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Crisis and credit: social and political challenges of the Malian tea market
2020
This article examines the manifold facets of crisis situations in Mali since the 1990s. Most prominent was la crise, the political crisis of 2012 that resulted from the rise of armed separatist gro...
The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming
2019
The desire to “do what you love” energizes employment and engagement in creative industries such as digital gaming yet drains hobbyists and aspirants by normalizing expectations to sacrifice job security for passionate work. This article investigates how individuals regulate their aspirations through taken-for-granted trade-offs between vocational compromise and compensation. Multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork with players at fan conventions and recruitment events in North America suggests a moral calculus of corruption and sublimation between passion and profit, which can be traced back to industrialization’s cleavage of labor from recreation and its institution of hobbies as productive le…
Care and reunification in a Cape Verdean family: Changing articulations of family and legal ties
2018
This article looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what ‘family’ means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relationships involved answered differently by different actors will be shown. The article discusses the way in which the regulation of transnational mobility according to specific categories of eligibility is giving social ties a concrete legal form whi…
Engaging the diaspora for economic gain: what can Latvia expect?
2020
Following the global trend of countries engaging with their diaspora populations, Latvia has expressed its commitment to its diaspora with the recent passing of the Diaspora Law. One of the stated ...
What Do Latvian “Peaceful Peasants” Do? A Peace System in A Rural Parish of Latvia
2013
There is no shortage of violent references in contemporary public discourse in Latvia, where ancient and more recent military exploits are often invoked to conjure up the nation. For example, the F...
La activación de la inmigración
2020
Los enfoques convencionales sobre las migraciones han tendido a considerar frecuentemente a los inmigrantes como sujetos pasivos en sus procesos de incorporación a las sociedades de recepción. En cambio, cada vez contamos con más muestras de la iniciativa de los propios inmigrantes como actores de procesos de cambio, así como nuevas perspectivas de investigación que tratan de dar cuenta de este giro: el reconocimiento de la autonomía de las migraciones, la relevancia de las capacidades y la agencia de los migrantes en diferentes ámbitos y su contribución al desarrollo de las sociedades de recepción. En realidad, los inmigrantes despliegan diversas estrategias, luchas y resistencias contribu…
Intellectuals, nationalism, and the arts
2007
In this article we argue that the role of intellectuals was essential (1) in the formation of Finnish cultural policy and (2) for the development of national cultural administration and public arts subsidy system in the country in the period leading up to the Second World War. The actions of the intellectuals can be considered as political choices in a contingent socio‐political realm, and arts as an essential part of the signifying system. In Finland, intellectuals remained active in the intertwining areas between the state and civil society. We highlight the impact of their actions especially through a study of archival materials obtained from the State Arts Boards. At these Boards, the i…
The post-referendum reconfigurations of conservative cleavages around black and Asian minority ethnic MPs
2020
At the level of the Conservative parliamentary party, one of the main effects of Brexit has been a realignment of party cleavages. While the old cleavage between Europhiles and Eurosceptics is no l...
Is culture-led redevelopment relevant for rural planners? The risk of adopting urban theories in rural settings
2016
In the paper, the author argues that cultural strategies and theories about urban planning may be irrelevant or even counterproductive outside urban and suburban contexts. In many rural settings the problem is not the destruction of the cultural heritage or how to counterbalance the influence from corporate interests, but rather the absence of such interests in the first place. From a study of two rural municipalities in southern Norway, the author demonstrates that culture-led strategies may be more of a distraction than an instrument for creating economic growth. Measured by the common goals for rural development in Norway, the cultural strategy has only been a success in one of the cases…
Chances and challenges of African entrepreneurial activity in times of crisis
2020
This special issue looks in new ways at the relationship between small-scale entrepreneurship, economic (and political) crisis, and the outcomes of neoliberal market economy in African countries. I...