Rethinking Intimacy in a Global World
Intimacy is not only personal but also encompasses wider political and economic contexts.
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Taylor Pace
- Sep 19
- 10 min
The Human Brain in the Modern World
The article describes the concepts of mismatch and discord to show human brain's inability to cope with the features of modernity.
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Finn Archer
- Sep 19
- 11 min
The Old Firm: Celtic, Rangers and Sectarianism in Scotland
The article examines the history of contemporary sectarianism in Scotland, through the Old Firm football rivalry between Celtics and Rangers
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Valentine Hallard
- Sep 18
- 8 min
The Anthropology of Development 101: The Challenge of Participatory Development
This article presents an overview of participatory approaches to development and their limitations.
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Valentine Hallard
- Sep 3
- 6 min
Smiling For a Wage: The Role and Consequences of Emotional Labour
This article delves into the world of emotion, feeling and what happens to us when we have to control them in professional spaces.
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Valentine Hallard
- Aug 25
- 6 min
The Anthropology of Development 101: The Discourse on Development and Its Effects
This article delves into development discourses, their effects, and discontinuities over time.
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Valentine Hallard
- Aug 19
- 5 min
The Anthropology of Parenthood: Child Circulation in Africa
The present article examines the concept of kinship and its legal framework through the practice of child circulation in Africa.
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Valentine Hallard
- Aug 14
- 8 min
The Anthropology of Development 101: Theoretical Underpinnings and Alternative Approaches
The present article intends to review the contributions of anthropological knowledge to development theories and practices.
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Valentine Hallard
- Aug 8
- 7 min
(Re)thinking Childhood in Colonial Africa
A focus on children's representation and role in colonial Africa allows one to better understand broader imperial ideologies.
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Antonio Verolino
- Jul 27
- 5 min
"Can You Believe This!?": Misleading Language in Clickbait
The present article deals with the clickbait writing style which is specifically conceived to attract readers' attention on online content.
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Gülnida Yıldırım
- Jul 16
- 6 min
Fault's Conceptualization of Power Relations: Masculinity and Power
Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere. (Foucault, 1978, p. 93) For many years,...
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Gülnida Yıldırım
- Jun 13
- 7 min
Gender and Sexuality Through History
The article offers an overview of the main theories of gender and sexuality.
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Jessica Vizuette
- Jun 7
- 8 min
Language and Identity: the Construction of the Self
This article discusses the connection between language and identity and how one's identity is shaped by certain factors.
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Gülnida Yıldırım
- Jun 6
- 10 min
Education, Trauma and Indigenous Identity
The article examines the Canadian residential school system, analysing its history and its entanglement with colonial discourses.
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Antonio Verolino
- May 24
- 4 min
Hate Speech: Effects on Society
The present article deals with hate speech and its effects on society, conveying violence and marginalization of certain targeted groups.
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Jessica Vizuette
- May 18
- 9 min
Language Choice in Different Social Settings
This article focuses on language changes and analyzes diglossia, code switching, and language shift and death.
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Altea Vaccaro
- May 15
- 7 min
Alterity 101: The Development of a Status: Becoming a Prisoner
The article strives to explain how alterity in society can be seen through the label, spatial environment and culture given to the prisoner.
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Deniz Aktunç
- May 14
- 5 min
Ancestral Time Capsule: Mummies of the Turbaland
Around 20-10,000 years ago, peat bogs including dead plant residue began to form in parts of North-West Europe. Due to the humic acid...
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Giulia Domiziana Toffoli
- Apr 28
- 4 min
Hysteria as a Misogynistic Construct
Women are often accused of being hysterical. But what does hysteria mean, and why is it so often used as a derogatory female term?
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Altea Vaccaro
- Apr 25
- 9 min
Does Memory Survive Prison?
Prison institutions ought to impose the loss of liberty on the sentenced individual (Council of Europe, 2006). But, losing one’s liberty...
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