Fragments of Reparation & Recognition in the Golden State
Aerial image of Bruce’s Beach park (highlighted in color), Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. Adapted from Google Earth, 2021. On September 30, California …
Earth Displacements: Draining the Swamp in Southeast Sulawesi
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport …
Chinas Frauen auf dem Land: Die Hälfte des Himmels, aber nicht des Grundes?
Die chinesische Verfassung garantiert die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Männern. Einige Traditionen stehen dieser aber entgegen, so wurde Grundbesitz stets in männlicher …
Land, Life, and Water: Tending to the Landscape of Southern Louisiana
By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate visions of speculative territory …
Book Review: The Politics of Land edited by Tim Bartley
In The Politics of Land, editor Tim Bartley brings together contributors to highlight the significance of the neglected issue of land to political sociology. …
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New Book – Our history is the future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes has been writing about Indigenous resistance at Standing Rock in powerful ways, so his new book coming in just over …
Disrupting Silicon Valley’s Stories
In a climate of pervasive narratives of wealth creation and success, how can anthropology hold corporate and tech sectors to account? In …
How Canadian bureaucrats make state territory in the name of ‘restoring’ Indigenous rights
I’m quite happy that some recent work of mine is now out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.[very happy …
Migration in China: Vom Dorf in die Stadt
Auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Ausbildung verlassen viele Chinesen ihre ländliche Heimat und gehen in die großen Städte. Das ist …
Migration in China: Vom Dorf in die Stadt
Auf der Suche nach Arbeit und Ausbildung verlassen viele Chinesen ihre ländliche Heimat und gehen in die großen Städte. Das ist …
Living with the Environmental and Social Legacy of U.S. Land Policy in the American West
By Julie Brugger, University of Arizona § Looking out across the arid, mesquite- and saguaro-studded landscape of the Tonto Basin District of the …
Reform der Landnutzungsrechte in China: Ein Geschenk an die Landbevölkerung?
Die chinesische Regierung hat den Transfer von Landnutzungsrechten weiter vereinfacht. Sie reagiert damit auf Probleme, die über die Jahre hinweg durch das …
Making Homeland (Haciendo Patria): Agrarian Change, Nationhood and Inter-Ethnic Relations at the Frontier of Colonial Expansion in Chile
By Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile § As are many other valleys in the southern Andean region of Chile, Coilaco was the …
Economic Citizenship and Resource Nationalism
What is resource nationalism, and why is it important? One of Wikipedia’s shortest entries, “resource nationalism” nonetheless appears in 372 files published …
In the Sand: Water, Land, and Infrastructure in Informality
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, …
In the Journals – March 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition …
HEP Workshop "Land, Money and Human Relations in Southern and Central Africa" 5-6 September 2014
The Human Economy Programme invites you to attend the workshop Land, money and human relations in southern and central Africa:people’s economic strategies combining …