ABSTRACT This paper examines the emotional experiences of individuals supporting refugees in South Australia, focusing on how anger fuels acts of resistance. Drawing on ethnographic data from 44 supporters aged 23-90, it argues that this work is deeply emotional, with anger becoming a politically significant feeling. Adopting an anthropological lens, the study views anger as a multifaceted emotion, extending beyond prescriptive definitions to include frustration and moral outrage. This anger, aimed at fairness and justice, evolves into a persistent ‘state of being,’ motivating action against immigration policies. The paper explores how moral outrage empowers constructive responses to injustice, even as supporter resistance has evolved from collective actions to individual, informal, and covert ‘everyday resistance.’ Despite weakened political power, in South Australia, refugee supporters remain a force of moral clarity and social justice, demonstrating that resistance, no matter how subtle, is a step toward a more compassionate and inclusive future.

ABSTRACT Through an ethnographic study of the process of health and illness in Candomblé, this study contributes to thinking health in relational terms, through the multiple relations, interactions and affects among more-than-human beings. I move towards a posthumanist perspective on health, that decentres the human, as well as groundbreaking studies like Sarah Elton’s on plants as health-supporting actors, in which she proposes the term ‘relational health’ to describe how health is produced through relationships and interdependencies. Candomblé offers an interesting framework for analysing how more-than-human beings entangle in the process of health and illness because its ontology implies relationality, incompleteness, translation, affect, mutual in-becomings, participation in the flows of life and materials, and porosity of ontological borders of more-than-human beings.

ABSTRACT This article examines how different forms of ethnic comedy are used by Italian male descendants as a means of celebrating their nonnas (grandmothers). The amusement arises from the clash of nonnas’ customs in foreign soil where they appear awkward while having been relevant in transmitting cultural heritage. The focus on nonnas’ ways can be seen as generational celebrations put forward by male descendants where parodies are means to show women’s strength. This article focuses on how the generational and gender relationship between Nonna and son/grandson is used as unlimited re-presentations (replicable and reproducible) of gratitude while expressing respect and admiration for how Italian women navigated their experiences as migrants in a challenging environment. While being ‘fodder for comedy’, the relationships between old nonnas and young grandsons are vehicles to reaffirm the central role of women expressed through the warmth of different eras’ ways of looking after each other.

ABSTRACT This paper explores human-nonhuman relations, and role played by emotions in them. Using ethnographic research among mushroom growers and pickers, both local Israelis and immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU), the paper explores cultural interpretations and practices among mushroom growers and pickers in Israel, aiming to contribute to our understanding of human-mushroom relations, as well as human-nonhuman relations in general. The findings suggest that mushrooms are a focus of emotional intensity, inviting us to trace the range of emotions evoked by mushrooms in humans, which we will explain using the term ‘mushroom fever’. These emotions, as shown in the paper, emerge from different knowledge patterns, the types of practices used by the participants and their socialisation processes.

ABSTRACT Shariah compliance is a cornerstone of Islamic finance, ensuring financial practices adhere to Islamic principles. Governance systems vary across countries and are broadly categorised as centralised or decentralised. In Kuwait, where no central authority existed, religious interpretations of sukuk (Islamic bonds) were once uniformly formed and transformed. This study examines the mechanisms behind this unique phenomenon through interviews with the actors involved. It highlights the role of the Shariah board of Kuwait Finance House (KFH), the oldest Islamic bank, which became regarded as an authoritative reference even by other Shariah scholars, who themselves are equally legitimate interpreters of Shariah. Public acts of piety by KFH’s founders, rooted in an Islamist ethos, legitimised this authority during the rise of Islamist politics in Kuwait. Illustrating a trajectory of recognition among professional peers, this study calls for a broader understanding of emerging Islamic authority beyond the conventional top-down or bottom-up frameworks.

ABSTRACT Based on two contrasting understandings of a protected area in the Peruvian Amazon, this article explores the parallels and disconnections between Indigenous and state conceptions of what environmental sustainability looks like and who bears ultimate responsibility for achieving it. Based on long-term fieldwork and recent interviews in south-eastern Peru, the article first explores the contemporary Peruvian state’s drive to divest itself of the responsibility and cost of environmental protection by shifting the burden onto local communities. This is then contrasted with local Indigenous perspectives that seek to draw representatives of the state into relations of enduring conviviality that implicitly place the responsibility for achieving the desired future on the state. While exploring the apparent incongruity between these two approaches the article shows how the current status quo of intermittent but recurring capacity development events works in the interests of all local parties in ensuring the continuing flow of outside support.

ABSTRACT This article examines how foreign-born television personalities in South Korea navigate contradictory demands to simultaneously assimilate to Korean cultural norms while appearing as cultural outsiders. Drawing on interviews with reality-television ‘ordinary celebrities,’ we analyse them as ‘identity entrepreneurs,’ who strategically leverage their ‘foreigner’ (oegugin) identity, and as ‘middling migrants,’ whose transmigration experience comprises both privilege and precarity. While ostensibly appearing as their real selves, oegugin celebrities, we show, are directed to confirm and perpetuate Korean stereotypes about non-Koreans and their native countries. We argue that their media success hinges on acting as Koreanized ‘foreigners’ – nationalistically identifying with their countries of origin and delivering culturally competent performances of selective cultural incompetence that fascinates Korean audiences without challenging them. This research bridges anthropology of transnationalism with studies of reality television, illuminating the dynamics of cultural difference, belonging, and middling migration in globalising East Asia.

ABSTRACT This article examines vigilante security governance in the Nigerian city of Jos. Focusing on the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN) and Neighbourhood Watch, I explore how vigilantes in Jos have reproduced and enhanced their authority by positioning themselves as potential victims of violence perpetrated by criminal gangs. In order to understand how vigilantes cultivate their authority in the city, I propose the notion of hemato-politics (politics of blood). Hemato-politics is the strategic deployment of human blood as a biomaterial medium of exchange that enables vigilantes to trade hematic self-sacrifice for power and authority over their local communities. Hemato-politics is partly performed through the distribution and circulation of images of wounded bleeding bodies, which serve as a spectacular and persuasive visual technique that attracts sympathy and solidarity from communities. Vigilantes’ authority is thus inextricably linked to their relationship with their communities, as mediated by an aesthetic of corporeality and visuality.