Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2113499
S. Trnka, Revena Correll Trnka, Sanchita Vyas
ABSTRACT Popular films often depict pandemics in apocalyptic ways, temporally portraying how day by day, fear increases as a virus takes over the world. The speed of transmission, alongside the virus’s seemingly unstoppable global spread, evoke a sense of being engulfed by the extraordinary, creating an experience of time characterised by feelings of intensity and fear, both on and off-screen. In contrast, the lived realities of young New Zealanders during the COVID-19 pandemic speak to a more elongated, ‘empty’ experience of time that lacks such intensity. Our interviews with New Zealand youth revealed their sense of time as ever-shifting, characterised occasionally by moments of fear and anxiety, but much more so by long hours of boredom and disturbing lack of structure, particularly during lockdowns. This paper draws on Bakhtin’s notion of the chronotope, alongside Bergson’s insights into lived experiences of time and Deleuze’s Cinema books, to compare the emotional temporalities of two leading science fiction pandemic films, ‘Contagion’ and ‘Outbreak’, and a range of popular zombie movies, to young New Zealanders’ lived experiences of multiple COVID-19 lockdowns. We consider how New Zealand youth (in our interviews, but also on social media) narrate their lived experiences of COVID-19 by drawing upon an ‘imaginative repertoire’ made up of sci fi films, zombie references and moral ideas of the self, which can help us to better understand how temporality is reshaped during a pandemic, particularly for young people.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2100316
Siti Sarah Ridhuan
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of drawings in the fieldwork careers of Australian anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt. This investigation originates from the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, which the Berndts established as the Anthropology Research Museum in 1976 to house materials collected during their ethnographic research. I make use of the Museum’s archive to contextualise three key sets of drawings: the 1945 Birrindudu crayon drawings (around 811 items), the 1945 Katherine ochre drawings (9 items) and the 1947 Yirrkala crayon drawings (365 items). In doing so, I argue that positioned as material sites of ethnographic encounter, these drawings reveal processes of dialogue and exchange that were navigated and shaped by the realities of being ‘in the field’.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2040882
Daniel Andrew Birchok
it true that housing markets can never provide poor people in any society with enough decent, legal, affordable places to live? The answer surely depends on how many people we count as ‘poor’, how much housing is ‘enough’, and which housing we are willing to characterise as ‘decent’ and ‘affordable’. The book does not commit to any particular definitions of these key terms. The result is ambiguity. Some passages, for example, appear to assert a particular, substantive conception of ‘decent’ housing, comprising not only rights to certain quanta of safety, health, and personal dignity, but also the right to form autonomous families (see 214). Other passages appear to retreat to the much weaker assertion that some standard of decent housing is minimally necessary, but that the specific content of this standard should be left to local norms (70). The difference between the strongest and weakest versions of this claim could matter a great deal for how we interpret the book’s argument. At one extreme, we might read Broken Cities as implying the bold thesis that large-scale social housing will be necessary to ensure the reproduction of the human species in our urban future. At the other extreme, we might interpret it as implying merely the claim that some people have less income than middle-income people, and therefore cannot afford housing that is up to the standards that middle-income people would set for themselves. These critical remarks notwithstanding, I found Broken Cities to be a stimulating read. It is a book that I will re-read for the case studies, and that I would consider assigning to students as a comparatively jargon-free introduction to an important radical perspective on housing. I would recommend Broken Cities to anyone studying housing or urban settlement processes anywhere in the world.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2056952
I. Cristea, Thomas Stodulka
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2098690
K. Myhre, D. Holmes
ABSTRACT This article explores the historical emergence and current crafting of the expectation documents that Norges Bank Investment Management use to exercise ownership of the corporations in which the world’s largest sovereign wealth-fund invests. It shows how these expectations are grounded in characteristics that render sustainability an immanent issue to this fund, and how the documents emerge from collaborative relations that arise from a ‘productive incompleteness’, which enables a distinctive distributive form of agency. Sketching how the expectations enable corporations to address life and well-being around the globe, it argues that the documents reframe welfare in terms that complement yet exceed the politics and bureaucracy of the nation-state. Investigating how these processes occur through a globalising communicative field, it expands anthropological studies of finance beyond derivatives and markets to include ownership as a function of dialogue.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2038948
Alyne E. Delaney
inclusive and plural) terms, beyond the internalised stigma of their ‘non-Thainess’. Bolotta’s background as a clinical psychologist and his engagement with psychoanalytical scholarship adds value to his conceptualisation of the ‘polysemic selves’ of dek salam as a defence against state violence (182) as well as an internalisation of the ‘stigmatising parenthood’ (170) of the Thai state. While this book offers insightful methodological reflections on the positionalities and the epistemologies of fieldwork, the psychological interpretations of children’s selfmaking processes might challenge readers not trained in psychology. We encourage the reader to embrace this excellent contribution to an emerging psychological anthropology in the context of marginalised urban communities, instead of rebuking its appealing theorisation at the intersection of anthropology and psychology. The book is a captivating read and an impressive tool to think with for scholars with interests in and beyond Southeast Asia. Its strength lays not in resolving tensions or rushing to epistemic shortcuts, but rather in dissolving them into their most subtle nuances excellently executed through detailed historical-grounded analysis and reflective and vivid ethnographic analysis.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2084716
N. Peterson
ABSTRACT The central role that anthropologists play in Aboriginal land and native title claims is becoming less visible. In some ways, this is not surprising since minorities that need the help of others, if they are seeking recognition of their rights, are often uncomfortable being the beneficiaries of assistance, and the narratives they come to cherish are those of self-deliverance. However, the public discourses in which anthropology is involved also contribute to this decreasing visibility, particularly because the most important of them is the technical discourse that comes with being an expert witness in land and native title claims, where the contribution of lawyers and the law have a higher profile. A third factor is that for those people Emma Kowal (2015) calls white anti-racist, a category into which many anthropologists might be thought to fall, self-effacement is a foundational value, so that any contribution to improving Aboriginal circumstances should be obscured. But is that how anthropologists and the beneficiaries of this assistance think?
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Pub Date : 2022-03-06DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2044558
Gerhard Hoffstaedter
that comparatively little work has considered the dissemination, displacement and adoption of imperial sports in ‘peripheral’ (5) contexts such as the Pacific Islands. What his book demonstrates is just how much we can learn from ‘sporting histories at the “edges of empire”’ – including how such work ‘can enrich and extend our understanding of themes pertaining to power, politics, identity and cultural resistance’ (6). How cricket, the most quintessentially English of sports, was received, adapted, appropriated, and transformed by the peoples of Samoa during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries may initially appear to be a somewhat ‘niche’ topic. However, what Sacks presents in this book is clearly applicable to other contexts. It is a theoretically informed, empirically rich account of a very specific case of cross-cultural engagement which exceeds its distinctive context and historical circumstances, enhancing and advancing the fields of sport history, imperial history, and the sociology and anthropology of sport more generally.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2042189
May Ting Beh
ABSTRACT In the early 2010s, new independently owned artisanal cafés serving coffee along with Western-style meals and desserts emerged in Malaysia. These cafés flourished despite the presence of the nation’s traditional coffee shops (kopitiam) and international coffee chains like Starbucks Coffee. This paper aims to explicate the processes of identity- and place-making through consumption in traditional kopitiams in relation to modern café spaces by considering how varied consumption suggests an intrinsically sociopolitically charged habit of Malaysians. Extending Richard Peterson’s theory of cultural omnivorousness, this paper is framed by the fluidity in class identity formation of urban consumers, and argues that consumers are agents of change which is primarily self-fashioning. While Malaysian coffee house-goers appear to be culturally omnivorous, there is a deep sense of contention in preserving the kopitiam space as a non-halal eatery. This ethnographic study contributes to a deeper understanding of how Malaysia’s racialised politics has shaped the eating habits of its multiracial society.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2045183
Holly High
ABSTRACT The core argument of this paper is that English-language scholarly understandings of socialism in Laos have been hampered by implicit ethnocentrism and denial of coevalness. Lingering but pervasive legacies of the Cold War include an equation of ‘true’ socialism with models of socialism that were practised in Europe, and a triumphalist tone that equates socialism with the past, the fake and the crumbling, even when it is (as with Laos) so evidently a tangible part of the lived present and the imagined future. Better understanding of socialism in Laos requires the kind of work that was done by an earlier generation of scholars on power in Southeast Asia, where concepts were translated across difference by rooting them in local terminology, contextualisations and usage. Following this inspiration, I approach socialism in Laos through the example of how the problem of water supply was addressed in a resettled, ethnic Kantu village in Sekong Province, Lao PDR. Why was the village resettled? Why was water a problem? What strategies did people use to obtain safe water? Answering these questions reveals some of what socialism means in lives as lived in this self-identified socialist state.
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