). Responding to the political climate south of the border, then Montreal mayor Denis Coderre had city council unanimously declare Montreal a sanctuary city in February, a symbolic gesture swiftly condemned by migrant justice organizers who feared the
Sanctuary City Organizing in Canada
From Hospitality to Solidarity
David Moffette and Jennifer Ridgley
Organizing Girls' Groups for a Better Future
Local and Global Challenges and Solutions
Yulia Gradskova
The rapid political and social changes in Russia in the 1990s contributed to the circulation of many new ideas about what might count as the successful start of adulthood and also about gender norms for young people. My aim in this article is to explore the normativity of girlhood in contemporary Russia by focusing on the Nordic-Russian cooperation project that runs group workshops for girls and by looking, in particular, at a special program that was carried out in the Kaliningrad region. I show that in spite of the special and unique character of the project, the realization of the program in the Russian context partly recalls some other projects in which the general perception of heteronormativity, and the opposition of male/female as natural is left untouched.
Le Rallye Méditerranée-le Cap
Racing towards Eurafrica?
Megan Brown
misplaced, yet it took major political shifts across Africa for them to recognize that change had arrived. The rally's organizers relied on Eurafrican ideology, which promoted a reading of geography in which Europe and Africa were a single fused continent
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–104
The Good, the Bad, and the Dead
The Place of Destruction in the Organization of Social Life, Which Means Hierarchy
Frederick H. Damon
between dead pigs and live pigs organizes Part II. During my 1970s research, Muyuw people often complained about a newly enforced feature of their mortuary system. 2 An analysis generates a governing principal of this article—that destruction is the
Fabian Frenzel
sense, space and social organization form a relationship that is dynamic and dialectical. Decisions about organizational forms, such as the decision to organize a protest camp, will have spatial consequences and requirements, and, vice versa, certain
Emily Bent
her article, thinks of as a methodological remix in her political organizing with minoritized youth in urban communities, and in doing so, look to reassess the outcomes and possibilities of leveraging girls’ voices successfully inside the UN. While the
Voluntarism
Promises of Proximity as Articulated by Changing Moral Elites
Anders Sevelsted
for organizing the active Lutheran congregation or general citizenry to care not only for the material, but also the spiritual needs of the poor. Voluntarism was believed to be more “proximate” than public relief and more “distant” than individual
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 80–104
Capacity as Aggregation
Promises, Water and a Form of Collective Care in Northeast Brazil
Andrea Ballestero
clearly define new water use rights. While historically clientelist practices, large infrastructures and new regulations had become sedimented as unavoidable means to deal with water scarcity, after the 1990s reforms the organizers of the Pact amassed
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 31–48
From the “state-idea” to “politically organized subjection”
Revisiting Abrams in times of crisis in Turkey and EU-Europe
Katharina Bodirsky
political strategies to organize subjection in the unmasked state are leading to increasingly volatile situations. However, this in itself must not mean that the power to organize subjection in authoritarian neoliberalism is in decline. The point is that we
Ekaterina Chekhorduna, Nina Filippova, and Diana Efimova
Translator : Jenanne K. Ferguson
2011 ; Novikov 2011 ; Utkin 1998 ). This article offers a novel perspective through an attempt to reveal the laws, principles, approaches, means, and methods of organizing the educational process with the help of the authors’ approach to Olonkho
