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- Andersson, Ruben
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Hunter and prey : Patrolling Clandestine Migration in the Euro-African Borderlands
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Ingår i: Anthropological Quarterly. - : Project Muse. - 0003-5491 .- 1534-1518. ; 87:1, s. 119-149
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the past decade, the European Union and its member states have invested heavily in a far-reaching, diffuse, and technologized border regime targeting the elusive figure of the clandestine or illegal African migrant. Taking the mismatch between these large investments and the statistically small number of overland irregular migrants as its starting point, this article explores the embodied effects of illegality engendered in the policing of the Euro-African borderlands. Based on fieldwork with West African police forces, aid organizations, and migrants, it focuses on the migration circuit between the Sahel and Spain, where a joint European response to irregular flows was first tried and tested under the umbrella of the EU border agency Frontex. By highlighting the means of detection used to apprehend illegal migrants - from bodily signs to presumed intentions to migrate - the article looks at how an increasingly reified and embodied modality of migrant illegality is produced on the circuit between West Africa and Europe's southern shores. This production of illegality crucially depends on the incentives offered to African forces for participating in European controls. Tensions among African officers over the unequal gains from such incentives and ambivalence over the rationale for controls, I argue, make the transnational policing of clandestine migration a fraught site of state investment and concern.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-
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On Pastness : A Reconsideration of Materiality in Archaeological Object Authenticity
- 2013
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Ingår i: Anthropological Quarterly. - : Project Muse. - 0003-5491 .- 1534-1518. ; 86:2, s. 427-444
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues for a modified constructivist approach to archaeological object authenticity which takes the object’s materiality seriously. This is accomplished by defining authenticity not in relation to the age of an object but to its age-value, i.e., the quality or condition of being (of the) past—its pastness. Pastness is the result of a particular perception or experience. It derives from, among others, material clues indicating wear and tear, decay, and disintegration. These material clues, and thus the presence of pastness, can be created entirely in the present.
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- Larsson, Marie
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I Don't Make Coffee for My Husband in the Morning : Gender and Precarious Life among Home-based Workers in the Philippines
- 2018
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Ingår i: Anthropological Quarterly. - : Project Muse. - 0003-5491 .- 1534-1518. ; 91:1, s. 365-391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is about precariousness of work and shifting gender roles among Filipina home-based workers, who labor from or nearby their homes either as industrial homeworkers working for an employer, or as own-account laborers sometimes referred to as the self-employed. It demonstrates how gender and the globalization of production are formed, negotiated, and challenged by people through their localized ideas and practices. Focusing on the persons who have mobilized through Patamaba and Homenet Southeast Asia, I examine the relation between work and life, or workplace and home, which for a long time has involved a spatial division of gender roles that increasingly have been called into question. At the center of the analysis are the shrinking national labor market and growing spatial mobility of women due to their mobilization for the rights of the home-based workers. Because of this changing socio-economic environment, people's experiences of labor are much more complex than the binary gender discourses, as they constantly alternate between home and work, and reproduction and production, as well as the private and political. Finally, I suggest that the growing precarization of life must be approached from a gender viewpoint, which often has been bypassed in the scholarly debate.
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- Utas, Mats
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Victimcy, girlfriending, soldiering, tactic agency in a young woman's social navigation of the Liberian war zone
- 2005
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Ingår i: Anthropological Quarterly. - : Project Muse. - 0003-5491 .- 1534-1518. ; 78:2, s. 403-430
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims to collapse the often gendered opposition of agency and victim-hood that typically characterizes the analysis of women's coping strategies in war zones. The term victimcy is proposed to describe the agency of self-staging as victim of war and explore how it is deployed as one tactic-amongst others-in one young Liberian woman's "social navigation" of war zones. Victimcy is thus revealed as a form of self-representation by which a certain form of tactic agency is effectively exercised under the trying, uncertain, and disempowering circumstances that confront actors in warscapes. However the story of Bintu also reveals the complexity of women's strategies, roles, and options as they confront conflicting challenges and opportunities in war zones. While in some circumstances women may take humanitarian aid, in others they may also take up arms. An ethnography of social tactics thus counters reductionist portrayals of women in war zones as merely the passive victims of conflict.
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