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Afterword: The day after liberal reason 后记：自由理性之后的日子

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.70000

Andrew Shryock

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Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly 生活不稳定：在美国最高法院和爱尔兰公民大会上辩论堕胎问题

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.70001

Natalie Morningstar

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Introduction: Beyond public reason 引言：超越公共理性

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14318

Charis Boutieri, Samuel Sami Everett, Erica Weiss

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Feminized labour as public reason in Greek social solidarity clinics and pharmacies 女性化劳动在希腊社会团结诊所和药房成为公共理由

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14323

Heath Cabot

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Reasoning without consensus: grassroots experiments in radical inclusion in Israel/Palestine 没有共识的推理：以色列/巴勒斯坦激进包容的基层实验

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14321

Erica Weiss

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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London 公共多元化：东伦敦社区组织与分形政治

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14316

Farhan Samanani

{"title":"The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London","authors":"Farhan Samanani","doi":"10.1111/1467-9655.14316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14316","url":null,"abstract":"Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason. Yet, the more this plurality comes to the fore, the more we are confronted with questions of how publics might connect and deliberate across their differences. This article draws on work with community organizers in East London, who work with a diverse range of local institutions – from churches to schools to mosques. It traces how organizers respond to the ‘constitutive exclusions’ that delimit different publics. In dialogue with the work of Hannah Arendt – which enables us to recognize the possibilities and limits of different sorts of publics – it explores how community organizers draw together different, incommensurable publics without collapsing these into one another. Working across different communities and collectives, community organizers weave a wider ‘fractal public’, by positioning different publics as emerging out of and dependent on one another. In doing so, they offer a different model for how we might address political and intellectual dilemmas that implicate diverse worlds, publics, and forms of reason, but nonetheless require collective answers.","PeriodicalId":47904,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072668","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}

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Post‐liberalism and the politics of liberation: Brazilian favelas as emergent territories of freedom 后自由主义与解放政治：巴西贫民窟作为新兴的自由领土

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14319

Moises Lino e Silva

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Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self‐help in Marseille's northern districts 外围传统主义：马赛北部地区的犹太伊斯兰自助

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14320

Samuel Sami Everett

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Ghosting at the border: the racialization of extraterritoriality at the US Supreme Court 边界上的鬼影：美国最高法院治外法权的种族化

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14322

Carol J. Greenhouse

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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan 波动的未来：米兰最大的社会住房社区的成长

IF 1.2 2区社会学

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14314

Paolo Grassi

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