Lectio Praecursoria: Routine Work: Authorizing Representation in East Javanese Regional Politics

This lectio summarizes a PhD study of the public activities of East Javanese regional councillors. Analysing the communication of these politicians, the thesis focuses on the ways they authorize their status as representatives of their constituency. The study finds that politics in East Java has a wide selection of authorizations, the use of which depends on the party, the political history, the age, and the gender of the politician. For the councillor, the most decisive factor for the choice of authorizations, however, is the political context. Different public institutions of politics are examined: meetings with the constituency during council recess, public hearings on draft bylaws, election campaign events, and regional council plenary sessions. The authorizations used in these contexts vary greatly, for example, concerning their aspect of ritualization, style of oratory, or way of evidence presented. Keywords: Indonesia, East Java, politics, communication, semiotic ideology, democracy, hierarch

Anthropology at an Intersection: A report from 'Relations and beyond: conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society'

The Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, held in Rovaniemi, a few kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, marked my return to the realm of face-to-face scholarly gatherings since the start of the pandemic. Taking part in the fervent  exchange of ideas and copious discussions was a riveting experience. All this transpired within the cramped hall-ways of Arktikum, a peculiar architectural amalgam of 1930s totalitarian art deco and utopian glass domes, a seemingly unsuitable venue for an assembly of roughly 300 anthropologists. Yet, despite the spatial constraints, the deft conference team pulled off a remarkable feat, orchestrating a successful affair. It was an environment teeming with off-script encounters and incessant confabulation. After several years of screen-mediated anthropology, the intensity of it all felt intoxicating

KEANE, WEBB. Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories

Kirja-arvostelu. Arvosteltu teos: Keane, W. Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.Non peer reviewe

Editors' note

This special issue is also the second issue we have overseen as editors-in-chief. In the last issue, we introduced our editorial team, the new editorial board, and our ‘vision’, namely, to maintain and develop the journal’s open access spirit started by the previous editors-in-chiefs. Here, in addition to introducing the special issue, we want to shortly explain how the journal is run and editorial editorial processes work.&nbsp

Editors' note: On rent extraction in academic publishing and its alternatives

In this editorial we introduce new members of our editorial team and the contents of this issue. In addition we discuss open access developments of the journal, namely our new license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common license that best suits their needs or the requirements of their funders. This change in licenses makes our journal also compliant with the Plan S programme, which several large European research funders have signed, in order to promote open access publishing. We support such initiatives, but note that they are designed mainly to push large commercial publishers to publish publicly funded research in open access. While the Plan S is a welcome program, commercial for-profit publishers charge exorbitant charges for open access, usually paid for by the researchers' institutions. We note that these charges are a form of rent extraction, which produces little added value, as the commercial publishers rely on the free labor of researchers and publicly funded research to fill their journals' pages. More so, due to these charges the public ends up paying again for the research it funded in the first place. We argue that public support for both institutional and independent non-profit open access publishing is a socially more just and sustainable model.In this editorial we introduce new members of our editorial team and the contents of this issue. In addition we discuss open access developments of the journal, namely our new license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common license that best suits their needs or the requirements of their funders. This change in licenses makes our journal also compliant with the Plan S programme, which several large European research funders have signed, in order to promote open access publishing. We support such initiatives, but note that they are designed mainly to push large commercial publishers to publish publicly funded research in open access. While the Plan S is a welcome program, commercial for-profit publishers charge exorbitant charges for open access, usually paid for by the researchers' institutions. We note that these charges are a form of rent extraction, which produces little added value, as the commercial publishers rely on the free labor of researchers and publicly funded research to fill their journals' pages. More so, due to these charges the public ends up paying again for the research it funded in the first place. We argue that public support for both institutional and independent non-profit open access publishing is a socially more just and sustainable model

Editors’ note: Student protests, historicities, and genres

In this Editors' note we introduce two new members to our editorial team, discuss student protests in Finland and anthropologists' support for them, and introduce the texts to this issue. This issue is a special is guest-edited by Dmitry Arzyutov and Karina Lukin entitled 'Entangled historicities in the EurasianNorth' consisting of an introductory article by Aryutov and Lukin as well as research articles by Lukin, Otso Kortekangas, Art Leete and Victoria Peemot. In addition, this issue has a book forum on David Graeber's and David Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everytihng: A New History of Humanity (2021) curated by Ville Laakkonen, and contributions by Matti Eräsaari Khalil 'Avi' Betz-Heinemann, Linda Hulin and Veronica Walker Vadillo, and Tuomas Tammisto. The issue is completed by Ilana Gershon's essay on artificial intelligence, and Large Language Models (LLM) in particular, and genre.In this Editors' note we introduce two new members to our editorial team, discuss student protests in Finland and anthropologists' support for them, and introduce the texts to this issue. This issue is a special is guest-edited by Dmitry Arzyutov and Karina Lukin entitled 'Entangled historicities in the EurasianNorth' consisting of an introductory article by Aryutov and Lukin as well as research articles by Lukin, Otso Kortekangas, Art Leete and Victoria Peemot. In addition, this issue has a book forum on David Graeber's and David Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everytihng: A New History of Humanity (2021) curated by Ville Laakkonen, and contributions by Matti Eräsaari Khalil 'Avi' Betz-Heinemann, Linda Hulin and Veronica Walker Vadillo, and Tuomas Tammisto. The issue is completed by Ilana Gershon's essay on artificial intelligence, and Large Language Models (LLM) in particular, and genre

Editors' note: Activist anthropology, public engagement, and invasive species

In the Editors' note, we present the texts of this issue, which consists of individual article and research report submissions sent to us. Once again,by fortunate happenstance, the various articles, research reports and essays discuss related topics, lending the issue a sense of internal coherence. The texts discuss common topics such as migration and border violence, activist anthropology and the anthropology of activism, rootedness and displacement. In addition, the essay and conference report engage in debates over public anthropology and contesting hegemonies within the discipline

Preface to the Second Edition

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