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    Speaking for nature? Irreduction and demo-genesis in Bruno Latour
    (2026) Coelho, J. V.
    This article examines what it means to speak for nature in the Anthropocene, a moment in which the Earth's agencies increasingly reshape political, epistemic, and institutional arrangements. The Anthropocene is approached as a challenge to inherited modes of representation, raising questions about how beings whose agencies circulate across heterogeneous networks become encounterable, articulable, and capable of participating in collective life. The article brings Bruno Latour's principle of irreduction into dialogue with his demogenetic proposal, a term used to designate a new process of engendering peoples through which heterogeneous beings are composed and granted a voice in common affairs. The analysis develops through an interplay of philosophical, anthropological, and geoliterary materials. Latour's reworking of Gaia provides a conceptual framework for engaging these intersections, presenting the Earth as a constellation of actants whose reactions and demands exceed the categories of nature, object, or environment. Through this lens, the article examines the shifting conditions under which beings become perceptible and representable within shared processes of world-making. The article concludes by outlining the conceptual, institutional, and situated arrangements through which nature may appear as a participant in collective life. Rather than seeking unified voices or stable representational forms, it highlights the practices and procedures that sustain encounters with heterogeneous agencies, contributing to ongoing debates in the environmental humanities and critical social sciences on agency, representation and the composition of collectives.
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    Introduction: Heritage and religion in South Asia and its diasporas
    (2026) Lazzaretti, V.; Mapril, J.; Lourenço, I.
    This thematic section, emerging from a June 2023 international workshop at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, investigates the frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations of heritage and religion across global South Asia. Drawing on ethnographic research in South Asia and its often-overlooked diasporas in China, Mozambique, Portugal and Italy, the contributions explore how heritage and religious practices and spaces are mobilized, contested and reshaped in everyday life, public spaces, and transnational networks. The collection introduces fresh analytical categories, developed either from the perspectives of local actors or through grounded ethnographic observation, highlighting tensions, adaptations and contrasting uses of heritage and religion. Case studies span Sarnath and Golconda in India, Lahore and Chattogram in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Janakpurdham in Nepal, as well as diasporic sites in Mozambique, China, and Southern Italy—demonstrating how heritage and religion act as both social mediators and arenas of negotiation, belonging and identity. Together, the thematic section underscores the value of ethnography for capturing the messy and productive interactions between religion and heritage in global South Asia, revealing nuances that are often overlooked in Eurocentric, policy-focused or monument-centered analyses.
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    Child trafficking in Serbia: Professional's perspectives, experiences, and challenges
    (2026-06-08) Ventanilla , Vilma Mae Villacorta; Pena, Maria João
    In Serbia, children account for nearly half of all identified trafficking victims in recent years, a figure that significantly exceeds both European and global averages (CPTV, 2023; 2024; ASTRA et al., 2024; EUROSTAT, 2025; UNODC, 2024). While the country has formal anti-trafficking structures in place, including a multidisciplinary team (MDT) framework and a national referral mechanism, coordination among responsible institutions remains inconsistent and child-specific services are largely absent (GRETA, 2023; ASTRA et al., 2024; U.S. Department of State, 2025). Existing research relies primarily on institutional statistics and policy reports (CPTV, 2021-2025; GRETA, 2023; U.S. Department of State, 2025), and how frontline professionals actually experience this work remains poorly understood. This qualitative study examines the perspectives and experiences of ten professionals involved in Serbia's child anti-trafficking response, including MDT members, NGO workers, child protection specialists, and anti-trafficking coordinators. Using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis guided by Braun and Clarke's (2006) framework, the study explores how professionals perceive current trafficking trends and vulnerabilities, how they navigate cross-institutional coordination, how they apply child rights-based principles in daily practice, and what challenges they encounter across ecological levels. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (1979, 1986), the Child Rights-Based Approach (UNICEF, 2018; UNCRC, 1989), and the principles of multidisciplinary collaboration (ILO, 2006), the findings show that professionals understand child trafficking not as an isolated event, but as a process shaped by interacting factors at the individual, family, community, institutional, and systemic levels. Identification remains one of the most fragile stages in the response, and child rights-based practice functions more as a personal professional orientation than a consistently implemented standard. Serbia's MDT is widely seen as essential, yet its functioning is frequently undermined by unclear roles, limited resources, staff turnover, inconsistent coordination, and heavy reliance on NGOs to fill gaps left by the state (GRETA, 2023; ASTRA et al., 2024; U.S. Department of State, 2025). A theme that emerged across interviews was the range of professional strengths and capacities that allow frontline workers to sustain quality responses despite structural constraints, including accountability to children, adaptivity, holistic thinking, and a strengths-based orientation toward the children they work with. Participants' recommendations consistently pointed to the need for MDT strengthening, decentralisation of local teams, specialised child-specific services, stable state funding, and legal reform backed by real accountability. The study concludes that protecting children from trafficking in Serbia requires more than formal structures on paper. It calls for responses that are preventive, child-centred, adequately resourced, and genuinely accountable, where children are approached not merely as victims, but as rights-holders whose dignity, safety, and recovery matter in practice (UNICEF, 2018; UNCRC, 1989).