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Abstract: Experiences of and concerns with endings and dystopias underwrite the contemporary world. Confronted with escalating climate crises and political disintegration, pessimism seems to prevail. Some argue that we have entered a "post-utopian" time marked by dwindling faith in overarching political ideals and in the survival of human beings as a species (Buck-Morss 2000, Weisman 2007). Nevertheless, as the world is falling apart, humans stubbornly cling onto it.Taking our cue from acclaimed Palestinian author Emile Habibi's main character "Saeed: the Pessoptimist" (1974), who when confronted with catastrophes perseveres in more and more tragicomic ways, we propose in this special collection the concept of optimism to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Defensive Optimism: Parental Aspirations and the Prospect of
State-Enforced Child Removal in Britain-
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Abstract: Amid austerity cuts, real wage stagnation, the aftermath of a global financial crisis, and an enduring discourse of meritocracy, Britain in the 2010s saw parents living on lower incomes urged to seek upward social mobility for their children. In the preceding decades, policy makers increasingly come to consider "good parenting" to be a solution for material inequalities. Over the same period, professional social work interventions in childcare underwent a punitive shift. Many disadvantaged neighborhoods featured concentrations of the state-sponsored capacity of social workers to remove children forcibly from their parents upon identifying a risk of harm to the child. These factors formed a predicament for many ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Caring for the Ordinary in Palestine: When Ongoing Occupation Becomes
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Abstract: One might say that the Palestinians figure in the anthropological archive as the embodiment of optimism, agency, and endurance, with the caveat that optimism and kinned registers of resilience, heroism, and hope are both seeded within and curbed by Israel's ongoing occupation (Allen 2020, 2013; Feldman 2015; Gammeltoft 2021; Gren 2015; Khalili 2007; Meari 2014; Sayigh 2007; Segal 2016). These registers of optimism dovetail into a twinned ethics of resistance: resisting the Israeli military occupation and resisting (the acknowledgement of) the erosions of collective and an intimate life that the occupation has brought upon the Palestinians (Segal 2016). How this ethics of resistance might read as optimism is nowhere ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Untimely Optimism: International Attention, Palestinian Disappointment,
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Abstract: "The refugees wish to place on record their bitter disappointment, doubts, and fears in the earnestness of the United Nations to carry out their decision and redress a small part of the great wrong done to them."1 So stated Izzat Tannous, General Secretary of the Representatives of the Palestine Refugee Committees in Lebanon, in a January 1951 letter to the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine [UNCCP]. This "bitter disappointment," which was already felt less than three years after the Nakba [catastrophe] of 1948, in which the majority of Palestinians were displaced and dispossessed, has been an enduring part of the Palestinian relationship with international institutions. So too has another sentiment expressed ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- "Like it's Already Done": Spiritual Experience, Hope, and Optimism in
Southern Ghana-
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Abstract: In The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James (1902:363) claims that religious experience changes how people see the world. "Mystical states" he claims, create a "distinct theoretic drift" in the experiencer's orientation, pushing it in a more optimistic direction. He defines mystical states as hard-to-articulate, ephemeral experiences that convince people they have learned something profound about the cosmos. These experiences have, what he calls, a noetic dimension; that is, they create an ineffable sense of receiving profound knowledge. People often walk away from mystical experiences convinced about the unity of all existence and humanity's connection to a greater reality. The experiences also often ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Optimism at the End of Time: Jihadists' Struggles
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Abstract: Outside the narrow windows, the dull sky is reflected in the gray blocks and the dimness seems to seep into the basement, which is lit by cold neon light. The bleak surroundings, however, do not seem to affect Khaled.2 He is excited. He is busy accounting for the many signs that the End of Time (Akhir al-zaman) is near and that an Islamic political order will arrive eventually. Prompted by my question of why one should bother to fight in Syria or do other good deeds if an Islamic order is going to come about anyway, Khaled abruptly gets up from his white plastic chair and stands up straight. "If you want to fly," he explains, "you can stand like this [both legs solidly planted on the ground], but you can also lift ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Affects After Finitude
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Abstract: How could one not agree with the special issue editors' intuition that humans face an epochal moment; that, if we are not at the end, we are inching quite close' And not just one sort of ending—for many, humans and their earth seem close to many modes of ending. Within the course of a week or day, one can now hear a litany of endings: the end of EU, the end of liberal democracy, the end of gender, sexual, and racial justice, of migrants' rights, the end of the human, and the end of the planet. The writing of this short essay cannot keep up. Every day I could add new outages and outrages. Every single noble dream the West invented for itself seems to have reached a catastrophic conclusion. Their catastrophe is not ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- On Redefining Boundaries and Opening New Terrains in a Peripheral
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Abstract: Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin was one of the most influential Yugoslav ethnologists and anthropologists in the second half of the 20th century.1 Toward the end of her career, Rihtman-Auguštin was integrated into international disciplinary conversations within European ethnology and folklore studies, including a stint as co-president of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). She participated in international conferences and published articles in English. Several of her articles originally published in Croatian, centered around issues of ethnicity and nationalism that were extremely relevant at the time, were selected by Jasna Čapo for publication as a volume in English (Rihtman-Auguštin 2004). Most of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Graciela: One Woman's Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the
Peruvian Andes by Nicole Coffey Kellett and Graciela Orihuela Rocha
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Abstract: Graciela: One Woman's Story, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes was written by Nicole Coffey Kellett, an applied cultural anthropologist, in collaboration with Graciela Orihuela Rocha, a Peruvian civil war survivor. Rocha's account of the violent history offers a fundamental voice of displacement and urgency of survival of an indigenous woman in the rural Andes during the 1980s and 1990s. Her testimonial covers racism, classism, and sexism while addressing how war has exacerbated violence against women. Amidst all of the trauma, Rocha highlights the care she has found in her community, and the love she has for her children. The impact that community and family have in this account is vast, as their ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention by Tess Lea
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Abstract: If policies were pigs, would they run "rampant" (11) like a drove of "feral" (12) swine, uprooting the picturesque plantation rows of archival orders' What if policies were "vicious" (12) Tasmanian tigers' Would they bare "fierce" (11) fangs made of file cabinets' Policies could also be botanical. But if that were the case, which plant would they be' A shrub' A tree' A medicinal herb'—it's doubtful. But perhaps policies would resemble Queensland's invasive rubber vine—"tangled, verdant" and "overgrown" (12)—choking the life out of "neglected" (11) ecological registries. Or are policies more humanoid' Could we imagine a tribe of pre-contact policies gathering together late at night: they encircle a "primitive" (11) ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility by
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Abstract: In Radical Resilience Othon Alexandrakis develops an ethnographically compelling account of resilience by conveying the forms of political disengagement and social isolation through which his Athenian interlocutors navigate the everyday and compounding injuries of neoliberal austerity and state abandonment in Greece. These are highly variable stories, gathered over more than a decade of ethnographic research in Athens (2006–2018). In them, injury and undoing become the operative terms with which Alexandrakis guides his readers through the "compounding and accumulating minor moments and small locations" (6) where the lives of his interlocutors unravel only to be reconfigured in unexpected and potentially radical ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
- Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India by
Cecilia Coale Van Hollen (review)-
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Abstract: Cancer and the Kali Yuga begins with an apology. While interviewing a 14-year-old Dalit girl in a village in northeastern Tamil Nadu about her experiences of living with the loss of her mother who has recently died of breast cancer, the author has to apologize to her interlocutor who is overcome by emotion due to the pain of the recall. It is no mere apology issued in the face of an acute ethnographic rupture. The pain of losing a mother to breast cancer, the author shares, is known to her intimately too. That moment – and the tensions it encompasses – almost makes the "obvious differences of time and place" (x) between a white American researcher of privilege and her poor "lower-caste" interlocutors appear ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-08-31T00:00:00-05:00
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