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- Baez Ullberg, Susann, PhD, Associate Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Making Megaprojects : The Practices and Politics of Scale-Making
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The world is currently experiencing a surge of investment in, and development of, large-scale infrastructural building projects, frequently captured by the term 'megaprojects'. Distinguished by the bulk of their envisioned materiality, the volume of financial capital required to build them, and the complexity of technical, legal, administrative, and political tools needed to bring them into operation, megaprojects do not easily lend themselves to ethnographic inquiry. While in recent years, ethnographic attention to infrastructure has given rise to a burgeoning theoretical apparatus and a growing anthropological subfield in which the various aspects of megaprojects have been analysed, scale as a concept has remained under-theorised. Exploring scale-making ethnographically and unpacking the work that scale does for various actors and publics, the contributions collected in this issue make a theoretical contribution to the anthropology of infrastructure by showing how scale connects the everyday making and the spectacular politics of megaprojects.
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- Baez Ullberg, Susann, PhD, Associate Professor, 1968-
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Water Works : Megaprojects and Timescaling in Peru
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Routledge. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Driven by an increasing industrial and urban demand for water and other economic and political interests, the Peruvian State has invested heavily in water infrastructures. One such infrastructure is the Majes Siguas Special Project in the Department of Arequipa. This megaproject was envisioned already in the early twentieth century to supply the coastland with irrigation water and thereby developing agriculture in this arid region. The first stage of the project was built in the 1970-80’s, but the second stage was not actualised until the 2000s and is still waiting to be built. Based on ethnography from fieldwork in the realm of the megaproject in 2016 and 2017, this article asks what happens when the materialisation of a megaproject is constantly deferred and explores how the promise it entails is sustained over time by analysing the social processes of temporal scale-making.
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- Bjarnesen, Jesper, 1977-
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The Precarity of Masculinity. Football,Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon : by Uroš Kovač, Oxford & New York, Berghahn, 2022, 220 pp., $135.00/£99.00(hardback), ISBN 978-1-78920-927-3; $34.95/£27.95 (paperback, forthcomingJune 2024), ISBN: 978-1-80539-330-6
- 2024
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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- Cole, Tomas
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'Power-Hurt' : The Pains of Kindness Among Disabled Karen Refugees in Thailand
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X. ; 85:2, s. 224-240
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper I show how, for many Karen living as refugees in 'temporary-shelter-areas' in Thailand, acts of care and kindness often slipped into something painful and controlling. Drawing on fieldwork among Karen refugees disabled by landmines I show how asking for and receiving help was almost always accompanied by the visceral sensation of ana, literally, 'power hurt'. On the one hand, ana was the force driving the circulation of care and kindness, provoking people to help others. On the other hand this circulation also carried with it the constant potential to compromise not only the recipient's but also the donor's 'power', which was understood as their capacity to have an effect on the world. In this manner ana may offer us with a way to grasp the ethical-affective basis of a social arrangement that slips smoothly between lateral solidarities and vertical hierarchical relations allowing egalitarianism and hierarchy to co-exist.
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- Dahl, G.B., et al.
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Anthropology, Museums and Contemporary Cultural Processes : An Introduction
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Routledge. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X. ; 65:2, s. 157-171
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of ethnographic museums was, to begin with, that of imparting information about foreign cultures. These were, often enough, described as the polar opposites of the civilized places in which ethnographic museums could be found. The museum objects metaphorically represented primitive stages in human development. They appeared like relics even if produced recently. Anthropology, ethnography, or ethnology was the academic discipline which concerned itself with primitive cultures. The ethnographic museum with its harvests of colonial booty therefore seemed like the self-evident medium for conveying anthropological information. Today the preconditions for this constellation have changed. Have museums become inappropriate to communicate anthropological knowledge?
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- Dewan, Camelia
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‘Climate Change as a Spice’ : Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry
- 2022
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Routledge. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X. ; 87:3, s. 538-559
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines whether the use of climate change as a ‘spice’ in order to attract donor funding may instead exacerbate existing environmental problems. The World Bank’s latest adaptation project in coastal Bangladesh aims to create higher and wider embankments against rising sea levels. This disregards a long history of how embankments, by stopping beneficial monsoon inundations, result in dying rivers and damaging floods that devastate rural livelihoods. Bangladeshi ‘development brokers’ must therefore balance their roles as project employees supporting embankments as adaptation, and as locals knowledgeable about their harmful effects. The article shows how donors, NGOs, consultants and government bodies with different agendas, priorities and knowledge backgrounds ‘translate’ climate change to legitimise their activities. It contributes to debates about the politics of environmental knowledge production by arguing that development brokerage helps explain why some climate adaptation projects increase environmental vulnerability, while others address local needs.
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- Dewan, Camelia, et al.
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'Fluid Dispossessions' : Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Routledge. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue on ‘“Fluid Dispossessions’: Contested Waters in Capitalist Natures” examines the multiple and mutable relationships between water, dispossession and property. We use ‘fluid dispossessions’ as an analytical prompt to examine the different ways in which water’s biophysical properties, its material fluidity and movements (and the more-than-human species that move with it), shape processes of capitalist extraction, accumulation and dispossession. Fluid dispossessions go beyond the power politics of controlling water as a resource to include indirect and more-than-economic forms of dispossession. By analysing emic understandings of dispossession, we draw on ‘fluid dispossessions’ to reject binary categorisations of liquid:solid in order to reveal the diversity of ways capitalist extractive activities may disrupt existing affective, ecological, or spiritual relations with water. This can cause more-than-economic forms of dispossession such as the loss of social reproduction, emotional distress, loss of health, the rupturing of multispecies relations and local care practices of waterscapes.
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- Dewan, Camelia
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Toxic Residues in Fluid Commons : More-Than-Economic Dispossession and Shipbreaking in Coastal Bangladesh
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ethnos. - : Routledge. - 0014-1844 .- 1469-588X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines processes of 'more-than-economic dispossession' arising from pollution in the interconnected forests, tides, canals, rivers and humid airs – the fluid commons – of the shipbreaking region Sitakunda. It ethnographically explores how minority Zele fishermen and shipbreaking workers are experiencing three interrelated forms of 'more-than-economic' dispossession. First, extra-economic means of accumulating profits by dismantling ships in cheaper countries enables dispossession by pollution in coastal ecologies. Second, more-than-economic points to the structures of political power inequalities making marginalised Bangladeshis exposed to toxics in ways that cannot be economically compensated. Lastly, more-than-economic draws on 'more-than-human' ethnographies: affective experiences of sensing, tasting, hearing and smelling pollution reveal how toxic residues biophysically damage the health of both human and more-than-human, resulting in the loss of ability to 'sustain life'. It thus joins the growing body of anthropological scholarship that expands on pollution as 'matter out of place' by taking its materiality seriously.
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