2023 edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford out now

Volume XV (2023) Special issue: Uncertainty and survivance: what remains after the crisis?

This special edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (JASO) extends the concept of 'Survivance', a term that merges 'survival' and 'resistance'.

It is a concept developed by Native American Scholar Gerald Vizenor who has written of traumatic events within Native American history. This edition of JASO uses the lens of survivance to explore uncertain times.

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" Wesam Hassan (Guest Editor)

[Survivance] acknowledges both the lasting harm and anxiety inflicted upon people's lives from crises and unprecedented changes, unpredictable events, and violence, and its determination not to depict these lives solely as reactions to uncertainty, violence, and crisis.

Wesam Hassan (Guest Editor)

Wesam Hassan, Introduction - Uncertainty and survivance: what remains after the crisis?, 4-14

Naomi Marshall, Context matters: utilising Vizenor's theory of Native survivance to explain experiences of genetic difference in England and Wales, 15-30
Alexia Liakounakou, Bodies-in-crisis: beauty, narrative, and the management of dispersal, 31-46
Molly Acheson, Austerity as disabling: the state and uncertainty in the futures of children with disabilities, 47-68
Wesam Hassan, The phantasm of luck: a precariat's notion of survivance in Istanbul, 69-90
Mariz Kelada, Media's street politics: invisible infrastructures of filming in Cairo, 91-113
Freya Hope, 'There will always be Travellers': certainty as survivance in a new alternative world?, 114-133
Sanne Rotmeijer, The lottery of life: practices of survivance, future orientation, and everyday news routines on a Dutch Caribbean island, 134-153
Julio Rodríguez Stimson, Farming paradise: COVID-19 and the coexistential rift, 154-177
Akira Shah, Digital ethnography in COVID-19: improvisation and intimacy, 178-193
Peyton Cherry, Under pressure and voicing up: Japanese youth tackling gender issues, 194-217
Gilda Borriello, Chasing possible futures: refugee entrepreneurs navigating uncertainty, 218-242
Gabrielle Maria Masi, Turning uncertainty into risk: cultural heritage and Western subjectivity models among unsuccessful return migrants of the Central Mediterranean route (Velingara, Senegal), 243-261
Chloe Mei Yee Wong-Mersereau, Conjuring the crisis-imaginary: critical discourse analysis and auto-ethnographic reflections on the Canadian Red Cross, 262-281

Book Reviews

Camelia Dewan. Misreading the Bengal Delta: climate change, development, and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. Seattle: University of Washington Press 2022, 245 p. ISBN 9780295749617, reviewed by Aishwarya Mukhopadhyay, 282-283
Philip A. Clarke. Aboriginal peoples and birds in Australia: historical and cultural relationships. Clayton: CSIRO publishing 2023. 344 p. ISBN 9781486315970, reviewed by Daniel A. Villar, 284-286
Gwen Burnyeat. The face of peace: government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2022. 320 p. ISBN: 9780226821627, reviewed by David Gellner, 287-289
Peter Metcalf. The anthropology of religion and the worlds of the independent thinkers. London: Routledge 2023. 216 p. ISBN: 1000782387, reviewed by David Zeitlyn, 290-291
Juan Manuel Del Nido. Taxis vs. Ubers: courts, markets, and technology in Buenos Aires. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2021. 256 p. ISBN: 9781503611528, reviewed by Hongshan Wang, 292-294
Gaye Sculthorpe, Maria Nugent, and Howard Morphy (eds.) Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums. London: British Museum Press 2021. 247 p. ISBN: 9780714124902, reviewed by Jack Norris, 295-297
Arnd Schneider. Expanded visions: a new anthropology of the moving image. London and New York: Routledge 2021. 194 p. ISBN: 9780367253684, reviewed by Jordan Gorenberg, 298-300
Carol V. McKinney. Baranzan's people: an ethnohistory of the Bajju of the Middle Belt of Nigeria. Dallas: SIL International 2019. 265 p. ISBN: 9781556713996, reviewed by Kefas Lamak, 301-302
Luiz Bolognesi. The last forest. Santa Monica: Laemmle Monica Film Center 2021. 76 minutes, colour, reviewed by Maria Murad, 303-304
Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno. Sexual abuse and education in Japan: in the (inter) national shadows. Abingdon: Routledge 2022. 222 p. ISBN: 9781032310237, reviewed by Peyton Cherry, 305-307
Francesca Sobande and Layla-Roxanne Hill. Black oot here: Black lives in Scotland. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2022. 248 p. ISBN: 9781913441333, reviewed by Riya Gosrani, 308-309
Nobuhiro Kishigami (ed.) World whaling: historical and contemporary studies. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology [Senri Ethnological Series 104] 2021. 358 p. ISBN: 978-4-906962-87-7, reviewed by Róisín Kennelly, 310-312
Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. Franz Baermann Steiner: a stranger in the world. London and New York: Berghahn 2021. 290 p. ISBN: 9781800732704, reviewed by Shannon Lin, 313-314