‘The realities of power’: David Stoll and the story of the 1982 Guatemalan genocide
Volume 18, Issue 2-3, June – September 2016, pages 305-322<br/>10.1080/14623528.2016.1186956<br/>Marc Drouin
Archiv für Juni 2016
International accompaniment, reflexivity and the intelligibility of power in post-conflict Guatemala
Volume 18, Issue 2-3, June – September 2016, pages 189-205<br/>10.1080/14623528.2016.1186896<br/>Etienne Roy Grégoire
Waging peace: a new generation of Ixiles confronts the debts of war in Guatemala
Volume 18, Issue 2-3, June – September 2016, pages 343-359<br/>10.1080/14623528.2016.1186959<br/>Krisjon Olson
The reconciliation trap: disputing genocide and the land issue in postwar Guatemala
Volume 18, Issue 2-3, June – September 2016, pages 323-342<br/>10.1080/14623528.2016.1186958<br/>Berthold Molden
The myth of The Phoenix: progressive education, migration and the shaping of the welfare state, 1985–2015
10.1080/00309230.2016.1197287<br/>Cedric Goossens
Transnational Islamic charity as everyday rituals
In this article, through a case study of transnational Islamic charity, we explore the intersection between migrant development engagements and religious practices. While migrant engagement in development is well known, the intersections of these with everyday religious practices are less so. We use the prism of ‘everyday rituals’, understood as human actions that connect ideals with practices. Everyday rituals not only express but also reinforce ideals, in this case those of Islamic charity in a context of sustained migrant transnationalism. The article draws on 35 interviews about Islamic charity, transnationalism and development with practising Muslims of Pakistani origin in Oslo, Norway. We argue that everyday rituals are a useful tool for exploring the role of religion in motivating migrant development engagements. This is because they include transcendental perspectives, bridge ideals and practices that connect the contemporary to the hereafter, encompass transnational perspectives, and are attentive to the ‘here’ and ‘there’ spatially in migrants’ lives.
Reducing the scale? From global images to border crossings in medical tourism
International medical travel has increased in the last 20 years, becoming more diverse and complex, although definitions and data on its growth and structure are inadequate. Many countries, especially in the Global South, have sought to develop medical tourism for both strategic and defensive reasons. Few have been successful. Standard descriptions and images of medical tourism suggest global markets, elite patient travellers and the dominance of cosmetic surgery, alongside the privatization and corporatization of hospital chains. Most international medical travel is, however, short-distance, diasporic, across adjacent and nearby borders, and of relatively poor patients seeking cheaper, more effective or available care in appropriate cultural contexts, for straightforward procedures. Social networks, rather than the internet, shape choices and decisions on destinations. Porous international borders are crucial to medical travel and have resulted in the emergence of formal trans-border health regions in the North and spontaneous informal regions in the South, alongside some regional hubs and hierarchies. Globalization is less significant than the grassroots transnationalism of borderland health care.
Beyond imported magic: essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America
10.1080/14608944.2016.1173829<br/>Mary Jane C. Parmentier
The real politics of the horn of Africa: money, war and the business of power
10.1080/14608944.2016.1173830<br/>Peter Chonka
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina
10.1080/14608944.2016.1173831<br/>Tony Collins