Vol. 63 No. 1 (2021): The Bureaucratic Practices of Migration; Giving Shape to COVID-19

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Cover art: Reena Kallat, 2013, "Anatomy of distance."

Published: 2021-03-26

Note from the Editors

• Our First Open Access Issue!

  Sue Frohlick, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

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Thematic Section: The Bureaucratic Practices of Migration

• Introduction: Bureaucratic Routes to Migration: Migrants' Lived Experience of Paperwork, Clerks, and Other Immigration Intermediaries

  Geoffrion Karine, Viviane Cretton

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• Bureaucratic Emotionalities: Managing Files, Forms, and Delays in the Canadian Spousal Reunification Process

  Karine Geoffrion

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• Negotiating Legitimacy: Binational Couples in the Face of Immigration Bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy

  Laura Odasso

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• Moving, Waiting, Racing: The Emotional and Temporal Experience of Policy for Nurses on Temporary Work Permits in Canada

  Shiva Nourpanah

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• Entrepreneurs de la migration : Des stratégies pour contourner les obstacles bureaucratiques

  Laure Sandoz

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• Encounters of Despair: Street-Level Bureaucrat and Migrant Interactions in Sweden and Switzerland

  Lisa Marie Borrelli

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Late-Breaking Thematic Section: Giving Shape to COVID-19

• Collaboration in Virtual Environments: Honouring the Métis Method of Visiting

  Fiona P. McDonald, Hanna M. Paul

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• Staying at Home

  Katherine T. McCaffrey

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• Riding the Coronacoaster: Learning, Teaching, and Living at a Health Sciences Campus during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Angie Mejia, Chandi Katoch, Fiza Khan, Blake Peterson, Daniel R. Turin

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• Wayfaring in Taiwan during COVID-19: Reflections on Political Ontologies of Disease and Geopolitics

  Scott Simon

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• Where the Normal is Crisis: Service Delivery to Underserved Populations during the COVID Pandemic

  Shiva Nourpanah

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• "No Silver Bullet Solution": Cruel Optimism and Canada’s COVID-19 Public Health Messages

  Christina Holmes, Udo Krautwurst, Kate Graham, Victoria Fernandez

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• Apr``ès la pandémie : Transformations des villes, du travail, et la crise climatique

  Vincent Mirza

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• Giving Everyone a Fish: COVID-19 and the New Politics of Distribution

  Christopher Webb

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• Doctor Death and Coronavirus: Supplicating Santa Muerte for Holy Healing

  Kate Kingsbury

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• Creativity, Sociability, Solidarity: New-Wave Carnival Krewes’ Responses to COVID-19 in New Orleans

  Martha Radice

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• Du quilt aux « masques COVID » : L’exercice d’application des normes AFNOR relève-t-il du bricolage de fortune ou du geste de participation civile ?

  Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud

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• Circling COVID: Making in the Time of a Pandemic

  Abra Wenzel

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• What Does a Pandemic Sound Like? The Emergence of COVID Verbal Art

  Karen Pennesi

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• Second Life comme espace de sociabilité pendant la pandémie de COVID-19

  Débora Krischke-Leitão, Laura Graziela Gomes

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• Writing against “Mask Culture”: Orientalism and COVID-19 Responses in the West

  Mingyuan Zhang

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• Queer and COVID-19 Positive: Contagion, Suspicion, and Stigma

  Holly Zwalf, Samantha Sperring

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Articles

• Residues of History, Affect, and the Resonance of Revolutionary Spirits in Two Cuban Forms of Spiritism

  Diana Espírito Santo

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• Growing (with) Muskeg: Oil Sands Reclamation and Healing in Northern Alberta

  Tara L. Joly

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Ideas: Blair Rutherford’s Ground of Politics and Farm Labour in Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwean Politics from the Ground Up

  David Moore

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• Grounding the Ground of Politics

  Lincoln Addison

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• “The Cultural Politics of Politics”: Macro and Micro Entanglements in the Work of Blair Rutherford

  Andrew Hartnack

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• On Ethnography, Politics, and Critique

  Blair Rutherford

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Film and Exhibit Reviews

• Sonic Art, Brain Injury, and Intimate Ethnography: A Review of Reassembled, Slightly Askew

  Denielle Elliott

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• Two Films about Becoming Plant

  Laura U. Marks

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Book Reviews

• Harvests, Feasts and Graves: Postcultural Consciousness in Contemporary Papua New Guinea, by Ryan Schram

  Giorgio Scalici

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• An Australian Indigenous Diaspora: Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition, by Paul Burke

  Robin R. R. Gray

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• Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands, by Emily C. Donaldson

  Divya Padmanabhan

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• An Anthropology of Anthropology: Is It Time to Shift Paradigms?, by Robert Borofsky

  Edward J. Hedican

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• Les Cuivas. Une ethnographie, de Bernard Arcand

  Robert R. Crépeau

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• Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetic to Creativity, edited by Stephanie Bunn

  Amélie Keyser-Verreault

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• Musique et épopée en Haute-Asie, dirigé par Katia Buffetrille et Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy

  John Leavitt

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• Transgender Refugees and the Imagined South Africa, by B. Camminga

  Victoria Clowater

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• Nouvelles dynamiques familiales en Afrique, dirigé par Anne E. Calvès, Fatou Binetou Dial et Richard Marcoux

  Véronique Senécal-Lirette

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• The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, by Hannah Appel

  Raphael Deberdt

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• Things that Art: A Graphic Menagerie of Enchanted Curiosity, by Lochlann Jain

  Lindsay Bell

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• Inuit, Oblate Missionaries, and Grey Nuns in the Keewatin, 1865-1965, by Frédéric B. Laugrand and Jarich G. Oosten

  Ezra Anton Greene

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• Akulmiut Neqait / Fish and Food of the Akulmiut, by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Marie Meade, and Alice Rearden

  Roxanne Blanchard-Gagné

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• Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia, by Daniel Mains

  Felipe Fernández

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• Survivre à l’Anthropocène. Par-delà guerre civile et effondrement, de Enzo Lesourt

  Christine Beaudoin

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• Desire in the Age of Robots and AI: An Investigation in Science Fiction and Fact, by Rebecca Gibson

  Wayne Fife

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• Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore, by Robert Phillips

  Pavan Mano

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