{"title":"An anthropology of crosslocations By Sarah Green, Samuli Lähteenaho, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki, Carl Rommel, Joseph J. Viscomi, Laia Soto Bermant, and Patricia Scalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2024. 284 pp.","authors":"Karen Waltorp","doi":"10.1111/amet.13431","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13431","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"384-385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144193187","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":"Cemetery citizens: Reclaiming the past and working for justice in American burial grounds By Adam Rosenblatt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 286 pp.","authors":"Richard Veit","doi":"10.1111/amet.13429","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"382-383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165326","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":"Making place for Muslims in contemporary India By Kalyani Devaki Menon. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 196 pp.","authors":"Irfan Ahmad","doi":"10.1111/amet.13416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"343-344"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165578","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":"Gods in the world: Placemaking and healing in the Himalayas By Aftab S. Jassal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 272 pp.","authors":"Asaf Sharabi","doi":"10.1111/amet.13422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"380-381"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165579","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":"Between care and criminality: Marriage, citizenship, and family in Australian social welfare By Helena Zeweri. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2024. 225 pp.","authors":"Ishani Dasgupta","doi":"10.1111/amet.13418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13418","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"347-348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165580","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":"Soda science: Making the world safe for Coca-Cola By Susan Greenhalgh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 354 pp.","authors":"Daniel Lee Kleinman","doi":"10.1111/amet.13430","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 3","pages":"366-367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144165585","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}
In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors described as the festival's fun, Thai atmosphere, I develop a political theory of atmospheres, wherein sovereignty can be understood as a claim to constituting the social through a seemingly immaterial (“fun,” “Thai,” in this case) atmosphere enveloping its members.
{"title":"A sovereign atmosphere","authors":"Malavika Reddy","doi":"10.1111/amet.13414","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors described as the festival's fun, Thai atmosphere, I develop a political theory of atmospheres, wherein sovereignty can be understood as a claim to constituting the social through a seemingly immaterial (“fun,” “Thai,” in this case) atmosphere enveloping its members.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"208-218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841229","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":"From the White House to Zimbabwe","authors":"Susanna Trnka, Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn","doi":"10.1111/amet.13406","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841231","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}
Since the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, more than 215,000 people have been investigated for allegedly using ByLock, an encrypted-message app. According to government officials and courts, the app was used exclusively by Fethullah Gülen's network, which the Turkish state classifies as a terrorist organization. Legal experts transformed ByLock data into vehicles of suspicion that could “testify” to past and future terrorism actions. They did so by combining counterterror doctrine and cultural narratives with digital and legal practices, including data extraction, analysis, legal writing, and courtroom confrontations. I call these practices evidencing terror, a technolegal method that, in setting up suspicion as an element of digital evidence, wields an extensive visceral and political force that suspends people's civil rights. By transforming digital “memories” into endless sources of punitive action, practices of evidencing terror crystallize a new authoritarian politics, one that rests on the intimidation of both state bureaucrats and marginalized communities.
自2016年土耳其未遂政变以来,已有超过21.5万人因涉嫌使用加密消息应用程序ByLock而受到调查。据政府官员和法院称,该应用程序仅由法土拉·格伦(Fethullah g len)的网络使用,土耳其政府将其列为恐怖组织。法律专家将ByLock的数据转化为可以“证明”过去和未来恐怖主义行动的怀疑工具。他们将反恐理论和文化叙事与数字和法律实践相结合,包括数据提取、分析、法律写作和法庭对抗。我把这些做法称为恐怖证据,这是一种技术手段,通过将怀疑作为数字证据的一个要素,它运用了一种广泛的本能和政治力量,暂停了人们的公民权利。通过将数字“记忆”转化为无尽的惩罚行动来源,证明恐怖行为的做法使一种新的威权政治具体化,这种政治建立在对国家官僚和边缘化社区的恐吓之上。
{"title":"Evidencing terror","authors":"Onur Arslan","doi":"10.1111/amet.13405","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13405","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, more than 215,000 people have been investigated for allegedly using ByLock, an encrypted-message app. According to government officials and courts, the app was used exclusively by Fethullah Gülen's network, which the Turkish state classifies as a terrorist organization. Legal experts transformed ByLock data into vehicles of suspicion that could “testify” to past and future terrorism actions. They did so by combining counterterror doctrine and cultural narratives with digital and legal practices, including data extraction, analysis, legal writing, and courtroom confrontations. I call these practices <i>evidencing terror</i>, a technolegal method that, in setting up suspicion as an element of digital evidence, wields an extensive visceral and political force that suspends people's civil rights. By transforming digital “memories” into endless sources of punitive action, practices of evidencing terror crystallize a new authoritarian politics, one that rests on the intimidation of both state bureaucrats and marginalized communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"52 2","pages":"219-230"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861537","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}