Living Water and the politics and anti-politics of water in Jordan (Part 1)
We are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize the truth of this…
Author: Geoffrey Hughes
#Report: Envy and Greed: A Political Economy of Accusation and Critique
On the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how accusations of envy and…
The Emergence of “Divorce Before Consummation” as a Legal Category in Jordanian Sharia Courts #fictions
Today’s inquiry into the nature of legal fictions takes us to Jordan’s government-run Sharia courts, where the concept of “divorce before consummation” (ṭalāq qabl al-dakhūl) has become something…