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2025, HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory

Invited comment on Meiu, George Paul. 2023. Queer objects to the rescue: Intimacy and citizenship inKenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press for HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory's Book Symposium

2025, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

In what possible world could a calabash put a curse on one’s whole family? Or the forging of iron objects could deplete one’s life force? And diapers could constitute reliable indicators of anal sex activity? Lino e Silva, M. “Politics... more

2025

This chapter analyzes the tourism industry from national and regional perspectives, in order to understand the past and current trends in Costa Rica's positioning and branding attributes and strategies for tourism development. The intent here is not to provide an exhaustive comprehensive literature review of academic research on country branding; and so it is by all means a case study as it describes the evolution of the tourism industry in Costa Rica À including the transformative stages the country went through since the 1980s À as planned tourism national management Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments

2025, AAdert

In the contemporary landscape of global politics, Ethiopia exemplifies the tension between historical identity, ethnic nationalism, and modern developmental imperatives. Despite its ancient lineage, cultural depth, and abundant natural endowments, Ethiopia remains a paradox—wealthy in potential yet impoverished, emblematic of the global South's struggles against entrenched political and economic injustices (Human Rights Watch, 2023; UNHCR, 2024). This analysis undertakes a philosophical examination of Ethiopia's stagnation within the broader global political milieu, scrutinizing historical power dynamics, structural injustices, and the prospects for a radical shift towards a more equitable future.

2025, Turkic Languages

This paper investigates the effects of national integration policies on Turkish maintenance among adult second-generation Turks in Stockholm, Paris, Berlin and Rotterdam. The cities have been chosen due to their countries' divergent approaches to immigrant integration. Maintenance is operationalised through a combination of self-reported Turkish proficiency and Turkish use in private life. The results show that the lowest level of maintenance is found in Paris, due to France's assimilationist policies. Contrary to expectations, the segregation in Berlin does not lead to the highest level of maintenance, as the city is statistically matched by Stockholm and surpassed by Rotterdam, both located in states with tangible multiculturalist policies. However, in Rotterdam, and especially in Berlin, Turkish maintenance comes at the expense of weaker integration into majority society, including lower proficiency in the majority language. Although none of the four cities fully succeeds in combining Turkish maintenance with strong integration, Stockholm, located in the state with the strongest multicultural approach in Northwestern Europe, displays the most socially sustainable maintenance pattern.

2025, Anthropology of East Europe …

2024, Eléments pour une pratique en santé auprès de la communauté gitane (Le Fil à Métisser Perpignan / Fagic Barcelona)

Conférence à La Casa Musicale le 14 avril 2016 : colloque organisé par l’association Le fil à métisser, Eléments pour une pratique en santé auprès de la communauté gitane Introduction – déclaration préliminaire Mesdames, messieurs, il y... more

2024, Conférence prononcée par le Pr Jean-Louis OLIVE le 23 mai 2014, dans le cadre des 50 ans de l’AMPG, à Narbonne.

En cette décennie difficile, où affleurent les questions de démantèlement de camps illégaux et d’intégration ou de rejet de populations de réfugiés, on confond allègrement les Roms sans papiers et les Manouches nationaux, citoyens et travailleurs français imposables. Mais qu’en est-il de l’étonnante stabilité des familles gitanes sédentarisées, depuis des décennies voire des siècles ? Loin de tout préjugé et à l’encontre de toute forme de discrimination, nous étudierons ici les conditions d’une insertion lente et intelligente qui s’est faite dans l’adversité et la négociation (du lieu de vie, des moyens et des droits à la santé, la scolarisation), dans une perspective de reconnaissance « connective » et d’accession à la citoyenneté pleine et entière. Mais nous observerons aussi les difficultés du processus d’acceptation de l’autre par les citoyens autochtones et leur devoir d’hospitalité républicaine envers autrui, ainsi que le devoir de redistribution des biens nationaux envers les plus démunis.
Par « reconnaissance connective », la Professeure d’anthropologie canadienne Deirdre Meintel entendait en 2008 la manière de résoudre le problème de la reconnaissance de la différence dans l'égalité de droits...

2024

Este proyecto propone el estudio del efecto substitución de un medio tradicional, la televisión, por un new media, Internet, en el público adolescente de la ciudad de Valencia y Cusco. También analiza los hábitos de uso y consumo de televisión e Internet de los y las adolescentes de ambas ciudades. Para ello, se realiza una revisión de la bibliografía existente sobre la modificación de prácticas comunicativas en ambos países en el público adolescente y se propone el diseño metodológico para llevar a cabo la futura investigación.

2024, Max Planck Institute for Social …

Property regimes are about people and relations among them as well as about values and norms and their enforcement. Surprisingly, these have been discussed primarily within ordered and peaceful political contexts. In this paper we discuss three case studies where war, violence and displacement have been impinging upon property regimes. We explore the effects of war and displacement on the norms, values and practices of property and look at consistencies in the ways property relations and practices are shaped in conflict situations. The discussion of these issues starts with case studies from Chad, Croatia and Azerbaijan, goes on to display the specificities of violence and displacement in each case, and ends with a comparative discussion of how notions of land and housing as territory, as a scarce resource or as an economic resource are articulated differently under different experiences of violence and displacement.

2024, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

Discussion papers of the WZB serve to disseminate the research results of work in progress prior to publication to encourage the exchange of ideas and academic debate. Inclusion of a paper in the discussion paper series does not constitute publication and should not limit publication in any other venue. The discussion papers published by the WZB represent the views of the respective author(s) and not of the institute as a whole.

2024

En este artículo se plantea un breve repaso por algunas de las ideas clave en torno a la definición académica de lo televisivo y, por lo tanto, de los procesos sociales que lo constituyen. Esto generará un marco para presentar resultados de un estudio de caso en torno a la convergencia televisión-Internet. En tal estudio se busca describir cómo se vinculan las diversas dimensiones sociotecnológicas que enmarcan las prácticas de consumo cultural mediado por la televisión e Internet, particularmente en el caso de asiduos televidentes del Canal 22 en la Ciudad de México.

2024, 989: Protest Rallies and their Influence on Georgian History

The present paper provides an overview of developments preceding the protest rallies of 9 April 1989 in chronological order and their symbolic characteristics. The research aims to provide an account of the protest rallies of 9 April 1989 through the theory of protest rituals and explain the respective ritualistic or symbolic characteristics, as well as their connections with the historic context. For the purpose of the research, 9 April is portrayed as a sequence of events rather than a specific date.

2024, Ethique, politique, religions

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2024, Cairns Institute Newsletter

After almost 50 years of independence, Fiji remains a fragile State politically because of the deep-seated racial division between the two major races, the indigenous Fijians, and the Fijian Indians. There is a general recognition that it continues to cost the nation enormously, politically, socially, and above all, economically. There has been some recent initiative by the Rabuka Coalition Government about establishing a process on reconciliation between two races through a "Truth and Reconciliation Commission". Is that the best way forward for Fiji or is there a better Pacific Way of bringing about reconciliation?

2024

kennIs en kunde voor partIcIpatIe Dilemma's voor legitimiteit in de participatiemaatschappij Arwin van Buuren en Jurian Edelenbos De totstandkoming van overheidsbeleid lijkt er niet makkelijker op te worden. Een aantal ontwikkelingen is daar debet aan. De samenleving is in toenemende mate complex, dynamisch en grillig geworden. Technologische ontwikkelingen, maar ook maatschappelijke veranderingen gaan razendsnel zodat overheden niet zelden achter de feiten aanhollen. Het probleemoplossend vermogen van overheden lijkt te eroderen. Andere bronnen van handelingsvermogen moeten zij aanboren om hardnekkige maatschappelijke problemen aan te kunnen pakken. Om tot effectieve collectieve actie te komen is het steeds noodzakelijker geworden om als overheden samen met andere (private en maatschappelijke) partijen te zoeken naar adequate probleemdefinities en oplossingsrichtingen. Soms moeten overheden zelfs erkennen dat de samenleving haar problemen het beste zelf op kan lossen. Maar niet alleen de effectiviteit staat bij autonoom overheidshandelen onder druk. Ook de legitimiteit van het 'op eigen houtje' handelen van overheden is verre van vanzelfsprekend. Burgers, bedrijven en belangenorganisaties vragen om serieus genomen te worden. Zij willen hun geluid terugzien in de vormgeving, uitvoering en evaluatie van overheidsbeleid. Dankzij de emancipatie van de burger en de proliferatie van het maatschappelijk middenveld kunnen overheden lang niet altijd doen en laten wat zij willen. We leven in een participatiemaatschappij. Burgers en belangengroepen hebben allerhande mogelijkheden tot hun beschikking om zich te bemoeien met de totstandkoming van overheidsbeleid. De notie van burgerschap verandert. We zien een ontwikkeling van passief naar actief burgerschap, van onderdanig naar mondig, van lijdelijk naar leidend burgerschap. Burgers nemen zelf de verantwoordelijkheid als de gemeente dat niet doet-of dat op een andere manier doet dan de burgers dat zelf wensen. Bestuurlijke participatie is een wezenlijk onderdeel van modern burgerschap en bestuur geworden, terwijl de klassieke vormen van participatie (via de representatieve democratie) onder druk staan. Overheden komen aan de roep om participatie tegemoet door op allerlei manieren te experimenteren met interactieve besluitvormingsprocessen. Burgers zelf ontplooien tal van burgerinitiatieven die hun eigen agenda weerspiegelen.

2024

It is with great pleasure that I am given the opportunity to comment on Theo Rakopoulos' new book Passport Island: The Market for EU citizenship in Cyprus. In his second book, Rakopoulos dives headfirst in the intricate workings of the now defunct Cypriot golden passport scheme. The result is an illuminating, multifaceted and ethnographically grounded depiction of modern-day nationhood. By becoming embedded in networks of favors and exchanges between those involved in the golden passport scheme, R carefully explicates and produces a nuanced depiction of the flesh-and-bone processes animating Cypriot citizenship and the circulation of capital and global elites.

2024, Biotechnology healthcare

Now that we have the first race-based FDA indication, more may follow. Is diversity necessarily a function of biology - and thus a cause of health-outcomes disparities - or are we fixing molecules at the expense of fixing society?

2024, Sounds of Other Shores: The Musical Poetics of Identity on Kenya’s Swahili Coast

2024, City

This paper analyses the contested nature of the redevelopment of historic red-light neighbourhoods and their impact on social–moral–economic relations, using the case study of Kamathipura in Mumbai, India. Specifically, this article highlights the contested nature of the attempted redevelopment of a historic, inner-city ‘red light’ neighbourhood showcasing two kinds of interconnected violence—slow (such as deterioration of infrastructure and dilapidated neighbourhoods due to state neglect) and spectacular (such as massive and planned urban restructurings and spatial transformations)—both founded on a moral argument for sanitising and commodifying space. While redevelopment plans remain largely on paper, the speculation seizes the neighbourhood and restructures social–moral–economic relations causing great harm to vulnerable groups, while leaving several others in a debilitating limbo. We argue that the moral stigma attached to historically marginalised red-light neighbourhoods creates a paradoxical situation where it both prevents sustained municipal intervention and catalyses large-scale redevelopment proposals that mask the insidious violence of neglect by the state. We develop this argument through an in-depth field study drawing from interviews, focus group discussions and life histories conducted between 2014 and 2019 with a range of groups working and living in Kamathipura, one of Asia’s largest and oldest red-light areas located in the island city of Mumbai. This paper traces the complex interlinkages between different forms of violence(s) and the moral regimes that enable and facilitate them through contested claims to the neighbourhood and its uncertain future.

2024, Springer eBooks

During my fieldwork in Tunisia under Ben Ali's regime, 1 I spent time with Karima, a court clerk in the office dealing with personal status cases in a court in the suburbs of Tunis. One morning, a man in his 30s asked her for advice about changing the type of divorce he had filed for; his wife had left the marital home and refused to come back-a possible ground for divorce. She explained that the issue was finding proof. He had employed a notary to visit his in-laws' house to certify that she was living there, but at the time of the visit there was no one at home. The only convincing truth would be if his wife were to tell the judge that she would not return. "She knows the law", Karima said. "She will lie and say she does not want a divorce. It is a tactic. It is all about money." (If she does not agree, her husband will have to pay her compensation.) "This", Karima concluded, "is the problem now with Tunisian women today. They have taken all their rights and the men suffer".

2024

Indigenous straggles over places are a response to the spatial reconfiguration that is part of an ongoing process of colonization. This thesis explores how urban indigenous people contest social exclusion through everyday place-making. I analyze how the residents of the Lote 68, an indigenous neighborhood in the city of Formosa (Northern Argentina), cope with their position of marginality within the city, by simultaneously embracing a project of "progress" and by reappropriating the nearby bushes within rural private properties. The interviews and participant observation I conducted among this group show that their use of space disputes the hegemonic notions of aboriginality that articulate it as a poor, backward and a welfare-dependent identity. Conversely, the bush is a place that offers Lote residents a way of coping with unemployment, but more importantly, permits them to re-appropriate the notion of aborigen (indigenous person), recreate meaningful forms of socialization, and ultimately generate an alternative access to the city.

2024, Latin American Politics and Society

Do attitudes toward immigrants shape public policy preferences? To answer this question, this article analyzes a prominent example of South-South migration: the Nicaraguan immigrant community in Costa Rica. Over the past two decades, Costa Rica has experienced extensive socioeconomic changes, and Nicaraguans have been frequent scapegoats for the fears and worries generated by these changes. Relying on the 2014 AmericasBarometer survey, this analysis finds that respondents who perceive immigrants as an economic threat are significantly more supportive of punitive crime control policies. Attitudes toward immigrants were also significantly linked to support for government policies to reduce income inequality. However, given the historically strong support for the Costa Rican social welfare state, attitudes toward immigrants did not significantly affect support for government services.

2024, Subversive citizensPower, agency and resistance in public services

In this chapter, we use two stories-one about citizens and one about non-citizensto explore some of the issues that are brought into view by the phrase 'subversive citizens'. These stories generate three such issues for us: first, what is it that is being subverted in the active engagement of people as workers in or users of public services or public institutions? Second, what does it mean to call these actors 'citizens'-in what ways is this identity significant (and how does it differ from other terms such as worker, user or resident)? Finally, how do we understand the field of relationships in which such actors act? That is, how is the practice of subversion located, framed and understood? The stories have been told to us by friends and colleagues-they are drawn from their work and experience, rather than our own. But each of the stories, when we heard them for the first time, provoked puzzled reflections on what was at stake when citizens (and non-citizens) acted in these particular settings. We begin with some thoughts about the field of relationships in which these actions take place. Subversion, like related conceptions of transgression or resistance, tends to frame social fields in binary terms. Some of these are captured in topographical metaphors (the distinction between top down and bottom up approaches, or between centre and periphery for example). Some distinguish between policy and implementation, or policy and practice-in which the objectives of policy may be subverted or inflected in practice (by 'street level bureaucrats' or by innovative users). Some approaches argue that policy is co-produced-both in terms of outcomes, and in terms of the content of policy itself (refs). All of these point to important ways of moving beyond a transmission belt model of central policy which is devolved through chains of command, using implementation levers unti it is turned into practice. It is important to esc ape such linear and mechganical conceptions of the policy process. However, there is a risk that ideas of co-production, of resistance and subversion still work with an overly coherent and centralised conmception of policy-as something that may saimply be resisted and/or subverted. Rather than distinguishing policy and implementation, power and resistance, we want to understand these subversive citizens (and non-citizens' as multiply located with sub cit 2 1/21/2011

2024, Comunicación y Sociedad

Este artículo ofrece un análisis intercultural de la recepción televisiva estadounidense y mexicana entre los jóvenes de la ciudad de Tijuana mediante la exploración de la subjetividad, así como una descripción de la oferta televisiva en la frontera. Lo anterior, busca enfatizar el potencial y papel legitimador, especialmente de entretenimiento, que conllevan los programas estadounidenses en la configuración de la cultura televisiva en la frontera, estructurada, en este caso, mediante interacciones trasfronterizas en tiempos de globalización.

2024, Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya

Examines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya. Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the "homosexual threat" they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya, for example, bead necklaces, plastics, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially "virile" construction of national masculinity. In Queer Objects tothe Rescue, George Paul Meiu explores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate life. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a target of outrage, violence, and exclusion, while also crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand and critique homophobia, Meiu suggests, we must take these objects seriously and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship, intimacy, resistance, and belonging.

2024, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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2024, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

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2024, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

2024, Anuario de Estudios Americanos

Este artículo examina la conformación de la Caja Nacional de Ahorro Postal (1914) en el marco del temprano proceso de estructuración del Estado social en Argentina a principios del siglo XX. Para ello, indaga en el diseño del marco legal que dio origen a esta institución, atendiendo al entramado de actores, propuestas, modelos y orientaciones que moldearon las definiciones sobre su estructura y sus operaciones. Asimismo, analiza los sentidos y las concepciones que los agentes estatales articularon sobre el ahorro postal, sus beneficios y sus destinatarios.

2024, Ánfora

Mujer, tierra y alimento: una mirada a la seguridad alimentaria desde el rol de la mujer kamëntšá Mulheres, terra e alimentos: um olhar sobre a segurança alimentar através do papel das mulheres kamëntšá

2024, ÁNFORA

Objetivo: presentar una reflexión sobre el rol que desempeñan las mujeres indígenas y losaspectos culturales para la seguridad alimentaria de la comunidad; específicamente, desde las experiencias de las mamitas kamëntšá. Metodología: la metodología empleada para el desarrollo de la investigación de la cual se deriva este artículo es de tipo etnográfico. Se realizó observación participante por un periodo de tres meses conviviendo con ochomamitas kamëntšá en su territorio ancestral, el Valle del Sibundoy. Igualmente, se emplearon otras técnicas de investigación, como la entrevista etnográfica, el registro de conversacionesformales e informales y revisión de fuente secundaria. Resultados: se identificó la relación entre las actividades, prácticas y saberes de algunas mujeres kamëntšá conla tierra; específicamente, con el cuidado y cultivo en las chagras o jajañ. A partir de esta relación se visibilizó que en favor del alcance de la seguridad alimentaria es necesario considerar los aspe...

2024, Coup: Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji

2023

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2023

dpa.bellschool.anu.edu.au Liberal Party (SODELPA) led by another former military officer, Sitiveni Rabuka, were again foremost. In 2014 and 2018, the government’s policies on land were a central plank in its drive to portray FijiFirst as the standard-bearer of modernity. According to the government, the principal opposition party SODELPA stood for tradition, including in relation to land policy. While the government’s strategy appeared to work in 2014 — when it won a convincing electoral majority — this was much less successful in 2018. In November 2018, FijiFirst lost considerable voter support. The party won around 50 per cent of the total valid vote, down from 59.2 per cent in 2014 (Fijian Elections Office 2018; See also Arms 2015:10; Nanau 2015:22; Sakai 2015:50). Even as the overall proportion of the substantially increased number of registered voters who voted fell, SODELPA lifted its share of the votes cast to over 39 per cent, up from just over 28 per cent at the previous el...

2023

dpa.bellschool.anu.edu.au a nearly forgotten exception, see Knapman 1987), it is undergoing a major revival internationally. A prominent billionaire in the United States of America acknowledges the existence of class warfare (Stein 2006; Sargent 2011). There are accounts of ‘ruling the void’ in hollowed Western capitalist democracies, where reductions in electoral participation have given way to an increasing importance of non-representative institutions, including the European Union polity (Mair 2013). Others go further, emphasising ‘democracy against capitalism’ (Meiksins Wood 2016). This Discussion Paper inserts the important international arguments about the relationship between democracy and capitalism into considerations of the search for democracy in Fiji. In doing so, the conclusion is reached that liberal democracy, as ‘thin’ as it has been in Fiji (MacWilliam 2001), is unlikely to be extended when faced with the changes capitalism is undergoing globally. The militarisation...

2023, Comparative Migration Studies

With increased migration some countries now have a high proportion of non-citizen residents, 1 who are excluded from suffrage rights. This exclusion, described as "democracy deficit" (Blatter et al., 2017), poses a threat to the state of democratic systems and challenges the very idea of democracy (Pedroza, 2019). Traditional understandings of democracy and citizenship that focus on long-term sedentariness and naturalization are called into question and there are increasing calls to include non-citizen residents in the electoral systems (Arrighi & Bauböck, 2017; Caramani & Grotz, 2015). Two options to include non-citizens can be distinguished: either by providing migrants with access to citizenship or by enfranchising non-citizen residents before they acquire nationality (Blatter et al., 2017). This paper concentrates on the latter by studying three city-level initiatives in Europe that advocate local voting rights for non-citizens.

2023, The Journal of Pan-African Studies

in July 2012 after successfully writing and defending her thesis on Popular Culture and Music. Her thesis on Kenyan Hip-hop investigated the various points of convergence between hiphop culture and music on the one hand, and public life in Kenya on the other, including an analysis of the city as the major site within which hip-hop develops, and which shapes the very nature of the culture. In the thesis, she discussed the main issues of 'field' and symbolic capital (Bourdieu) and the idea that hiphop culture can offer a counter-discourse that challenges (or reinforces) political and social stereotypes in Kenyan urban society. She also problematized some existing canons of hip-hop culture, including the idea that hip-hop is classified as either mainstream or underground, explored the language of gender in hiphop, and analyzed the emerging aspect(s) of hip-hop and intellectual property discourse. She has previously been published in the groundbreaking 'Native Tongues: An African Hip-hop Reader', and in the forthcoming 'Staging the Immaterial: Rights, Style and Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa', among her other academic contributions.

2023, The Journal of Pan-African Studies

From its urban roots in 1970s and 80s America, hip- hop has grown exponentially through the processes encapsulated by transculturation (Morgan and Bennet, 2011), where cultural exchange is not just a hegemonic flow from the West to the g lobal South, but an interchange and exchange that is complex and layered, the resultant effects being uniquely 'African' and at the same time 'global' in its self-expression and representation. The same can be said of the African (postcolonial) city, which according to Achille Mbe mbe, is first established as mimetic of the European city, which after a while acquires its own 'aura', a distinct characteristic that makes it truly 'African', even as it well maintains its colo nial roots. As an urban cultural expression, hiphop and the city are therefore copulatory, and hip- hop expression is itself a representation of the urban space. My paper examines the ways in which African hip-hop represents itself and the urban spa...

2023

In the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Marx remarks that history repeats itself, so to speak, twice: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The events in Fiji of May-July 2000 would tend to exemplify this dictum. One coup is bad enough, but three in thirteen years staggers the imagination. This collection is not an academic analysis of these events, their origins, processes and impacts. Rather, the contributors to this volume simply reflect, often in the heat of the moment, on what the coup meant to them. The contributors are Fijians of all stripes as well as others who take an interest in the country. They express themselves in statements, speeches, essays and laments. Many overseas people familiar with Fiji are dismayed and disillusioned with the events in that country. Many contribute pieces to newspapers or the internet. The majority are critical, praying for an early resolution of the crisis. They are moving in their sincerity, eloquent and anguished in their tone. This volume of essays contains a sample, but only a small sample, of these responses. They were written when the Fiji crisis was in full swing. The hostages were still in the parliamentary complex, and George Speight was a regular sight on our television screens. Since then, academic analyses have appeared, focusing on the larger political and electoral issues that underpinned the crisis. More will assuredly come as the dust settles and people attempt to make sense of the madness that so dramatically engulfed their lives. Editors inspect what they get, not get what they expect, a colleague reminded us as we grappled with the balance of perspective reflected in this collection. As it happens, the overwhelming bulk of the published commentary on the Fijian crisis was critical of the events. Our effort ix x to solicit contrary perspectives was not as fruitful as we would have liked. This is regrettable, but that is the way things are. There is enough here to give the reader a fair sense of the issues on all sides of the political divide. The strength of this collection lies in its contemporaneity, catching unprocessed voices as the events were unfolding in Fiji. Many pieces are straight from the heart, expressing bewilderment, frustration, anger and anguish. They are partial, in both senses of the word. As they have to be. Nonetheless, they will form an indispensable building block of a future interpretative edifice. The collection is offered to the readers in that spirit.

2023

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2023, ÁNFORA

Objetivos: en este artículo se estudian los principales canales de búsqueda de empleo en Neiva, ciudad caracterizada por tener la mayor tasa de desempleo de Colombia. El propósito fundamental es analizar los factores que se relacionan con el uso de canales formales e informales de búsqueda de empleo en Neiva. Metodología: para lograrlo, se estimó un modelo econométrico de variable dependiente limitada Probit, teniendo en cuenta características demográficas, laborales y socioeconómicas que puedan incidir en la elección del medio de búsqueda de empleo. Resultados: dentro de los principales resultados se destaca que, a mayores niveles educativos, mayor es la probabilidad de acceder a un empleo a través de un canal de búsqueda formal, así mismo, a mayores estratos socioeconómicos, menor es la probabilidad de encontrar empleo a través de canales formales. Conclusión: los individuos con condiciones socioeconómicas más favorables, generalmente hacen parte de redes de contactos más amplias,...