{"title":"Hmong Christian elites as political and development brokers: competition, cooperation and mimesis in Vietnam’s highlands","authors":"S. Rumsby","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13090","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the role of new Hmong religious leaders – predominantly young men – who have played an important role in spreading Protestant Christianity across Vietnam’s highlands over the past 30 years. These pastors and evangelists have directly challenged the authority of previously established Hmong local elites, whose legitimacy rested on traditional religious authority and/or state patronage, causing significant social conflict along the way. Some new Christian pioneers have gained local elite status as political and development brokers for their community, enjoying a potent combination of spiritual authority, strong external networks and financial success. As such, international religious networks can function as alternative patrons to the state for well‐ placed Hmong Christian elites to tap into and redistribute to their communities – to varying degrees. Contextualising such leadership dynamics within wider anthropological scholarship of upland Southeast Asia affirms the ‘pioneering ethos’ of local elites in challenging, complying with or mimicking state forms of governance in their attempts to draw in and channel external potency. This highlights the degree of political manoeuvring space available to non‐ state actors in a supposedly authoritarian state, as well as ongoing tensions and controversies facing pastors who negotiate ambiguous relationships with powerful external forces.","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47101065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and transcendence: a comment on upland pioneers","authors":"Guido Sprenger","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43339301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phong pioneers: exploring the sociopolitics of mythology in upland Laos","authors":"Oliver Tappe","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46806750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stout, Noelle. 2019. Dispossessed: how predatory bureaucracy foreclosed on the American middle class. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 280 pp. Hb.: US$29.95/£25.00. ISBN: 9780520291782.","authors":"J. Beuving","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47902866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention","authors":"Jukka Könönen","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlled experiments: ethnographic notes on the intergenerational dynamics of aspirational migration and agrarian change in upland Laos","authors":"P. Lutz","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45012165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AmitVered and Noël B.Salazar (eds.) 2020. Pacing mobilities. Timing, intensity, tempo and duration of human movements. Oxford: Berghahn Books. 194 pp. Pb.: US$135.00. ISBN: 9781789207248.","authors":"Sofia Stimmatini","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48882130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moore, Amelia. 2019. Destination Anthropocene: science and tourism in The Bahamas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 216 pp. Pb.: US$29.95. ISBN: 9780520298934.","authors":"B. Schaefer","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48288372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuliana Sanò, Giulia Storato, Francesco Della Puppa
{"title":"Interstitial urban spaces: housing strategies and the use of the city by homeless asylum seekers and refugees in Trento, Italy","authors":"Giuliana Sanò, Giulia Storato, Francesco Della Puppa","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13084","url":null,"abstract":"contribution presents the results of an ethnographic research, conducted in the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy), which investigated the living conditions of refugees and asylum seekers outside the reception system and explored the heterogeneous and fragmented world of pathways they undertake in search of work and accommodation. From the point of view of housing, the investigation has shown how individuals put in place different kind of tactics and strategies. Generally, among these, informal settlements seemed to be the most common solution. However, what we focus on relates to both the effects produced on migrants’ everyday life by the environments and the material conditions of these settlements and the forms of re‐ appropriation of the spaces exercised by the individuals. For instance, this is the case of ‘Le Albere’: a residential and commercial area designed by a famous architect which has become the ‘home’ of many refugees excluded by the reception system. How does this place affect migrants’ everyday lives? Why do they prefer to live in this area? How does their presence re‐ shape such space? These are the main questions that this contribution aims to answer.","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/1469-8676.13084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"62649860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}