( Lürhmann et al. 2020 ). Neither has civil society lost its voice—the starkest example being the mass anti-racism protests that followed the killing of George Floyd in the US (as documented by Dean, this issue). It is in places where democracy was already
Democracy in a Global Emergency
Five Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Rikki Dean, Selen A. Ercan, and Jean-Paul Gagnon
The Permeable Olympic Fortress
Mega-Event Security as Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro
Dennis Pauschinger
of a more global and public discussion about racist police brutality and shone a light on the pervasiveness of racism in organizational structures of police forces. The highlighting of such institutional racism by civil society has raised calls for
The Power of Silence
Sonic Experiences of Police Operations and Occupations in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
Sterre Gilsing
, naturalized and then policed as either ‘black’ or ‘white’ … ‘whiteness’ appears inaudible, undetectable as anything other than a sounded marker of normalcy” ( 2018: 119 ). Although the history and social reality of race and racism in the United States and
Shelling from the ivory tower
Project Camelot and the post–World War II operationalization of social science
Philip Y. Kao
account of anthropologists and their World War II efforts. While Margaret Mead helped reshape American dietary habits, Benedict and Gene Weltfish fought racism within the US Army by distributing informational pamphlets. The Office of War Information also
Introduction
Marxian anthropology resurgent
Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur
. 2018 . “ Class without production, history without materialism, and US politics without racism ”. Dialectical Anthropology 42 ( 1 ): 17 – 23 . 10.1007/s10624-018-9490-0 Banaji , Jairus . 1977 . “Modes of production in a materialist conception of
Editorial
The Evolution of 20 Years of Social Quality Thinking
-un-high-commissioner-refugees-filippo-grandi-world-refugee-day.html . Greer , M. , T. de Fockert , L. Marsman , C. de Breij , Akwasi, E. Corton , J. van de Bergh , et al. 2018 . “ Oproep: Politici, stop met het inspelen op xenofobie en racisme ” [Call: Politicians, stop responding to xenophobia and racism
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Editorial
- Pages:
- v–xxiii
Neutrality in foreign aid
Shifting contexts, shifting meanings—examples from South Sudan
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
informed by the logic of culture clashes ( Huntington 1997 ). Expatriates operated according to the assumption that cultural differences are both natural and unavoidable. Ankie Hoogvelt, who unpacks notions of “the new barbarism” and “the new racism” with
Racialized Governance
The Production and Destruction of Secure Spaces in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães
)—a specifically Brazilian mode of urban displacement especially attuned to colonialist legacies of racism and class stigma (2019: 126). This approach echoes scholars such as Ananaya Roy and Aihwa Ong (2011) , Asher Ghertner, and Christopher Gaffney
The temporality of illegality
Experiences of undocumented Latin American migrants in London
Ana Gutiérrez Garza
exploitation, racism, and the enjoyment of basic human rights. For people who live their lives under the weight and limitations of an undocumented status, the present becomes a continuous challenge and the future becomes just an illusion that is difficult to
The sanctioning state
Official permissiveness and prohibition in India
Ajay Gandhi
, racism against Africans must be acknowledged as a prevalent but perhaps not structuring factor in their interface with authorities. Rather than implying a causal or functional relationship between discretion (as in the latitude to exercise one