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Thoughts on globalisation – on the base of J.X. Inda and R. Rosaldo “The anthropology of globalization: a reader” (first chapter)
Author: Mikołaj Jarmakowski The problem of globalization is a very popular one in the contemporary discourse: anthropological, sociological, historical, political etc. It is especially important and emphasized now, during the war in Ukraine, which is ideologically built, among others, by the neo-imperial Russian idea of “Euro-Asianism”, which is presented by Russian elites as an alternative…
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Thoughts about D. Graeber’s book – “Bullshit Job. A Theory”
Author: Mikołaj Jarmakowski The chapter of the book “Bullshit Job” analysed below is an introduction to the general issue taken up by the author, which is the crisis of the value of work in the postmodern period. The author at the beginning defined the concept of “bullshit job”, by the description of these phenomenon, based…
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Mobilizing in transnational space: a social movement approach to the formation of diaspora
Author: Marta Makuchowska If you ever study social or cultural sciences, there is a lot of chance that you notice one popular word: diaspora. But what diaspora means precisely and what is the analytical power of this concept? Thanks to Martin Sokefeld and his paper “Mobilizing in transnational space: a social movement approach to the…
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Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State
Author: Marta Makuchowska We keep hearing about new tragic events and crimes committed by the colonialists against Native Americans. People whose ancestors committed these acts (or people who still do) try to look at the story from the other side and say yes it was tragic, but the indigenous people also received some valuable gifts…
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Post-Truth: state security, border walls and human rights
Author: Sylwia Tomaszewska In this paper, I will focus on two texts: “What happened to social facts?’’ written – by Ho Karen and Jillian R. Cavanaught – and the text by Dick, Hilary Parsons: “Build the wall! Post-truth on the US-Mexico border’’. Both texts discuss the question of post-truth. The issue of post-truth has become…
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Ethnograpies of the State
Author: Sylwia Tomaszewska In this post, I will engage in a discussion of Esra Özyürek’s text, “Miniaturizing Atatürk privatization of state imagery and ideology in Turkey,” and I will focus in particular on the concept of the state and process of miniaturization of images depicting Atatürk. Privatization of state ideology, which was materialized through the…
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