miles away, is celebrated as the driving force in the victory over ISIS in a self-declared egalitarian movement, and why is the credit for the triumph dedicated to him? How is it that Abdullah Öcalan became the international leader of the Kurdish
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The Egalitarian King?
Abdullah Öcalan and His Evolving Role in the Kurdish Freedom Movement
Axel Rudi
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 83–103 (21 total)
Crypto-Egalitarian Life
Ideational and Materialist Approaches to Bitcoin
Matan Shapiro
research in a Bitcoin social club in Tel Aviv, I use the theoretical lens of egalitarian life to contemplate on the processual rather than binary nature of these two forms of practice. I argue that traders and maximalists engage in complementary rather than
Knut Rio, Bruce Kapferer, and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
The articles in this special issue address contemporary egalitarian or egalitarianizing dynamics, in other words, practices that explicitly attempt to challenge and overcome socio-economic and political circumstances that place constraints and
Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke
In rural Virginia in the United States, a hub of interconnected ‘intentional communities’ (ICs) is making great strides toward egalitarian experimentations. While they come in many forms, shapes, and sizes, ICs are commonly designed around
Egalitarian Lives and Violence
Community Policing in Mozambique
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
hand, and aspirations for a more ‘egalitarian life’ on the other. Let me comment first on state ordering and then on the notion of egalitarian life. Das and Poole (2004: 5) have argued that much anthropological analysis of state ordering is often
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 104–125 (22 total)
Fracking and Democracy in the United Kingdom
The Dark Side of Egalitarianism
Anna Szolucha
egalitarian impulses that are simultaneously imbued with grand ideals of equality and justice and driven by bitter experiences of hostility and wrong. Wherever I went, the extent of social, political, and personal transformation that shale gas exploration and
Model Citizens in Bangladesh
The Joggo Nari and the Paradoxes of Egalitarian Life
Mohammad Tareq Hasan
than men—would lead to a more prosperous socio-political order for all. The governmental and non-governmental drives toward development are thus laden with egalitarian aspirations, aiming to establish, for instance, a new gendered order by engaging
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 126–146 (21 total)
Frida Hastrup and Marianne Elisabeth Lien
we probe in this thematic section. The Nordic Arctic region is a site of significant resource extraction and production, but resource practices in the region pose particular questions: how do national commitments to notions of commons, egalitarianism
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- v–xxi
Knut Rio
especially targeted by egalitarian claims—to freedom of movement, equal access, and participant involvement. But it is perhaps overlooked in these accounts that the commons are, by their very definition, special places and exceptions in the organization of
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 147–168 (22 total)
Exemplifying political ideas
Russian revolutionary circles before 1917
Caroline Humphrey
, egalitarian lifestyle was to be accepted as a precursor of the future socialist ideal (cf. Al-Khalili, this issue). Ul'yanov or Lenin was exemplary in this regard. He was to describe marriage as slavery (while being silent about own marriage in what would