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- Bronislaw Malinowski, practical anthropology, politics and colonialism
Authors: Antonino Colajanni
Pages: 3 - 66
Abstract: This essay aims at reconstructing – from an historical-critical point of view – the growing interest, in Bronislaw Malinowski’s work, for practical anthropology, for the relations between politics and anthropological research, and finally for the relations of the discipline with colonialism. At the same time, the essay seeks to assess the critical literature of the last decades, frequently based on undocumented and superficial assumptions on the relations between anthropology and colonialism. These critiques are often excessively severe, quick and superficial, and hardly based on a careful analysis of the specific socio-cultural contexts of the different types of colonies. Those studies often had the tendency to “project” onto the past, ideas, sensibilities and political choices of the present. Then, we have appreciated and considered valuables some accurate and documented studies on Malinowski as those by E. Gellner, B. Berman, I. Niehaus, F. Focks, and then the general essays of H. Kuklick and G. Stocking. Finally, great importance is devoted to Malinowski’s posthumous books The dynamics of culture change. An inquiry into race relations in Africa (1945), and Freedom and civilisation (1947).
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5395
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica
e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with a response from the
author
Authors: Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, Antonino Colajanni
Pages: 67 - 112
Abstract: Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo, with a response from the author.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5397
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Economic nationalisms in a world on fire: An introduction
Authors: Ann Kingsolver, Chandana Mathur, Gustavo Onto
Pages: 113 - 126
Abstract: In a time when many national governments are rhetorically, if not practically, turning away from global collaboration and emphasizing economic nationalisms, understood here as a plurality of historically and politically contextualized policies, the authors in this thematic issue explore the possible contributions of comparative ethnographic analyses of economic nationalisms to interdisciplinary, transnational analyses. In this introduction to the thematic section, the editors note the turn to economic nationalisms in the current context of global crises, review the literature on economic nationalisms, and illustrate the strong political and historical variations in economic nationalisms within even the same nation, using India as an example. The three ethnographic articles in this thematic section are discussed in relation to each other. They offer examples from Turkey, Italy, Guatemala and the U.S., with a shared focus on economic nationalisms and the reliance on the labor of transnational migrants displaced by war, land grabs, and climate change even as those vital contributors to national economies are denied cultural and national citizenship – an irony rendered all the more visible during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-4948
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- “Economic nationalisms” and the immediacy of war:
Turkey’s Syrian policy
Authors: Ayşe Seda Yüksel
Pages: 127 - 150
Abstract: This article examines the current politico-economic developments in Turkey through the lens of the effects of the Syrian war. The empirical focus of my discussion is an export city bordering Syria, Gaziantep. The city has been radically shaped by not only the migration waves from Syria in the wake of the Syrian war but also the broader re/structuring effects of the Iraqi war and a low-intensity war in the last 30 years. In Turkey, wars have always been essential reference points for local and national economic agents to build different nation-framed economic discourses. In the last decade, we observe a new form of economic nationalism that is expansionist and outward-oriented – contrary to discussions associating the term with inward-oriented economic policies. Turkey’s assumed role in the reconstitution of the Syrian economy and its aspired position in the Middle East as a political and economic center constitutes a crucial symbolic horizon in this nationalist economic discourse. By comparing this new expansionist economic nationalism with other dominant forms, the article concludes that economic nationalisms of the political center resonate strongly in local economies. They re/define not only the desirable migrant but also economic subjects, in general, creating novel sources of accumulation and dispossession.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-4932
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- “The eternal return” of normality: Invisibility and essentiality of
migrant farmworkers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic
Authors: Giuliana Sanò
Pages: 151 - 174
Abstract: Among the factors that the Covid-19 Pandemic has brought to light, the link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism is central. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the lockdown, the article focuses on the real motivations behind the amnesty approved last year by the government as part of the Decreto Relaunch, and aimed at regularising undocumented migrant workers employed in those sectors of the labour market considered essential (agriculture, domestic and care). Through the categories of essentiality and invisibility, the contribution investigates the ambivalent role played by migrants within the labour market and the national economy, paying particular attention to the agro-food sector. Above all, it focuses on the paradoxes made explicit by the measure: whose numbers, especially in the agricultural sector, demonstrate its ineffectiveness. This article aims to show how, in the face of the essentiality and numerical centrality of the migrant labour force within the agri-food sector, the national economic policy still does not recognise its importance, encouraging exploitative practices and policies of socio-economic marginalisation.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-4930
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- ¿Por qué Quédate' Frontiering through development in
Guatemala
Authors: Julia Morris
Pages: 175 - 204
Abstract: Across the global south, regimes of labour and mobility control are reforming that attempt to manage the northern movement of people. By combining financing development projects with explicit forms of border enforcement (including border personnel training and new securitization technologies), western governments and southern elites attempt to encourage publics (invariably poorer people of colour) to stay in local regions, rather than seek better livelihoods elsewhere. By reference to the USAID funded Centros Quédate or Stay Here Centres in Guatemala, this paper explores the merging of development and migration governance regimes through the concept of “frontiering through development.” The paper argues that initiatives such as these fail to consider the root causes of colonialism and imperialism that have long led people to migrate in the first place. Moreover, migration is cast as something problematic under discourses of populist economic nationalist sentiment, rather than beneficial to migrants, country-of-origin and destination regions. However, rather than passive recipients of patronising development, I show how participants rework the Quédate programme to fit their own onward goals. Paternalist development paradigms should take into account how crucial and embedded mobile livelihoods are in present-day realities.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-4931
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- The use of smartphones and the quest for a future among West African men
in reception centers in Italy
Authors: Giovanna Santanera
Pages: 205 - 228
Abstract: In this article, I will analyse the creative use of smartphone by West African men living in reception centers in Torino, in Italy. As the usurpation of time has become an integral part of the European border regime, I place migrants’ media practices in relation to their claims for temporal justices. Drawing on ethnographic data, I argue that the use of smartphones – and especially the making and sharing of images – represents a practice of future making, which is linked to the dimension of hope and desire more than that of nostalgia. After having considered the mobile phone as an instrument for “killing time” during the slow daily routine of the reception centers, I will go on to analyse how the skillfully crafting of one’s own virtual image helps to carry out migratory projects and to obtain a residence permit. Finally, I will turn my attention to the materiality of the smartphone. As an “object of desire,” it is part of a chain of gifts and counter-gifts capable of unlocking new scenarios through the creation of relationships. I conclude that the smartphone can be seen as a weapon in the battle over time which is proper of contemporary migration politics and governance.
PubDate: 2022-11-26
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5123
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Pierre Bourdieu on capitals, the state and forced resettlement: A review
essay
Authors: Alan Smart
Pages: 229 - 250
Abstract: Pierre Bourdieu distinguished two main ways to teach sociology, by either teaching the principles and formal procedures, or by revealing examples of these formal procedures at work, and preferred to harness both together. This essay attempts to adopt this approach to consider three of his books recently translated to English, using my own research on forms of capital, the state and resettlement to engage with his arguments. I suggest that the utilization of Bourdieu’s powerful ideas are limited in areas like social capital and resettlement research by some inconsistencies and lack of definitional clarity.
PubDate: 2022-11-25
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5399
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice
Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco,
Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156
Authors: Raúl Zecca Castel
Pages: 251 - 254
Abstract: Book review of Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5407
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Aleksander Bošković, Günther Schlee, edited by, African political
systems revisited: Changing perspectives on statehood and power, New
York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 256
Authors: Luciano Li Causi
Pages: 255 - 260
Abstract: Book review of Aleksander Bošković, Günther Schlee, edited by, African political systems revisited: Changing perspectives on statehood and power, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 256.
PubDate: 2022-11-28
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5414
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Sophie Chao, In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West
Papua, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 336
Authors: Silvia Pergetti
Pages: 261 - 264
Abstract: Book review of Sophie Chao, In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 336.
PubDate: 2022-12-01
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5417
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Lorenzo D’Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers, The anthropology of resource
extraction, Routledge, 2022, pp. 233
Authors: Kyra Grieco
Pages: 265 - 268
Abstract: Book review of Lorenzo D’Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers, The anthropology of resource extraction, Routledge, 2022, pp. 233.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5402
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Didier Fassin, Le vite ineguali: Quanto vale un essere umano, translated
by Lorenzo Alunni, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, pp. 202
Authors: Gian Maria Bruno Buassi
Pages: 269 - 272
Abstract: Book review of Didier Fassin, Le vite ineguali: Quanto vale un essere umano, translated by Lorenzo Alunni, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, pp. 202.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5406
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Alessandra Gribaldo, Unexpected subjects: Intimate partner violence,
testimony, and the law, Chicago, HAU Books, 2021, pp. 148
Authors: Armando Cutolo
Pages: 273 - 278
Abstract: Book review of Alessandra Gribaldo, Unexpected subjects: Intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law, Chicago, HAU Books, 2021, pp. 148.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5409
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Eduardo Kohn, Come pensano le foreste, translated by Alessandro Lucera,
Alessandro Palmieri, foreword by Emanuele Coccia, Milano, Nottetempo,
2021, pp. 439
Authors: Nadia Breda
Pages: 279 - 284
Abstract: Book review of Eduardo Kohn, Come pensano le foreste, translated by Alessandro Lucera, Alessandro Palmieri, foreword by Emanuele Coccia, Milano, Nottetempo, 2021, pp. 439.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5403
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Nicolas Richard, Zelda Alice Franceschi, Lorena Córdoba, eds, La misión
de la máquina: Técnica, extractivismo y conversión en las tierras bajas
sudamericanas, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2021, pp. 283
Authors: Cristiano Tallè
Pages: 285 - 288
Abstract: Book review of Nicolas Richard, Zelda Alice Franceschi, Lorena Córdoba, eds, La misión de la máquina: Técnica, extractivismo y conversión en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2021, pp. 283.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5405
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Pietro Saitta, Populismo urbano: Autoritarismo e conflitto in una città
del sud (Messina 2018-2022), Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 253
Authors: Serena Olcuire
Pages: 289 - 292
Abstract: Book review of Pietro Saitta, Populismo urbano: Autoritarismo e conflitto in una città del sud (Messina 2018-2022), Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 253.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5410
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Marta Scaglioni, Francesco Diodati, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e
della cura: Prospettive globali, Milano, Ledizioni, 2021, pp. 190
Authors: Gloria Frisone
Pages: 293 - 296
Abstract: Book review of Marta Scaglioni, Francesco Diodati, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e della cura: Prospettive globali, Milano, Ledizioni, 2021, pp. 190.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5408
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
- Pier Giorgio Solinas, Lettere dagli antenati: Famiglie, genti, identità,
Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 175
Authors: Daniela Salvucci
Pages: 297 - 300
Abstract: Book review of Pier Giorgio Solinas, Lettere dagli antenati: Famiglie, genti, identità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 175.
PubDate: 2022-11-27
DOI: 10.7340/anuac2239-625X-5404
Issue No: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2022)
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