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Ulf Hannerz says of Stephen Gudeman that he "may well be the internationally most renowned economic anthropologist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
In this episode of Salon B, Tom Bonnington, Social Sciences Associate Editor at Berghahn, talks with Stephen Gudeman about his new book Enlightening Encounters: The Journeys of an Anthropologist.
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Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By and large, Ukrainians have been granted access to assistance, and extended legal statuses allowing them to enter and settle in EU Member States. While this unusual generosity on the part of European States should be applauded, it has given rise to a range of questions about the differentiated treatment of Ukrainians as compared to other displaced groups.
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Published in collaboration with the Memory Studies Association
This book series publishes innovative and rigorous scholarship in the interdisciplinary and global field of memory studies. Memory studies includes all inquiries into the ways we—both individually and collectively— are shaped by the past. How do we represent the past to ourselves and to others? How do those representations shape our actions and understandings, whether explicitly or unconsciously?
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A photo-illustrated record of Chilean protest art, along with reflections on artistic antecedents, global protest movements, and the long shadow cast by Chile’s authoritarian past.
From October 2019 until the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, Chile was convulsed by protests and political upheaval, as what began as civil disobedience transformed into a vast resistance movement. Throughout, the most striking aspects of the protests were the murals, graffiti, and other political graphics that became ubiquitous in Chilean cities.
Consider the Park Avenue Elementary School in Cudahy, located ten miles from downtown Los Angeles. Or shift your attention to the Rani Jhansi Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in east Delhi, a few miles away from the Indian capital city’s most affluent neighborhoods. Though continents apart, what ties these two schools together is their shared exposure and experience to compounding environmental hazards. The former is built on top of a capped unregulated landfill/dump and the latter is surrounded by a massive, operational landfill, an interstate container depot, and waste processing facilities.
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An elegant female figure, a beacon of hope, composed of steel tubes and cast bronze, spirals upwards into the grey-blue Belfast skies. Her arms extend holding ‘the ring of thanksgiving’. Below her feet sits a globe betokening shared and universal ideals of peace, harmony and thanksgiving. Etched onto this globe are the cities and places where Belfast people and industries migrated and exported to. Belfast locals, well known for their vibrant sense of humour, know this beacon of hope by many other names such as ‘Nuala with the Hula’, the ‘Belle on the Ball,’ or a personal favourite the ‘Thing with the Ring.’
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