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- Negotiating Authenticity in the Market for Fake Followers on Social Media
  by Johan Lindquist and Esther Weltevrede
- A Pandemic of Control: Views on Restrictions and Livelihoods among Women Traders in Nairobi
  by Anders Ese, Kristin Ese, Joseph Mukeku, Benjamin Sidori and Romola Sanyal
- Announcing the 2021 Recipients of the American Slavery’s Legacy across Space and Time Grant Program
  by Inequality Initiative
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- No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
  by Pamela J. Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
- Imperial death and belonging in Alexandria, Egypt
  by Shana Minkin
- Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
  by Anne Allison
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- Introducing the African Peacebuilding Network’s and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa’s 2021 Fellows
  by African Peacebuilding Network
- Strategies for Building Inclusive Peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Reflection
  by Olivier Bahoze
- Fostering a Gendered Approach to Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region: Perspectives from the Democratic Republic of Congo
  by Trésor Makunya Muhindo
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Mysteries of transmission: Thinking in a pandemic

Pamela Klassen·

March 11, 2021

Realizing my pandemic amnesia is yet another confirmation of the interpretive power of positionality and the never-ending work of learning…

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Religion and reproductive science

Carrying risk in antiquity and the present

Anna Bonnell Freidin·

September 11, 2020

I have been struck by similarities with how Romans managed uncertainty. Using some material from my current project, this essay…

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Pandemic, religion, and public life

The political theology of corona, the virus with a crown

J. Brent Crosson·

June 11, 2020

A new sovereign—a virus with a crown—has revealed two contrasting realms of the sacred during its own state of emergency.

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