See here the table of contents of LOVA Journal #35
Journal #35 is a special anniversary edition on “Ethnographies of Gender and the Body” with more than 130 pages of research articles, field memories, debate and reviews to enjoy.
EDITORS
Editor in chief: Silvia Herrero Simancas
Editors: Ans Boersma, Karin Bosman, Ina Keuper, Nienke Muurling, Jasmijn Rana, Jessica Rivers, Carla Schouwenaars, Julienne Weegels.
RESEARCH ARTICLES
- What is on a woman’s mind: Metaphors of the geography of the body, Irma Beusink
- The Woman mastectomized: Female identity as from the transformd body, Danielle Crespo de Souza and Ana Keila Mosca Pinezi
- Sexuality and life strategies among adolescent women in living in territories controlled by the Mara Salvatrucha in El Salvador, Edith Yesenia Peña Sánchez and Mónica Paola Zúniga Escobgar
- The weight of the body: An ethnographic view of morbid obesity, technoscience and identity, Avelina Landaverde Martínez ; Edith Yesenia Peña Sánchez; Luciá Ledesma Torres; Manuel Hernández Salazar; Oscar Meneses Luna; and Rafael Sánchez Cabrera
- Anorexia bodies: Health-disease-care process and body image in young women of Mexico City, Diana Socorro Gómez López; Edith Yesenia Peña Sánches; and Alfredo Paulo Maya
- Rickshaw driving and the performance of embodied masculinity in far-west Nepal, Matthew W. Maycock
- The Body as Ethnographic Tool: Empirical emotions and objective subjectivity, Jaco Smit
SHORT ESSAYS
- Female Sex Tourism in the Caribbean and Latin America: Theoretical and Methodological changes, Diana Dubrovska
- Queer Necropolitics and the body: thinking beyond the Euro-center in Transnational Politics, Heather Tucker
- A Specter is Haunting Heteronormativity, OuraniaTsiakalou
FIELD-WORK ESSAY
- Looking,gazing, observing: Showing off and hiding among mirrors and windows in the gym, Caio Rotta Bradbury Novaes
- The unbearable grasp of the unspoken: Notes from fieldwork, Terje Toomistu
- Mijn gecamoufleerde lichaam, Carla Schouwenaars
OPINION
- My dream for LOVA, Marina de Regt
- Dillemma’s en raakvlakken van antropologen en romanschrijvers, Marion den Uyl
- Theatre and the body: Antigone, war and the importance of corporealities, Mick Sarria
- The posthuman status of the body: The signature project, Lidija Fištrek
BOOK REVIEW:
- Embodied engagements: Feminist ethnography at the crossing of knowledge production and representation, by Karin Willemse and Tine Davids (eds), Special issue of Women’s Studies International Forum 43, 2014. Jasmijn Rama
- Islam, youth and modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama’at, by Marloes Janson. Karin Willemse
- Violence, drugs and crochet: An ethnography of masculinities and changing gender relations along the Mexican Riviera, by Joan van Wijk. Julienne Weegels.
LOVA ACTIVITIES
- Body works: International LOVA Summer School 2014, Silvia Herrero Simanca
- International Conference 2014: Ethnographies of gender and the body, Jasmijn Rana and Julienne Weegels
- Research fellowship in urgent anthropology: Sudan, Karin Willemse
- Eredoctoraat voor Nancy Fraser; Promotieonderzoek bekeerd tot islam; Mekka magischer dan Disneyland; Subsidie onderzoeksprojecten Bangladesh