L’infrastructure sismographe. Temps, échelles et récits du boulevard périphérique parisien
Comment naissent les infrastructures urbaines ? Comment se réalisent-elles ? Comment grandissent-elles ? Objet pratique destiné à satisfaire les besoins humains, l’infrastructure est un sujet à part entière, doté d’une capacité propre d’émancipation qui agit sur le devenir de la ville – « variable explicative et expliquée » de la ville en devenir pour reprendre les termes de l’historien Bernard Lepetit. C’est l’objet de cet article de comprendre, à travers l’exemple du boulevard périphérique parisien – imaginé sous la période de Vichy, décidé en 1954, achevé en 1973, devenu l’autoroute la plus empruntée d’Europe et le nœud gordien des tensions institutionnelles et urbaines de la métropole –, les relations d’influence mutuelle que nouent les infrastructures et leurs territoires, faisant l’hypothèse que le prisme infrastructurel offre la possibilité de rendre intelligibles les temporalités des villes. En éclairant les causalités complexes selon lesquelles cet artefact s’est construit,...
Introduction to special section on blockchains and financial globalization
This special section shifts analytical attention onto efforts undertaken by dispersed sets of actors operating in online communities to mobilize a novel internet‐based technology that mysteriously appeared at the height of market volatility in 2008. Applications of blockchain technologies and the challenges presented to longstanding patterns of financial globalization are analysed by a group of scholars with backgrounds in anthropology, political science and sociology. This introductory article first elaborates what blockchain technologies consist of before foreshadowing the insights that the following interdisciplinary investigations yield for comprehending the implications that technological changes pose for global finance specifically and globalization more generally.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glob.12219?af=R
Why are migrant campaigns different from homeland campaigns? Understanding belonging in context among UK‐Sudanese activists
Migrant communities' homeland‐oriented political campaigns are always related to, but often different from, the activism in which local people engage in their homeland setting. In seeking to understand the observed disparities between migrant campaigns and homeland activism, several studies have demonstrated the influence of contextual factors like political opportunity structures on homeland‐oriented migrant politics. Complementing these studies are works that focus on changes to identity and belonging associated with migration and resettlement. In this article, I build on these debates by offering a combined analysis of the intersections between, and interplay of, contextual and identity‐based factors. I use this analytical approach to examine the case of Sudanese political activists resident in the UK. I demonstrate how forms of belonging emerge here as part of – and not in isolation from – the strategic navigations of multiple political contexts and opportunities. In doing so, I contribute to our understanding of how belonging can be contextualized to serve as an analytical lens for understanding homeland‐oriented migrant activism.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glob.12216?af=R
Gender, autonomy and return migration: negotiating street harassment in Lima, Peru
In this article, I approach street harassment broadly as a phenomenon to which women relate globally and as one that affects multiple aspects of their lives, or more specifically their experiences of return migration to Lima, Peru. I propose that street sexual harassment contributes to a restricted sense of autonomy among women return migrants in Lima. I emphasize that, given its pervasiveness, a consideration of street sexual harassment in relation to return migration contributes to a richer, gender‐conscious understanding of women's everyday experiences as return migrants. In examining a little studied yet significant form of everyday violence against women in the context of return migration, this article contributes to the growing literature on the intersections of gender, autonomy, and migration. More specifically, I draw on the experiences of middle‐ and upper‐class Peruvians to examine these intersections.
Quelle: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glob.12218?af=R