Germany 2 Institute of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires & Consejo Nacional de ... diverse contemporary manifestations of IP and their relation to social justice. The collection sheds light on various context-specific forms in which identities underlie political action and modes of
Antoni Kępiński remains an often read and quoted author even 40 years after his premature death. Usually he is read in the context of his times and his connections with contemporary philosophy. This ... from his extensive clinical experience. Philosophy of psychiatry; philosophy of medicine; Antoni Kępiński - This paper is not the paper I set out to write. My original idea was to use my reading of
produces knowledge under certain historical conditions and an understanding of its own political practice. ... position conflicts with attempts to consider the political together with the ethical because certain entities like Indian philosophy are pre-stabilized and then pitted against western theory. The problem
political reasons or as part of their activist work, thereby making themselves stateless (Araxia 2014; Kane 2018) . In Europe alone, more than half a million people are de facto stateless (UNHCR 2018 ... ramifications of statelessness, most of them with backgrounds in international relations, law, or theoretical philosophy. I have found my way into this group through my work as a country-of-origin expert. In
