{"title":"Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan's adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.","authors":"Robert C. Marshall","doi":"10.1111/amet.13329","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13329","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"633-634"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie Kusserow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 176 pp.","authors":"Karen Coen Flynn, Donald W. Goodrich","doi":"10.1111/amet.13332","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"617-618"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State By Iwona Kaliszewska. Translated by Arthur Barys. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. 168 pp.","authors":"Jean-François Ratelle","doi":"10.1111/amet.13341","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13341","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"647-648"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quinoa: Food politics and agrarian life in the Andean highlands By Linda Seligmann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 201 pp.","authors":"Guillermo Salas Carreño","doi":"10.1111/amet.13321","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"651-652"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The chilling infiltration by technologies of state power that make up modern governance is brought home by each of the articles in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum. In reflecting on them, I pose the question: Can we move beyond descriptions of human agency entirely within the cracks and fissures of state governance? Or can we develop a richer futural imagination that goes beyond a statist imaginary? If we are to sustain such an endeavor, we need not only imaginative analytical frameworks, but also forms of language that resist being reduced to “thinking like the state.”
{"title":"Imagining beyond a statist imaginary","authors":"Kalpana Ram","doi":"10.1111/amet.13315","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13315","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chilling infiltration by technologies of state power that make up modern governance is brought home by each of the articles in <i>AE</i>’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum. In reflecting on them, I pose the question: Can we move beyond descriptions of human agency entirely within the cracks and fissures of state governance? Or can we develop a richer futural imagination that goes beyond a statist imaginary? If we are to sustain such an endeavor, we need not only imaginative analytical frameworks, but also forms of language that resist being reduced to “thinking like the state.”</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"390-393"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141877482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call determined indeterminacy. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably persistent. This is the case especially in contexts of aspirational whiteness, such as Bulgaria, where whiteness is fraught and many people claim that their country has never been racial. Tracing Bulgaria's history of racial disavowal helps us understand how the local particularities of white supremacy naturalize, transform, and set in place long-standing racial hierarchies.
{"title":"The determined indeterminacy of white supremacy","authors":"Elana Resnick","doi":"10.1111/amet.13311","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contemporary white supremacy often takes hold through strategies of racial disavowal. One strategy that political parties and regular citizens in Bulgaria use is what I call <i>determined indeterminacy</i>. Determined indeterminacy is a collective, institutionalized method of denying the ubiquitous systemic racism that undergirds social life. It allows people to naturalize white supremacy and render it adaptably persistent. This is the case especially in contexts of aspirational whiteness, such as Bulgaria, where whiteness is fraught and many people claim that their country has never been racial. Tracing Bulgaria's history of racial disavowal helps us understand how the local particularities of white supremacy naturalize, transform, and set in place long-standing racial hierarchies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"433-447"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The authors in this forum highlight collective action that gives way to new scripts of citizenship. This collective action also opens new spaces of common life, where people can perform the politics of being with others. I ask whether the concepts of commoning and sociability, rather than the language of solidarity and belonging, would be more suitable to capture the dynamics of contemporary citizenship struggles.
{"title":"Citizenship beyond solidarity and belonging","authors":"Ayşe Çağlar","doi":"10.1111/amet.13316","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13316","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The authors in this forum highlight collective action that gives way to new scripts of citizenship. This collective action also opens new spaces of common life, where people can perform the politics of being with others. I ask whether the concepts of commoning and sociability, rather than the language of solidarity and belonging, would be more suitable to capture the dynamics of contemporary citizenship struggles.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"397-399"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141730571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This commentary engages the articles in the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum by discussing three points: citizen participation in and challenges to bureaucratic practices; the spatialities of citizenship and belonging; and the potentials for co-optation of civic mobilization vis-à-vis the privatization of state responsibilities. It concludes that citizen mobilizations can effectively structure the terms of the debate and create new forms of belonging in the wake of inherited injustices.
{"title":"Spaces and challenges of citizenship","authors":"Heide Castañeda","doi":"10.1111/amet.13313","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This commentary engages the articles in the “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum by discussing three points: citizen participation in and challenges to bureaucratic practices; the spatialities of citizenship and belonging; and the potentials for co-optation of civic mobilization vis-à-vis the privatization of state responsibilities. It concludes that citizen mobilizations can effectively structure the terms of the debate and create new forms of belonging in the wake of inherited injustices.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"402-403"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141730570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This short commentary argues for the utility of a suitably expansive idea of citizenship, one that opens complex terrains for analysis: where citizens work with, against, and alongside the state, and where state power is enabled and sidestepped through multiple embodied processes. I consider the nature of the citizen-state encounter in each article in AE’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum to explore local experiences of sovereignty and state power.
{"title":"Citizenship thinking—with, against, and bypassing the state","authors":"Sian Lazar","doi":"10.1111/amet.13314","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13314","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short commentary argues for the utility of a suitably expansive idea of citizenship, one that opens complex terrains for analysis: where citizens work with, against, and alongside the state, and where state power is enabled and sidestepped through multiple embodied processes. I consider the nature of the citizen-state encounter in each article in <i>AE</i>’s “Citizenship, Solidarity, and Nonbelonging” forum to explore local experiences of sovereignty and state power.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 3","pages":"400-401"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13314","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141730573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}