already in these “empty spaces” ( Tsing 2003 ). From a state perspective, frontier development in the Southeast Asian Massif is often regarded as the increasing inclusion of “unexplored or undeveloped” regions, or a “zone of not yet” into the national
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The Ethics of Collective Sponsorship
Virtuous Action and Obligation in Contemporary Tibet
Jane Caple
” collective sponsorship, which reiterates and reinforces “group loyalty, unity and identity.” Juliane Schober (1989) makes a similar distinction in her work on upper Burma. She emphasizes the prestige, status, and power at stake for individual sponsors of
Ambivalent Mobilities in the Pacific
“Savagery” and “Civilization” in the Australian Interwar Imaginary
Nicholas Halter
mobilities, identities, and transnational histories. 1 Travel writing itself is an ambiguous and contested category, loosely defined as “a discourse designed to describe and interpret for its readers a geographical area together with its natural attributes
Ceasing Fire and Seizing Time
LA Gang Tours and the White Control of Mobility
Sarah Sharma and Armonds R. Towns
. Mobility is central to the political ontologies of race in the United States. One’s racial identity has an always-already mobile element. In simple terms, it is one of the mechanisms by which people are raced in the United States. In the case of LA Gang
The Religious Foundations of Capoeira Angola
The Cosmopolitics of an Apparently Non-religious Practice
Sergio González Varela
and the African past of capoeira, while anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists address recurrent topics like identity, personal transformation, tradition, and the preservation of Afro-Brazilian values. He did not see anything wrong with
Religion through the Looking Glass
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Katherine Swancutt
, having been seated next to the judge’s panel and filmed on previous competition days by local and national Chinese television. Becoming a judge in full, however, took things to another level. The competition went smoothly, with the other judges concluding
Portrait
Eileen Barker
Linda Woodhead, James T. Richardson, Martyn Percy, Catherine Wessinger, and Eileen Barker
in a negative story, whereas other identities such as Christian are less likely to get a mention (something that may have changed since then). Above all, observes Barker, in the logic of the media it is the sensational story and the vivid details that
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Recentering the South in Studies of Migration
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
's geographical location, of its relative position as a (formerly) colonized territory or colonizing power, and/or of a state's current economic capacity on national and global scales (ibid.). On the other hand, as already suggested above, the South and both the
Undoing Traceable Beginnings
Citizenship and Belonging among Former Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
Patricia Daley, Ng’wanza Kamata, and Leiyo Singo
national identity with the adoption of the nation-state model on independence ( Aminzade 2013 ; Heilman 1998 ; Hunter 2015 ; Nagar 1997 ); and the politics of mobility in the context of economic liberalization and democratization ( Dorman et al. 2007
“It’s Being, Not Doing”
Hospitality and Hostility between Local Faith Actors and International Humanitarian Organizations in Refugee Response
Olivia J. Wilkinson
himself, he did not see Muslim organizations in the same way. He thought that this was due to the way that identity was presented by different organizations. Although many of the national NGOs in the countries in which he worked had employees who were all