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Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest (2023)
Book
Rudge, A. (2023). Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. University of Nebraska Press

Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people... Read More about Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest.

Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Xu, S., Yang, X., Liu, J., Chong, M. K.-C., Cheng, Y., Gong, W., & Zou, G. (2023). Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE, 18(9), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291231

Background
The number of empty nest elderly in China has gradually increased in recent years. There is growing concern about the physical and mental health of this population as empty nest elderly are commonly at the risk of compromising health, hom... Read More about Health and wellbeing among the empty nest and non-empty nest elderly in China—Results from a national cross-sectional study.

Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens (2023)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2023). Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens. Digital Culture & Society, 9(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0104

Future kitchens are increasingly imagined as smart. Wired food processors offer a choice of recipes and prepare food for busy cooks while smartphones or intelligent fridges promise to shop online autonomously. Whatever the futuristic image, s... Read More about Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens.

Encountering the Dain: Space-Time, Witchcraft Anxiety and Gaddi Tribal Belonging (2023)
Journal Article
Simpson, N. (2023). Encountering the Dain: Space-Time, Witchcraft Anxiety and Gaddi Tribal Belonging. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7809

Outwardly, most Gaddi people refute the relevance and danger of witchcraft in present times. At another level, however, rumors of jadu (witchcraft, or spells and curses performed by a witch) and opara (black magic, or curses that may be performed by... Read More about Encountering the Dain: Space-Time, Witchcraft Anxiety and Gaddi Tribal Belonging.

How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2023). How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819

This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the... Read More about How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.

Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gygi, F. (2023). Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory. Aubervilliers

This exploratory research project looks at how robots interact with the French public in the ‘wild’; that is, outside of the controlled environment of the laboratory or the psychological experiment. The aim was to understand concrete human-robot inte... Read More about Robots in the Wild: An Ethnography of Robot-Human Interactions outside the Laboratory.

Enduring borders: precarity, swift falls and stretched time in the lives of migrants experiencing homelessness in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Stewart, S., & Sanders, C. (2024). Enduring borders: precarity, swift falls and stretched time in the lives of migrants experiencing homelessness in the UK. Sociology, 58(2), 403-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231184793

In this article, we draw attention to the border and border governance as key mechanisms of class and ‘race-making’ in the context of an increasingly hostile immigration environment. Focusing on the life story narratives of migrants experiencing home... Read More about Enduring borders: precarity, swift falls and stretched time in the lives of migrants experiencing homelessness in the UK.