religious (and especially Muslim) others are called to account, ignoring the ways in which secularism intersects with gender, race, and class. Joan Wallach Scott’s book is an important contribution to problematizing such assumptions. The book is focused on
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Kim Knibbe, Brenda Bartelink, Jelle Wiering, Karin B. Neutel, Marian Burchardt, and Joan Wallach Scott
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Steven Brooke, Dafne Accoroni, Olga Ulturgasheva, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Eugenia Roussou, Francesco Vacchiano, Jeffrey D. Howison, Susan Greenwood, Yvonne Daniel, Joana Bahia, Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Charles Lincoln Vaughan, Katrien Pype, and Linda van de Kamp
politics of race, gender, social class, and, crucially, ‘transnationalism’. The last is perhaps the most predominant, provocative, and clearly articulated theme of the book. In the skillful hands of Beliso-De Jesús, transnationalism does not merely reflect
In Religion and Society
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Migrant Residents in Search of Residences
Locating Structural Violence at the Interstices of Bureaucracies
Megan Sheehan
everyday life [shifting] our attention to pathologies of class, race, and gender inequalities” (2004: 19). These “little” or everyday violences are the product of structures that translate social difference into outcomes that negatively impact some groups
In Conflict and Society
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Introduction
War Veterans and the Construction of Citizenship Categories
Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels, and Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
. “ Introduction .” In The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader , ed. Sian Lazar , 1 – 22 . Malden : Wiley Blackwell . Logue , Larry , and Peter Blanck . 2010 . Race, Ethnicity, and Disability: Veterans and Benefits in Post–Civil War America
Mariske Westendorp, Bruno Reinhardt, Reinaldo L. Román, Jon Bialecki, Alexander Agadjanian, Karen Lauterbach, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Kate Yanina DeConinck, Jack Hunter, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Magdalena Crăciun, Roger Canals, Cristina Rocha, Khyati Tripathi, Dafne Accoroni, and George Wu Bayuga
continuity around the core issues of race, Oneness theology, and gender norms. It stresses the protagonism of pastors’ wives despite an official church history that invisibilizes the work of ‘helpmeets’. I found especially interesting how the ambiguities of
In Religion and Society
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Liberation Autochthony
Namibian Veteran Politics and African Citizenship Claims
Lalli Metsola
” ( Geschiere 2011: 339 ). Yet, claims and politics of belonging that use such distinctions as territorial origins, ethnicity, religion, language, race, or tradition have been particularly pronounced in contemporary Africa ( Berry 2009 ; Fourchard and Segatti
In Conflict and Society
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The Social Life of Fighting Words
The Case of Political Correctness
Ronald S. Stade
state of affairs. Like many other pundits on the extreme right, D’Souza was supported by the Olin Foundation, named after the just mentioned John M. Olin. In his book Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1991), D’Souza tries to
In Conflict and Society
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Meike J. de Goede
Mayama. Mayama was his end. When he had left, people prophesized …. André Matsoua is the savior of the blacks; Jesus Christ is the savior of the whites. He himself came to me in a vision. He said: “I came for the first time to liberate the white race. I
In Conflict and Society
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Frauke Mennes, John P. Hayes, David Kloos, Martha Lagace, Morten Koch Andersen, Somdeep Sen, Matthew Porges, and Sa’ed Atshan
me” (116). Martha Lagace Boston University References Goldstein , Donna M 2013 . Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. . Berkeley : University of California Press 10.1525/9780520955417 Hirsch , Paula
In Conflict and Society
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Eliza Guyol-Meinrath Echeverry
high, and reputations as human rights compliant intact. In addition, there is evidence that the guidelines have encouraged a “race to the bottom” among some developing nations seeking to attract foreign corporate investment. In these cases, human rights
In Conflict and Society
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