moral responsibility. As a conversation participant put it, “We need to give our politicians permission to do the right thing.” This prefigured a bottom-up view of power relations, enabling supporters to believe that they could change political
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Making the State Blush
Humanizing Relations in an Australian NGO Campaign for People Seeking Asylum
Tess Altman
“Avoiding the mistakes of the past”
Tower block failure discourse and economies of risk management in London's Olympic Park
Saffron Woodcraft
” between government and citizens based on an ethic of mutual responsibility. Drawing heavily on a branch of Communitarian philosophy ( Prideaux 2002 ), New Labour policies were infused with ideas about the significance of civic values, moral responsibility
Introduction
Fuelling Capture: Africa's Energy Frontiers
Michael Degani, Brenda Chalfin, and Jamie Cross
resources, the complexities of political and regulatory environments, and the emergence of new forms of expertise and moral responsibility. These outcomes themselves are always generative: crystallizing new circuits, coalitions and constraints. Regional
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2020
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- Introduction
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- 1–18
Minority Report
Perceptions and Realities of Black Men in Heterosexual Porn
Darryl L. Jones II
different attributes. It is reasonable to ask what ethical and moral responsibility black male talent should exercise when being cast for films that reinforce these notions. However, aside from explicitly racist scenes (such as slave–mistress, race-talk, etc
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 60–79
Capturing Crisis
Solar Power and Humanitarian Energy Markets in Africa
Jamie Cross
, the expansion of market discipline in Europe between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brought shifts in ‘conventions of moral responsibility’ – a ‘new constellation of attitudes and activities’ – that underpin what is called humanitarianism
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 105–124
Finding a Place to Sit
How Qatari Women Combine Cultural and Kinship Capital in the Home Majlis
Rehenuma Asmi
use the cultural capital gained in schools along with the kinship capital gained in the family majlis and kinship network. By doing so, they construct new norms around gender that emphasize women’s education as well as their social and moral
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 18–38
The Ambiguity of Subversion
Resistance through Radio Broadcasting
Gisli Vogler
therefore all acts of subversion were positive and indeed that all actors who bid their time and accepted the rules of the game can be freed of moral responsibility. Instead, it attunes us to the everyday lived experience, complexities and ambivalences of
Repatriation as Inspiration
Multigenerational Perspectives on American Archaeology-Museum Relationships
April M. Beisaw and Penelope H. Duus
Practices and New Approaches ( Tythacott and Arvanitis 2014 ) address the moral responsibility of museums with an international set of case studies. The repatriation literature is ripe with case studies, but there is room for more generalized dialogue about
Giving Aid Inside the Home
Humanitarian House Visits, Performative Refugeehood, and Social Control of Syrians in Jordan
Ann-Christin Wagner
sense of moral responsibility. However, choosing an appropriate course of action is not only complicated by spatial separation, but also by the unpredictable reactions of others. Sending money to big agencies like the UNHCR and Save the Children squares
Conjunctures and Convergences
Remaking the World Cultures Displays at the National Museum of Scotland
Henrietta Lidchi
Scotland through its various incarnations. I consider three moments when the museum’s function was discussed in relation to changing definitions about universalism. At issue are propositions as to the moral responsibilities of museums in terms of fostering