EASA, 2010: EASA2010: Crisis and imagination
Maynooth, 24/08/2010 – 27/08/2010
Workshops
Introduction Reflections on the spirit level: anthropology and the eating class The financial crisis: a view from a Brazilian barrio Industry forging masculinity: 'tough men', hard labor and aspects of class identity Class revisited: social analysis, the organic intellectual and the production of class Corruption, class formation and the anthropology of neoliberalism Dispossession, disorganization and the anthropology of labour Not globalization: on the relations between class and culture in the light of the current crisis A brief theory of digital anthropology Digital sound technologies: the renegotiation of music production, consumption and collecting practices Phreaker/hacker/troller as trickster Spimes as material culture: anthropological approaches to (and through) location-aware objects Emerging futurities in Muslim southeast Asia: science fantasy, digital development and the urge for moral technology Digital dramas, online liminality and the state of creolization in Tanzania Phones, foreigners, and the fluctuating digital divide in Southern Mozambique Culture, conflict and translocal communication: mobile technology and politics in rural West Bengal, India Migration and virtual community 2.0 Hope infrastructure: enacting expectations in bloggers' material practices Indigenizing digital technologies, imagining cultural futures: Ara Irititja reshapes new media in contemporary Australia Re-imagining Ireland: ethnographic fictions by contemporary writers Intercultural memoirs and Irish anthropology Toposophy: towards an Irish ethnology The Ethnographical Survey of Ireland and imperial science: an invisible genealogy in the history of anthropology & Irish ethnography New Drinkers, New Places Neither here nor there: the diasporic nation of Irelantis Immanence vs. revolution, or why there is no hope (or is there?) Catching a glimpse of the future: on the imaginative effects of direct action Stubbornness and utopian politics in contemporary French universities 'Bike every day, celebrate it once a month.' Critical Mass, sustainable urban mobility, and the importance of social articulations Jokes and their relation to crisis Compassion and confrontation: new horizons of human development, social transformations and planetary realizations Aspirational politics with the state? An example from the British working class ‘You need people, everyone needs people’: resilience, resourcefulness and the ‘struggle for life’ in Macedonia The faith in development: the case of Polish involvement in Africa Hope stronger than anguish: timber traders imagining the future in times of crisis e-paper Hope and oil: managing the future in the Gulf of Guinea Human biological diversity in times of crisis 'Health crisis' in the Kingdom of Tonga: critical observations on the obesity issue Individual and national crises: management of inherited blood disorders in the Sultanate of Oman Health finance diversities: implementing mutual health insurance in Senegal Market of health in time of crises: biomedical drugs, traditional remedies and plural medical system in Mekelle, Ethiopia Consultation with spirits - constructions of crisis and the problem of meaning 'Contraceptives are killing us through the women': Interrogating difference in local constructions of the AIDS pandemic in South Africa The crisis of futility: clinical ethnography and the moral landscape of community psychiatry Ensembles of biosocial relations and the study of humans On human biology, natural detachment and socio-cultural compensation Blurring the biological and social in human becomings Culture evolves? Not as you think Life in the making: epigenesis, biocultural environments and human becomings Thalassaemic lives as stories of becoming Shedding our selves: ontologies, DNA and becoming a subject Reflections on a "collective brain" at work The habits of water: how trees became natural and crocodiles became harmless 'Bringing wood to life': lines, flows and materials in Swazi timber production and the environment as unbounded epistemic space 'Humanity' among the Chachi and other so-called indigenous people: reviewing core concepts of anthropology and biology Ravelling/unravelling: being-in-the-world and falling-out-of-the-world Competing desires for mobility: low-cost-carriers and the transformation of European cities Rooted in movement: on the conceptual displacements in the study of diasporas and migrants Beyond the morality of mobility: casino gambling among Chinese migrants in London The meanings of mobilities: claims to authoritative knowledge of the local and the global in the Angolan development experience Jembe hero: West African drummers and global mobility International migration - virtue or vice? Different perspectives from Cameroon Staying as a virtue: migration and the imagination of immobility in The Gambia «On reste là!» Values of mobility and immobility in the struggles about clandestine immigrants in France The homesteader and the migrant: ethics and mobility in post-soviet Latvia Home alone: keeping home the same in wake of the migration of others The 'routes of the nation': intersecting trajectories and imaginings of Tibetan migration in northwest China and north India The exotic immobile subject How to reach tomorrow: hope, future and everyday religious practice among muslims in urban Burkina Faso Contemporary living in very old places: stability, instability and Orthodox Christian historical subjectivity in Zege, Ethiopia Christian Baptist utopian religiosity among Karen refugees in the Thailand-Burma borderland Reading the Palestinian Islamic novel Experience and expectation - interpreting religious experience narratives in the Hare Krishna movement 'The broken spirit': suffering and emotions in evangelic liturgical services Other worlds close to home: ethological methodology as a holding in abeyance Contact crises: shamanic explorations of virtual and possible worlds Wild protection: magical animals in stories of war and terror Viral anthropology: humanity and divine parasitism among Dechen Tibetans Antithesis without thesis: virtuality and its negation in Maputo, Mozambique To Hel and back: transversality and difference in accounts of otherworld journeys (Re:)Image-ining possession: digital media and the crisis of ritual frameworks Difference and repetition in Hindu worship Changing anthropology: new trends among Japanese anthropologists Contemporary approaches to old and new questions of anthropology in Brazil Anthropology in pre-university education: a UK case-history of 'multiple publics' Anthropology's audiences in Aotearoa and abroad Diverse anthropologies dealing with fickle funders: cleaving 'health' from the funding priorities of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council in Canada When actors become (the) public: two cases of doing anthropology across the new state borders in Southeastern Europe Public challenges to anthropology in 21st century South Africa: collaborative approaches, class distinctions and 'progressive' forces Doing anthropology in Indonesia under Suharto and beyond: a critical reflection on the impact of state repression and development agendas on the production of anthropological knowledge Engaged anthropology: its diversity and dilemmas Ahmadi Muslims and asylum: strategic representations The self-representation and striving for recognition of Ahmadi-women in Switzerland: a qualitative-empirical approach Being Senegalese, Sufi, Black, and French Incomplete mystics: religious failure among Roma Muslims in urban Macedonia Ethnicity in flux: Bulgarian Muslims between-and-betwixt Bulgaria and Spain Alevis and the dilemma of the ban of minarets in Switzerland Alevism, religious tolerance and minority rights - with special reference to Switzerland Marginalizing the mainstream or vice versa? Ataturk in Alevi-Bektashi cosmologies The choice of the terrain: problems, dilemmas and resources of being an 'halfy' Portable analytics and traveling theory The name of the between Anchorage, relay and flow The personal name as a category of comparison The theory of justice and the ethics of kinship Territorial belonging: historicizing intermediation in ethnographies of indigenous land claims (Brazil) Activists and civil society as mediating categories Mobility and the ethnographic account: reflections on a fluid tool Revitalizing 'community': new perspectives on an old notion Imagining Bosnia between past and future: memories, home and belonging in a post-conflict society Remembering and forgetting the past: memory transmission in Greece Remembering Pirelli-Bicocca: memories and dreams of the 'Autunno Caldo' Memories and generation in 'model socialist town' Differences in temporal reasoning: the future of the past, moral education and generational clashes in an East German town Europe, the world and the Czechs: place, time and belonging in contemporary accounts of the Velvet Revolution Precarious lives: narratives of hope and loss among different generations of Czechs From the 'Embargo Cake' to the 'Tycoon Cake': food shortages, changes in everyday diet and new recipes in post-1990 Serbia Wine histories: winemaking in western Poland State food or status food? Notes on food and imagination policies in Ciudad de la Habana (Cuba) Food, movement and change in a remote Andean community in Bolivia Scientific imagination and magical ingredients: towards an anthropology of technofood Alimentary rhetorics and creative practices: (re-)imagining the self and the world in a time of crisis Cooking with Bimby and the workings of creativity: a visual ethnography of a demonstration Competing discourses on Europe: the divided case of Estonia In search of the heart of Europe: on the new eastern borders of EU Europe and Russia: common values and uncertain future Crisis and imagination: the power of narrative moments Roma and Sinti - The 'Other' within Europe Defensive fantasies: discursive enactments of exclusion and identity in imagining Europe Finding subsidiarity: reifying competence and shame in a time of crisis Introducing Suma Qamaña: the contested construction of indigenous knowledge in Bolivia's state transformation Knowledge of the forest - the endeavour to save a common space Identities in crisis? Pride parades and imagination Virtual space and the diversification of student protest forms 'The young and successful': reshaping the public sphere in Republic of Moldova Imagining a different kind of globalisation in Portugal: responses to crises from social movements Social movements in Mexico and the making of rights 'Gaza in Oslo': social imaginaries in the political engagement of Norwegian minority youth Engaging paradoxes of grief: ritual from hospice & bereavement spaces When life crisis meets environmental crisis: imagining death and ecological immortality in Japanese tree-burial Places and cult of the dead in Piedmont: what funerary culture for the future? Un interespace de la mémoire: les sépultures des cimetières Parisiens Burial as wedding: a creative ritual solution to an existential crisis Fear and prayers: negotiating with the dead in Apiao, Chiloé, southern Chile The triumph of death? The living and the dead among Lithuanian rural Catholics Enjoying the death of the others? Some anthropological reflections around the volunteer work with dying patients Death, crisis, rhetoric Absenting death and visualizing ghosts Spirituality within religion: gendered responses to a Greek spiritual revolution Authority in alternative spiritualities: fact or fiction? Spirituality, charisma and gender in a Jewish spiritual renewal community in Israel Cultivating the sacred: gender, power and ritualisation in women's-only spaces Astro TV in Holland: spirituality, power, and gender The power of submission: personal growth and the issue of power among Umbanda practitioners in Paris The power of the Goddess in the city Gender and power: Brahma Kumaris spirituality and Hinduism in Portugal The pursuit of spirituality toward membership and community participation: biographies of Soka Gakkai members in Spain At the heart of Europe: the limits of expression in far-right music scenes Private exhibiting and initiatives: creative alternatives to institutional modes of representing the other/one-self in Serbia The politics of Carnival Cultural creativity as an interaction between 'centre' and 'periphery' in Poland 'Returning to roots' in post-Soviet Russia Spaces of loss, spaces of hope The future of Kyrgyz summer pastures and hydropower: between invoking paradise and state capture Materializing the future: politics of the future and the construction of Astana The good innocent nation facing the civilization of death: interpreting pro-life movement in contemporary Poland Reaching into Pandora’s Box: the place of hope in the space of trauma The Revolution will not be jeopardized: hope and struggle on a revolutionary university After the tsunami: making sense of the past, the present and the future in Banda Aceh, Indonesia Where will be the place called home? Reconciling competing localities in times of sequential crisis A rising tide of true democracy? Climate crisis, spirituality and action in a carboniferous zone Contesting space: framing a housing crisis in south Tel Aviv Jaffa Jerusalem of go(l)d: imagination and western immigration in the neighborhood of Baka in Jerusalem Consuming the City: Centrality and Class in a Eastern European City 'Moving on up': the South Asian public's creation and influence over public spaces Caging difference: Budapest pride and the re-bordering of belonging Reading the Landscape: Public Art as Dialogue in a Reforming New Orleans Parisian performance poetry: cosmopolitanism and democracy in practice Focusing-in: youth filmmaking as place-making Russian food shops in Israel and Germany: different national symbolic participations and virtual transnational enclave 'Rhodesian altars': remembering and remaking home in an ex-Rhodesian diaspora community Relocating significance of materialized memories among postwar Jewish immigrants from Poland It's just stuff: reflections on the material culture of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Between 'honouring' and 'making things': the social meaning of remittances sent by Ecuadorian migration in Spain Transnational objects, transnational cults: Afro-American religions in Europe Being at home elsewhere: Sri Lankan Tamils' productions of home in Toronto, Canada Cosmopolitan and authentic? The emergence of a Bangladeshi cuisine in London's East End Sending love through infant formula: (re)making of the Chinese transnational family in Europe Desirable and undesirable objects in Russian children circulation Hope, autopoiesis and permaculture in Romania and the UK Sweating for sustainability: resilience through diversity on Latvian eco-health farms "Mother Earth nourishes us": the development of an alternative farmer's market in Cotacachi, Ecuador Electrical failure at home: living beyond chaos. Cultivating knowledge and practice An exercise of imagination: ecovillage endeavours Cultivating community, gardening anthropology: permaculture, local food and engaged research. Gardening for Paradise at Mountain Gardens, Katuah Bioregion, USA Anthropology, utopianism, and ecotopia 'But why don't you research interesting music?' Uzbek estrada and the aesthetics of affirmative pop Putting the groove back in the anthropology of music Mixing an imaginary salad: American aesthetics, ambiguity and crisis during 1914-22 Technologies of musical enchantment: understanding 'manele' in neo-liberal Romania Caucasian heartbeats: examining rhythm holistically The politics of embodied aesthetics: Kwaito and house music in South Africa Noise as style and cut-off ears: Emic aesthetic concepts of Jaliyaa 'Not knowing the country': indigenous secrets and colonial panic in late nineteenth-century India 'The heads of our heroes': colonial crisis and the collecting of human remains The centralization of the Bubi's chieftaincies and the Spanish colonial expansion in Bioko's island Social upheavals and relative deprivation: the 'Great Awakening' in late 19th century Caribbean Nicaragua Colonisers, crises, and Carnival: criticism and opposition in colonial Guinea-Bissau, West Africa 'La Difesa della Razza': the imaginary invention of the Italian Empire Marketing the colonial past: Gaudde dances in Goan tourism Postcolonial perspectives on the welfare state Work-discipline and corporate culture: temporal regimes in a multinational bank in Romania Selling, yet still social: the continued importance of consociational personhood among eastern German entrepreneurs Building on trust: open-ended contracts and the creation of sociality in the time of neoliberalism American reproductive tourists in the Czech Republic: seeking lower costs and anonymity Infertility and ARTs in a globalising India: medicalisation, ethics, agency 'My foreign baby is growing inside me': the case of Italians seeking donated gametes outside national borders Afghan women reconstructing their life world Sex workers in Tijuana: professional identities and liminality as strategy in a border city Toxic identities? Negotiating Arab-Bedouin culture at the shadow of an Israeli chemical industry plant From the ballot to the barrio: finding hope in community in Oaxaca, Mexico A crisis in fieldwork: personal, ethical & methodological reflections Anthropology and setting up research on the education of families with risk of thromboembolism in a university hospital Are anthropological data always useful for public health programs? The experience of case review audits for obstetrical care in Burkina Faso Anthropology and the problem of comparison: shaping public health policy in four Mediterranean countries 'You can't jump from yesterday to tomorrow without going through today': contested notions of essence and identity in the Eastern Caribbean Exploring indigeneity in a Brazilian favela In His Majesty's land: the 'place' of Ethiopia in Rastafari worldview An Atlantic drum's journey after the slavery from Africa to the Americas and Back: Annobonese and Fernandino musical culture Changes in reciprocity practices between generations: the case of urban Burkina Faso Youth and family in Cape Verde: practical relations beyond moral crisis Those who wait: late life lingerings and generational succession in Kenya 'Passing through the gate as one': a house and its people in Bamako, Mali How to remain a 'father' in times of privation? Respect and reciprocity in the families of Gécamines workers, D.R. Congo Changing household dynamics in urban Ethiopia Descent, tombs and avoidance of marriage with slave descendants in Southern Betsileo, Madagascar Family dynamics and funerals in southern Benin Culture, exploitation of resources and conservation: Anadara senilis L (1758) in the Saloum Delta in Senegal Making space for performativity: publics, powers, and places in a multi-register town festival (Bondoukou, Côte d'Ivoire) Mozambique Island, celebrations of the slave trade abolition: taking historical memories for meaning the present Constructing African performative arts as a new resource for development and transformation Making place: the changing role of the parish church in village life in the Netherlands From rock concerts to liturgy: the role of contemporary Christian music in Catholic communities Nuns from Rybno: new charismatic convent within the Polish Catholicism Framing abortion as crisis: an ethnography of pro-life Catholic activism in Milan (Italy) The hippie pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Czestochowa 'Popular Catholicism' in Ghanaian contexts Rwandan visionaries of the Virgin Mary: 'competing discourses' and transnationalization The 'Mama Mary' of the white city's black underside: reflections on a Filipina domestic workers' block rosary in Tel Aviv, Israel Tobacco, infectious disease, and global public health Social values and cultural imagination: approaches to tobacco prevention among Asian migrants and immigrants 'They used to save me twos and that, but they never gave us fags': morality and access to cigarettes among adolescents in the Midlands, UK Making smoking history for our children? Imagined futures versus situated presents in the North East of England The quest for the human self in times of religious syncretisms: about the redefinition of individuality and the liberation from ideological contraints Young adults, religious authorities and sexuality: a multifaith discussion 'To dive in Christ': a topography of religious experience The Ephrata Cloister: piety and power in Pennsylvania Spiritual individualism and the experience of prayer 'But please, don't write what we told you': priestly characters in a Polish rural community From Virgin Mary as Patroness of Hungary to the Goddess of Hungarians Creating other options: negotiating Israeli nationality through imagined mobility Ethical modalities of being and humans rights discourse in Yap, FSM Agrarian tolerance in Eastern Europe: community, market, and politics under global crisis Globalising relational idioms and the trials of inequality: Friendships in touristic Cuba Mobility as crisis: the political economy of migration and the phenomenology of movement Some remarks on the scalar structurations of capitalism and the anthropology of the twentieth century global system Global beauty: attractiveness as a form of value in capitalist peripheries Dreaming up the best of both worlds : Senegalese candidate migrants' imaginations of a life 'away from home' Imagining a future in-between: transnational desires among Indian students in Australia Aspiring migrants and imagined futures 'away from home': The construction of migration aspirations among young people in rural and urban Bangladesh Between global desires and local (im)possibilities: the migration from Sri Lanka to Italy Qt'a al-bhar bach toulli rajl (Crossing the sea to become a man): imagined trips of aspiring migrants from Morocco to Italy From Algeria to the future: aspirations of Kabyle immigrants to the Czech Republic Going "Home" or Staying "Home": Southern Sudanese Migrants in Khartoum after the CPA State of imagination: embodiments of immigration Canada Brazilian images of 'Life in Europe': the power of discourse Imagined identities. the emergence of modern mimetic subjectivities in global imaginative horizons Leisure and locality in the lives of Polish labour migrants to the Netherlands Making place in Copenhagen: local lives and ritual performances among Iraqi refugees Fighting for the homeland: East-Timorese refugees and the reproduction of locality in exile "We´ll claim the new streets for our community!" The meaning of locality amidst waterfront renewal in Dublin Re-creating sense of belonging to community through cultural practices: example of Lumbarda´s Carnival The knowledge in the change of the conceptualization of 'the local': 'imaginative answers' in Italian industrial districts 'We are Swazis but South Africa is our place!' Neo-traditionalisation, culture and locality in a Swazi chiefdom in South Africa Cultural revitalization as a reaction of the crisis of modernity Localizing the turf: museum politics and global change Missing community (Post) Political Ecology: Moving towards Consensus Cod ontologies 'Welcome onboard' What about fish feelings? An inquiry about how fish farmers and researchers approach fish welfare Clever fish? Exploring ongoing conversations with salmon in Tana River, Norway Imagining fish and rivers in Aurland, Norway To kill or not to kill …? Non-consumptive angling in Norwegian rivers and questions of the nature and authenticity of the fish Think local - act global: employing global heritage discourses for local ends Meanings of culture and heritage in Essaouira, Morocco Capoeira: from an illegal and marginalized social practice to Brazilian immaterial cultural heritage Imagining the nation in the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Stirring the pot in Poland: traditional plum jam and development in the Lower Vistula Valley Selling freedom in post-socialist Poland Intangible heritage between maintenance and profit Crafting the local: collective trademark and tradition in Valenza, Italy La 'producion de localité' en Sardaigne Pedagogies, aesthetics and notions of being: the cultural footprint of Senegalese dancers' trans-Atlantic movement on New York City Sabar classes 'Coupé-Décalé' dance in Ivory Coast: body in time of crisis How has Christianity become 'tradition', while the traditional dance has become 'culture' in northern Namibia? The chapayeka ritual clown as a mediator between worlds Screening Japanese Virtues through flamenco: gender and the domestication of a global dance Dressing the body for a close embrace: movement, authenticity and shoes in Argentine tango Flash mob dance: a transnational space for creative resistance or for the extension of consumer capitalism? The trauma of violence and injustice in the life and song of Stelios Kazantzidis Transfer of historical oriental-music-therapy-perspectives into modern clinical understanding in Austria Awareness training for journalists and its potential for the promotion of media diversity Practicing anthropology through intercultural and interdisciplinary mediation: a reflexive ethnography of an 'interculturalizing' higher education institution in Mexico Looking at anthropology Istanbul 2010 the European capital of culture: 'What really did happen between the images 1960-2010s?' An early case of neo-liberal historiography: the invention of Soixante-Huitards in Turkish mainstream media and the crisis of historicity in Turkey The printed media as a battlefield of the 1980 Turkish coup d'etat Beyond banning: thinking about dynamics of censorship, delegitimization and foreclosure in Istanbul's contemporary artworld The EU process assemblage and senior Turkish journalists The absence of the investigated and the presence of the spectacular state on commercial Turkish television Mission not accomplished: negotiating power relations and vulnerability within the Messianic Jews in Israel Spirits, lies, and spies in Havana Respondents' mistrust as an additional source of information at studying social and cultural adaptation of the African migrants in Moscow What to give in return? - handling suspicion in a Roma community from Romania 'Aren't you really one of us?' Negotiating suspicion and participation in the BDSM scene in Melbourne, Australia Trust is a scarce resource: some reflections on fieldwork experiences in Egypt Co-operation and manipulation: experiences from ethnographic filmmaking The anthropologist as suspect - when the past isn't such a foreign country Activist Anthropology linking research, social action, and social movements in Chicago Dancing with informants: the participant observer versus the observing participant The ethnographer-as-activist: notes on feminism and ethnography in Ireland Empowering study for refugee background students Re-telling urban heritage through Action Anthropology Atomic schizophrenia Social problems, perceptions of disorder and the struggle for a 'full implementation' of Islamic Law and Order by the Youth Wing of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (Dewan Pemuda PAS) Surviving permanent rapid change: Montenegrin culture of change Imagining crisis: the social construction of sequence in series of crises Anthropological resources for design: concepts and tools, translations and engagement The social life of concepts in Design Anthropology A crafting of potentials The abduction of Danish labour market policy: on the interdependency of knowing and acting; what pragmatism teaches us about the validity of our beliefs The significance of fresh air Imagining anatomy: making and using three-dimensional models of the human body Innovation and uncertainty: a new bridge in the highlands of Borneo Architecture and anthropology: thresholds and crossings between disciplines From studying 'users' to generating 'publics' in design research: mutual accountability as a generative force Ethnographies of the possible Moral projects in social movements: ethnographic explorations in Brazil The physical embodiment of political protest in Venezuela Anthropology of sexual violence in war: political emotions, identity formations and making the private public for a purpose We like to fight: performing and ordering conflict and violence within school From 'absence of the state' to the 'state of exception': the conversion of the emotion regarded to 'militias' from welfare into fear 'All against paedophilia': representation, denunciation and sensitizing strategies Sense of class: carnality and location in working class experience Telling our stories: representations of political violence in Palestine as constructs for community cohesion Narrating experiences of victimization: emotions and micro-politics Negotiating social change: visual anthropology and education Visual representations of crises after post-election periods in Iran: Facebook, Twitter, You Tube 'Participatory video' as means of reflection and self-reflection upon image and identity of reemerging indigenous groups of northeastern Brazil Towards the Ethnography of Filmic Space: Engaging with the Trans-national Imaginary of a Mexican Migrant Community Through Event Video On the road with Maruch: the promises and limits of open, non-linear hypermedia documents in anthropological work after the crisis of representation and Web2.0 Individual fun can't equal collective one: digital visions and auto-representations on Chinese web Complexity and hybridity in moving pictures as a challenge for Visual Anthropology Imagination through disturbance? A story about web-emergent communities L'imaginaire urbain stéphanois au travers de la création artistique locale Le territoire des friches: art, culture et localité From industrial to post-industrial city: imaginary conflicts in Firminy (France) Participation and empowerment for communities in crisis: rhetoric and reality "We will have our own SOHO": reconversion and the construction of the 'exotic' in central Bucharest 'Post-secular socialism'? Religion and identity politics in Hugo Chavez's revolutionary Venezuela Concepts of secularism in contemporary Nepal Styles of religious leadership among Muslims in Europe Between God and Caesar: Orthodox monastics in two political settings For a post-secular political, a post-secular social: from ethnography on Brazilian Marxism and the problem of friendship Statecraft and the politics of culture: Lao Buddhist political theology under late socialism Rituals and commemoration: State-Church relationships and the politics of memory in contemporary Russia "Orthodoxy - State - Russian Ethnicity": A Possible Aberration of Pre-1917 Imperial Ideology in Post-1991 Russia e-paper 'They have always been post-secular': arguments on the 'political' from a subaltern community in north India e-paper The Return of the Gods: perceptions of Bolivian socialist state among indigenous highlanders Creating contexts, hosting encounters: a proposition from visual arts for reframing the art of anthropology A concern with the human From descriptions of minorities to writing our (future) history together States of awareness: adult survivors of child abuse in Ireland's industrial school system How people tell you what they want to tell you: belonging and cultural resources beyond the Finnish-Russian border Generation of knowledge: a communal achievement Working on stigmatized people: negotiating suspicion and mistrust Undocumented Christian place-making in the post-industrial European city Mobilizing urban margins and livelihoods: resituating street vending and legality in the northern Philippines The bottle-collectors: outlining a new urban phenomenon in German cities 'Cut the cutout culture!' Shifting urban landscape and the politics of spectacle in Chennai Urban naturalisms: class, race and space in Kingston, Jamaica The street, the square and the stairway: informal ways to manage the difference Walls, fences and barriers: urban social inequalities and lack of integration 'The sun in the neighbourhood is only for those who can pay for it': fleshing out the residential dimension of class in Ciutat de Mallorca The space of class: reflections on neoliberal Cairo The puzzle of Mediterranean transit migration Imagining the frontier: European state borders, globalizing migration theory and the lived worlds of migrants 'I would have never imagined travelling like this': journeys towards and across Europe Narratives of self and other in migration trajectories Studying immigrants' identities on the frontiers of Europe The Afghan migrants from the frontiers of Iran to Europe Transit migrants shuffling between categories The social context of hrigue: a Moroccan view Bringing up children in transit: the life of African migrant women with their children in Morocco Children on the wave: minors, migration, and the new European 'southern frontier' Between Libya and Europe: migrants and Italian realpolitik AIDS in Gulu Northern Uganda: ethnography of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and health perceptions in managing HIV/AIDS in children Social life of a biological therapy Perceptions of body and illness in the context of ethnicity.Thoughts arising from ethnographic field work If health is not a state but a process, is the disease a chance to find a way? Swine flu representation in mass media conspiracy imaginary Coping strategies with swine flu in Ukraine Construction of the swine influenza epidemic as a state of crisis in Mexico Changing engagements with immunization: is the 'universal vaccination' principle in crisis? Ireland, Irish Women and Lactation Surrogacy: Imagining a world where it takes a community to feed a child. "I have to know this baby, he will be like my son": considerations on migration and milk banking in Italy Breast feeding versus formula feeding: which views do mothers refer to? Mixed messages? An examination of some cultural and socio-political concerns raised by international guidelines on infant feeding for women who are HIV positive Best or worst? Diverging interpretations on breastfeeding amongst African HIV positive mothers in the era of 'normalization' of AIDS prevention 'Race', 'culture' and 'mixture': changing criteria in defining national membership in Catalan nationalist discourse The policies of citizenship as social exclusion The altering meanings of 'Gypsy-ness' and the changing regimes of othering Re-articulating the ethnos: language, blood, and belonging in Athens Youth Welfare Practices, Ethnicity and the Pragmatics of Inclusion. 'Good foreigners': second generation German Koreans in Germany, Germanness, foreignness and the limits of integration From socialist egalitarianism to postsocialist discrimination: theorizing and implementing race in the new Russia Race, class and nation in contemporary 'progressive' politics Precarious prospects Still studying the situation: young Ugandans figuring the future When a skeleton is all that is left Representing possible futures: Organizational planning as the re-making of reality Honda Future Neo GT: motorbikes, men and mobility in urban Vietnam Back to the future: representing town and village in popular music culture in Gulu, Northern Uganda Another Yugoslavia, another Malaysia: new global futures and impossibility of politics Transforming hope: from empty time in Sierra Leone to full time in Iraq Anomic anticipations: imagination and action in a context of crisis East Asian imaginings of crisis: an introductory approach Hokkaido dairy farm: creation of a food safety and security crisis The formation of satoyama: towards restructuring rural societies in Japan Depopulation and aging: a crisis in stasis in rural Japan Imagining Japan 2050: a multicultural scenario and Filipina migrants’ dreams Global crisis across time and space: the case of elderly Sakhalin Korean repatriates in South Korea "Crisis, what crisis?" Chinese life inside the diaspora A crisis of asylum: Hong Kong and elsewhere Scenarios of crises and imaginative responses in "Eden of the East" animation Mommie dearest: gender, J-horror films and their remakes Shamanism and tradition: assessing spiritual revival and traditional economy in the Sakha Republic 'Compromise goods' and negotiated religiosity among the Russian Orthodox today The economic crisis as a source of religious identity in contemporary Russian Orthodoxy Atlantic spiritualities: African Pentecostal churches in Lisbon Evangelism in Tunisia: accommodating Christian conversion in a Muslim context Transnational prayer chains: the religious self between nation, narration, and imagination Prestige and transgression: intimacy with Jesus and social religious changes in the Faroe Islands Inequality on the road: mapping the divisions on the highway that connects the continents Real roads and imaginary highways in southern Belize: freedom, fear and a potent proposal Roundabout ethnography Death on roads Forest paths and roads as ways of perceiving the environment: the Sámi case in Finnish Lapland Road to the new South: South Carolina and the debate over I-95 Ning Ying's cinematic handscrolls and roads of Beijing The Istro-Romanians: perspectives regarding the legacy of a culture Do Istro-Romanian culture have a(ny) future? Developing strategies for growing roots: an autobiography of displacement, migration and repatriation Ethnicization and (trans) national governmentality: the case of Moldavian Csangos Diversly globalized Rome: criticizing the global city theory through a visual representation of the cultural dimensions of globalization Observational montage: filming the transnational subject Promise and unrest: an affective economy of global care work Picturing intangible cultural heritage Cartography is not but ethnocartography: the globalization idea in cartography Globalized fears: circulating imaginaries of violence on YouTube Hindi films in Trinidad: imagining alternative female subject positions (Re)construction of social memory for national identity politics:from heroic Middle Ages to Holocaust 'Virtually Jewish': life histories, past and future Social practices of memory: communication and social creativity War trauma memories and contemporary identities of Warmia-Masuria region (Poland) The cultural construction of the remembrance of the nazi-fascist massacre in a little community called Sant'Anna di Stazzema The interaction between private and public memories in Estonia Death or exile: social memory and narratives of political exile in Slovenian diaspora in Argentina Postmemories of 1915: how Turks, Kurds and Armenians in Turkey narrate past trauma A landscape made of suspicions: the memory of the slavery in Anôsy (South of Madagascar) Remembering and forgetting the empire: addressing trauma through arts and literature Mobile rewards: a critical review of the Mobiles for Development (M4D) literature Modding's rewards Contested rewards: the rewards of ethnographic media practice Youth, Families and Participation in Networked Public Culture 'Generation C'? The internet usage practices among the young people Engagement and creative labour in new media practices User-generated content and cultural heritage: rewards and challenges My name is Khan: crisis, media and imagination Popular culture and music in an indigenous online environment Radio Stars in Benin (West Africa) Discussion paper: media rewards - some preliminary reflections Bringing back the children: Native American communities and child welfare since the 1970s Film, video and TV as assimilation and resistance among the Canadian Inuit Lakota land: imagining a new sustainable way of living Human conflicts since the reintroduction of the wolf in Idaho e-paper Unwanted seductions: dealing with the wrong type of tourist at Hopiland Canada's multiculturalism and its health implications for Indigenous Peoples: the case of British Columbia Dangerous governance: second class citizens and the progressive jeopardy to public health in south Italy When the state fails: mobilization of social networks, systems of exchange and access to health care in Albania Biological citizenship, medicalization and other forms of care: the case of Spanish coeliac associations Do we have the right to grieve at work? (Re)Constructing Cappadocia? Museum mediated memories and the interpretations of the shared past within the World Heritage Site of Göreme Making the feelings concrete: the rule of experience at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin Museum as a place of self-knowledge Exhibiting the Orient: 'post 9/11' representations of the Near East in UK museums Constructed, commemorated and contested narratives and histories: the modern museum and digital access Playgrounds of history, shrines of memory: guided tours as performances of citizenship in memorial museums Turning points on the way to health The care-providers at the margins of the conventional medicine Preventive approaches to health of French ayurveda therapists: An "complementary" inscription with biomedicine? At the margins of paradigms in medicines: treatments and research in chronic diseases in China today On Buah Merah and Virgin coconut oil: an exploratory study of complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/AIDS in West Java Roots for future in an African 'cultural kingdom' Nigerian children born in England: the search for 'roots' amid rupture God and the spread of roots: Griots in a contemporary world Narratives of identity among German-Argentinean women in Buenos Aires Re-enchanting Britain through a musical idealised multicultural past: 'Al Andalus' in the UK From routes to roots: pilgrimage to Stavridi in Himarë/Himara of Southern Albania Being eradicated: anonymous semen donors and their imagined children The elusive resources of Kitui, postscripts of a colonial crisis The paradox of environmental protection: denaturalizing the Scandinavian wolf through enhancement practices The political ecology of a marine introduced species Not about water - local discourse and social dynamics around a small reservoir failure Crisis what crisis? Seeing Africa like a mining company Things that matter: resource curse, production-sharing agreements, and the spectacle of FDI in post-Soviet Kazakhstan The wiseman and the government After neoliberalism? Environmental justice and the politics of natural resource management in Rafael Correa's Ecuador A new semantics of nature: the extractive reserve as strategic power Shared environments: animals, humans, trees (and machines) in natural protected areas Protected areas, sacred groves: renegotiating forest resources around the Comoé-Léraba reserve (Burkina Faso) Reframing forests and identities in a Transylvanian village Crises in tribal women's empowerment in Orissa, India Incorporating a New Generation of Indian Anthropologists The accelerated flâneur The peculiar anthropological imagination and the Heroic Poets The perils of public anthropology? Debating the Muhammad cartoon issue in neo-nationalist Scandinavia Artists, politicians, academics and a local newspaper in competition for definitions For an AnthroPoArt: about audio-visual experimentation as a form of political engagement Performative formations: engendering art and anthropology in a Delhi gallery From account to narrative: Quranic school in Damascus as a case study for visual inter-actions in public anthropology Applied anthropology: a viable career path? Volunteers and poor: community health workers in informal settlements in Nairobi Working for change from within: applied anthropology in the Basque Country Communal categories, normative ethnicity and the peace process in Ireland The nation: a category for peace or only for conflict? The 'Arabs versus African' dichotomy in the Darfur conflict Concepts of peace in a post-conflict period, Sudan 2009 Legitimacy as an indicator of peace? Shifting categories of victims and perpetrators in the politics of memory in Mexico Youth and identity during election time in Burundi New Nepal? Encountering post-conflict Maison du Brésil: a student house for the brazilian elites in Paris The fragility of the elite: on the double-binds of higher education in Beijing Elite power: in defence Imagination, crisis and narratives among Colombian officers: citizenship and history among the military elites Imaginative acts and the Kolkata elite The structure of informal authority in Danish alternative community Christiania Health, illness and crisis from perspective of Polish female migrants Remembering in Bosnian diaspora: from individual grief to shared history The medical examiner and the asylum seeker Anticipated stigma and social position within the Haitian-American community Tamil refugees in low status 'dirty work': challenging identity and solidarity The politics of suffering: asylum-seeking children and the crisis of asylum "A future for the children is what you wish the most": the impact of intergenerational dynamics and crises on refugees' senses of well-being and social inclusion in Denmark Pakistani diaspora and the quest for wellbeing Some are more human than others? Humanitarian aid, human rights, and health care for undocumented migrants in Germany Pishtacos: fat-stealing murderers and structural Inequalities among rural and low income migrants in Peru Peripheral people at the centre of the discipline: Polish anthropologists at the beginning of the long twentieth century Is an egalitarian global anthropology possible? The problem of hegemony and flows Anthropology as satyagraha (truth force): Elwin in pre-independence India The 'state' of anthropology in Papua New Guinea The state and the anthropologies of the state Can anarchism be a critical point in the new anthropological imagination? The state and the framing of the anthropology of AIDS More ethnography! Will miraculous mantra help in the times of global crisis? Critical assessment of the anthropological orthodoxy The final frontier: anthropological aspects of media neo-colonialisms Educating Gaza's children: a remedy to the crisis? Civil society in Bosnia Herzegovina: between imagination and practices Performing community design after disaster: humanitarian floats in post-tsunami Sri Lanka Webs of security and waves of destruction Acquiring 'social resilience' through global and local organizations in the face of flooding in Northern Ghana Child trafficking: a 'heavy word' in Guinea-Bissau Role of the NGO in the development of Sugalis: a case study from a South Indian settlement Introduction: how to understand the world city? Ethnocratic reordering of public space in Macedonia If power is an image: Skopje 2014 Prishtina places: shifting experiences of the city And now what? Analysing the transition from a socialist city in postwar Sarajevo Reading post-war Sarajevo as text Giving voice or becoming a mouthpiece? The ethics of teams Ethics and the struggle to get data: experiences in Rwanda Juggling positions: between peace activism and studying soldiers Know your enemy? Reflections on studying military presence in Afghanistan Ethics in conflict in- and outside academia: professional anthropologists versus anthropological professionals Aftout Essahili - ethnographic investigations into large-scale urban water provision in Nouakchott, Mauritania Returning Sasyk to the sea: the politics of water and the unmaking of Soviet modernity in Southern Ukraine Managing floods, managing people: a political ecology of watercourse regulation on the Kemi River The Foyle River catchment: people, place and nature - estrangement and connection Polish sea imagination and practices Protecting the waterfront: environmental projects in coastal South India Forecasting in changing waters: fishermen, ethnoclimatology and climate change Dream encounters in Muslim Bosnia: imagination, divination, revelation and malcontent modernities Emerging awareness: the relation and intertwinement between imagination-of-bridging and the imagination-of-becoming House of dreams: imagining medieval masculinity at a living history site in crises-time Latvia Take me to a place outside: a study into the bodily and imaginative aspects of imprisonment Animating dreams and memories Innovative mothers - radical daughters: agency among Arbore women (Southern Ethiopia) The one who walks is a cow, the one who sits is a bull: identities of women in a patrilinear society in southern Ethiopia The white veil: a study of the dowry of women in Bengali migration in a country of northern Italy Gender and family in contemporary Hanoi - the dusk of patrilinearity? Identification through men:a moment of empowerment? The musical expression of identity in the Maale patrilinear society (Southern Ethiopia) Decentralization to the household in Oromia, Ethiopia: the case of the garee misoma in state-led rural road construction The intimate state: Eritrean teachers navigating the carceral nation The grammar of intolerance: the cultural politics of human rights in transnational Eritrea Land reform, civil society and the state in Eritrea and elsewhere The use of pharmaceuticals and plant medicines for tuberculosis among the Ju/'hoansi San of Namibia The making of an African medicine: Sutherlandia The social life of a medicine: "Artemisia annua" - the transformation of a Chinese plant to a global pharmaceutical Mending and bending antimalarial drug innovation at times of emerging multi-drug resistance in Southeast Asia Recreational use of ARVs: imagination or crisis? 'Free treatment': drug shortages, total planning, and therapeutic markets in mass HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Uganda Of docile bodies and problematic persons: providing and living with antiretroviral medicines in urban Tanzania The creation of Illegality and the rhetoric of cultural heritage: the illicit trade of 'Djenne Terracottas' in Mali, West Africa Where does legality lie? Sub-Saharan migrants and trading fake fashion accessories in the Venetian international tourist market The reinvention of tradition: negotiating land law in periurban Ghana Policy franchising: global neoliberalism and the control of new illegalities in Latin America Beyond law and borders: Peruvian traders, contradictory state agendas and the reproduction of 'Illegibility' Good, clean and fair: the Slow Food movement and the moral economy of food Residence regimes and the illegalisation of migrant labour in urban Russia The illegality of legality: the Work Permit Law for Foreigners in Turkey From 'illegal' aliens to 'legal' nationals of the MERCOSUR in Argentina Recent experiences of Peruvians, Paraguayans and Bolivians in La Plata city Re-shaping the 'right to the house' across shifting political systems: legal measures and the experience of the displaced Sarajevans Analyzing conflict: juvenile lifeworlds in Goma, DR Congo Children's voices, expression and silence: approaching Roma's transformations in Italy from children standpoint Multicultural education in times of crisis, an intervention project in Austria Coming of age in postcolonial island: school children and imaginative worlds in contemporary political crisis of Madagascar The Girl Guide Association of Cyprus: girl's and women's perceptions and resulting actions of the Cypriot conflict and other crises Viewing the political through tradition and prophesy: Greek Cypriot children's imaginative responses to political crisis A crisis in the genes? Children and young people's responses to processes of medical labelling through paediatric genetics Poor vulnerable orphan versus priest, working girl and President Commodification of traditional knowledge, local subjectivities, and changing social networks: evidence from rural peripheries in Europe Ecotourism or culture for sale: constructing the 'European indigenous people' Kubachi and Harbuk: two destinies of traditional craft Designer of 'Indigineity Factory': anthropologists role in Altai culture commodification Tourists' accounts of local dwellers' (im)mobilities Global culture and local arenas: cultural power regimes of the authentic 600 years of crisis: conquest and market Cosmopolitan savages: the challenging art of selling African culture to tourists Globalizing microfinance and crisis: international best practice meets local practice in Bosnia Metamorphoses of credit products Hinder or advantage? Interpretation of the law in the context of international entrepreneurship Illegal yet licit: justifying informal purchases of work in contemporary Sweden Innovative traditions in new markets Trinkets and trash: convenience stores and the poetics of paracapitalism in contemporary Japan Creating difference in Cuba's dual economy Practices of a role model in the nexus of statecraft and market-making Quality assurance: a mechanism for generating trust in HE on a global knowledge market Understanding the circulation of trust and mistrust in the finance world (and imagining the alternatives to prevent the crisis?) Organising for 'fair' markets: the case of the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation International Negotiating competition and cooperation in the Irish corporate responsibility movement Betting on luck or, how to cope with uncertainty in the artisanal diamond mining Chance as work, chance as destiny? What's lucky about a disaster? On gifts, chance and envy In search of sense: the social construction of a catastrophe in Martinique Roma/Gypsy tradition: a sociocultural capital or a burden? Spatial and social exclusion of Czech Roma: deprived urban localities and segmentation of local educational markets Traveller women and ritual power Nostalgias of peace and development: global actors in the heritage valorization of modern architecture in Asmara, Eritrea 'UNESCO is a special animal': questions of agency in a multilateral institution UNESCO and the daily life of cultural heritage: the case of Fez (Morocco) Transnational cultural interventions in areas of conflict How do international organisations socialise their members? Anthropology, the EU and the Europeanisation of European elites The 'Big Bang' at the EU-Commission: stakes in the struggles in everyday life of civil servants in Brussels after the 'enlargement' 2004 and 2007 The EU in the field: dynamics of election observation "They call them lababa or obange - stupid" Experiences of disability and institutional care in rural South Africa How religious aspects influence the Jewish disability's conceptualization Aspects of disability Does the present disability discourse and politics produce the social stigma? Analizing a paradox, through an ethnographic fieldwork in Rome, Italy Emancipation processes in deaf communities: how the visual exchange of knowledge on more fortunate life circumstances can compensate for local limiting structures The recognition of disability: toward political programs in Spain since 1982 Law 220/2000: disability rights and the production of modernity in contemporary Lebanon Poverty, disability and access to health and rehabilitation services in the People's Republic of China Medicine, bureaucracy and culture: the construction of disability and disability pensioners in Iceland The handling of dementia in Germany: relatives between care for others and self care Socio-cultural influence of immigration in informal caregiving at elderly 'Do we care?' Critical observations on 'culture sensible elderly care in Austria' Growing old in a transnational social field: negotiating change and accessing care between home and host communities The art of caring and voluntary organisations Who cares? Implications of the carrying state on the social relations of elderly Danes The art of care giving and receiving between grandparents and grandchildren in Rufiji, Tanzania Childlessness, kinship and elderly people Care and love: how does this go together? Violence, morality and state in a zone of counter-terrorism Guardians of the b/order of violence: peacemaking experts in Lebanon A pool-map, terrorist flowers, and the funeral houses: on violence and spectral sovereignty The violence of the spectral assemblage: trajectories and imaginaries of Mozambican sovereign formations Is the historic centre of Athens in a state of exception? Criminalized minorities, minor criminals: everyday global terror in the underbelly of Sri Lankan democracy The cloak of democracy: unintelligible violence and the shadow state in post-war El Salvador Democracy/violence: metamorphoses of Colombian state power Lumina amintirii (In the Light of Memory) Uncanny Strangers Owners of the Water Transfiction Roma Boys – The Love Story Promise and Unrest Take me to a place outside The Meaning of Life Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War Rapresent The Bagyeli Pygmies at the Fringes of the World Today the Hawk Takes One Chick Hilma Granqvist, a posthumously appointed grandmother of new anthropology in Finland The unfinished life and work of Marianne Schmidl (1890-1942) Autoethnography, folklore and national emancipation: 'the temptation of experience' in the work of Kata Jajnčerova 'Mama Maendelo': a look into the life work of Finnish anthropologist Marja-Liisa Swantz Pioneers of the field: women in Soviet Siberian studies Clara Gallini: a career spanning six decades of Italian anthropology Crisis and permutations of power in Southern Brazilian psychiatry Crisis, contracts, and care in Greek psychiatry Imagination through ordinary crisis - The protection of the Nantez' spending spree Reimagine the 'human' in medicine: 'crisis rhetoric' and the social and political transformation of contemporary psychiatric care Translating Fanon in the Italian context: rethinking the ethics of treatment in psychiatry Resolutions of war-generated crises through the mediation of sociotherapy: The travelling of the therapeutic community model from England to Rwanda Caring citizenship. imagination, politics, and irony in a psychiatric mental health community (Havana, Cuba) From cure back to care in biomedical psychiatry: lessons from psychiatric pluralism in South India Competing imaginations in the care of mental illness: locating the limits of psychiatry in Cuzco, Peru Madness, medication and miracles: family, state and community approaches to the control and cure of people with severe mental illness in rural Ghana e-paper Cage beds, walls and bridges: symbolic dimension of the proposed transformation of psychiatry in the post-1989 Czech Republic e-paper Crisis and imagination in Indian psychiatry: practicing 'domestic' care at a First Episode Psychosis clinic in South India e-paper From the asylum to the secteur and beyond: the rhetoric of the 'psychiatric crisis' in France Expert discourses on entrepreneurship in career services Expert knowledge and developmental corporations in Greece Expertise in hope: assisted reproduction as investment for the future Traditional legal practice in socialist times in Georgia Legitimisation of religious law in local communities in Dagestan Women and honour in the Republic of Georgia Present-day customary law in urban Georgia and the response of the state (using the example of Tbilisi) The custom of blood feud in Georgia: aggression and culture Practices and discourses of transmigrant community in the field of private entrepreneurship: case of Greeks from Tsalka in Adyghea Traditional law in Kvemo Kartli and the reaction of the state Dystopia revisited: the paramilitaries' vision of society in Colombia 'Balls of fire' and other kinds of weapons: a look at the Haitian experience Heroes of yesterday, war criminals of today: the Serbian paramilitary units fifteen years after the armed conflict of former Yugoslavia From jungle to village: changing insurgent strategies of violence in Southern Thailand For an anthropology of the frontier: the walls of Ceuta and Melilla Fortress Austria: why the Army still guards a Schengen internal border When 'imagination' fails and 'crisis' demands: evidence of torture in European asylum proceedings Blood ties and relatedness: family reunification in Finland through DNA testing Where are the tourists? Shifting production, changing localities in a Szekler village Local identities and international tourism: hosts and guests relations in the Czech 'Dutch' villages Short trip for the weekend: second homes and new social realities in the Catalan Pyrenees Lagging behind: the quest for 'development' in highland Epirus (Greece) Tourism promotion and social stratification in rural areas: the case of two 'Historic Villages of Portugal' The husbandry of technology: ethnographically understanding changing agricultural engagements by UK farm families Households in Europe: from production to consumption Renegotiations of changing production politics and 'crisis' through story telling in a Bulgarian factory EURO-STIL: the story of a Moldovan transnational family The Gypsy bio(graphic) power: 'out of time' as a topoi in Romani life histories Transition as estrangement: alternative history of political change in Poland lived by a former Security Officer Maping the structural nostalgia among the former elite members of soviet Lithuania: search for truth, trust and routines Experiences of crisis among homeless people in Croatia Transgender lives and the means of social control: the case of Poland Daily matters, silences and fragmentation of social spaces in Lithuania Workplace cosmopolitanisation and 'the power and pain of class relations' at sea Law, labor and privilege: the nature of German labour immigration in the last decade The return of the indigenous: the 'autochtonous' and their 'homelands' in Central Europe The Aboriginal People of England: the culture of class politics in contemporary Britain Anxieties of Englishness and participation in democracy Ethnicity versus citizenship? An approach from a tourist economy, Mallorca (Spain) Be different, be productive, be Berlin: conditions of belonging in the 'creative city' 'It's building up to something and it won't be nice when it erupts.' Contested modes of belonging in 'multicultural' and 'run-down' neighbourhood of Scottish city A memory in crisis? Biographical research on the institutional migration of Greek child-refugees to Poland Lifestyle migration on the White Sea coast in north-western Russia: divergent views on rural life Imagining locality: posted workers, immigrants for one year 'Being a Model for the World': Performing Creoleness in La Reunion Cosmopolitanism in Europe A quest for justice? The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission Reconstructing the nation: Venezuela's twenty-first century socialism and the creation of 'The Greatest Amount of Happiness for All' Female garbage scavengers in southeastern Brazil: exploring the interstices between materiality and invisibility Rebuilding indentity in former heavy industrial cities: comparison between Bilbao, Nowa Huta and the Black Country Sociality events in urban settings and the generation of public sphere The Little Disciples Project: how the children of Trancredo Novish negotiate their life paths Worshipping with ghosts: historical presence in the contemporary landscapes of Shimla's churches A moving sight: lining up for Mumbai's Siddhivinayak temple Puppet in the city (Delhi): aesthetic and semiotic experiments in new spaces Conceptualizing identity movements in India Living happily ever after or ending up in another crises? Bohemian lifestyle migrants in Varanasi, India Good governance in India: interplay of politics, culture and technology in e-governance projects A Munda village, Gabherya, Jharkhand, India: a study in anthropology of the right to health, issues of citizenship, power, and governance Man and technology: how technology affects socialization 'Performing cyborgs': beyond nature and culture in electronic music performances in Athens The politics of reconstructing locality from a distance: actors and strategies 'Taking the floor' through internet: case study analysis from Morocco From zero to hero: the power of online social networks Ideology of internet, activist imaginary, and international humanitarian aid in Lebanon Blogging as public diary, strategy of professionalization, and political tool: a case study of the Lebanese blogosphere Waiting for exhale in front of the TV screen: few words about social tactics of soap opera audience Mekelle as a 'market of therapies': healers dealing with social and political transformations Bioprospecting in South Africa: new hopes, old troubles Social bonds and structural boundaries: pluralism, experience and risk in the birthing process in an eastern Moroccan oasis Non-institutional healing practice as a response to ethical crisis in Slovenia An evaluation of healthcare services' provision in relation to children's perspectives: a reflection of dilemmas in applied medical anthropology Crisis inside medical vision of pregnancy and labour health care attention? Results from an ethnography in Madrid Turkish immigrants in Vienna: a case study Material worlds of Polish migrants in Belfast: displaced objects and negotiated identities "Out of water?" Material culture, migration and the positioning strategies of a group of adolescents in a neighbourhood of Lisbon Materialities of longing and loss: cherished items in the homes of Turkish-Dutch households The cunning of communication: human resources management, the flexible self and the invention of 'work rage' Listening to French workers's suffering: how to pacify the crisis in labour management From medicalization to psychologization: coping with voice hearing in self-help groups in Denmark The crisis of French psychiatry through the case of autism New ideologies versus old practices? The politics of being mentally ill in Latvia Disputed nature: social struggles and the environment in Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, southeastern Spain Defending the mines through changing political and economic regimes in Estonia Our homeland, our assets: Inuit rights, governance, and mining in Nunatsiavut, Canada Indigenous response to cultural vulnerability and mining in Canada Enter the tourism-dispositif: human/environment interaction and its consequences for a small island ecology Natural resource extraction, CSR and human rights in West Africa