I’m an Assistant Professor in the Sociology & Anthropology Department at Simon Fraser University and I received my PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Resear…
An anthropologist reports on the impediments to labor organizing—and why it’s still worth trying. ✽ In the notoriously anti-union U.S. South, a Volkswagen plant unionized. After months of…
Every day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently waiting to present their matters to one of…
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? Michel de Certeau argued that agency comes in different shapes and sizes, according…
In many ways Peter Sutoris’ Visions of Development: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress, 1948-75 is one of the most interesting historical case studies on…