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- Blanes, Ruy, 1976, et al.
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Drought Terroirs: Debating anthropological territorialities in the study of climate change and environmental disasters
- 2022
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - 2003-7201 .- 2003-1173. ; 5:1-2, s. 115-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The term ‘terroir’ is traditionally used in wine making; in this article, we perform an analytical intervention on the concept of ‘terroir,’ as a potentially useful category to think through issues of territoriality in the framework of environmental disaster from an anthropological perspective. Incorporating ethnographic fieldwork on the extreme drought that has been unfolding in Southwestern Angola since 2009, we explore the analytical potential of ‘drought terroirs’ to untap the complexities and scales of environmental disaster, and at the same time debate the problem of territoriality as an ethnographic problem. We argue that an ethnographic transposition of ‘terroir’ into ‘drought terroir’ can help us grasp further complexities and nuances of territoriality in terms of scale, agency, and temporality in the face of current debates on global climate change.
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- Gillette, Maris Boyd, 1967, et al.
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Introduction: Is Europe skilling for sustainable food?
- 2022
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. - 2003-7201 .- 2003-1173. ; 5:1, s. 9-16
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- Gillette, Maris Boyd, 1967, et al.
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Sweden’s good fishers: Skills and values in a transforming social-ecological field
- 2022
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - 2003-7201 .- 2003-1173. ; 5:1, s. 37-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we build on the “good farmer” literature to explore how Swedish coastal fishers represented the “good fisher” in the context of transformations in the social-ecological field of commercial fishing. Anthropological and other social science research on the “good farmer,” “good fisher,” “good crofter” and related life-modes, works against the reductionist models of farmers, fishers, and other livelihood actors as driven by profit or economic need. When such models inform environmental policy, management, and activism, they often lead to unintended and unfortunate consequences. Here, drawing on the Bourdieusian “good farmer” tradition, we use interviews and ethnographic materials to investigate what makes the “good fisher” in Swedish coastal fishing, paying particular attention to how fishers have responded to social and ecological changes by reskilling and developing a new practical sense for their profession. Our interlocutors experienced the transformations in Swedish coastal fishing as significantly modifying the skilled performance of fishing, yet the moral values that undergirded their notions of the “good fisher” closely resemble those described in the social science literature on coastal fishers. We argue that these stable moral values relate to the stakes and interests which animate commercial fishing as a social-ecological field, which non-fishers often misunderstand or neglect. Our study challenges reductionist models of fishers and other livelihood actors, a task that many scholars regard as crucial for making progress toward sustainable food, while reworking Bourdieusian theory deployed in “good farmer” research to include not only social but also ecological dimensions.
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- Hellman, Jörgen, 1962
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A day at the office: In and out of diversity
- 2023
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - 2003-7201 .- 2003-1173. ; 6:2, s. 86-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using empirical data from fieldwork conducted at a city office in Sweden, the article reflects on how the staff contextualise diversity in such a way that allows them to seamlessly fade in and out between making cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity relevant and irrelevant. Using the concepts of post-Otherness and postmigration, I argue that categories built around ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes were made irrelevant by the staff in the office context, while still being significant to them to understand and define society outside the office.
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Is Europe skilling for sustainable food?
- 2022
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi - Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - 2003-7201 .- 2003-1173. ; 5:1-2
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In Europe as elsewhere around the world, sustainable food is a pressing concern. As we write this introduction, diverse socio-economic actors operating in increasingly complex and challenging contexts are experiencing new vulnerabilities caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, energy crisis, and war in Ukraine. European media report startling increases in food poverty, with an additional 200 million people confronting acute food insecurity since the Covid-19 pandemic began (Harvey 2022). Philanthropic organisations rush to open new food banks and parents report cutting back on food consumption, while the multinational corporations that control 70-90% of the global grain trade have made a “record bonanza” since the Ukraine war began (Harvey 2022, Lawson 2022, Yucel 2022). Many agree that we need radical change to make food provisioning more sustainable. In the words of the United Nations, “Everyone, everywhere must take action and work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food” (UN, n.d.). This special issue of kritisk etnografi speaks directly to this daunting scenario. With contributions grounded in first-hand ethnographic observation of diverse European contexts, we consider our positioning in food provisioning systems: not only where we are and where we need to go, but what is at hand to make the change, what works and what is stunted in its striving – often by sociocultural considerations that rarely enter dominant sustainability agendas. Anthropological research on food provisioning is seldom spotlighted at international summits or featured in major news stories, yet ethnographers know a great deal about “the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food” (UN, n.d.), including which action is (or is not) congenial to “transforming” foodways in specific contexts and among specific people (e.g., Barnard 2016; Grasseni 2013, 2020; Pilgeram 2011; Rissing 2019). Our ethnographic insights on “sustainable food” in Europe examine skill in relation to food production, distribution, and consumption. If change is what is needed for Europe and the world to achieve sustainable foodways, then skills to support that change must be developed.
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- Appelgren, Staffan, 1967, et al.
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Harnessing the Unruly: Anthropological Contributions in Applied Reuse Projects
- 2020
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology. - 2003-1173. ; 3:2, s. 87-103
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the experiences of two anthropologists working on two applied collaborative projects, both with a focus on sustainable consumption, and both spin-offs from a more conventional academic research project on second-hand and reuse. Although different – one focusing on the reuse of office furniture in the public sector, the other on co-creating an exhibition at a state-run museum – both entailed interventions aiming to stimulate a transition to less damaging ways of living and consuming. Collaborating with a municipality, a state-run museum and a reuse design company, as well as various professional stakeholders in the sector, the anthropologists outline how being ‘unruly’ – probing deeper into seemingly self-evident questions, recontextualising issues, and making associations between domains – allowed them to provide new perspectives and formulate alternative understandings of how to meet the challenges. The main contributions of anthropology in applied settings are often said to be the methodological tools and techniques of the discipline, but in this case, insights from posthumanism significantly shaped the outcomes of the two projects. The authors argue that abstract theoretical insights can play an important role in providing solutions or understandings in concrete, applied situations.
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- Arens, William
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Two John Eri(c)(k)ssons Make One Anthropologist
- 2021
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Ingår i: kritisk etnografi. - Stockholm : Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. - 2003-1173. ; 4:1, s. 77-86
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