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Series: Latin America Otherwise
Published: 01 January 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385462-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8546-2
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 10 April 2020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0758-6
...Times of the Sociocultural ...
Published: 24 July 2020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0888-0
...Crafting the Media and the Sociocultural Consequences ...
Book Chapter

By Maryam Kashani
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027232-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2723-2
... history, formal and informal knowledge practices have been mobilized toward the survival of Islam as a tradition and toward the material and spiritual survival of Muslims themselves. The introduction outlines the specificity of the geographic, historical, and sociocultural infrastructures of the Bay Area...
Published: 27 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027607-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... to mobilize across space and borders. Reinvigorated colonization of the Arctic has brought collective cultural trauma and environmental degradation. This chapter concludes that the environmental and sociocultural fate of the Arctic is desperate. Arctic resource extraction transborder mobilization...
Published: 07 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375029-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7502-9
... are inscribed in sociocultural meanings, embodiments, and the production of space, across different scales of poor countries. The chapter outlines the relational, multiscalar dynamics that differentiate postcolonial societies, while arguing that development’s will to improve obscures social heterogeneity...
Book Chapter

By Attiya Ahmad
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 03 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373223-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7322-3
... This chapter focuses on a gendered discourse of South Asian women’s malleability or being naram , understood as the intrinsic capacity and also learned capability of South Asian women to accommodate themselves to different sociocultural circumstances. By virtue of being naram, many domestic...
Published: 19 April 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059400-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5940-0
... the methodologies of their work. Current methods in queer anthropology adhere to the norms of sociocultural anthropological research in that a single anthropologist is solely responsible for all parts of knowledge production. Should anyone want to counter the effects of ableism as it’s bound up with colonialism...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375654-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... and ecological sensibilities. This chapter attempts to capture with “pen” (or laptop), for a sedimented print world, the magic pad or 4-d triangulations of historical discourses, operating systems, and sociocultural con-texts. The chapter also draws on films, theater, photos, and digital media from Indian...
Published: 27 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027607-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... forward an alternative framework for ICT governance in the KRI that is focused on fluid and shifting geographical, sociocultural, and political considerations. By following this framework, ICTs would adapt to Indigenous ways of knowing and living, helping to ensure self-determination and reduce...
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060208-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... In the late 1960s, diasporic Puerto Ricans established the Nuyorican movement, a sociocultural endeavor rooted in New York City to assert their presence and civil rights. El Taller Alma Boricua (Taller Boricua) was a pivotal institution that provided a platform for artists of color, aiming...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-021
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... communities. Seen through an ethnographic approach, the political performance of Afro-religious people has given rise to a contemporary model of activism based on sociocultural diversity of religious practices. Such a scenario enabled a reconfiguration of the global fight against racism, not aligning entirely...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-075
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Franz Tamayo Solares (1879–1956) was a widely influential politician, public intellectual, and modernist poet whose political activities and sociocultural essays played an important role in a range of public debates during the first half of the twentieth century. Like the works of his...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-122
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... by the Brazilian biblical scholar Carlos Mesters, who proposed a reinterpretation of biblical and other texts in the context of concrete sociocultural situations. These Aymara believers “reread” the history of the biblical salvation of the Israelites, applying it to their own history and present situation...
Published: 27 November 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... development. This chapter puts forward an alternative framework for ICT governance in the KRI that is focused on fluid and shifting geographical, sociocultural, and political considerations. By following this framework, ICTs would adapt to Indigenous ways of knowing and living, helping to ensure self...
Published: 27 November 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
.... Reinvigorated colonization of the Arctic has brought collective cultural trauma and environmental degradation. This chapter concludes that the environmental and sociocultural fate of the Arctic is desperate. Despite an official end to armed conflict, the Jumma people along the colonially imposed borders...
Book Chapter

By Margot Weiss
Published: 19 April 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5940-0
... critique. While incorporating crip analytics into scholarship gets closer to a “queer, crip” anthropology, taking these analytics seriously requires that anthropologists dismantle and reconstruct the methodologies of their work. Current methods in queer anthropology adhere to the norms of sociocultural...
Book Chapter

By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... and diversity of Black practice emerging in the 1990s among Afro-religious peoples in Brazil, in traditional terreiro communities. Seen through an ethnographic approach, the political performance of Afro-religious people has given rise to a contemporary model of activism based on sociocultural diversity...
Published: 27 December 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6020-8
... Boricua El Comité Loisaida photography graffiti In the late 1960s, diasporic Puerto Ricans established the Nuyorican movement, a sociocultural endeavor rooted in New York City to assert their presence and civil rights. El Taller Alma Boricua (Taller Boricua) was a pivotal institution...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-120
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... of biblical and other texts in the context of concrete sociocultural situations. These Aymara believers “reread” the history of the biblical salvation of the Israelites, applying it to their own history and present situation, with the twist that their oppressors were not Egyptians, but rather the conquering...