This study conceptualizes place as a dynamic configuration of historical experiences, familial ties, social relationships, memory, and belonging, developing this perspective through the concept of genealogies of place. The concept describes how place...
The 14-year Syrian Civil War is shifting towards peace following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, and families of Syrian refugees abroad are making the decision whether to return while navigating the cultural identity of the life they built in a new coun...
Readings of Israel as God’s chosen people, reinforced by Christian Zionism, shape how many Christians understand the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Alternative readings define the chosen people inclusively within the new covenant, yet the...
This article reimagines archival care as a form of aging justice, examining how the preservation—or neglect—of Indigenous HIV/AIDS memory shapes Indigenous queer and Two-Spirit (IQ2S) futures, particularly for those aging with HIV. Drawin...
This study examines, from an ethnopragmatic perspective, how the Efik people in Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Cross River State, Southern Nigeria, use lullabies to transmit language, indigenous values, cultural wisdom, and meaning. The study explor...
South Africa’s persistent youth unemployment crisis highlights the ongoing challenges in achieving the objectives of the Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) policy framework for Community Education and Training Colleges (...
In South Africa, idliso is understood in isiZulu as poisoning or bewitchment administered in secret. In everyday KwaZulu-Natal usage, it is also a love medicine said to turn the man who is fed it violent. It is diagnosed by traditional health practit...
In Nigerian popular music’s growth across international music industries, the experience of dancing, DJing, singing, and listening in Lagos becomes a central part of the musicking experience—embedding African identities and culture in the...
African masculinities and femininities have historically been constructed through kingship systems, communal responsibilities and culturally embedded social organisation. Colonial and missionary encounters disrupted these formations, contributing to...
Genealogy and lineage preservation are paramount in most African communities where belonging, identity, and communal memory are rooted in kinship networks and ancestral heritage. In such communities, childbirth becomes a priority in marriage, extendi...
This article examines the theological and biblical frameworks that helped naturalise racial hierarchy in the Atlantic world. Employing a qualitative desktop methodology, the study draws on the critique of the “genre of the human” to criti...
This article evaluates civilian border group activity in the U.S.–Mexico border region and how neighborhood watch and vigilante identities form through these activities. The paper uses re-conceptualized techniques of neutralization along with c...
This article examines how two Slovenian outlets represent Roma in online news coverage during a period of heightened public attention. It takes a genealogical perspective to analyze how contemporary reporting rearticulates historically rooted forms o...
This conceptual article introduces mokopuna (grandchild, descendant) reworlding, a theorising of Indigenous cultural identity grounded in the position every person occupies within whakapapa (genealogy): he mokopuna, he tūpuna (ancestors). Each o...
This study examines how Abū al-Ghāzī Bahadur Khan represents and evaluates historical events and the social and political relations surrounding them in Shajara-i Tarākima, focusing on passages in which his perspective as narrator...
Abahambe (“they must go”) is an isiZulu and isiXhosa expression prominent in South African political and protest discourse calling for undocumented immigrants to leave the country. Although proponents associate the slogan with concerns ab...
Compassion for self and others could be among the most important indicators for thriving, sustainable relationships. This could be especially true in midlife, when substantial relational renegotiations often occur among women, their children, and agi...
This article focuses on a Hmong American feminist movement against abusive international marriages (AIM), a form of gender-based violence that emerged from the transnational networks of Hmong diasporic life. While existing scholarship has examined Bu...
Place names function both as spatial identifiers and as condensed repositories of urban history, local memory, and social relations. Using Shanghai as a case study, this article examines how multiple strata of place names—including old-city lan...
In her 1893 address “Lynch Law in All Its Phases,” Ida B. Wells observed that “those who commit the murders write the reports.” This article takes Wells’s indictment as a genealogical key for reading the United States as...
This article uses a case study of Moral Re-Armament (MRA), a twentieth-century Christian social movement, to explain how family remains a durable element of American political culture. When groups or political actors criticize—or theorize&mdash...
Death is a transitional period that, beyond marking the end of life, involves traditional practices aimed at alleviating and sharing grief. One such practice, found across cultures in varying forms, is the tradition of mourning meals. This study exam...
The Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) formally recognizes cremation within its authorized liturgy, yet its implementation raises pastoral questions where Kikuyu understandings of burial remain associated with family land, lineage, bodily dign...
Personal naming traditions in Bekwarra communities of Cross River State serve as vital cultural repositories encoding memory, identity, and collective experience. While names have historically reflected lineage, spirituality, and communal values, con...
Family novels are often read as if the fate of a house told the fate of a family, and a home’s sale or rebuilding becomes evidence of a lineage’s decline. This article is a comparative study of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Orhan P...
Amid urban renewal and heritage-making in the “Global East,” toponyms are not neutral markers but media through which state power rewrites spatial genealogies. This article examines how the construction of the Daming Palace National Herit...
This article aims to trace the genealogy of the sacred through four interconnected movements, asking: how does a protective structure of meaning invert into an instrument of structural power? It argues that the sacred originated as a psychological an...
This article examines how descendants of a deported community relate to a displacement they did not experience directly and how that inherited past acquires different meanings across settlement contexts. Focusing on Ahıska (Meskhetian) Turks in Türki...
Older women have often been less visible as photographic subjects within visual conventions that privilege youth and normative feminine beauty. On Xiaohongshu, however, photographic and family narratives about women include portraits of mothers and g...
In 1937, aged two and a half, Harry Drabble was diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis of the hip and elbow, separated from his parents, and admitted to a Sheffield orthopaedic hospital, where he spent three and a half of the next seven years. For more t...
The present study analyzes Melisa Kesmez’s short story collection Nohut Oda in accordance with the notion of chronotope proposed by Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. This study aims at demonstrating how time and space interrelationship...
During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Presbyterian and Methodist Mission Homes in San Francisco were established by women seeking to rescue and Christianize Chinese “slave girls”—girls and young women they underst...
Historic districts are represented through overlapping boundaries because street names, communities, heritage areas, and tourism destinations organize space differently. Huifang, a historic Hui Muslim neighborhood in Xi’an shaped by intercultur...
Lateral violence is widely used to describe harm within Indigenous communities, but the concept assumes that the people involved recognise one another as members of the same group. This article asks what happens to the concept when that recognition i...
This article examines how Hmong American women use sport to negotiate identity, belonging, and gender expectations within both mainstream American institutions and Hmong ethnic communities. Drawing on participant observation at twelve Hmong sports to...
This paper examines the preservation and transgenerational transmission of family identity (status civitatis) within the overlapping jurisdictions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the migration and legal continuity of the Nanut family from Sant...
The transmission of genealogical roots, family histories, and intergenerational memory plays an important role in maintaining cultural identities across generations. In the Western Balkans, a region shaped by displacement, political change, shifting...
African Pentecostal ritual is more than the preservation of religious tradition. It is a dynamic social and theological process through which gender, power, and identity are negotiated, reproduced, and sometimes transformed. This article examines Pen...
Africa is experiencing erosion of mourning traditions across the continent, and this is a metaphysical and ethnographical phenomenon worth documenting. This study investigated the traditional mourning and funeral practices among three different tribe...
This article examines the demonisation and distortion of Vhavenḓa spiritualities in Hymns 36 and 38 of the Tshivenḓa Lutheran Hymnal through a decolonial-Africanised lens. It argues that, although these hymns function devotionally, they a...
In a previous article in Genealogy, Ancestral Selfies and Historical Traumas: Who Do You Feel You Are? I explored the phenomenon of ‘historical trauma,’ a psychological disturbance that can be triggered by identification with ancestors wh...
In many African societies, the transition from the realm of the living to the realm of the dead requires adherence to a variety of traditional mortuary rites, some of which specific individuals or groups perform. Elders and specialized individuals or...
When Rohingya families fled Myanmar’s genocidal violence in August 2017, most carried only a few materials documenting the cultural lives they had built over generations in Rakhine State, a collective archive of their ancestral homeland. In the...
Older enslaved women in the nineteenth-century US South performed vital work—designated under the label of ‘care’—in supervising infants and children whose mothers labored elsewhere, as well as cooking collective meals for ens...
As outcasts in legend and figurative language, the cat-loving witch and striped musician frequently present a countercultural, queer threat to the biogenetic basis/bias of the bourgeois domicile. Just as in the Middle Ages, the cat lady is connected...
This article examines how masculinity and femininity are understood within Vhavenda Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKSs) in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Using a structured qualitative desktop review and thematic analysis of the scholarly literature...
Background: The Tacna–Arica space (Tacna, Peru, and Arica, Chile) was historically a territory of intense Afro-descendant presence that, following the War of the Pacific and the Treaty of Lima (1929), suffered a political fragmentation of its g...
African Christian immigrant communities are witnessing a growing number of unmarried women opting to be buried in their host countries rather than repatriated to ancestral homelands. This shift unsettles inherited assumptions linking death, marriage,...
Identity and nationality develop around shared symbols, traditions and cultural practices. Chutney, as a condiment and culinary tradition, embodies South African multicultural heritage, which include narratives surrounding British settler, Indian and...
From the late 20th century into the first two decades of the 21st, diversity discourse was widespread in US culture, and diversity policies were common in many US organizations. This is in sharp contrast to how, since the early 2020s, diversity (ofte...
