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Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal (2022)
Journal Article
There is growing consensus that aspects of mental healthcare can be effectively delivered by lay community members with as little as a few days to a few months of training. In the field of Global Mental Health, the deployment of such “community worke... Read More about Valuing Community Workers in Global Mental Health: Critical Ethnography of a Psychosocial Intervention in Post-Earthquake Nepal.
‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities (2022)
Journal Article
This article describes how energy, and the ‘condition’ of the runner, achieved through the successful management of energy, is understood as trans-bodily and social by Ethiopian long-distance runners. The way energy flows between people and the envir... Read More about ‘We Are Burning Ourselves Up': Ethiopian Runners and Energetic Subjectivities.
Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Through an historical ethnographic analysis of Sri Lanka’s oldest charity, the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society, this article explores changing modalities of humanitarian “relations” in colonial and post-colonial contexts. For two hundred years, “the S... Read More about Kin, friends, philanthronationalists: “Relations” as a modality of colonial and post-colonial charity in Sri Lanka.
Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini” (2023)
Journal Article
Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that... Read More about Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”.
Contesting property: urban commons, statecraft and the ‘tyranny’ of liberalism in Lebanon (2023)
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As heterogeneous forms of commodification threaten the survival of the urban commons worldwide, in Beirut a group of residents and professionals has resorted to civic advocacy to keep the beach of Dalieh of Raouche accessible, including calling on pu... Read More about Contesting property: urban commons, statecraft and the ‘tyranny’ of liberalism in Lebanon.
Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis (2022)
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Infrastructure for active travel (AT) is receiving attention as a low-cost, sustainable transport option that promotes physical activity. However, the planning and implementation of new AT infrastructure often brings challenges. This review synthesis... Read More about Stakeholders’ experiences of what works in planning and implementing environmental interventions to promote active travel: a systematic review and qualitative synthesis.
Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art (2022)
Journal Article
Image-making is a nearly universal human behavior, yet the visual strategies and conventions to represent things in pictures vary greatly over time and space. In particular, pictorial styles can differ in their degree of figurativeness, varying from... Read More about Does Group Contact Shape Styles of Pictorial Representation? A Case Study of Australian Rock Art.
Fine-scaled climate variation in equatorial Africa revealed by modern and fossil primate teeth (2022)
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Variability in resource availability is hypothesized to be a significant driver of primate adaptation and evolution, but most paleoclimate proxies cannot recover environmental seasonality on the scale of an individual lifespan. Oxygen isotope composi... Read More about Fine-scaled climate variation in equatorial Africa revealed by modern and fossil primate teeth.
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity (2022)
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Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation (2022)
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Transition to a post-carbon economy implies changes that are both far-reaching and unprecedented. The notion that a decarbonization transition must encompass multiple forms of justice is gaining ground. In response, the concept of Just Transition has... Read More about Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation.
The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China (2022)
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In China many petrochemical plants are adjacent to residential areas. Despite this, the people who live in these areas appear indifferent to the threat of toxic pollution and chemical explosions, even though they are aware of the danger. Building on... Read More about The art of unnoticing: Risk perception and contrived ignorance in China.
The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration (2022)
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The drivers of divergent scleral morphologies in primates are currently unclear, though white sclerae are often assumed to underlie human hyper-cooperative behaviours. Humans are unusual in possessing depigmented sclerae whereas many other extant pri... Read More about The evolutionary drivers of primate scleral coloration.
Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say? (2023)
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrates that the emergence of a new lethal pathogen of probable animal origin in one part of the world affects public health everywhere. In this article, we review the contributions of human-animal-environmen... Read More about Advancing One Human-Environmental-Animal Health for Global Health Security: What does the evidence say?.
Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid (2022)
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This paper explores the everyday transport and mobility challenges faced by young women living in one poor peripheral neighborhood of a North African city, Tunis. Discussion spans a two-year period covering conditions prior to and within the COVID-19... Read More about Improving young women’s access to safe mobility in a low-income area of Tunis: Challenges and opportunities pre- and post-Covid.
Camera trapping with photos and videos: implications for ecology and citizen science (2022)
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Camera traps are increasingly used in wildlife monitoring and citizen science to address an array of ecological questions on a wide variety of species. However, despite the ability of modern camera traps to capture high-quality video, the majority of... Read More about Camera trapping with photos and videos: implications for ecology and citizen science.
Anogenital scent-marking signals fertility in a captive female Alaotran gentle lemur (2022)
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The Lake Alaotra gentle lemur (Hapalemur alaotrensis) is one of the 25 most endangered primates in the world and shows low success rate in captive breeding programmes. It is therefore vital to further understand its reproductive biology. We studied a... Read More about Anogenital scent-marking signals fertility in a captive female Alaotran gentle lemur.
The potatoes of Otro: the reconstitution of an element of the Walser food heritage in NW Italy (2022)
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The article analyzes the trajectory of the reconstitution of the gastronomic heritage among the Italian Walser community. It focuses on the case study of potato production in the Otro Valley, in Alagna Valsesia (VC), and explores how the process of h... Read More about The potatoes of Otro: the reconstitution of an element of the Walser food heritage in NW Italy.