EASA2012: Uncertainty and disquiet
Nanterre University, France, 10/07/2012 – 13/07/2012
Workshops
Dreaming, surrealism and financial crisis '...and did it my way': religious idiosyncrasy and imagination in the multiple ritual landscapes of Cuba Ethnographies croisées de dispositifs d'enchantement Possession, mediation and imagination in an Angolan prophetic movement Professionalizing the muse: the cultural production of poetic imagination in creative writing workshops God's graffiti: prophetic writings and politico-religious imagination in postcolonial Gabon Making social work scientific, standardised and transparent: the idea of evidence-based practice in Sweden Can there be a standard translation of standards? An analysis of social welfare provision in rural Romania The Hidden Land Practices Within Standardized Plots in Mexico Technocratic responses to social organization? From NGOs' managerial capital to the standardization of revolutions CO2 capture, transport and storage: an industrial coalition working on the idea of "technology demonstration" for reducing CO2 emissions from industries Standardising for excellence: new public management and audit cultures in German universities Redefining standards: how Insurance (re)makes claim-types according to "day-to-day catastrophes"? Credit standards and the discipline of large scale payment behaviour Of widows and bachelors: uncertainties of the later life course in Denmark From ultimogenitur to senior club: negotiating certainties and uncertainties of growing older between rural Mexico and urban Chicago Shifting in-between youth and adult worlds in a small town in Guinea Growing older and endurance among the Turkana of Northern Kenya Talking about care in the Netherlands Tackling life, uncertainty and diabetes by a group of South Asian migrants HIV-positive women and precariousness in the Ethiopian city of Gondar: the disease as a factor of social integration in the face of uncertainty and chronic disquiet Balancing kin relations: new challenges for the rural elderly in China Against Identity: hermeneutical and ethical aspects of anthropological misunderstanding Learning not to be a master - or the necessity of misunderstanding in fieldwork among the thầy cúng of Vietnam Misunderstanding in the ethnographic politics of hearing Uncertain communication: managing intersubjectivity between children with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers Occupying Wall Street: misunderstandings, authentic and disingenuous Constructing and conceptualizing a contested space: knowledge and cosmology among the Gitanos of El Rastro Mis-understanding otherness: a relational approach to ontological and symbolic readings of sacred sites in Mapuche land negotiations Où, quand et comment il est intervenu : remèdes contre le doute et témoignages de l'efficacité d'un saint à travers l'analyse des ex voto. Glances of collaboration during a filming session with bonobos Insect magnetism De tout ce qu'il faut pour qu'il y ait événement - Ou comment faire de la physique avec le LHC Never good enough Elites' practice? Ethnography of self-defense classes for women in Cairo (Egypt): sex, class belonging and vulnerability The modern woman's guide to success: uncertainty and class in cosmopolitan Maputo Ideal bodies and anxious selves: aesthetic surgery and social distinction in Beirut "Power of self" against the uncertainty of the civil servants: followers of a Japanese religious movement in Ivory Coast (Sukyo Mahikari) "Our brains would be nothing, without yours": managing anxiety and expectations in a dementia research community Cold War governance through archival lenses Radical academics in the time of radical uncertainty: educating the educators at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela The intellectual elite, uncertainty, anxiety and changing power positions Not so easy to be wealthy? Rich elites and the fears they have to deal with Desire in the ethnography of Southeast Asia Desire and discipline in neoliberal Ghana Desire in the understanding of 'land grabs' in Zambia Envy, desire, and economic engagement among the Bugkalot Iilongot of Northern Luzon, Philippines The cost of other desires: the political economy of visibility and LGBT activism in Istanbul Desire and the front row: Icelandic identity in the light of the economic collapse Ambiguity on wheels: caravan homes in contemporary Europe Uncertain basis: house as an experimental means of kinship relationships negotiations Cyberhomes: restless transience or the new domesticity? Homes inside out: socialism, witchcraft and domesticity in Cuban cities A Chinese earthquake rumour and its repercussions Radiators: a source of anxiety in Serbian homes Uncertainties of homes 'back home': Palestinian migrants' houses in the West Bank The ecology of risk in an informal settlement: conflict, uncertainty, and household food security in Mombasa, Kenya Safe as show houses: an ethnography of the property crash in Ireland The redistributive economy: insecurity, insurance, and ontologies of wealth in Cape Town, South Africa "We have all become individuals here": poor whites in Pretoria 'Letting money work for us": self-organization and financialization-from-below in an all-male savings club in Soweto Value, solidarity, and life course in South Africa Living together apart: some land restitution implications for the living and the dead in Ingogo (KZN) Harnessing the ancestors: uncertainty and ritual practice in the Eastern Cape province The im/possibility of policing intellectual property How to consume? Shopping and consumption practices among Durban's middle classes Between obligation and freedom: the perplexities of indebtedness in South Africa From hostility to hospitality and other national and identity creations in post-colonial Mauritania Mining and social memories in Sierra Leone Political anthropology of history: the case of Nanun, Northern Ghana The time warp: the formation of Eritrean identities Processing the past through religious representations: the prophecy of the genocide as an alternative to Rwandan official memory The use and abuse of historical memory in nation-building: Tanzanian and Zambian university students' attitude to the colonialism-born minorities The election of a chief in the mid-Zambezi Valley and the challenges of oral histories Remembering and performing the war: conflicting memories of the liberation struggle (1964-1974) in Mozambique Social grammars of hope: from theory to practices Pain temporality: hope, grievance and resilience within contexts of violence 'Hope forges man's destiny': hope as an insurance for the future in inner Mongolia Enforced futurism/prescribed hopes: affective politics and pedagogies of the future Uncertainty, hope and the willingness to take chances in the context of migration decision-making Framing hopes in Cambodia: a discussion of the artist Vann Nath and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Training the frail body: an exercise of hope: an anthropological study of elderly going through physical rehabilitation in Denmark Trajectories of lament: sonic speficities and shifting dynamics of affect Lamentation as an expression of grief among Christian mourning women in Syria: an anthropological analysis Voices of sorrow: laments, epics and melodised speech among the Yezidis in Armenia. Acoustic indirection: the intonation of painful injustice in the Kurdish community of London The appropriation of Navajo weavers' designs: historicizing gendered and globalized injustice Land governance in Eeyou Istchee: emergence and renewal of Cree institutions Marine rights and coastal indigenous peoples of the North Pacific Lip service? Indigenous engagement in closing the gap - Fitzroy Crossing, North-Western Australia The Indians, the supreme court and the indigenous rights in Brazil (Re)embedding indigenous organizations to fit new legal frameworks Indigenous rights in East and West Panama: a comparative perspective Undrip and indigenous autonomy in Taiwan: a legal framework under construction Indigenous rights and traditional authorities in Namibia State codification of indigeneity and access to development "So that people would start to respect us": the Russian Sami parliament as a new institution of stability in times of uncertainty Postmodernism and post-socialism Anthropology's ground zero: what is and to what end we study anthropology? Power, crisis and anthropology Seriously enough? Describing or analyzing the native(s) point of view Postmodernism in issues of Lithuanian ethnology and anthropology Human origins: the potential for social anthropology Natural selection and anthropocentrism: reflexions on Darwinism Missing the link: from the study of variation to the study of variability Biological foundations of social anthropology: how the problem was understood in Slovene anthropology? The great divide: physical and social anthropology in Serbia Sonic affinity: aural environments and the musical brain An evolutionary explanation of garrulousness and repetition in the utterances of the elderly Cultural foundations of biological anthropology: challenges of holistic anthropology in studying associations of context and biology Giving up or giving in? Reflections on the role of anthropology in the 'neuro-cultural turn' Do jihadi martyrs really want to die? An emic perspective on the uncertainties of self-sacrifical radicalization in Pakistan After the dissolution of certainty: a perpetrator's account of living with violence in Pakistan's Muttahida Quami Movement In search of certainty in Maoist India Turning the arm of the weak into an arm of the strong: simulation, deception and suspicion during the German "red decade" A shortened time horizon: the meanings of mobility for intermittent men in arms in Chad Good soldiers and a just war: uncertainty, legitimacy and ideology in narratives of former RENAMO combatants in central Mozambique Exorcizing the violent past: demobilized paramilitaries in Colombia and the end of certainty Lords of death: the imminent forms of death in Serbian paramilitary narratives Ignorance and convictions within the Nepalese People's Liberation Army Development and anthropology in the Peruvian Amazon: exploring paths of engagement Conceptual uncertainty between development anthropology and rural development aid Provoking uncertainty, engaging disquiet: working against the grain as a "development anthropologist" Anthropology of development: debating good life and desired changes Rethinking "Policy" The crisis in Nyae Nyae: an experiment in anthropology and indigenous survival in southern Africa The collaborating anthropologist: a lesson studied by an anthropologist patron Writing development Le bonneteau ou les incertitudes d'un contrat ludique truqué Is cheating really cheating? When gaming becomes cheating: changing standards in scientific publishing "Everything through the informel": heating, bribing, making friends and the migrant's need to advance On the problem of institutional corruption: a cross-national perspective The morality of illegal economies and politics: coca growers and the claim to citizenship in Bolivia Causes, reasons and justifications when buying work informally in Sweden Manipulated living: paradoxes of state resistance in bureaucratic encounters Unaccountability in "neo-capitalist" East Siberia: the case of indigenous nephrite business Deception as method: debt and duty in Romania Ten years after: practices of teaching and learning anthropology in Europe revisited A passion for 'critical thinking'? Footprints on toilet seats: if business students learn ethnography, shouldn't anthropology students also learn the business process? Teaching anthropology to kids who do not want to learn it A place where open minds meet: the role of formal pedagogical training for teaching and learning in higher education Questioning the fears of students Local Practices of Participation of Academic Staff in the Context of Internationalization of Higher Education. A comparative study Denmark/Sweden. L'enseignement d'anthropologie au Brésil: Théorisation, terrains, engagements Anthropologie visuelle et filmique A difficult marriage: ethnographic film and mainstream anthropology Making "true" pictures: certainty and uncertainty of authenticity in Yolngu ritual and film archives Mettre en scène l'observation. Écriture filmique d'une enquête ethnographique en milieu pentecôtiste. Ethnographie filmique ou anthropologie visuelle ? à propos des tensions caractéristiques de l'image en sciences sociales. Creating images, creating identity: participatory filmmaking as an anthropological praxis Challenging mainstream anthropological research methods: a collaborative audio-visual experiment Comparative studies with participatory video diaries: Cape Town, Copenhagen and Paris Through the eyes of the avatar: machinima as a technique of ethnographic research in 3d virtual worlds Collaborative project, visual hybrids as representatives forms of reality's complexity: an anthropological research on a laboratory of the National Community of the Deaf. Towards collective practices in visual art and anthropology: possibilities and dilemmas. Comment résister aux stéréotypes : les identités de genre dans les performances touristiques polynésiennes/Resisting stereotypes : gender identities in Polynesian tourist performances Unmarried counsellors in Cairo: how to explain love and sex without knowing it? Subverting the hegemonic gender order: the experience of prisoners of the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path Reluctant queer men: towards a temporal understanding of masculinity, the male body and sexual citizenship in post-colonial Ghana 'It's inbred into you, it's a manly thing, you don't go to the doctor': men, masculinity, diagnosis and help seeking for depression and anxiety in a UK city Wearing the clothes of our foremothers: performance and genetics in a Sardinian identity project based on the recovery of feminine values "of the past" Consuming genetic ancestry: potentiality and the search for the meaning of relatedness Mistrusting families: the use of DNA testing for family reunification On DNA, ancestry and historical narrative: negotiating the un/certainties of 'Jewish genetics' What is (in) a population? Scientific and political representations in South Africa Thalassaemia and 'whiteness': ancestry and racial identity in contemporary Brazil Uncertainties over genetic and difference: interpreting the research on prostate cancer and racial disparities Ancestral ambiguities: making sense of genetic risk for breast cancer in southern Brazil Farmacogenomics, race/ancestry and admixture: a view from Brazil Introduction: living and researching (in) uncertainty after the fall of Mubarak Uncertain times made normal: revisiting perceptions of uncertainty in modern Syria Uncertain others: a quantum theory of truth and its Moroccan advocates Acting mindfully in grey zones Localising collective belongings: Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem The senses and their roles in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: lives under a regime of uncertainty Bread, love and revolution: a note on human affective acts during the uprising in Tahrir Spreading Out: Fiestas Becoming Transnational Russian Orthodox Icons and New Sacred Geographies in the United States Roots and Rituals: Spatial Dimension of Rituals and Celebrations in Slovene Diasporic Community in Argentina Trance-national Gods: Reinventing the Social and Ecological Space of Brazilian candomblé in Northern Italy From sub-Saharan Africa to the Maghreb: Revitalization of Christian Churches and Landscapes in Tunisia Arbres saints et mémoire collective: Pratiques profanes de l'espace sacré lors des retours féminins dans les Béni-Boudouanes de la communauté harkie de Mas Thibert The Religious Rituals of the Anastenarides in Greece The Place of Sacrifice: Ritual Transits and the (Re)making of Home between Portugal and Bangladesh Labor Migrants from Dagestan in the Disrict of Surgut: Domesticating New Space in the City of Migrants Placing a Mosque in Yerevan: Invisible Place, Multiple Names? Storytelling the fight for land of the Paraguayan Maskoy at the crossroad of different ontological dimensions Uncertainty, machines and experts: an analysis of policymaking in Turkey Latour and space: towards a topological philosophy Latour and the Event Authenticity as actant: shamanism from the perspective of a symmetrical anthropology The anthropological significance of posters in a multimedia age Donations from private collections to public museums Is this still a window? The cultural life of double-glazed window The image of the City: David Adjaye's Urban Africa photographic journey Confronting success: film narratives of social contestation Forms, imaginary and identity: some material culture dynamics of the Kanak tombs "Everyone can be a collector": contemporary art scenes in Istanbul Present uncertainties and imagination in art Transgressing the grid - questioning context and comparison through the creativity of architects Virtual risks: the UK remote gambling industry Spread betting in the financial market: what's the difference with gambling? Border games: the ins and outs of the Slovenian gambling industry Casinos and the management of ambiguity - gambling in Cyprus Turner flooded: social drama, communitas and emergency response Rebels, indignants and OWS Tourism: a contemporary rite de passage Victor Turner and contemporary urban scenarios: tools and methods Victor Turner as political anthropologist: urban rebellion, political revolution and public liminality. We are all (pre)Occupied « Tu es une Hijra ! » : les gestions des ruptures relatives au genre dans la société indienne. Another topic, please! Disquiet about transgender in Ethiopia "Woman" as their gender, "Man" on their papers: precarious identity of Thai transgenders MTF in European countries Gay and transgender Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and Belgium: the uncertainty of categories Uncertain vocabularies and imported discourses: transgender encounters with Polish law over the last 30 years Transgenderism as disability in the politics of identity in Japan Transformations corporelles et analyses intersectionnelles : repenser les amputations volontaires (transcapacité) à la lumière des apports théoriques et politiques des études trans Erasing uncertain genders: the queer/masculine experience of pregnancy & breastfeeding The drag king performance: a complex set of tensions Constructing dissonant genders and bodies in drag king workshops : categorial and political issues "Aleluya! Gloria a Dios!" - prayers, a means to wellness, a means to heaven: the moral and social dimension of illness among the Pentecostal Huave people of Mexico Witchcraft, illness and religious healing in Romania Elucidative photographs: the creative use of biomedical technology in Giri therapeutic decision-making The blood of Jesus and CD4 counts: dreaming, developing and navigating therapeutic options for curing HIV/AIDS in Tanzania Negotiating discourses of certainty and doubt in the treatment of mental illness in Ghana (Re)discovering Islam: survival strategies of Turkish women with breast cancer When religion and biomedicine intertwine: the case of "no blood transfusion" policy Taxonomies, ontologies and visualizations How taxonomy became experimental: redefining objectivity between laboratory and museum Does the "Barcoding of Life" toolbox actually identify species? The Mercantour biodiversity inventory, at the interface of systematics, ecology and nature management From collecting to protecting birds: paradigmatic shift in birdwatchers’ attitude to nature Taxonomy's politicisation through biodiversity regime Working in virtual space: how to study biodiversity research on the Web The role of philanthropic organizations and medias in the revival of taxonomy The general disquiet on taxonomy's health: a result of the biodiversity crisis? Fear as a total social fact Political transition, uncertainty and fear: experience and narration of "Yugoslav" refugees from the borderlands, 1948-1956 "Shall we fear the regime?": anxiety and reflexivity of Eritrean migrants in Switzerland La peur de la migration, la peur dans la migration : Les Kabyles entre l'Algérie et la République tchèque "We don't sell our country!": from xenophobia to xenophilia in postcommunist Romania The fear of the Other in a postsocialist context: youth identity strategies between the global and the local in Tatarstan If you eat dogs you will eat people: otherizing during the economic crisis on a Greek island Facing new otherness: uncertainty and social fears in Lithuania Social memory and expressions of fear Internalizing fear: a case study Diffusing the cultural bomb: on constructing regional identities in the land of historical discontinuity 'Eyes shut, muted voices': narrating the post civil war era through a monument Negotiating and consolidating national territories and borders through dead-body politics in Kosova The politics of transitional time: uncertainty, fluidity and disorder during the years 1890-1920 in Greece Constitution Square, Athens: disquieting politics, haunting memories, spectral futures, unfathomable crowds Conditions de vie incertaines et processus de subjectivation des personnes sans abri en France The Calon sociality as a limit to Brazilian identity politics Uncertainty and the subaltern: the search for Yezidi identity Generating secrets - knowledge, unrest and human trafficking in Romania and Italy Going beyond the dualism between assimilation and exclusion: Kurdish young women in Istanbul Anxiety and uncertainty in expatriate everyday life: identity boundary regulation by online community of people of Estonian origin Identity reloaded: economic class immigration to Canada and the remaking of the self Transparency, equality, universality, non-politicization? The multifarious effects of new norms for human rights monitoring in the Universal Periodic Review at the UN Human Rights Council Out of many, one: plural norms and reigning rationalities among intervention in the Congo The politics of electoral support in Timor-Leste Disciplining development, disciplining Angola: the production of governing agents in an NGO audit culture 'We're in it together': a narrative of 'partnership' within the World Health Organization Les significations locales d'une norme globale : la participation des usagers dans les programmes de lutte contre le sida au Cambodge The pandemic performative The global war on drugs in practice: From international conventions to intelligence fusion Archives, life-trajectories and institutional (un-)learning: working on embeddedness mechanisms of globalized norms in a Malagasy urban municipality. Constructing global microfinance: CGAP and unexpected outcomes Greek pupils' responses to global norms of flexibility The Afghan agents of the UNHCR, in-betweeners in the implementation of international norms Only papers that have been accepted by workshop convenors will be shown here.
'Ça prend du temps…' : Anxiety and Reproductive Health Practices in the Context of Moroccan Migration in South-West France "Renting a womb in Ukraine" or overcoming reproductive ruptures in contemporary families in Germany Journeys of hope and disquiet: Italian prospective parents facing cross-border reproductive travels Uncertainty and reproductive responsibility: new reproductive technologies in Chile. Bananas, pills and vaccinations: on practices of pregnancy management in Cameroon 'So much more than a doll': the use of reborn dolls in constructing motherhood identities "'fuqash 'arafti fi rassek hemla?' Discovering, hiding and experiencing pregnancy and reproduction in the lives of single mothers in Morocco" Conceiving uncertainty: negotiating the management of 'acceptable' risks of childbirth in a First Nations community in Manitoba, Canada "Natural childbirth" with fear in the Czech Republic Negotiating emotional and institutional arrangements in childbirth classes: ethnographic fragments from a hospital fieldwork in Switzerland "Once we had a house": invisible citizens and consociational democracy in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina Banished from society: Roma in post-Communist Albania and in independent Kosovo The state is in our living room: structural violence in communist Romania Effects of the siege on residents' relationship with Sarajevo Violent space: readings of urban memory and anxiety in Sarajevo South African land restitution, white claimants and the fateful frontier of former KwaNdebele "Keeping land for their children": rethinking the social meanings of land in South Africa's Transkei Between Umzi and the Ndlu: house and homestead in the former Transkei This house is not my own: on tradition and history in former KaNgwane Strategies of coherence creation in life story narratives from the borderlands of the former Gazankulu and Lebowa homelands The last hope of Afrikanerdom? Orania as an ethnic homeland Women at home with customary law in Nkomazi district, South Africa: the emergent forms of gendered and generational power in an erstwhile homeland Ndebele radio broadcasting, democracy, language and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa Memory, trauma: theoretical and methodological questions Ethnographie filmique de la mémoire d'un massacre nazi en Italie The command to remember: the collective memory and ethnographic interview De quoi pouvons-nous nous souvenir ? Working with the living memories of genocide in Rwanda: methodological and ethical stakes of a "present time history" The past that does not pass: memories, events and trauma in the far-left militant Portuguese Maoist Exploring memories of a place of freedom in communist Romania Speaking about the ethnicisation of Cluj-"Napoca" city (Romania) with its inhabitants: memories, silences, and refusal of the public rhetoric Writing in permanent state of exception: fieldwork among military elites in Colombia The melancholic nature of being Armenian in Turkey 'Keeping something in one's heart': questioning trauma, forgetting and forgiving in Northern Uganda Speaking out hidden memories: postmemory tensions of the Francoist repression Culture of violence in peacebuilding democratisation settings: the case of Afghanistan Le musée d'histoire entre les incertitudes de l'histoire. La perspective roumaine Fringe antinationalisms: counter-hegemonic narratives of the nationalist violence and social conflict in the post-Yugoslav cinema "Etre demoli" à Bucarest, entre continuité et ruptures De la production de l'(in)certitude en contexte de requalification urbaine. Pratiques de l'espace et rapports au temps sur deux terrains en Europe (Roumanie, France). Whose house is this? Uncertainty, ownership and urban memory in Korça La migration entrepreneuriale italienne en Roumanie vue par le prisme des discontinuités productives In transition: movement to a better future? Uncertainties, coping and community cooperation in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina Care as sustainability in crisis situations Shifting tactics of care and chance encounters: Cape Verdean students in Porto Volunteering, gender and ideologies of care in Czech hospitals Careful not to care: care for self and community in times of crises Le soin des personnes âgées en Espagne: vers le Social Care pour une responsabilité sociale du soin. Claiming care against the fear of abandonment: needs and obligations of elderly care in Cape Verde Caring for the caregiver: Ecuadorian migrants and family in the global economy "For their own good": immigrants health, family planning and politics of care Care placement agencies: reconstruction of child care in the Czech Republic Care, childlessness and kinship Vulnerable networks and the policy of subsidiarity in Italy: the interaction between welfare and new forms of family Kinning the State in insecure times Power negotiations on the limit of Paris: urban politics and inhabitants' agency in the transformation of a contested space Marginality and urban politics: intersecting spheres? Permanence and transience in US homeless tent cities The production of uncertain space in the focus of the public Uncertain living in urban wastelands of Grand Paris Spaces of conflict, policies of quieting Cultivated citizens? Public gardens and cultural belonging in Paris Undocumented immigrants and the city in the age of uncertainty Categorisation, the Good Friday Agreement and the anthropology of peace/pacification Shifting from communal violence to coexistence in eastern Indonesia Traditional elites, culture and peacebuilding: anthropology's (possible) contributions to peace research How peace came to Madagascar: reflections on the concept of fihavanana Le fihavanana de Madagascar: Une stratégie de paix 'Presencing past' for the future: applied storytelling in the context of northern Irish post-conflict peacebuilding Parler, regarder, agir sans troubler. Une ethnographie de la paix en Équateur Faire la « paix » dans la nuit. Rêves et apparitions des âmes dans le contexte post-violence des Andes Péruviennes. The gift of care: on Filipina domestic workers and transnational cycles of care Embodying cosmopolitanism: dance heritage, music videos, and the embrace of global imaginaries in Sulu and Zamboanga 'We all eat the same bread': the roots and limits of cosmopolitan sociability amongst Romanians in London Enforced cosmopolitanization and critical cosmopolitanism at the Mediterranean borders of the European Union The capacities of 'anyone': accommodating the universal human subject within a cosmopolitan morality Blame-sharing, the state and faulty persons: uncovering violence in public and private Being open to the world in Tunisia: 'L'idée du couch' as vernacular cosmopolitanism Mayhem, murder, mystery: un/certainty and the issues of knowing and understanding in tv crime series "No children please!": the boundaries of "crime as usual" among German "Tatort" viewers Guilty houses: a cross-national comparative research of the infamous homes of the West's (United Kingdom), Dutroux (Belgium) and Fritzl (Austria). The enabling constraints of poverty's materiality: notes from a Dominican squatter settlement Uses of denim to rethink social stratification in Brazil Of all-road vehicles and working suits: what do medical research materials reveal about post-colonial relationships (Senegal)? "We're not like animals, we like the good things!" Treasures, great and small, for social distinctiveness among the Ciganos from Évora (South of Portugal). Shifts in consumption pattern and materialism of the rural poor Downsizing: experiences of loss, downward mobility and new beginnings after a forced migration The objects of development: negotiating the materiality of everyday life in a low income Delhi neighbourhood Rio funk aesthetics: materiality and purchasing power in an urban Brazilian context Everyday objects: how poverty and plastic are reshaping contemporary Filipino tribal art Landscapes of absence and the materiality of expectations, natural resources in Kitui Kenya Laughing at luxury and living out alternative aesthetics: the poor craftswoman's take on fashion Understanding the experience of psychosis Tense nerves. normality, subversion and reconstruction in the experience of chronic pain Threat, impact and integration of crisis in situations of Alzheimer disease (AD): qualitative analysis of care trajectories and arrangements of patients suffering from AD in France Exploring limbo: unemployment in the jewellery city of Valenza (Italy) Precarious life in the cleave of the ordinary: walter reed army medical center as a zone of extra/ordinary life The weight of survival: trauma, resilience, and the family complex in post-war Sarajevo When uncertainty becomes ordinary: how practices of daily life become vehicles of normalization and tools of struggle in a Palestinian refugee camp Living the daily uncertainties in urban Burkina Faso "Business as usual": normalising crisis at home Avalanches and the produce of the ordinary: traditions of disaster in the central Alpine region Funk da Milícia: politics of aestethics in Rio de Janeiro Crime and the politics of aesthetics in urban Jamaica Aesthetics of conviction: cultivating Chinese state and Falun Gong aesthetics of illegality, surrender and contestation The role of the music within the Basque National Movement Cassette culture: materializing ethnic identity in music Contemporary city and informal aesthetics: popular culture, politics and environment Internally Displaced Persons in Azerbaijan and Practicing Limited Citizenship The burden of proof and the burden of stigma: categories of suspicion and DNA forensic databases The rule of law with Chinese characteristics: legal indeterminacy in the PRC's management of religion Law, state and favelas: a study about (i)legibilities The Restitution of Cultural Assets from Belgian and French Ethnographic Museums: (Re)construction of Museums' Norms and Policies Dealing with Legal Uncertainty in Times of Transition: An Ethnographic Example from East Kalimantan, Indonesia What is safe and what is sorrow? Home, Family and State in Post-war Kosovo "Essuyer les larmes", un film de Rina Sherman 1h15, 2012 Routine Infanticide in the early modern West Late abortion in Italy: conflicts around the fetus' "life" & "death" in public maternity hospitals Judging newborns' murders in France Towards a social and cultural psychodynamics of infanticide: the spirit child in northern Ghana Infanticide: acts, understandings and outcome Cultivating the educated child: parenting in a high stakes learning ecology Acquiring baby carrying expertise in California Expert counseling, parental relationships, and heteronormativity: a framework of reassurance and anxiety through MTV's Teen Mom A family practice: dualities encountered between professional and familial settings Parental delegation of childcare of young children to domestic workers: risks and expertise Nursery, grandma or quitting work? Negotiating with childcare and guilt in Santiago de Chile 'My parents never spent time with me!': migrant parents in Italy and 'competent parenting' Little expertise, plenty anxiety: a counter case from the international adoption scenario Mothers caught in a contradiction: intensive parenting from behind bars 'Incompetent, irresponsible and ignorant?': Ethnography of parenting in high-conflict divorces 'I have a fear of really screwing it up': the fears, doubts, anxieties, and judgments in the experience of one single mother by choice Between past and present: dealing with transition in rural Poland Good work: state-employees and the informal economy in post-soviet Cuba "Hope I'll have hope": industrial decline, insecurity and transition in a Croatian province The "vertical of shamanic power": the use of political discourse to construct authority in post-soviet shamanism "We're not post-socialist. We're just post-soviet": the Aga Khan development network in Tajik Ishkashimis' search for post-soviet socialism NGO-like nationalist groups in ever-transitional Serbia: fantasising the state and society while reproducing a 'messy' democracy Estonian Tatar community in transition Facing deindustrialization: migration and its effects in two Romanian locales Post-socialist bazaars: markets and diversities in ex-COMECON countries Let the hundred flowers bloom? Culture for the public, cultured publics, and public culture in a Russian provincial centre The inequalities and urban potential of Warsaw's transitional chaos Reflections on humor in ethnographic fieldwork: the case of Santo Antão island (Cape Verde) The double bind and the schizo-comic object Humour et altérité: un jeu sur les incertitudes des catégories sociales Mirasi: an oral satirical performative tradition Rupture and ambivalence: place and status of the comic characters in the ritual staging of the Ramayana epic in Cambodia Authority and clownesque performance in a Peruvian pilgrimage La figure du bouffon malien dans le prisme de l'incertitude Religions against the State: a study of the practice of Afro-American religions in contemporary Puerto Rico from a visual anthropology perspective Queer lucumí ethnographies: the "corpus" of Lydia Cabrera and Wifredo Lam Fidelity or Infidelity? Gendered responses to the current state of economic disquiet in Havana through Santería and 'Brujería' practices Transatlantic networks of ritual innovation in Cuban Santería Heterotopian Islands: Sexual Identity and Islam in Java and Trinidad Cosmologies of uncertainty: spirits, sickness and modernity in Trinidad Vodou responses to the Haitian 2010 Earthquake Des situations liminales en translocalité : expériences de subjectivation et dynamiques identitaires de migrants roms bulgares Situations liminales en migration et stratégies transnationales de résistance au déclassement des Chinoises du Nord à Paris Invisible migrants: multiple identities and (self)exclusions of African homosexuals living in Italy. La socialisation genrée comme modalité d´affrontement de l´incertitude migratoire : familles marocaines á Madrid. Les femmes indiennes commerçantes ambulantes à Mexico : injonctions contradictoires, transformation de soi et stratégies de (re)présentation The Sikh identity appearance and its negotiation in a context of migration. Litigation as performance: legal status in liminal spaces after South Africa's xenophobic attacks Liminality as a weapon of the weak: the everyday lives of irregular migrants in Mae Sot, Thailand Transnational bridging as a strategy of risk management: the case of the Irish community in Munich "Ir à Terra" : le voyage, une performance nécessairement dangereuse Sonic beings? Introduction Sonic strategies of trans-specific communication within Pemón multiverse (Gran Sabana/Venezuela) Becoming porous: the orchestration of subjectivity in Urarina shamanic song Healing and playing with non-human entities through Andean musical instruments Ichi on Jo´butsu: seeking the Buddha through a single tone Healing powers of Koranic recitation: roqya revival in the context of modernity 'We help them to become humans': the meaning of sound and music among Krishna devotees Sounding the invisible: a musical pantheon in Bastar, India. The sound of satan: ambivalences of Heavy Metal in the highlands of Madagascar Electricity as a cultural concept implicated in everyday practices: a comparison of French and Norwegian responses to policy appeals for sustainable energy Smart grids: evolving relations between suppliers and consumers Energy hacking: self-possessing the future of energy Fluid destinies: politics of water in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey Media and citizen representations of solar energy: the case of the Solar Mediterranean Plan "Coming of Age in Germany" - from local tinkerers to green capitalism: energy transition in Germany Solar collectors, heritage buildings, and the altering of private and public space Dignity, sustainability, peripheries: wind farm development in Southern Catalonia In the shadow of two states: rural electrification in the occupied West Bank Environmental governance of energy in New Caledonia Anthropology and interdisciplinarity: brave new world(s)? Back to basics - to the museum, at least? The travails and triumphs of bidisciplinarity You cannot take the researcher out of the evaluator: epistemology and ethics of anthropological collaborations in public health A river runs through it: negotiating partnerships and ethnographic practise in Canadian First Nations communities Uneven socio-spatial capacities and the legalization of a migrant squatter settlement in Greater Lisbon The impact of impact on anthropology 'Social impact' and the production of academic knowledge: some reflections from UK sociology Hong Kong as a sentinel for Avian Flu: the role of birdwatchers Cartographier et compter les vivants, ou comment repeupler la nature Construire la biodiversité par les chiffres Sentinel organisms and the monitoring of water quality The conservation of biodiversity in the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve: analysis of the fishermen community of Hezra (Romania) Of the rosemary, the sage and the commons Jungle backyards: a postnatural history of US Tigers Pets, livestock and biodiversity issue from the point of view of animal protection groups Primordial beings and multiple realities: moments of ritual ambiguity in North Vanuatu The moment of uncertainty and the purpose of the witch-hunt 'God has used the foolish thing to confound the wise': ontological confusion in southeast Solomon Islands Ritual complexity and ambivalent figuration in Huichol art Contingency and the notion of the self in the prism of Ewe hunting rites Naming the fluid: Brazilian Umbanda and the turning-points of the infinite The shifting ground of illness and healing in northern Peru Inter-ontological encounter: when Amerindian gods meet the Whitemen Huichols and the cosmopolitics of mining in Mexico Ontology, brand, citationality: brand and brandedness in Tamil Nadu, India "Frères dans la brousse" We the youth are available and we are saying 'use us': Manyu youth and their engagement with elite politics in contemporary Cameroon Figures of "child soldiers" within the discourse of child protection practitioners and related programs and policies in the Democratic Republic of Congo On all sides: exploring the fluidity of gang membership during political conflict in a Nairobi ghetto "Together we ate it!": the politics of the belly of the Greek fiscal crisis 'Work pays': Slovak neo-liberalism as authoritarian populism "We are building Poland': on the history and circulation of a 'contested' slogan In Macau, the future is now: normalizing political transition and economic rise on the outskirts of the PRC "It all starts from here": foundational slogans in Shenzhen, China Oil men vs oiled men: sharing space and (re)defining boundaries on the Louisiana Gulf coast Marketing practice and product development: materializing commercial relationships and know-how Material culture and strategies of identities Them & me - us - me & them The edge of ethnography: engaging "collaborative complicity" at the boundaries of the corporation Stranger and friend: maintaining insider/outsider balance to keep research relevant In the lion's den: the challenges of doing fieldwork in a financial institution How to use the state to be yourself: peserving Roma identity in Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia Integrating the 'other Rwandans': power and homogenisation policies in Rwanda Aliens with citizenship: integration as a never-ending process and the continuity of the state De-fetishizing EU immigrant integration: transnationalism as integration The enterprising "Other" Life in the 'pockets of state' as a response to continuous change Suffering vs. threatening bodies: vulnerability and sovereignty in the Iraqi refugee resettlement program No future? Dealing with uncertainty in times of crisis Mercatini dell usato: ambiguity, creativity and second-hand clothes in Reggio Calabria, South Italy Working for an uncertain future: risk and value in a Spanish integrated steel plant Everything for a Pound: debt, austerity and 'delayed' spending in High Street discount shops What if we fail to pay the mortgage? Thinking the unthinkable in a country of homeowners They are taking our spitia away: the anxiety of home repossession in central Greece "Born free" generations? "Apartheid" as an uncertain reference and how to make sense of it "We're not as afraid anymore": fear, hope and uncertainty across two generations in Cairo Generations of hope: life (dis)courses of (and about) youth in Cape Verde in generational perspective Poland's post-socialist generation: interrogating generations, "posts" and uncertainties Evental, postevental and glocal aspects of generational experience Knowledge and politics: overcoming uncertainty and disquiet from youth social movements The technicalities of doubting: temple consultations and district courts in India In doubt: uncertainty and mistrust in the Danish asylum system When judges feel misjudged: (en)countering doubt in Ghanaian courts 'The benefit of the doubt' in British asylum claims Ritualizing uncertain rehabilitation: parole hearings in prison Emotions as evidences: an ethnographic exploration of the hearings at the French court of asylum Judging destiny: how Taiwanese diviners cope with uncertainty The different times of doubt in French Assises Courts Religious uncertainty, astrology, and the courts. a case study from South India Modernity in tradition in the Bajenu Gox program: a new challenge to the Senegalese maternal health system Puerto Rican women, sterilization, and the reproductive rights discourse Rights based approaches and Santali systems of governance: contradictory or complementary? Realising reproductive rights in Indian law: the work of legal NGOs in promoting maternal health How is it going to ended? Pregnancy in a context of high maternal mortality Multiculturalism, identities and national uncertainties in south-western Europe: the rise of xenophobia and populism in Catalonia (Spain) French far-right trajectories: against a multiculturalism that dare not speak its name Not a backlash, but a multicultural implosion from within: uncertainty and crisis in the case of South Tyrol's "multiculturalism" Quebec's interculturalism policy and the contours of implicit institutional discourse The intercultural alternative to multiculturalism and its limits Reading Sarrazin in Berlin: tense and time in tense times When opportunity moves off-shore: multiculturalism and the French banlieue Bridges and trenches: the process of place-making among migrants in Catalan working-class neighborhoods When recognition is not enough: beyond the fiction of representation in multicultural societies The Symbol as the trickster of anthropology The story of two: knowledge and dissimilarity among Aikewara people. From fox to clown to whiteman: a genealogy of Mapuche tricksters Precarious possession Maloca: sound environment of human beings, nonhuman and owner-spirits of indian communities from Colombian Amazon Neoliberal tricksters: Izinganekwane influence on male empowerment strategies, in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa A methodological shift towards idiocy: three ethnographic ambiguities tripping each other up. The burden of "westerness": what happens when the anthropologist becomes the other? "I know Allah hears my prayers, but will he answer?": the uncertainties of informal prayer for Muslim women in Mali Managing marital uncertainty in Cairo: between human judgement and divine guidance Preferably possessed by god: grappling with uncertainty in interpreting possession trance in Cameroon (Re)imagination of political communities and traditional social authorities in the Muslim world: study of Muslim experience in the global age In search for the "golden age"? Islam, place-making and the politics of nostalgia in Harar (Ethiopia) Unanswerable questions and practical solutions: newly 'practising' Muslims' experiences of self-transformation Piety as everyday struggle: young reformist Muslims and their Christian counterpart in the Netherlands Islam as 'last option'? Narrations on uncertainty and the Muslim self in today's Tajikistan Anxious times: the 'problem' of Muslim women's education, work and failed marriages New Muslim male subjectivities: masculinities in the Hizmet movement At the Intersection between Exorcism and Sorcery in a Burmese Esoteric Congregation: How to Give Moral Sanction to Destructive Rituals Magic at the Margins Fear and Loathing in the Laotian Highlands In the land of Pii Poob and Pii Grasueh: how malevolent magic epitomizes Khmerness in contemporary Thailand Invisible disorders: sorcery and misfortune among East Javanese sex-workers in Bali (Indonesia). « No witch, no village » : the therapeutic role of sorcery (and countersorcery) in Arakan (Burma) Ethnographie de la violence à Ciudad Juárez, possibilités théoriques et défis méthodologiques. Ethnographier la contestation en contexte autoritaire. Le cas cubain. Ethnographie & crise politique. Le cas des « évènements » togolais de 2005. (FR) Ethnographier un Tabou. De l'Inconfort Ethnographique à la question de l 'Ethique en Sciences Sociales. « L'engagement involontaire »: instrumentalisations politiques et tentatives de cooptation de l'anthropologue sur le terrain, au cours d'une lutte politique entre indios et non indios au Brésil Rumeurs et antagonismes comme mode d'immersion de l'ethnographe. Réflexions autour d'une enquête ethnographique en territoire mapuche « militarisé » du sud Chili. Ethnography in complex disasters: the case of the Haitian crisis of 2010 Pratiques à risques et observation participante. Enjeux ethnographiques d'un terrain multisite portant sur les activités déviantes de graffiti-writers. L'Aquila 2009: après le tremblement de terre, anxiété et incertitude comme une façon de vivre et pas mourir Pregnancy and birth professionals facing anxieties and concurring obstetrical risks Discrimination and development: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamilnadu Contemporary dalit political mobilization: a case study of the Dalit land rights federation's struggle for reclamation of common grazing land Narratives of capital, narratives of community: ethnographic notes on development and Dalits in Tamil Nadu Activism & business ownership: where Dalits stand Madiga Dandora and their demand to sub-categorise a constitutional category Negotiating the political: the NGOisation of the Dalit movement in Uttar Pradesh Caste, capitalism, and the "globalizing" of the Dalit movement Dalit rights, NGOs and 'networks' in south India W068 Multi-religious rituals: performativity, ambivalence and the need to cope with uncertainty (EN) Religious syncretism and cultural misunderstandings in Muslim-Christian local communities in Western Rhodopes (Bulgaria)) From adat to agama: the disintegration and persistence of multi-religious rituals on Lombok, Indonesia A multi-religious ritual supporting the local Han identity: a case study on the Guan Suo Opera (Yunnan, China). The dried-up riverbeds: contemporary vernacular religion in Kham and Amdo Tibet [en] Doubting the future, defending the past: Indigenous peoples of Siberia internalizing Christianity Performativity and ambivalence of multi-religious royal rituals in Uganda: the coronation festival of the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara. Silent uncertainties: trust, law and integration among migrants, academics and citizens of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla Double presence or double exclusion? Ethnographic notes on migration and structural violence Destroying Ksamil: tourism, migration and uncertainty in an "informal settlement" in southern Albania Uncertainty and disquiet in the ancestor's homeland: experiences of a Mediterranean Diaspora community Jerusalem and The Temple Mount: between religious plurality and political uncertainty Rites politico-nationaux et désobéissance collective, ou la fête nationale du 28 Octobre en Grècede la crise socio-économique "Napišite da se ovdje dobro živi!": hopes and dreams of youth in post-post war Croatian society Not just any port after a storm: patronage, political opportunism, cultural heritage, and maritime identity on the Catalan Coast Remembrance agency in the remaking of cultural landscapes: the case of the La Majella National Park in the Abruzzo region, Italy Selling an 'image of leisure': women's small-scale trade and consumption in Dakar, Senegal Organic farmers in Belgium : challenging the link between food production and food consumption "Back to Serve" or "Back to Consume"? The uncertainties of return among highly skilled Indian professionals in Bangalore. The celebration: a look inside the elite social network of a Chinese firm in Nigeria The injured precariat and call centre labour: shame, stigma and downward social mobility in contemporary Portugal Highly skilled labor migration from India to Europe: consuming leisure on-site 'My daughter asked her forewoman if it was OK to get pregnant!': labour, consumption and subjective agency Inconsistent prestige and constant alienation: an ethnography of work and consumption among Romanian coal miners Changing work, sustaining leisure among Estonian miners Beyond coping? Alternatives to consumption within Russian worker networks Sexual desire and emotional intimacy: remaking of contemporary Chinese husband/wife relationship In a new world: love, marriage and class in neoliberal India Is it better to cry on a BMW or to laugh on the back of a bicycle? Finding the ideal marriage partner in urban China Drink the water once it has been filtered and conclude alliances after having been well informed: intermediaries and risk avoidance strategies in Indian Middle class matchmaking "Equal doorways - fitting households": how structural inequalities impact on marriage choices in rural northwest China Money, marriage and morality: moral evaluations of love marriages in a South Indian industrial town "Every one would like their child to marry earlier" : Anguishes about the future and marriage strategies in urban China The lure of love: Hindu-Muslim affairs in a divided Gujarat Better young divorcee than sinners: early sexual relationships and unregistered islamic marriage in post-conflict Aceh On intimate choices and troubles in rural South China Marriage and intimacy through the experiences of women who stay in shelters The intersection of gender and nation: rights claiming movements of marriage immigrants from mainland China Young men in the shadow of the crisis: violence and urban masculinities in Timor-Leste Unpacking the meaning of domestic violence in a context of poverty and law reform in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico Creating proper men: uncertain masculinities, embodiment and agency in the West Bank The nexus between Muslim masculinities, jihadist Islamism, and terrorism "How to be a good man of God?": change and continuity in the Pentecostal reworking of masculinity in Brussels Negotiating respectable masculinity: gender and recognition in the Somali diaspora Xiongdi in Ikebukuro: friendship as/instead of community amongst Chinese migrants in Tokyo Breadwinners, sex machines and romantic lovers: entangling masculinities, moralities, and pragmatic concerns in touristic Cuba Windsurfers, capoeiristas and musicians: Brazilian masculinities in transnational scenarios Negotiating wealth and desirability: changing expectations on men in Post-Soviet Havana From literati to entrepreneurial masculinities Stuck in the present, captured by the past: time perspectives on protracted displacement. Living an uncertain future: temporality, uncertainty and well-being among Iraqi refugees in Egypt "No Future"? Protracted refugee situations in Delhi (India) Uncertainty and flux: constructing opportunity in exile Repossession: material absences, affective presences and the life-resumption labours of British Bosnians Precariousness and displacement: gendered and generational uncertainties in post-war South Sudan Trading places, shaping spaces: examing Somali refugee women's lives and livelihoods in Johannesburg A permanent uncertainty: the Colombian case Governing through uncertainty: "refugeeness" in Turkey Negotiating uncertainty and reinventing community: Bosnian refugees in New England Youth, displacement and uncertainty in post-independence South Sudan Re-constructing ruins, re-conceptualizing refugees: forced secondary displacement from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp, Lebanon Understanding property in Muslim transitional contexts Genre et propriété au Maroc : la mobilisation de femmes autour des terres collectives L'attribution de la propriété foncière agricole en Algérie : piste pour une ethnographie du droit d'accès Les droits sur le bétail, clés de l'organisation sociale chez les Toubou (Tchad, Niger) New forms of property in Sahrawi refugee camps Targeted interventions, diffuse impacts: visual art and its sphere of influence in post-socialist Albania Photo-activism, 'self-representation' and political participation: a comparative study between Brazil and Bangladesh Documentary filmmaking and artivism in contemporary China. From 'trophy job' to 'war trophy': a gendered reading of pictures from the Israeli-Palestinian case Resounding conflicts Étude de quelques modes de documentation et de médiatisation du vécu chez les réfugiés 'clandestins' Impossible identifications: the politics of unrepresentability in Palestinian contemporary art Between scylla of europeanization and charybdis of nationalism: the EU accession of Croatia State racism, nationalism, and securitization: anti-Roma violence in postnational Europe Construction of an 'internal enemy' and affirmative action: the 'good' and the 'bad' cités young people State-building in a globalizing world: reimagining sovereignty through Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste Is federalism a threat to state sovereignty? The politics of new interprovincial regions in Argentina The new life of sovereignty State formation and uncertainty: evocations of law in every-day bureaucratic encounters in post-socialist Serbia The relation between jurisprudence and justice: Problem of Intra- and Inter-group rules Consensus facit legem: legal pluralism and the MST Land claims as moral claims in the Mande mountain region of Mali Building an empowered community in the mist of legal uncertainty: social responsibility and housing conflict in Puerto Rico Regulating micro-orders: formation of social norms and rules within the realm of tirikchilik in Uzbekistan Redeeming abject space: gentrification in Amsterdam's Diamantbuurt Interpenetrations: recasting nomad tactics in the face of aggressive urban renewal in Nouakchott, Mauritania Urban renewal in Rio de Janeiro: uncertainty as a rule Blindness: urban renewal, migration and exclusion in inner city Johannesburg (Re)Construction of the postwar urban space of Beirut Living in uncertainty: urban renewal, land tenure insecurity, land laws and forced evictions in post-conflict Luanda, Angola Inclusion or exclusion: gentrification in the Netherlands Closure of bars and brothels in El Alto: urban renewal from below and the moral becoming of the new Bolivian citizen The engineering of citizens: urban renewal in a Dutch social housing area Livelihood strategies' destruction and elite capture: an ethnography of a participatory slum-upgrading programme in a Nairobi informal settlement Reflections on neoliberal and organic food values in Europe "Peasants, not farmers": slow food, Via Campesina and the moral configuration of the post-socialist food landscape in Romania Bread and tomatoes: the shifting moral-political economy of local food systems in Latvia from the Soviet times to the EU The 'certainty' of heritage: slow food as an 'ethical food' management agency - traditional food policies in contemporary Tuscany Voodoo viticulture and lunar capitalism 'Food desert', class politics, and ethical foods: a case study in Detroit Anxiety and transparency in the wake of China's 2008 melamine dairy scandal Theorising television: anthropological perspectives in an era of "new media" Media materiality: theorists cast social movement theories in a new light Media/social space: re-thinking social change through space and materiality Mobile phone and social inequalities in Africa: what really changed? Africa's changing mediascapes: mobile technology and community formation Changing from within: domesticity, energy consumption and polymedia Media and mobility: women, social change and development Desire and democratic visibility: a theoretical model for mediated social change in the Global South Long abstract: media imaginaries: social media, imagination and political action in Italy and Spain Hacktivism and social change: from the use of digital media to digital policy Environmental discourse as poetry: nature interpretation ritual in a Japanese Eco-Institute A Sapir-Whorf renaissance? The return of ethnopoetics and linguistic relativity We have never been public: communicative praxis and the illusions of political modernity The ethnographic advantage and the analysis of news language Producing populist politics: a linguistic anthropological analysis of Glenn Beck Addressing uncertainties and doubts about the viability of local linguistic and cultural life in Europe: contributions of linguistic anthropology A "translinguistic" approach to register under conditions of "superdiversity:" drops of Arabic in an Arabic learner variety Semiotic ideologies of race: racial profiling, retroduction, and 'the fact of blackness' Family transfers in times of uncertainty: the case of Greece Transnational family transfers: uncertain times and contested exchanges The Russian-German way of creating a "teremok": the house and its objects - an identity resource 'Doing Antimafia': Disquiet consequences of state regulation and workers dissent in the antimafia cooperatives of Sicily Relations are not insurance. Money, illiquidity and agency in Dakar (Senegal) From local agro-pastoral conflicts to large-scale ethnic cleansing: escalating violence and fractal social structure in Adamawa, Cameroon. The forest and the trees: networks, comparisons and generalizations in ethnography Jeux d'échelles autour d'une patrimonialisation. Le yaaral et le degal (Mali). A micro-analysis approach of the democratic process in Mauritania through the example of political participation of subordinated groups. L'interaction sociale et la construction de la confiance autour de la pratique économique des tontines dans une société d'immigrés africains à Barcelone (Espagne) Social interaction, political economy and questions of scale in the analysis of refugee status determination procedures in France The very large and the very small: perspectives from animism and astrophysics L'inquiétude: sentiment collectif et processus de socialisation Anthropology and public health faced with self-medication and its risks Physicians and/as ethnographers in the public health field: a comparative study of the ethnographic engagement in medicine in Denmark and Italy Rethinking 'denormalization' in public health Asking the right questions: a case study of a research collaboration on children's health in Mali Governing families through Primary Health Care programs: an anthropological analysis of the Community Health Worker in Brazil The social life of adolescents´emotions: integrating epidemiological and anthropological perspectives Immigrant and autochthon ethnic minorities using Catalan public health services: reflections and research experiences from applied anthropology Roma populations and the Italian health system: describing and reproducing misunderstanding De-localizing the rural healing in Romania: seeing a physician Pink ribbon: a critique on campaigns for breast cancer awareness as public health instrument "Sick of coal": an ethnography of the relationship between cancer and industrial pollution in Brindisi (Apulia, South-East of Italy) Dealing with a dead spouse: a comparative cultural perspective Sisters, wives, death and rebirth: some evidence from Central India The blood of my blood: the place of widows and widowers among Spanish Gypsies Lions and widows on the path of mourning: náayeri practices surrounding the absence of intimate partners Marriage with a deceased husband in North-Eastern Ghana When death is dressed as Bride: burial garments among Tacuates Being married to a Spirit: Mourning Rituals for a Wedding in south Bioko (Equatorial Guinea) Trees of conjugal remembrance: kinship, mourning and death in Japanese tree-burial Wives of Palestinian life prisoners, between mourning and melancholia Who cares? Dealing with life after death of a spouse in Coastal Community, Tanzania Deportation and deportees: state policies and migrant experiences: a case study of Zimbabwean migrants in Botswana The moral economy of deportation in Israel: how the anxiety of the nation translates into the anxiety of the deportable subject The deportation grid: an analysis of the politics and experience of deportation in contemporary Ireland "Claro, cómo ya está la mesa servida, ahora sí ya no nos necesitan ¿verdad?" Indignation and fear amongst undocumented immigrants facing anti-immigrant laws in the Southeastern United States Those who may be left behind: facing the uncertainties of immigration detention, incarceration, and the potential deportation of a family member The management of anxiety: an ethnographical outlook on self-mutilations in a French immigration detention center Struggling over exclusion: the decision making process on the deportation of foreign national offenders from Switzerland Monitoring forced returns from Switzerland Deportation and bad luck in Anglophone Cameroon: towards a legal consciousness of migration policy The deportee in a country where migration is always successful Cultivating doubt, seeking evidence: diverse Protestant emotional practices in response to uncertainty The belief in animal immortality as a source of uncertainty and disquiet Dealing with doubts in lived crafted rituals Vernacular Quakerism and the certainty of uncertainty Uncertainty and the performance of unmasking and revelation: spiritual power and healing dramas in Puerto Rican brujería Finding proof versus destabilizing certainties in two religious contexts in the Netherlands Vodun face the uncertainty of society Doubt, uncertainty and expectations in the construction of ritual interaction between the Peruvian Amazon and Europe Vendredi saint chez Catherine de Nab'a (Beyrouth) ou la réactualisation d'un mythe religieux Epreuves et preuves dans la construction sociale d'une sainte "populaire" (Nord Ceará, Brésil) "Get set for decibel rain!": sound normalisation and local practices in India Sensory environments and sonic experiences: ethnography of blindness and sound in the Israeli public sphere Acoustic communities articulated: sound preferences in village of Dollar, Scotland Há sons na Mouraria: sound environments, identity and urban change "We are a radio family": theorizing radio sound from an ethnographic point of listening Cultural components of sound environments and the management of uncertainty in Japanese public transportation Being alone among others : the ambivalent interpretation of sound in the subway, between isolation and relation Sound banks, city frames: images of public spaces and noises private memories Uncertainties and anguishes facing Natura 2000: how local people deal with biodiversity conservation Une invasion venue d'ici? Les algues vertes, de la nuisance au danger Entre rêves de colonisation et discours écologiste. Les enjeux de l'appropriation paysanne de la forêt Lacandona (Chiapas, Mexique) La mangrove de l'angoisse. Esquisse critique des angoisses et des tensions sociales autour de la préservation des mangroves en Martinique, 1980-2010. Nature conservation and the ecology of chaos Mais qu'est-ce qui se trame ? Identification des Trames Vertes et Bleues en Ile de France Economies of affect Love for sale: economies of intimacy and trust amongst female sex workers in Celtic Tiger Ireland True Love: western prejudices and intimate connections between financial assistance and affection in Ghana Raising money and managing risks: wedding practices among Pentecostal Kenyan migrants in London Domestic disturbances: immigrant workers, middle-class homes, and the American Dream in Los Angeles Discrete economy: between economy and the gift The market orientation of the households and the family relations in the Voinesti village Balancing community and economy in cooperatives More than just echoing: unpacking repetition in the communication of children with autism Surprise as a vector of uncertainty in verbal interaction Stigmates sociolinguistiques: affects et effets discursifs Ritual transmission and the polyphonic encoding of agency in Lowland Quechua shamanism (Peruvian Amazon). The uncertainties of the certain future: discussing and evaluating prophecies among the Mayas e-paper Dealing with uncertainty in medical pain consultations Anthropological authorship confronts new uncertainties from copyeditor hackers turned ghostwriters Anthropology I am, serendipity I search, intellectual corruption I suffer Elucidating direct speech by writing in the common tongue: the future for anthropological writing? Writing about Moscow Pride - an exercise in uncertainty Praying and writing: coming unstuck from diabetes and depression in indigenous modernity The discomfort of portraying Roma childhood and parenthood: the politics, the ambiguities and the ethics of representations The anthropologist as cultural journalist: a tale of two translations and reputation vs ranking Questioning gender and politics of identity: activist coalitions and street protest in Palermo, Italy Women betwixt and between: social change, gender struggles, and eating disorders Visual interventions and gender mobilization in post-apartheid South Africa Black Swan, White Masks: contesting feminine lesbianism in a gay tourist town Justice? Contesting gender and morality in Malawi's era of human rights Fair Trade vs. Swaccha Vyāpār: gendered contestations of transnational justice regimes in Darjeeling, India The politics of translation: gender equality and aid in Norway and Ethiopia The impact of world heritage on a Japanese village: Iwami Ginzan five years after designation From global to local fieldwork: what does the 2003 Unesco Convention tell us about society? The woodcrafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: a controversial intangible heritage The retrieval of our marks: Macanese identity as Intangible Cultural Heritage The politics of Intangible Cultural heritage in Italy in the "UNESCO age": anthropological perspectives. Shaping heritage regimes: the predicaments of safeguarding the intangible Symbiosis or parasitism: shaping with or against cultural uncertainty? 'Getting it over with': juveniles' responses to waiting and uncertainty in the Western Australia criminal justice system Waiting to become/be made a refugee: (legal) meaning-making as a challenging activity for asylum seekers in Austria Waiting for change: temporalities of the un-eventful in post-revolutionary Georgia Waiting as engaged activity: the case of asylum seekers stuck in the UK asylum process Waiting for peace in Somalia or why it is sometimes better if nothing happens Doing nothing, making discourses: from online chatting to social engagement - a case study of internet practice in Indonesia Stories in the waiting room Doing NOTHING or DOING nothing?: towards an embodied analysis of purposive inaction "I have nothing to do and I came here": an ethnography of inactivity in urban China A life of waiting: the threatening uneventful in Central Morocco Social and spatial ephemerality in the Sahara: Ishumar life or the Tuareg´s compromise Fluctuating resources, mobile livelihoods, temporary floating communities: the detrimental exclusion of migrant fishers in the fishery management of Lake Chilwa Rebel governance as a transient formation The significance of transience: shaping persons at a gap year charity Taming the future: artists, movements and materiality in the Republic of Georgia Playing with the city: injecting the surreal in urban space (in Astana) Tourism, natural resource management and environmental readings in Protected Areas Neoliberal politics of resource extraction: Moroccan argan oil Design for a better world, or conceptualizing environmentalism and environmental management in Helsinki Modelling deforestation: affective appeals to science, tradition, and the global Taming the forest: development, conservation and the devolution of forest land in upland Vietnam Governing the wild: saving elephants in the forests of Kerala, India How to master a wetland: humans, land, and water in the East Anglian Fens The deployment of integrated water resources management in Mali: an actor-network analysis A Norwegian Klondike at sea Towards the anthropology of legal responsibility "Ni olvido, ni perdón": building discourses of responsibility in Argentina When is infection a crime? HIV, intimacy, and the law Survival and the double life of responsibility in Japan Negotiating responsibility and sustainability From transition to resilience: how to cope in an uncertain world Les silences du nucléaire: questions à l'ethnologie / "silences" of nuclear power:some questions to ethnology Where is the fish? Controversies around fish degradation and conservation practices in the Danube Delta artisanal fisheries Forecasting not to see the future: comments on the performatic dimensions of climate forecasting The magic(ians) of snowflakes: climate change, techniques of 'snow reliability', and bodily desires on the European alpine glaciers Engaging nature: climate change in the Peruvian Andes La résilience des seino marins dans l'estuaire de la Seine Le surf et l'incertitude de la nature : une résilience quotidienne Where should we play tomorrow? 'Extreme sport', uncertain environment and the ludic excesses of the post-sovereign subject Brouillage perceptif et incertitude. Exemple de construction d'une représentation religieuse comme moyen d'apprivoiser l'incertitude environnementale "Getting by" through marketplace trade in Bolivia: strategies for maintenance within neo-liberal economies Informal food trade and the community in La Paz, Bolivia Made in China? Imaginaries of quality and authenticity as resistance to Chinese commodity imports in Ghana Fashioning alternative urban livelihoods: the politics of marketplace redevelopment and resistance in Baguio City, Philippines Towards a new "moral economy"? Small-scale trade and informal exchange relationships at the Vietnam-China border Selling handicrafts on Etsy, VonDir, DaWanda & Co: resisting uncertainty of global markets? New markets in upland culture: state development agendas and ethnic minority traders of 'cultural commodities' in northern Vietnam By the beard of the Prophet: imitation and intimacy in a Sufi brotherhood Messages of unity, practices of discord: thresholds of certainty among the followers of Our Lady of Soufanieh "When implausibility leads to chosenness and chosenness seems plausible": mythical assertions in Jewish-Israeli scientific and technological creativity Asceticism as a source of alternative epistemology in Eastern Christianity Productive doubt, or how Romanian Orthodox monastics cope with disruptive divinity The paradoxes of money: faith and gold in a Sufi order Tempering Tertullian: reason and/or revelation in Pacific Russia Metaphors and paradoxes: secrecy, experience and embodiment in the Sufi mystical initiation in Aleppo, Syria Sarkozy and the Roma: performing securitization The performance of twilight policing: an ethnographic exploration into the world of private security officers in Durban, South Africa Perceptions of security in Portugal: trends and omissions A petty state of exception: security policies and police intervention in the French banlieues Security, liberty, and free markets: the revamping of American values in US think tanks Little fingerprint people: narratives, idealised persons and rhetoric in biometric identification scheme advertising Policing deportable bodies: justice, security and resistance among convicted migrants in the UK Privatising the borders The other side of the forensic science Policing the emotions: detecting abnormal behaviour in security zones From national defence to global crisis management: the impact of extended security conceptions for military role models Immigration, surplus life, and the ethnopolitics of care "Actually, we don't have terrorists in Poland": how the EU enlargement shapes imaginations of (in)security "This is my room... for six months": mobile childhood of Western children in Goa, India Bucharest teenagers in search for narrative spaces: exploring desired uncertainty in an undesired reality Bystanders? Children, urban space and the uncertainties of crossing streets Children with cancer crossing border zones Ethnographies BY youth: experiences from the Research Education Cooperation "JuMuW/You move!" in Austria Uncertain developments: exploring the significance of impaired bodies in stories of aging Urban youth in post-conflict northern Uganda: networking livelihood resources Negotiating clinical trials in South Asia Doing science in a period of crisis: the case of a clinical trial conducted in Abidjan, Ivory Coast Mycobacterial matters: differentiating disease aetiologies "We know, but still!": ethical procedures in the context of a clinical research trial (AIDS, ivory Coast) Uncertain responsibility for healthy diets Expecting a baby following a stillbirth: un/certainty between medical sciences, public health policies and parents' experiences in contemporary Quebec De la détresse à la certitude : la construction de la maternité à l'âge des biotechnologies. Disrupted pregnancies: how health professionals and pregnant couples negotiate high risk for Down's syndrome HIV Infected blood in Cambodia: intertwined circles of turbulences and uncertainties Data confidentiality and the imperative of the relief of suffering: shifting significations of donated blood after the great East Japan earthquake 2011 Donated blood, the body and the self The paradoxes of blood donors' representations of blood: a complex scientific, religious and cultural amalgam Thalassaemic stories of blood: the "blood of others" as a therapeutic medium Blood problems in families: managing uncertainty pertaining to risk of deep vein thrombosis Vined together: human-plant entanglements A more distributed agency?: The corporatization of "vigorous materiality" Intelligent nano: anthropomorhic matter and human machinery Vectors of property: the patenting of insects and the re-doing of nature's connections The culture-technics of servicing the denatured Indigene in liberal setter Australia Unpredictability doesn't mean indeterminism: instability and the rapprochement of objective truth and subjective realism Material climate effects and water multiplicity in the Peruvian Andes Beyond purifications: exploring conservation and its critique On the nature of Arctic domestication W107 Uncomfortable bedfellows? Exploring the contradictory nature of the ecotourism/extraction nexus Conceptualising lived experiences within the political economy of the Ecotourism/Extraction Nexus "Ecotourism, not mining, in Palawan!": ecotourism as a strategy to oppose mining in Palawan, the Philippines "Greening" dispossession: mining nature through ecotourism in the Dominican southwest Crude desires and the pleasures of going green: indigenous development and oil extraction in Amazonian Ecuador Manufacturing the natural: diamond tourism in Canada's North Ecotourism, mines, forestry and hydroelectricity in Saami lands: contradictions and continuities Rights to Sumak Kawsay (k. well-being) and Pachamama (k. Mother Nature) in Intag, Ecuador: is sustainable mining possible? Conservation and extraction: (pro-)creative bedfellows in a Lao nature protection area Karelian birches, elite minerals, and eco-resorts: understanding the Northern Veps' relationships with nature and the state Different positions of uncertain lives Caught between public framing, legalities, and reality: the case of undocumented immigrants in Italy "Irregularity" in the Norwegian welfare state: the widening scope of immigration policy Undocumented Latin American migrants in Germany: 'illegality shock' and the embodiment of deportability Risk-taking in transit: the case of Afghan migrants in Turkey Male irregular Senegalese migrants throughout Italian soil Mourning and belonging: The becoming political of irregularized migrants in Norway Strategy begins at conception, debating citizenship through undocumented women's pregnant bodies in Tel Aviv, Israel Romanian Roma/Gypsy migrants in Geneva: undoing citizenship Les textures affectives de l'habillement Pourquoi l'émotion esthétique? Théorie de l'art et expérience du spectateur. Authenticity and commoditization at home - Interest and affect in the built environment Drôle de Flâneur "I don't work for foreigners": an inquiry about the structure of emotions that regulates capital/labor relations in Syrian agriculture Tall stories: cannibal forks Critique, catharsis or collaboration: interpreting uncertain pasts through commissioned artist interventions in the museum Museums of rural life: contested peasants Ascertaining the future memory of our time: Dutch museums collecting relics of national tragedy Warsaw's new Jewish museum: building a new history Collaborative denial: the museums of Heihe (China) and Blagoveshchensk (Russia) Exhibiting disquieting histories: "What We See" as a critique of ethnography's anthropometric past in Cape Town, Basel and Vienna Memory files: online catalogues and digitally embedded discourses Analytic mapping of anthropological discourses on environmentalism and security Temporality and knowledge: market research consultancies and anthropological inquiry Many words for modern: negotiating ethics of legitimacy and responsibility in Dar es Salaam and Utrecht Vocational disquiet: on the affective life of negligence Implosion of beliefs: an inner journey from theology to atheism Leaving Catholicism: the causes and consequences of protestant conversion in rural Oaxaca Time-out: meditation-meaning-transformation, an anthropological approach to the experience of emptiness The end of "possession"? Knowing something and believing it Shattered credence Between two believe attitudes: adhesions to multi-level marketing Belief, secrecy and the challenge to the elders: the changing views of older men about having donated semen anonymously when young students When the ethnographer starts experiencing inadequacy of/on fieldwork "Don't yuck my yum": negotiating physical health and moral goodness via food Devils, spies and sugar policy: exploring the pedagogy of sweetness in Danish upbringing Educating eaters: hungry fat cells and the molecularisation of overweight bodies Disquiet eaters of 'proper meals' at school Searching for global hunger Practicing nutrients Enforced materialisations and intangible materialities: exploring conceptualisations of eating in anorexia and its treatment Avatars of exclusive breast feeding: an anthropological account of uncertain breast milk science from postcolonial fights against infant mortality to the prevention of HIV Contaminated lineages: intra-uterine environments and the transmission of fat Busan encounters Brazilian imaginaries of Africa and South-South Cooperation Representing Qatar: aid and development of an emerging donor "The electricity demand of Nepal's interconnected power system": India and the Arun-3 hydropower project Building the ideal aid system: fulfilling the dream of the better future (Polish examples) Russia as a re-emerging donor: toward a phenomenology of development donorship Art events and the privatizing African city The recent introduction of artistic events: Mauritanian plastic artists and "post-colonial" presences in Nouakchott Public space, unpredictability and social ties This is play / this is uncertainty: aesthetics, illegality and risk in Madrid Materiality of community arts events in Poland and the creation of the unexpected Acts of recovery: environment in art, art in environment Science as art, dynamics of collaboration, uncertainly and flexibility: the media-labs An anthropologist at the edge of art: reflecting on an uncertain position. All the radical interventions we never made: anthropology museums' uncertain responses to interventions by contemporary artists Conclusions after curating the biennial dedicated to the art event as a privileged medium Illegality mesh: the spatial entanglement of criminal and informal activities in urban enclaves Menacing signs: young neo-Nazis and the spatial semiotics of fear in East Berlin Contingent orders/orders of contingency: notes from a West African bus station Socio-spatial structure of the post-socialist city and evolution of "dangerous places" in Moscow megalopolis "Don't bring your kids to that school!": from social to ethnic notoriety in a primary school on the periphery of Rome "Some people call it the happiest place on earth; others say it's a dangerous place": fear, carelessness, and irony in Mexican border towns "Remember that you are never alone": the construction of a ritual self as a means of coping with disquiet in the practice of Umbanda in Paris Creating indigenous religion in Malta: a neo-pagan project Viking religion (Forn Siðr): legitimacy, spiritual creativity, and conceptions of identity in contemporary Denmark Engaging with a more-than-human world: contemporary animistic practices as critique of modernity? Creating meanings and supportive networks in the spiritual internet forum "The Nest of Angels" Creating certainty within European uncertainty: practising spirituality in present-day Lisbon Uncertain future welcomes rites: spiritual pluralism in Spain Votigno Tibet House: museal exposition policies - "Dreaming Tibet", history, museal collection, "New Spirituality" and imagination between conflicts and disquiet Spiritual labour: women's work in pacifying the tensions of neo-liberal cultures. Holistic therapies: a way to re-define gender norms? Education abroad: travel for enlightenment or migratory travail? "Migration without tears": British child migration to colonial southern Rhodesia Contemporary educational migration from Macedonia to Turkey: personal strategies and choices in context of transnational policy 'Uncertainty of Outcome' as a principle of educational migration: the case of Ukrainian agricultural apprentices in Denmark The periodicities and serendipities of educational migration Two years and you are out: Insecure futures and ambiguous family relations among Filipinos in the educational "cultural exchange" au pair program in Denmark Chinese migration stories (Re)learning Ladakhi culture: negotiation of culture and religion among "educational refugees" in the Indian knowledge economy Polish migrant adolescents in Scottish schools: conflicted identity and family capital Where should children go? Parental educational strategies among Roma migrants in Northern Italy. La ritualisation des procédures de résolution des conflits. Remarques introductives. Evolutions des rituels et du rôle joué par les entités forestières dans l'exercice de la justice chez les Febis de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée après l'arrivée des missionnaires On the role of divination and the nonhuman in the resolution of conflicts among Tibetan nomads La réaction sociale face à la sorcellerie. Etude de cas chez les Wê et au tribunal correctionnel de Man (République de Côte d'Ivoire) La proximité dans les modes judiciaires de résolution des conflits interpersonnels en Martinique: ressource ou danger? "Compère (attends) une minute, ne te fâche pas!". La mobilisation de la parenté spirituelle dans la résolution de conflits de la vie quotidienne en Sicile The commercialization of wedding ritual: countering uncertainty through festive spending? Ritual construction of money-gifts: forest traders and wedding inflation in Transylvania Working for wine: rituals of self-sufficiency and hospitality in Moldova Animals in Kyrgyz ritual economy From pigsticking to festival: changes in economy and ritual in the Hungarian countryside "Mutuality's tension" or, is economy to ritual as competition is to mutuality? Some reflections from Muslim Bosnia "We are too connected" or the ritual side of economy in a Macedonian town. Agricultural Rituals: Extinct or Development Phenomenon? Crisis, ritual, and economic change: clients in default and the renegotiation of bank loans during the Romanian financial crisis Ritual offerings in Bali (Indonesia): a beautiful and conflicting parallel economy Economy as ritual: performative spaces inside the Slow Food Movement The ritual use of scientific models to increase fisheries in South Western Madagascar Radical citizens: on ideological formation and 'terror' tactics of Maoist cadres in Nepal's transition to democracy Re-imagining the Russian left: socialism, affect, horizons La proximité culturelle dans une ethnologie des mouvements altermondialistes: dimensions emic et ethic de la théorie sociale Understanding emerging forms of mobilization: the Arab spring in Israel Critical political movement: an anthropological perspective Rethinking the practices of self-organization in South Africa: the self-empowering experience of the 1980s and it's role for the contemporary protest communities Assemblies and the struggle to diffuse power: ethnographic examples and contemporary practices Demanding local rights in the global city: the legacy of Henri Lefebvre and Hamburg's "right-to-the-city"-movements The political economy of madrasah education: towards a radical re-interpretation of anthropology of education Impromptu actions and ritual efficacy: investigating Tiwi and Edo uncertainties Evangelized/catechized: the reluctant grace of prayer as testimony or sacrament The tremulousness of bodily-being: a kidnapping in Iraq Walking slowly on concrete pavements: Amazonian children and bodily hesitation in the city The secret competence: precarious bodies, private challenges and public display in the Caribbean club culture of Paris Performing dance, performing Goth: crossing hierarchical boundaries and negotiating Goth identity through dance practices in clubs Hesitation: a state of being neither here nor there Interactions Incertaines: relations dangereuses dans la capoeira (Bahia - Brésil) Zanshin winks and/or twitches: reading and/or feeling uncertainty in a martial body The damaged body: illness, fitness, training, and the aches and pains of ethnographic practice Assimilation as cultural work and movement Tai Neua: migrant peoples, colonial classification, and historical contingencies Mobilité et réussite chez les Ruscoveni Tai Wat on the move: from war refugees to migrant workers The art of upland governmentality and the desire for improvement in the Southeast Asian Highlands Negotiating a Kurdish mythical history: the Dengbej folk poets in Turkey Local responses to politics of post-disaster reconstruction in India and Nicaragua Disaster bureaucracy, "the state" and "hidden" forms of resistance Politics at state and street levels: the 2006 Central Java earthquake Imagining Aceh: social change and emerging political subjectivities in post-tsunami Banda Aceh, Indonesia Hurricanes, the revolutionary state and moral debates in contemporary Cuba Modern lovers and premodern haters: Géza Róheim and the sexual science of East European otherness Psychiatry, criminology, criminal law: the scientific construction of the homosexual man and the homosexual woman in Poland since ca.1870 till 1939 Post-war modernization in Poland: between sexual reform and bodliy purity Statistics and sex equality: scientific socialism and the committee of the Bulgarian women's movement in Bulgaria, 1968-1989 The contraceptive pill in Poland in the 1960s and 1970s: questions about circulation, consumption and influence on female sexuality Women's emancipation as an obstacle to good sex: gender roles in sexological writings in Poland in the 1970s and 1980s Installing turbulent ethnographies Rootless - uncertain visibilities: expressing disquietude through video art film in Cape Town, South Africa Vampires and fear between Hollywood and Bandjoun Facing the abyss: encountering traces of nuclear genocide at the movies The (un)certain variation: the Palestinian artistic variation on suicide bombing Curatorial work: working through affective passages Showing the unsayable: the representation of shamanism in contemporary video art from Kirgistan How to express the unspeakable? Performance, a state of being and feeling Visions of listenings Ethnovideography as ethical ethnography W127 Political and epistemic uses of local knowledge in the face of environmental global change (EN) In the name of development: whose knowledge counts? On knowledge and value: biocultural protocols as a means of cultural security in times of (economic) uncertainty Mongolian herders' indigenous knowledge and climate change adaptation: politics and epistemologies Inuit knowledge, bureaucratic practice, and the politics of adaptation in the Canadian Arctic Adaptation as process, adaptation as goal: knowledge frames as adaptation politics 'Dirt is matter out of place': Earth, dirt, ash, mud and dung among the Mun (Mursi) of SW Ethiopia Personal bathing and washing rituals against uncertainty: Washing away dirt and affliction from exogenous sources. Starving on purpose. Drained pregnant bodies and the quest for cleanliness among the Hadiya women (Ethiopia) How the Egyptian Government Decided to Slaughter all the Country's Pigs Restoring order and social stability after the 2011 tsunami through practices of cleanliness in evacuation shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture (Japan) Of Salted Strawberries and Vegetable Cleansers: How new hygiene practices in Beijing have emerged in response to infectious diseases and contaminated food The political economy of the palace of culture and science: reducing Warsaw's complexity Challenges of post-socialist transformation and urban planning in the time of transition: case study Sarajevo Prishtina, shifting experiences of a post-conflict city Contested open spaces in Baku From the protest to the project: claiming a right to Kontraktova Square (Kyiv, Ukraine) Strasbourg- between European and trans-border ambitions Emerging urban practices in Madrid: between the uncertain and the new Statue-Life: Warrior with Horse, the Bull and the Lion: the beasts of Skopje 2014 From vulnerability to resiliency: UN's grammars and practices about "natural" disasters The two-faced Janus of disaster management: still vulnerable yet already resilient The Houmas: from resilience to an exodus foretold Maps, guns and landslides: performing preparedness in a Salvadoran town "Are you prepared?" Representations and management of flooding risks in Fiji, Melanesia From risk planification to the production of security: the example of preparation for the influenza pandemic To be prepared when epidemic gone wild: the firefighter method in national committee of epidemic management of Niger Preparing the mission and coping with uncertainty in the French Infantry The Kiribati project: the repatriation of old ethnographic films and their use in contemporary cultural contexts Screening transnational spaces: Video installation as an innovative representational practice Producing pictures to negotiate the image of a neighbourhood: a photographic collaboration with families living in Geneva Visual narratives of the self: photography and facebook in Dakar Skilled visions as critical ecologies of belonging 'Hunting' the visual: Anthropology of safari tourists who capture the uncertain Evenki character: a revision of the Mead-Bateson photographic analysis and its compatibility with new visual technologies "Close your eyes and let yourself go": the construction of trust in a treatment for eating disorders 'I rather prefer that doctors do not pretend as if they are half gods in white': How doctors sharing uncertainty in a Dutch IVF-clinic increases trust When treatment can kill, uncertainty, trust and the influence of the patient/doctor relationship What we can't rely on: patients and doctors facing medical uncertainty related to diagnosis and prognosis in chronic illness. Navigating uncertain landscapes: the role of trust in health-seeking practices and power topographies in Africa Treatment-seeking behaviour for malaria in Tanzania - uncertainty and trust in a new remedy Uncertainty and trust in men's search for fertility treatments in rural northern Malawi Policy, pharmaceuticals and tactics: how do people deal with medicines in time of uncertainty in Tigray, Ethiopia Shifting (un-)certainties? Trust in herbal medicines in the urban context of Kinshasa Trust and uncertainty in Malaria in pregnancy Installing trust: medical data infrastructures and the production of anticipatory knowledge in Rwanda Alternative medicine and healers in folk narratives Dream visions of the saints In Khōjā kahaṇī literature Dreaming Baba, Restituting Memory: Popular Sufi Shrines in Contemporary East Punjab Encountering Hizir and Elijah: dreaming and healing in the Muslim and Alawi Traditions of Hatay Flashes of ultimate reality: dreams of saints and shrines in a contemporary Pakistani Sufi community Sacred sites, severed heads and prophetic visions Sufi shrines and dreams in Palestine The "sleeping women", the dead and the saints: dreaming, dreamsharing and dream interpretation as women´s power in northern Morocco 'Please Don't Beat Me, Sir!' Coming of Age in Exile Coffee Futures (Neyse halim çiksin falim) One Of the Mad Ones Funeral Season (ou La Saison des funérailles) Kings of the Beetle The flowers at the window (les fleurs à la fenetre) les larmes du Husayn Prophète(s) Come back tomorrow Law and War in Rural Kenya Manenberg Ethical-Traces The Shaman, his nephew... and the captain Unity through Culture God's Graffiti Habilito: debt for life Orania The Lover and The Beloved: A Journey into Tantra