Sociology, Philosophy & Anthropology: Recent submissions
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A Broom to the Head: “Cleaning Day” and the Aesthetics of Emergence in Dakar
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Senegal has a long tradition of the collective management of public space via community cleaning. Since the explosion of the popular ecology movement Set Setal (meaning clean and be clean in Wolof) in the early 1990s, ... -
Distinguishing regeneration from degradation in coral ecosystems: the role of value
(Springer, 2021)In this paper I argue that the value attributed to coral reefs drives the characterisation of evidence for their regeneration or degradation. I observe that regeneration and degradation depend on an understanding of what ... -
Lessons being learned between the Covid-19 pandemic and radiological emergencies: report from experts’ discussions
(IOP Publishing / Society for Radiological Protection, 4 January 2021)In order to examine what lessons radiological emergency management may offer to the Covid-19 pandemic management and vice versa, a series of three online webinars were conducted with leading experts, scholars and practitioners ... -
Envious Ethnography and the Ethnography of Envy in Anthropology's “Orient”: Towards A Theory of Envy
(Wiley / American Anthropological Association / Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA), 18 September 2020)Drawing on prevalent Euro-American folk models, extant theories of envy in the social sciences tend to reduce it to an emotion embodied in individual subjects, who are believed to envy those who have more and those who are ... -
Science and Speculation
(Springer Verlag, 2021)Despite wide recognition that speculation is critical for successful science, philosophers have attended little to it. When they have, speculation has been characterized in narrowly epistemic terms: a hypothesis is ...