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{"title":"Screen Media, Technological Innovation and the State in Nigeria","authors":"Alessandro Jedlowski","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915256","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this essay, I revisit the history of the emergence and evolution of the Nigerian screen media industry (Nollywood) through the prism of the concept of “infopolitics” to develop an analysis of the interaction between media technology innovation and state control in Africa. After being a key preoccupation during Cold War, the issue of the state’s capacity to control the production and flow of media content and data within its borders has become again the object of controversial debates in recent years, as shown by the multiplication of research on the issue of “digital sovereignty” and “platform capitalism.” By focusing on an African case study to reflect on issues of global relevance, this essay shows how the analysis of African realities can help us in interrogating and complementing theories formulated in relation to western case studies (and generally uncritically applied to other contexts). Combining first-hand ethnographic data to the analysis of the research results of other scholars who have investigated the emergence and growth of Nollywood over the past decades, this essay follows media producers and their relationship to technologies and the state, over a period of forty years, from the introduction of the videotape to the arrival of streaming platforms. In so doing, this research puts into perspective the “presentism” of many recent works, which tend to see the introduction of new digital technologies as the bearer of an unprecedented historical break, and makes an attempt at highlighting the links of continuity and discontinuity between recent transformations and the technological innovations which preceded them.","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"36 1","pages":"625 - 650"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344112","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 Intimate Infopolitics of Township Sociality in Cape Town: Mobile Phones, Mothers, and Respectability","authors":"Nanna Schneidermann","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915262","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:How are young women’s access to and the use of mobile media technologies negotiated and distributed at the urban margins of the tech revolution? This article explores questions and contestations of the legitimate use of phones among women living in township areas on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. I introduce the concept of “intimate infopolitics” to highlight how mobile phones are given meaning and negotiated by and through intimate relations and gendered ideals of knowledge and spatial belonging, condensed in the idea of ordentlikheid (respectability). Paying attention to historical political processes and scale in the gendered access and use of digital media invites researchers to recognize questions of sovereignty and power beyond tech-optimistic discourses on gendered empowerment, and to follow the fraught, partial, and ambiguous processes of managing information and knowledge through media.Hoe word jong vroue se toegang tot en die gebruik van mobiele mediategnologieë onderhandel en versprei by die stedelike grense van die tegnologierevolusie? Hierdie artikel ondersoek vrae en betwistings oor die wettige gebruik van telefone onder vroue wat in township-gebiede aan die buitewyke van Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika woon. Ek stel die konsep van “intieme infopolitiek” bekend om uit te lig hoe selfone betekenis gegee word en onderhandel word deur en deur intieme verhoudings en geslagsideale van kennis en ruimtelike behoort, saamgevat in die idee van ordentlikheid. Aandag te gee aan historiese politieke prosesse en skaal in die geslagtelike toegang en gebruik van digitale media nooi navorsers uit om vrae oor soewereiniteit en mag buite tegnologie-optimistiese diskoerse oor geslagsbemagtiging te erken, en om die belaaide, gedeeltelike en dubbelsinnige prosesse van die bestuur van inligting en kennis deur middel van media.","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"65 1","pages":"739 - 762"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344929","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 Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes our Social Worlds by Scott MacLochlainn (review)","authors":"Luke Forrester","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"163 1","pages":"763 - 768"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343969","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":"Introduction: Infopolitics and Technology Contracts","authors":"Katrien Pype, Victoria Bernal","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"21 1","pages":"611 - 624"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346556","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":"Remoteness and Connection on a Congolese Humanitarian Radio Network","authors":"Scott Ross","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915261","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, local and international non-governmental organizations have, for the last decade, built a network of two-way radios to connect rural communities in order to better protect them from armed groups active in the region. This article moves along this radio network to explore the concepts of remoteness and connection. Rural residents and humanitarians alike describe the region as “enclaved,” drawing on Congolese experiences and conceptions of isolation and vulnerability to appeal for greater connection. The connection oЛered by radios, however, is fragile and contingent, relying on alignments, negotiations, and compromises. The article describes these negotiations at the village level (among NGOs and various local actors) and between NGOs and the state, demonstrating that connection is a negotiated and ongoing process.","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"4 1","pages":"711 - 737"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139346366","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":"Michael Herzfeld: An Intellectual Biography by Heng Liu (review)","authors":"Ping-hsiu Lin","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":"783 - 786"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139347036","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":"Language In Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language by Michael Silverstein (review)","authors":"Joel Kuipers","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"26 1","pages":"769 - 777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344595","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":"Crazy, Stupid, Lying, Traitors: Eritrean Politics and Extreme Speech Online","authors":"Victoria Bernal","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915252","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay explores the dynamics of extreme speech online in the context of Eritrea's fraught politics. I find the public sphere that Eritreans in diaspora established on a website as constantly open to collapse and subversion, and thus requiring on-going negotiation among participants. The analysis draws on a close reading of a set of online exchanges in response to a narrative posted on a leading Eritrean news and discussion website. The operation of an open public sphere online is especially significant for Eritreans since there is no right to freedom of expression and no independent media inside the country. In heated exchanges online, people’s identities as Eritreans and their loyalties are questioned in spectacular attempts to silence, intimidate, and exclude certain people or ideas. What I also uncover are the strategies used by some posters and the moderator to assert the value of civil discourse and to keep the public forum open and inclusive. The ways that Eritreans engage in and respond to extreme speech in an online forum are interesting for what they reveal about Eritrean politics, but furthermore shed light on the global issue of extreme speech, digital media, and public spheres.","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"52 1","pages":"651 - 682"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344608","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":"Attuning to Opacity: Interpreting “Post-Crisis” Refusals on Abidjan’s Local Airwaves","authors":"Fabien Cante","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915253","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines how local radio producers in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire made sense of audiences’ refusals to speak on the airwaves in the aftermath of armed conflict (1999–2O11). Since the 199Os, local or “proximity” broadcasting has materialized contests over popular expression in Côte d'Ivoire. After 2O11, local stations also crystallized expectations and anxieties over the role of popular voice in peacebuilding. Drawing on scholarship linking public silences, power, and insecurity, and on Édouard Glissant’s notion of opacity, I emphasize the relationality of audience refusals, as well as producers' interpretative agency in response. I show that producers deliberately made room for the opacity of refusals by acknowledging the atmospheric pressures of political violence, without making its eЛects in the social world transparent or determining. I argue that such a practice of attunement–neither witnessing nor denial—preserved opacity as a ground for possible mutuality.Résumé:Cet article interroge la (non-)prise de parole sur les ondes locales d’Abidjan en période « postcrise ». Autorisées dans les années 1990, les radios dites « de proximité » sont un vecteur privilégié de l’expression populaire dans l’espace médiatique abidjanais où celle-ci est étroitement surveillée, voire contrôlée. Or, dans les années qui suivent le conflit ivoirien (1999–2011), une partie de l’auditoire refuse de parler au micro des radios de proximité. L’article examine comment les animateurs radio interprètent ces refus. Je montre que leur interprétation fait référence principalement au ressenti, ainsi qu’à une atmosphère diffuse, plutôt qu’à des rapports socio-politiques précis. S’ils inscrivent bien ces refus de s’exprimer dans une conjoncture marquée par la violence politique, ils évitent que les effets de cette conjoncture dans le monde social ne soient ni clairement établis, ni présentés comme déterminants. Leur interprétation esquive ainsi le registre du témoignage comme celui du déni. Surtout, en accordant aux refus leur part d’opacité, telle que théorisée par Édouard Glissant, l’interprétation des animateurs préserve dans le non-dit la possibilité d’un être-ensemble.","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"34 1","pages":"683 - 710"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139344791","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":"Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India by Cecilia Coale Van Hollen (review)","authors":"Nikhil Pandhi","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a905308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a905308","url":null,"abstract":"C and the Kali Yuga begins with an apology. While interviewing a 14-year-old Dalit girl in a village in northeastern Tamil Nadu about her experiences of living with the loss of her mother who has recently died of breast cancer, the author has to apologize to her interlocutor who is overcome by emotion due to the pain of the recall. It is no mere apology issued in the face of an acute ethnographic rupture. The pain of losing a mother to breast cancer, the author shares, is known to her intimately too. That moment – and the tensions it encompasses – almost makes the “obvious differences of time and place” (x) between a white American researcher of privilege and her poor “lower-caste” interlocutors appear attenuated. Yet, as the anthropologist acknowledges all along, her field is marked by insurmountable inequities of power, class, caste, religion, and a host of other complex asymmetries. The text has a careful method of accounting for some of these unbridgeable chasms — turning to the stories of young and old Dalit girls and women and letting them narrate the vicissitudes of their diseased (and hopeful) lives replete with the vitality of emic concepts, affects, histories and futurities. The author adds to this rich scaffolding of womanist reckonings and resilience her deft engagement with critical medical anthropology, gender and sexuality studies and a range of insights from subaltern studies rooted in Tamil culture. The result is a powerful, meaningful and highly readable chronicle of brown women’s precarious lives, whose “triple marginalization” at the hands of caste, gender and cancer makes their stories of disease causality and risk, their journeys of navigating cancer diagnosis, treatment and care, and their","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"96 1","pages":"599 - 605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947242","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}