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{"title":"Ghosting at the border: the racialization of extraterritoriality at the US Supreme Court","authors":"Carol J. Greenhouse","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14322","url":null,"abstract":"The theoretical association of an inclusive public sphere with liberal democratic governing begs a closer examination. This article pursues forms of disqualification implicit in the idea of political community as a <jats:italic>national</jats:italic> project, ultimately finding that the exclusion of foreigners does not begin on the far side of the US border, but well within it as an extension of other forms of alienation under the law. My ethnographic starting point is a 2020 US Supreme Court case involving the cross‐border killing of a Mexican teenager by a US border agent. The victim's parents sued on civil rights grounds, but the court's majority voted to dismiss the case, ruling that the Constitution was not available in the circumstances of their son's death. The case shows that theorizing the public sphere as an integrative flow of discourse through public institutions is partial at best. The flow of discourse in this case goes the other way, instantiating ideas of difference – racial, cultural, political, and territorial – that by design preclude inclusion. The precedents cited in the text of the court's opinion show the court selectively racializing extraterritoriality and – even within US territory – restricting full constitutional rights to what it calls ‘members’ of a ‘national political community’. Though specific to the United States, the case informs broader questions arising from the idea of the liberal public sphere as both the means and ends of inclusion. Quoted and paraphrased text include offensive material.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan","authors":"Paolo Grassi","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14314","url":null,"abstract":"This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing neighbourhoods, where half of the population comprises large families with migratory backgrounds, mainly from North Africa. Following a prolonged period of youth policy vacuum, San Siro has recently re‐emerged in public discourse due to the national and international success of a local group of rappers, which simultaneously contributed to a surge in social fear. In response to this fear, public institutions decided to allocate new funding for youth welfare. The research, conducted among a group of teenagers within and outside of schools, as well as within some social services, demonstrates the fluctuating attachments these young people have to their neighbourhood and their varying aspirations towards the future. Their narratives suggest a relativistic construction of the notions of adolescence and youth that can account for the diversity that characterizes San Siro, between individual agency and structural constraints.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biocultural synthesis of adolescence: a roadmap to advance the field","authors":"Delaney Glass, Emily Emmott","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14315","url":null,"abstract":"Adolescence is an expansive, dynamic period within the life course, covering a broad age range (10‐24 years) and a cascade of biological and cultural changes. However, <jats:italic>biocultural</jats:italic> approaches to adolescence have been less well developed within existing research compared to child and adult counterparts. In this article, we present a roadmap to revisit received wisdom about adolescence and to advance the study of adolescence rooted in biocultural frameworks. Drawing on existing biocultural and anthropological work, we present three main opportunities to (1) challenge assumptions, (2) embrace adolescent diversity, and (3) innovate biocultural methods in the study of adolescence. We invite readers to reflect upon this synthesis in their future studies with and among adolescent populations in varied socioecological milieus.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia","authors":"Charis Boutieri","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14317","url":null,"abstract":"In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (<jats:italic>tawasul bayna al‐afrad</jats:italic>) for the purpose of managing social conflict. Yet the members of the only non‐religious association in the neighbourhood of Nogra reject the liberal recommendations of their trainers and carve out a tense neighbourhood co‐presence <jats:italic>without dialogue</jats:italic> with their Salafist neighbours. Counter‐intuitively to deliberative theories of democracy, I suggest that in this non‐dialogical co‐presence inheres a public sphere with social and political possibilities. Neighbourhood residents trade liberal argumentation for dwelling together beyond words, which does not attempt to reform one another and engenders solidarity. The suspension of dialogue reflects a minoritarian articulation of the aftermath of the 2011 revolution as ‘the reconstitutive phase of the political’. This articulation refuses the curated narrative of the postcolonial Tunisian nation and pries open the teleology of liberal democratic transition.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential","authors":"Robert Dinnis","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14313","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early <jats:italic>Homo sapiens</jats:italic> occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites. Some of these limitations are described here. In the light of this, recent work at the new Early Upper Palaeolithic site of Wogan Cavern (Pembrokeshire) is outlined. Initial observations indicate a significant quantity of intact sediments and high‐quality archaeological deposits amenable to modern research methods.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco","authors":"Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14312","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters. Here we outline some of the critical findings concerning the Middle (MSA) to Later (LSA) Stone Age periods. We describe shifts in the understanding of the nature and chronology of human occupation in this region as well as changes in ideas concerning the evolution of human behaviour. Major behavioural changes in the MSA (∼300–29,000 years ago) attributed to <jats:italic>Homo sapiens</jats:italic> seem to have occurred mainly during humid phases, though not exclusively. The article also considers the relationship between the MSA and the LSA. Previously it was believed that there was a considerable hiatus separating these two cultural units (∼29,000 to ∼23,000 years ago) but evidence from Taforalt cave shows a narrowing of the gap in occupation. Finally, the article examines changes in land‐use behaviours in the LSA at ∼15,000 cal BP resulting in increased sedentism and an intensification in the exploitation of plant foods.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘We all live well together now’: Ethics, ontology, and the face of the other\u0000 « Nous vivons bien ensemble maintenant » : éthique, ontologie et visage de l'autre","authors":"Jan David Hauck","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14311","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other? In relating these concerns, ontological questions would appear to have logical primacy over ethical ones: after all, one must understand the other as a particular kind of being before entering into a relationship with them. But there are many situations in which we cannot be certain how to understand the other we are facing. Especially in the context of colonial or postcolonial encounters, when social and cosmological orders have become unstable, our expectations of who the other is may clash with our experience of them. This paper discusses the narrative of an Aché elder in which he reflects upon such a situation during the violent period when the nomadic Aché came into contact with Paraguayan settlers. The narrative tells the story of the death of a white logger at the narrator's hands. While morally justifying the killing with reference to deforestation and cruelties perpetrated by settlers, he also questions it, reframing it as an ethical dilemma. The dilemma stems from his loss of ontological certainty over what kind of being his victim was after looking into his face. This paper brings this dilemma into conversation with Levinas's argument that the ethical being-for-the-other has primacy over the ontological being-in-the-world, which comes to the fore in the experience of the face of the other.</p>","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"874-898"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.14311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Kigali story, the Singapore model, and rights to the city","authors":"Michael M.J. Fischer","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14308","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14308","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Three recent ethnographies of Kigali's urban planning and development provide a welcome addition to a long tradition of such ethnographies, including Lisa Redfield Peattie's famous fieldwork in the planning of Ciudad Guayana (&lt;span&gt;1968&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span&gt;1987&lt;/span&gt;), Grace Goodell's ethnographic account of the disjunction between planning offices in Tehran and the urban settlements (&lt;i&gt;sharaks&lt;/i&gt;) of the Khuzistan Development Project modelled on the Tennessee Vally Authority (&lt;span&gt;1986&lt;/span&gt;), and Gökce Günel's ethnographic analysis of the disjunction between plans for, and implementation of, Mazdar City and Mazdar Institute in Abu Dhabi (&lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kigali, often dubbed ‘the African Singapore’, provides a model for thinking about new urban formations in Africa and elsewhere (see Pype, Adunbe &amp; Fischer &lt;span&gt;2025&lt;/span&gt;), the circulation of planning consultancies, and the key social issues of dealing with informal settlements, overcrowding, and rights to the city. Having worked in Singapore for the past decade or so, I was long interested in the claim of the Singapore consultancy, and town planning agency within Singapore (Surbana), to have provided the planning for Kigali as well as a number of other cities in Africa. It was one of several initiatives to sell Singapore's expertise (industrial parks in China; port management in Turkey). A two-week intensive visit to Rwanda, including to its new district hospital and University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, a poor region of the north – both initiatives of the anthropologist Paul Farmer and Partners in Health – in the company of Dr. Aalyia Sadruddin (a long-time ethnographer in Rwanda whose network gave access to several of Rwanda's strategists), enhanced my desire to further ‘read for the ethnography’.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;‘Reading for the ethnography’ is my slogan for creating a detailed empirical basis for theory building, evaluation of ethnographic writing, cultural critique, and the transnational circuitry of post-globalization. Reading for the ethnography is the ‘ground-truthing’, or finer grained precision, of claims of theory, just as aerial photography requires on-the-ground verification and often alternative understandings: What is the evidence? How well does the text demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence in eliciting emic accounts? Are there other accounts in the literature, other histories of the specific places, or alternative explanations? In the present comparison of three ethnographies of the same city and administrative structures, I pay attention to the ethnographic facts that each adduces that I can use to create a mosaic understanding of different parts of the city, different local histories of settlement and redevelopment, and different evolving plans versus local resistance or counter-movements of residents, and how the interlocutors and informants evaluate, complain, or take advantage of changing effects of city planners, global financing, and of organic i","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"937-949"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-9655.14308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144787717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shannon Lee Dawdy & Tamara Kneese (eds). The new death: mortality and death care in the twenty-first century. 352 pp., bibliogr. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Studies, 2022. $39.95 (paper)","authors":"Douglas J. Davies","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14299","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-9655.14299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"31 3","pages":"955-956"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating laws to Kichwa when even textbooks are hard to read: intertextuality, language standardization, and state power in Ecuador","authors":"Nicholas Limerick","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14309","url":null,"abstract":"What happens when Indigenous language‐translation becomes intertwined with state politics? In contrast to scholarship's emphasis on translation as reproducing a source text in another language, in Ecuador the translation of an education law to Kichwa prioritized other forms of intertextuality that connected the resulting text to a small corpus of pre‐existing Kichwa‐language state documents. Some translators supported cohesion, arguing for uniformity in how Kichwa is written across texts. Other translators sought to emphasize readability, which meant breaking with conventions, but their efforts faltered. Language standardization shapes and is shaped by how emergent texts relate to previous ones, and these relationships are key for how Indigenous languages are used to make a state intercultural. Hegemonic and counterhegemonic views of intertextuality factor heavily into translating state texts to Kichwa and may exacerbate rifts among planners and readers by foregrounding a singular stable way of writing that differs from how people use Kichwa daily. Such efforts may work against the collective mobilization so important to Indigenous social movements.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}