pages or weekly supplements. 6 At the turn of the century, Russian political caricature flourished. 7 Working in the medium of stereotype and hyperbole, caricaturists both poked fun at international politics and crafted visual identities for Russia
Steven Roberts and Karla Elliott
stereotypes of other boys and men in the margins, including those with disability, men of color and queer people, result in similarly harmful positionings, and disparaging treatments of one marginalized group so often have implications for multiple groups of
Doing bizness
Migrant smuggling and everyday life in the Maghreb
Line Richter
the men draw on do not equate to typical characters or stereotypes but become more akin to elusive shapes in an amorphous network. This represents a move away from understanding migrant smuggling in terms of more or less stable positions and formations
Afsaneh Hojabri
its pre-Islamic traditions, thereby distancing themselves from the Islamic state. As argued by several researchers of Iranian diasporic writing, the deteriorating relations between Iran and the US since 1979, the stereotypical media coverage of women
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 179–193
The Anthropologist’s Video Camera as Stage
Forced Displacement and Production of Audio-visual Witnessing in Northern Sudan
Valerie Hänsch
In this article, I explore how Sudanese communities have attempted to visually document, witness and communicate a silenced history of forced displacement. Thousands of peasants in rural Northern Sudan were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003–2009 Merowe Dam construction project. My aim is to examine both the complex local interactions with and appropriations of the anthropologist’s video camera, which, in the relational process of witnessing, turned into a stage to provide audio-visual evidence against hegemonic discourses of Sudan’s successful hydroelectric future. I show how my video camera’s affordances of capturing and mediating ‘truth’ evoked specific performative genres of representation in moments of crisis and illustrate how these usages differ from everyday interactions with a video camera. These performative genres of ‘crisis witnessing’, I contend, resonate with globally distributed media realities and thereby reproduce certain practices of communication that are stereotyped in the mass media.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 37–54
Jane F. Hacking, Jeffrey S. Hardy, and Matthew P. Romaniello
Rebellion and Russo-Japanese War. A point of emphasis for Hoffman is that both conservative and liberal publications employed ethnic stereotypes, and for the Boxer Rebellion they were remarkably consistent. Europeans engaged in repressing the Boxers were
Andrew Dawson
experience amongst immigrants (like me) in Australia is how national stereotypes, both negative and positive, are confounded through living here. 1 The national auto-stereotype of the larrikin is a case in point. The Oxford Modern Australian Dictionary – a
Chiara Bonfiglioli
in which individual activists engaged in transnational encounters often disrupted mutual stereotypes rooted in geopolitical divides. Ghodsee's volume, instead, combines archival sources and ethnographic accounts (notably interviews with a handful of
Larisa Carranza
navigating through loopholes, rule bending and paper trails. Similarly, the author engages with academic texts to critique the overarching negative stereotype of brokers, smugglers and/or traffickers as inherently immoral and exploitative (p. 94). Tuckett
From Toilet Paper Wars to #ViralKindness?
COVID-19, Solidarity and the Basic Income Debate in Australia
Anne Décobert
enumerate. The other typical argument against a basic income is that it encourages laziness and dependence. In Australia, this argument has come to be connected with the ‘dole bludger’ stereotype. The term ‘dole bludger’ was invented in the early 1970s