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Editorial Introduction

The Cases of Japan, Australia, and the United States

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

ontological and epistemological sense—precisely their nature is, and how they relate to the studies in the other parts of this thematic issue. In the case of Japan, the pandemic increased frictions and contradictions. The issues discussed are (1) the

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The Societal Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic Explained via Three Frameworks

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

The eleven studies, shortly introduced here, are not really consistent in their scientific approaches, both in the ontological sense (propositions on the nature of reality), as well as in the epistemological sense (methodologies to obtain reliable and

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Compliance

Politics, Sociability and the Constitution of Collective Life

Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch

ontological’ approach in anthropology championed by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2004) . For Viveiros de Castro (2015) , following Clastres and Gilles Deleuze, another thinker influenced by Clastres ( Cova and Sarmiento Barletti 2021 ), anthropology's role is

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Editorial Introduction

The Cases of Italy and China

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

democracy; and the specific ontology of humans as “social beings” elaborated in SQT ( Herrmann et al. 2012: 86 ; Westbroek et al. 2020 ). The contrasting cases of Italy and China with regard to their governance approaches show just how badly we need to

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Climate Change

Expressions of Global Ecological and Societal Misbalances

Harry G. J. Nijhuis and Laurent J.G. van der Maesen

conceptual framework is dedicated to the theorizing of the concept of “the social” with the help of the explication of its ontological assumptions. These assumptions deliver points of departure of the epistemological assumptions expressed in the analytical

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The Case of China

The Societal Impact of the “Whole of Government Approach”

Wang Jing and Wang Xue

involved. In order to organize our descriptions, we will make use of the social quality framework. Social quality theory (SQT), born at the end of the twentieth century, is based on the ontological notion that “humans and collective entities do evolve in

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Anna Tsetoura

processes resulting [in] the formation of collective identities” ( van der Maesen and Walker 2012: 46 ). This fundamental (ontological) notion implies that human beings are viewed and need to be approached as basically “social beings.” The “social quality

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Nadeem Malik

for excluding mosques from lockdown, and for the permissibility of collective prayers. Such orthodoxy is a result of a long process of Islamisation of Pakistani society. In contemporary Pakistan, people worship God for comfort and ontological security

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Jonathan Skinner

everyday and guide us rather like an internal tour guide. These are lost in the crisis and in what we hold onto. On Montserrat, the disaster became ontological as the landscape was ripped up; families, businesses and radio stations relocated increasingly

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Familial Intimacy and the ‘Thing’ between Us

Cuddle Curtains and Desires for Detached Relationality in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Andreas Streinzer, Almut Poppinga, Carolin Zieringer, Anna Wanka, and Georg Marx

AIDS ( Boston : Beacon Press ). Mol , A. ( 2002 ), The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press ). Niewöhner , J. , and M. Lock ( 2018 ), ‘ Situating Local Biologies: Anthropological