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Sarah Green is professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki.She has spent her academic career studying issues of space, place, location, and borders, starting with research on safe space among radical and rev…
View article: An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
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Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own …
View article: Introduction: When Democracy ‘Goes Wrong’
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This essay sets out a new theoretical model for understanding why citizens might turn away from democracy.We argue that democracy is best understood as a mode of sociality, a dynamic matrix of relations in which ethically imaginative human…
View article: Reaching across from here to there, in precarious times: Remote-teaching embodied creative practice through scores, instructions, and poetic invitations
Reaching across from here to there, in precarious times: Remote-teaching embodied creative practice through scores, instructions, and poetic invitations Open
How can we attend to students’ experience of agency, spatiality, sensation, mobility, freedom, and play in tertiary dance and interdisciplinary arts education, while working through lockdowns or in readiness for them? How do we cultivate c…
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Buddhism has existed for around two and half millennia, and is practiced by over 500 million people in the world today. The anthropology of Buddhism spans the breadth of the Buddhist world and provides rich ethnographic accounts of the rel…
View article: Mindfulness and Resilience in Britain: A Genealogy of the "Present Moment"
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In Britain, mindfulness practice has increasingly been incorporated into preventative healthcare as a support for psychological resilience. An awareness practice originating in Buddhism, mindfulness is framed as a scientifically verified w…
View article: Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care
Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care Open
Summary In this introduction, and indeed this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and across shifting subjectivities and intersub…
View article: Unsettling Care: Intersubjective Embodiment in MBCT
Unsettling Care: Intersubjective Embodiment in MBCT Open
Summary Focusing on the place of “embodiment” for therapists in mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy, this paper reveals that care often requires an on‐going commitment to “being with” forms of uncomfortable self‐experience. This work chall…
View article: Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation
Morality is fundamentally an evolved solution to problems of social co‐operation Open
This debate took place at the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) conference in Oxford on 21 September 2018, following the model of the Group Debates in Anthropological Theory at the University of Manchester (GDAT). It brought toge…
View article: Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society—understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology
Diet and disease: transgressing boundaries between science and society—understanding neglected diseases through the lens of cultural studies and anthropology Open
It is vital that we consider human health from all perspectives, including the social, geopolitical and cultural aspects of wider society. A prime example of how such forces complicate patterns of disease is provided by examining the under…