This ethnographic study examines how amateur football empowers women in Argentina and Brazil. Despite historical exclusion, participation helps women challenge gender norms, build confidence, and form supportive communities. Football becomes a pathway to broader social empowerment, offering insights for policies promoting gender equality through increased access to sport.

This research examines football chanting in France beyond censorship, focusing on sound, rhythm, and social connection. Using ethnographic fieldwork and the concept of antiphony, it shows how chanting’s musical structure can reshape relationships, arguing for a reparative approach that engages with fan culture to enable social change.

This research examines the cultural practice of burying umbilical cords in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, a region shaped by conflict and ecological crisis. Unlike Western views that treat the cord as waste, local traditions see land as a living repository of memory and identity, reframing human–land relationships as reciprocal and deeply interconnected.