Many Roma people in Sweden are on the margins of society and face problems of social exclusion, institutional discrimination, low education, unemployment, and poor health. The aim is to describe how a group of Roma people, in West Sweden, understand health, well-being, and quality of life within...

This paper will try to shed light on a very particular angle of Greek political geography after the end of the Asia Minor War. As a result of this conflict almost 1.3 million refugees fled to Greece and changed dramatically its political space. The traditional view among the scholars of the...

This essay employs a first-person fictional narrator to explore the nature of human-plant relations through the example of Thoreau’s <i>Wild Apples</i> and enacts the transformational process necessary to write in conjunction with non-conscious vegetal life by paying attention to the unthought known...

This article analyzes the processes of dehumanization that occurred in the Michener Center, a total institution for the purported care and training of people deemed to be mental defectives[1] that operated in Alberta, Canada. I report on qualitative interviews with 22 survivors, three...

This article aims to show that the benefits of international migration (often presented as a ‘global flow’) very much depend on the <em>positionality</em> of the areas involved, as well as the regional particularities. It is argued that countries producing south-north migration or diasporic states...

In 2010 Jacqueline Low was invited to become an editorial board member of the then new online open-access journal <i>Societies</i>. In that same year, Claudia Malacrida was approached to organize a session on the sociology of the body at the 2012 International Sociological Association (ISA) meetings in...

In the Third Session of his seminar <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i>, Volume 2, Jacques Derrida turns from a close reading of Heidegger’s 1929–1930 seminar on <i>The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics </i>and Daniel Defoe’s <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>—the two books at the center of the seminar—to the...

In this paper, we query the legitimacy of the atypical body for membership, quasi-membership, or exclusion from the category of human. Geneticized, branded, and designed as not normal, undesirable, and in need of change, embodied disablement can provide an important but circumvented analysis of...

In some Australian academic circles in the 1980s it was believed that, as the numbers of soldiers of the world wars declined over time, so would attendances at war remembrance ceremonies on Anzac Day and interest in war commemoration in general. Contrary to expectation, however, there has been a...