“interruptions” as a point of departure to consider how paradigm shifts and local museologies can galvanize the museum sector, especially when it is confronted by the rise of right-wing populism, systemic racism, and neoliberal culture wars, intercultural
Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making
The Second World Museologies Workshop, National Museum of Ethnology (MINPAKU), Osaka, December 2019
Laura Osorio Sunnucks, Nicola Levell, Anthony Shelton, Motoi Suzuki, Gwyneira Isaac, and Diana E. Marsh
Call for Papers
Feminist Movements across the Board (A Critical Analysis)
Barbara Franchi, Natália S. Perez, and Giovanni A. Travaglino
Feminist movements have had a fundamental impact on social life in many different parts of the world. Reforms in marriage and private property laws, as well as change in spheres as diverse as sexual life, contraception, and the work-place have had profound consequences on the way we conceptualize, act and signify gender relations. Feminist thinkers and activists have also brought attention to the impact that the intersectionality of racism, heterosexism, poverty and religious intolerance (among many other factors) can have in people’s lives.
Michael Herzfeld
these former peasants as condemned by their karma to a permanent inferiority. When people pursue only self-interest, they create the conditions under which racism and classism become acceptable. Self-interest is also blind to the future: ‘It can
Julien Brachet, Victoria L. Klinkert, Cory Rodgers, Robtel Neajai Pailey, Elieth Eyebiyi, Rachel Benchekroun, Grzegorz Micek, Natasha N. Iskander, Aydan Greatrick, Alexandra Bousiou, and Anne White
racism and xenophobia as well as the cosmopolitan communitas that has emerged across perceived divisions. The next four ethnographic chapters describe specific issues facing entrepreneurs in Eastleigh: the establishment of businesses and accumulation of
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
The Case of Hawaii's Plantation Village
Cristiana Bastos
, enslavement, racialism, post-empire diasporas, and reconfigurations of racism mostly refers to the Atlantic world, historians and anthropologists have also explored the Indian Ocean and Pacific areas. Be that through the conventional political economy approach
Afterword
The Work of Culture, Heritage, and Musealized Spaces in “Unprecedented Times”
Christina Kreps
causes and fallout—that is, legacies of slavery and European colonialism; institutionalized racism and violence; and the structural inequalities of the capitalist world system. The articles stand as examples of engaged research and scholarship that seek
Pandemic Passages
An Anthropological Account of Life and Liminality during COVID-19
Genevieve Bell
the pervasive xenophobia and anti-Chinese racism have all characterised this moment: In the third phase (reaggregration or reincorporation) the passage is consummated. The ritual subject, individual or corporate, is in a relatively stable state
Places of Otherness
Comparing Eastleigh, Nairobi, and Xiaobei, Guangzhou, as Sites of South-South Migration
Neil Carrier and Gordon Mathews
). Chinese racism against Africans is well-documented ( Cheng 2011 ; Sautman 1994 ), although how much it is due to skin color and how much to the perceived poverty of those of a given skin color remains an open question. On the internet racism is apparent
Anxiety and learning
Cultural polarisation in social science courses
Jose Leonardo Santos
willingness to treat the actions of partisan opponents as legitimate’ ( Iyengar and Westwood 2015: 705 ). Experiments found affective polarisation had an even more divisive effect than racism, since people would attempt to self-correct racist tendencies, but
Introduction
Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
democracy often used to negate the existence of racism in Brazil. In their work, this myth is foundational for the ideology of white domination in the country. It acts to conceal, or to “camouflage” (Pauschinger, this issue), racism in Brazil through a
