Critique of Anthropology
This journal deserves your support – it has always been the go-to place for anthropology as it is now. Owes much to John Gledhil and the much-missed Steve…
Author: john hutnyk
Bougainville Independence in 10 Days to shake the world…
A long time coming, it is likely that Bourgainville will be independent – and still may or may not reopen the mine that made Riotinto billions. 15k dead…
Immigration force
Some may wonder why Britain quite likes having a cheap labour force available for illicit work, yet politicians spend huge amounts of time presenting their tough on immigration…
downloads
WordPress started counting text downloads of articles in July this year. Interesting stat. So the books get quite a few 56 for Rumour of Calcutta 1996 26 for…
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities #ISSH2019
An International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways in which scholarship engages with society…
International Conference: Innovation in the Social Sciences and Humanities TDTU 2019 prime time
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ISSH2019
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contradictions of capital
How come sometimes a book is 80 quid on Amazon then three days later is 3 quid? Anyway, at last they caught up with the new one from…
Sundarbans, Climate, Tigers, Law.
Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will This forms the first part of a new research concentration for me, and…
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, saying…
From The Undercommens: Fugitive Planning and Black Study: So, as a youngster heading out to do what damage I could to the world, I inadvertently joined, as…
International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019
International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways…
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509.
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
Jadavpur University and the pecuniary investment jealousy rag (need some infrastructure surely).
I don’t have cause to say so often enough, but I consider Jadavpur a second alma mater for me (just as second breakfast is the most important meal…
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it?
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? Well, so glad you asked – I can talk for…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 Just becaus…
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural history next and was super proud…
Mother of Pearl
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some review snippets lifted from Angela’s blog:…
Marx on farming, money markets, silver to India and umbrella manufacture
The recent excerpts from Marx’s notebooks from 1866-1869 coming out in MEGA IV / 19 offer much of fabulous interest (after the revelations of IV/18). Here he is…
The Higher Learning
“even the scholars occupied with the “humanities,” are at pains to find some colourable answer that shall satisfy the worldly-wise that this learning for which they speak is…
Comparison
Cities of Entanglements: Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison. By Barbara Heer (2019 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld) and on page 282: yes, jealous…
Global Digital Cultures
Very keen to read this: Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia – 2019 By Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan Digital media histories are part of a global network, and…
Reviews of the city
Some books reviewed by Pablo Bose (and for me, good company in which to be): From The Journal of Asian Studies, 78(03), 691–696. doi:10.1017/s0021911819000937 ….
JNU & University Strikes in Delhi
“On Friday, the Congress had voted — unsuccessfully —for amendments proposed by the CPM and the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to the government’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Am…