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Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing (2022)
Journal Article
Augspurger, J. U. (2022). Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing. Implicit Religion, 25(3/4), 311-336. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.27215

This article explores the aspirational marketing modalities promoted by “spiritual marketing coaches” (SMC) that target freelancers in the well-being and yoga sector. It focuses on the narratives of success applied in what is essentially a “marketing... Read More about Transforming Lives and Businesses: Spiritual Aspirations in Yoga Marketing.

Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home (2022)
Book
Srivastava, S. (2022). Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009179874

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections – between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example – relate to the topic of masculinit... Read More about Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home.

Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2022). Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa. Political Geography, 98, Article 102674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102674

Drawing on the example of South Africa, the article explores how the state, an incoherent and opaque set of ideas, discourses and relationships, is made into a ‘thing’ by its citizens. It describes how citizens encounter the state physically when the... Read More about Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.

Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation (2022)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Khan, S. (2022). Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation. Critical Asian Studies, 54(2), 149-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2022.2030776

This article’s premise is that war is ontological devastation, and that this opens up questions as to how to write about it. It contends that even critiques of war, whether critical-geopolitical analyses of global structures or ethnographies of the e... Read More about Writing War, and the Politics of Poetic Conversation.