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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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Editors: Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten W. Endres Protests, contestations and alliances surround renewable energy transitions and punctuate the persistence of conventional energy systems. This blog feature explores what forms of political legitimation shape the pace and outcome of anticipated energy futures, and the scales of power forged by promises of “greening” energy. ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala. FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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Editors: Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten W. Endres Protests, contestations and alliances surround renewable energy transitions and punctuate the persistence of conventional energy systems. This blog feature explores what forms of political legitimation shape the pace and outcome of anticipated energy futures, and the scales of power forged by promises of “greening” energy. ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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A regular feature of Focaal is its Forum section available here online for free. The Forum features assertive, provocative, and idiosyncratic forms of writing and publishing that do not fit the usual format or style of a research-based article in a regular anthropology journal. Forum contributions can be stand-alone pieces or come in the form of theme-focused collection or discussion. Dipankar HEGE HØYER LEIVESTAD, JOHANNA MARKKULA AND ELISABETH Hege Høyer Leivestad is Assistant Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden, and researcher in the ERC project PORTS at the University of Oslo, Norway.Her research project, Frontier freight: Maritime logistics at the Strait of Gibraltar, is funded by the Swedish Research Council and deals with port life, labor, and global shipping

in southern Spain.

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the DRAGAN DJUNDA: TRANSITION TO NOWHERE: SMALL HYDRO, LITTLE This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor.The freshly painted red, green, and blue patterns SUSANA NAROTZKY: A HISTORY OF PRECARIOUSNESS IN SPAIN This post is part of a feature on “Debating the EASA/PreAnthro Precarity Report,” moderated and edited by Stefan Voicu (CEU) and Don Kalb (University of Bergen). The EASA report on The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) is an important initiative that offers quantitative evidence about a situation which all of those who work in academia are aware of, many ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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The Conversations on the Left project by Focaal opens its series with an interview with David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. David Harvey’s works have had a profound impact on the direction of leftist social science over the past four decades. MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala. GIULIA DAL MASO: THE LANDING OF A CHINESE GREEN BOND IN Giulia Dal Maso. The Landing of a Chinese Green Bond in Portugal. This post is part of a feature on “ The Political Power of Energy Futures ,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). In a little restaurant in the midst of a foggy day JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala. GIULIA DAL MASO: THE LANDING OF A CHINESE GREEN BOND IN Giulia Dal Maso. The Landing of a Chinese Green Bond in Portugal. This post is part of a feature on “ The Political Power of Energy Futures ,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). In a little restaurant in the midst of a foggy day JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on MAO MOLLONA: FULLY EXTERMINATED COMMUNISM, OR ANTHROPOLOGY Mao Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London One thing is sure. If just briefly, the pandemic struck at the heart of capitalism. It paralysed the economy, broke the bureaucratic machine of nation-states and forced conservative governments worldwide to pass quasi post-capitalist policies which, only a few months earlier, were considered too radical even for the radical Left. The renationalization of

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the REMEMBERING LEITH MULLINGS (1945 Jeff Maskovsky, City University of New York. Leith Mullings’ death is a terrible blow to anthropology – and a heartbreaking loss to those of us who were lucky enough to have worked and collaborated with her. For many of us, Leith’s death, which happened on December 13, 2020, is still almost too much to bear.

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Editors: Raúl Acosta, Flávio Eiró, Insa Koch and Martijn Koster Across the globe, urban growth continues unabated. This is so despite high levels of inequality, poverty and forms of exclusion that are part and parcel of city life for the many. In response to these challenges, governments have attempted to present solutions that are too often palliative, addressing merely the SANDERIEN VERSTAPPEN: HIDDEN BEHIND TOILET ROLLS: VISUAL Sanderien Verstappen. Hidden behind toilet rolls: visual landscapes of COVID-19. January 14, 2021. focaal_admin. During the lockdowns of spring 2020, short videos became a popular means of reflecting on new experiences of quarantine and social distancing. Passed around on social media platforms, downloaded in microseconds, and stored on JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up DRAGAN DJUNDA: TRANSITION TO NOWHERE: SMALL HYDRO, LITTLE This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor.The freshly painted red, green, and blue patterns SVEN DA SILVA: SPECIAL ZONES, SLUMS, AND HIGH-RISE Participatory urban governance. Often referred to as Brazil’s capital of inequality, Recife’s urban governance legacy includes a slum governance program, as well as a participatory planning program in which the municipal administration visits neighborhoods for consultation and deliberation.Both programs were initiated in reaction to massive land occupations by the poor in the IN MEMORIAM: DAVID GRAEBER @FOCAALBLOG David Graeber. For an anthropology of radical openness . David was a much-loved colleague and a great source of personal inspiration. His scholarship on value, debt and labour gave new relevance to the fields of economic and political anthropology, bringing them in line with a critical analysis of contemporary capitalism informed by his idiosyncratic and genial mixture of utopianism, humanism ADAM BRISLEY: RESPONSE: ETHICS AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL Adam Brisley is a post-doctoral researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has a PhD from the University of Manchester and has previously held post-doctoral positions in the universities of Manchester and Bristol. His research interests focus on the relationship between care and political economy in the context of

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FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. IDA SUSSER: COVID, POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACE: ARE ONGOING On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including massive demonstrations in Paris against police brutality, a common theme of the Gilets Jaunes, a protest starting in November 2018 that I was studying. However, this time the Paris protests included the PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. IDA SUSSER: COVID, POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACE: ARE ONGOING On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including massive demonstrations in Paris against police brutality, a common theme of the Gilets Jaunes, a protest starting in November 2018 that I was studying. However, this time the Paris protests included the PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on

FOCAALBLOG

FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. IDA SUSSER: COVID, POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACE: ARE ONGOING On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including massive demonstrations in Paris against police brutality, a common theme of the Gilets Jaunes, a protest starting in November 2018 that I was studying. However, this time the Paris protests included the

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A regular feature of Focaal is its Forum section available here online for free. The Forum features assertive, provocative, and idiosyncratic forms of writing and publishing that do not fit the usual format or style of a research-based article in a regular anthropology journal. Forum contributions can be stand-alone pieces or come in the form of theme-focused collection or discussion. Dipankar JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president SANDERIEN VERSTAPPEN: HIDDEN BEHIND TOILET ROLLS: VISUAL Sanderien Verstappen. Hidden behind toilet rolls: visual landscapes of COVID-19. January 14, 2021. focaal_admin. During the lockdowns of spring 2020, short videos became a popular means of reflecting on new experiences of quarantine and social distancing. Passed around on social media platforms, downloaded in microseconds, and stored on

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Art and Visual Anthropology. The Art and Visual Anthropology (AVA) section of the FocaalBlog is a conceptual and discursive space in which artists, anthropologists, and art scholars are invited to reflect on how films and images can be used for social analysis and political struggle, as well as on broader debates on economic and

social change.

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the DRAGAN DJUNDA: TRANSITION TO NOWHERE: SMALL HYDRO, LITTLE This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor.The freshly painted red, green, and blue patterns

FOCAALBLOG

The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. IDA SUSSER: COVID, POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACE: ARE ONGOING On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including massive demonstrations in Paris against police brutality, a common theme of the Gilets Jaunes, a protest starting in November 2018 that I was studying. However, this time the Paris protests included the PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available. IDA SUSSER: COVID, POLICE BRUTALITY AND RACE: ARE ONGOING On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including massive demonstrations in Paris against police brutality, a common theme of the Gilets Jaunes, a protest starting in November 2018 that I was studying. However, this time the Paris protests included the PAULINE DESTRÉE: SOLAR FOR THE FEW: STRANDED RENEWABLESSEE MORE ON

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JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

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A regular feature of Focaal is its Forum section available here online for free. The Forum features assertive, provocative, and idiosyncratic forms of writing and publishing that do not fit the usual format or style of a research-based article in a regular anthropology journal. Forum contributions can be stand-alone pieces or come in the form of theme-focused collection or discussion. Dipankar JAIME A ALVES: F*CK THE POLICE! MURDEROUS COPS, THE MYTH ‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing politicians endorsed by police unions in countries such as Brazil and the United States. In the case of Brazil, a global reference in police terror, the narrative of police victimization helped president SANDERIEN VERSTAPPEN: HIDDEN BEHIND TOILET ROLLS: VISUAL Sanderien Verstappen. Hidden behind toilet rolls: visual landscapes of COVID-19. January 14, 2021. focaal_admin. During the lockdowns of spring 2020, short videos became a popular means of reflecting on new experiences of quarantine and social distancing. Passed around on social media platforms, downloaded in microseconds, and stored on DRAGAN DJUNDA: TRANSITION TO NOWHERE: SMALL HYDRO, LITTLE This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor.The freshly painted red, green, and blue patterns

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up

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The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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Editors: Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten W. Endres Protests, contestations and alliances surround renewable energy transitions and punctuate the persistence of conventional energy systems. This blog feature explores what forms of political legitimation shape the pace and outcome of anticipated energy futures, and the scales of power forged by promises of “greening” energy. GIULIA DAL MASO: THE LANDING OF A CHINESE GREEN BOND IN Giulia Dal Maso. The Landing of a Chinese Green Bond in Portugal. This post is part of a feature on “ The Political Power of Energy Futures ,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). In a little restaurant in the midst of a foggy day JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on FOCAALBLOG | JOURNAL OF GLOBAL AND HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGY FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion

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ABRAM LUTES: ANATOMY OF AN AUTOGOLPE: ON THE CONSOLIDATION Abram Lutes is a graduate researcher at the Carleton University Institute of Political Economy in Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include Gramscian theory, world-systems theory, social movements, and populism. At the time of writing, he is conducting digital fieldwork on El Salvador and Guatemala.

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Editors: Anna Morcom & Patrick Neveling Capitalism originated first in the city-states of Renaissance Italy and grew to become a world system with trade, industrialization, and colonialism (Braudel 1982). Thus, capitalism encompasses core centuries of the development of Western classical music and the transformation of classical and folk musics across the world under colonialism and modernity

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Editors: Katja Müller, Charlotte Bruckermann, Kirsten W. Endres Protests, contestations and alliances surround renewable energy transitions and punctuate the persistence of conventional energy systems. This blog feature explores what forms of political legitimation shape the pace and outcome of anticipated energy futures, and the scales of power forged by promises of “greening” energy. GIULIA DAL MASO: THE LANDING OF A CHINESE GREEN BOND IN Giulia Dal Maso. The Landing of a Chinese Green Bond in Portugal. This post is part of a feature on “ The Political Power of Energy Futures ,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). In a little restaurant in the midst of a foggy day JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up MARCUS BANKS: REVISITING RAJU @FOCAALBLOG Marcus Banks. Revisiting Raju. December 18, 2014. Focaal Web Editor. Raju and His Friends was released almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, and revisiting it now at the invitation of the FocaalBlog editor is something of a trip in a time machine for me. As I discuss below, ethnographic film and anthropological theory have moved on

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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

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Anthropology and capitalism: Beyond gifts versus markets Editors: Don Kalb & Patrick Neveling Capitalism is in crisis. And anthropology is at the forefront of the public’s ongoing critical engagement with that crisis. The present seems to resonate with an earlier moment in the 1970s, when Northern anthropology sought to engage with politics and the public through the institution of the SANDERIEN VERSTAPPEN: HIDDEN BEHIND TOILET ROLLS: VISUAL Sanderien Verstappen. Hidden behind toilet rolls: visual landscapes of COVID-19. January 14, 2021. focaal_admin. During the lockdowns of spring 2020, short videos became a popular means of reflecting on new experiences of quarantine and social distancing. Passed around on social media platforms, downloaded in microseconds, and stored on

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Art and Visual Anthropology. The Art and Visual Anthropology (AVA) section of the FocaalBlog is a conceptual and discursive space in which artists, anthropologists, and art scholars are invited to reflect on how films and images can be used for social analysis and political struggle, as well as on broader debates on economic and

social change.

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Editors: Raúl Acosta, Flávio Eiró, Insa Koch and Martijn Koster Across the globe, urban growth continues unabated. This is so despite high levels of inequality, poverty and forms of exclusion that are part and parcel of city life for the many. In response to these challenges, governments have attempted to present solutions that are too often palliative, addressing merely the

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The Conversations on the Left project by Focaal opens its series with an interview with David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the CUNY Graduate Center. David Harvey’s works have had a profound impact on the direction of leftist social science over the past four decades. DRAGAN DJUNDA: TRANSITION TO NOWHERE: SMALL HYDRO, LITTLE This post is part of a feature on “The Political Power of Energy Futures,” moderated and edited by Katja Müller (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Bergen), and Kirsten W. Endres (MPI Halle). When you enter the House of culture in Dojkinci, a small village on Stara Mountain, you are instantly amazed by its floor.The freshly painted red, green, and blue patterns JUZIMU: JACK MA: WHEREVER THE WIND BLOWS @FOCAALBLOG Juzimu. Jack Ma: Wherever the Wind Blows. One day last October, I happened to spot an acquaintance’s post on Wechat. It was a simple message thanking all ‘Ant-izens’ (people who work in Ant Financial of Alibaba) for their hard work, followed by a short video advertising Ant’s upcoming IPO. It came from a data scientist who had given up

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The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words by Marx himself, to elaborations on this by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, and to contributions from various French Africanist scholars. It was part of a wider conceptual

vocabulary

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