Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2-3 (2017)

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Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2-3 (2017)

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Special issue: 'What kind of witchcraft is this?’ Development, spirituality and magic

Introductory Article

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‘What kind of witchcraft is this?’ Development, magic and spiritual ontologies
Thomas Aneurin Smith, Amber Murrey & Hayley Leck
Pages: 141-156
Published online: 14 Dec 2017
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Theme A: Violence, Capitalism and Colonialism

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Decolonising the imagined geographies of ‘witchcraft’
Amber Murrey
Pages: 157-179
Published online: 19 Jun 2017
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Poisoning at the periphery: allocating responsibility across the Uganda/South Sudan borderlands
Elizabeth Storer, Ryan Joseph O’Byrne & Kyla Reid
Pages: 180-196
Published online: 02 Jun 2017
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‘La iha fiar, la iha seguransa’: the spiritual landscape and feeling secure in Timor-Leste
Bronwyn Winch
Pages: 197-210
Published online: 08 May 2017
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The dance between artefact, commodity and fetish: a case study of Brendan Fernandes’ Lost Bodies
Sharday Mosurinjohn
Pages: 211-228
Published online: 02 May 2017
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Power, predation, and postwar state formation: the public discourse of ritual child rape in Liberia
Kerrie Thornhill
Pages: 229-247
Published online: 21 Apr 2017
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Theme B: Healing and Health

Article
Opening the paths to healing: developing an integrated approach to health in Timor Leste
Lisa Palmer, Susana Barnes & Ritsuko Kakuma
Pages: 248-262
Published online: 12 Jun 2017
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Can’t pay, won’t pay: occult conflicts over neoliberal social relations in contemporary Zimbabwe
Diana Jeater & Jairos L. Mashinge Jr.
Pages: 263-278
Published online: 22 May 2017
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Oral poetry and development ideology in South Africa’s Eastern Cape
Emily McGiffin
Pages: 279-295
Published online: 28 Nov 2017
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Theme C: Climate Change and Environment

Article
The role of culture in climate adaptation: ‘the nkanyamba caused that storm’
Hayley Leck
Pages: 296-315
Published online: 04 Dec 2017
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Assemblages of forest conservation in Tanzania: gradients between chiefs, snakes, spirits and witches
Thomas Aneurin Smith & William Andindilile
Pages: 316-337
Published online: 18 Jul 2017
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Shamanic spiritual activism: alternative development in the Brazilian Itamboatá valley
Francesca Fois
Pages: 338-355
Published online: 14 Dec 2017
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Ritual revitalisation as adaptation to environmental stress: skull-blessing in Bidayuh communities of Borneo
June Mary Rubis
Pages: 356-375
Published online: 14 Dec 2017
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Mountain-bodies, experiential wisdom: the Kallawaya cosmovisión and climate change adaptation
Dylan M. Harris
Pages: 376-390
Published online: 04 Jul 2017
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From Nahua migrants to residents in Sonora, Mexico
Alex R. Castellanos Domínguez & Anne W. Johnson
Pages: 391-405
Published online: 06 Jul 2017
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