"Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-End Coffee"
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
Inside a Marxist Takedown of High-end Coffee
Beyond Nutrition: Eating Innovation, and Cultures of Possibility from Sight and Life (2017)
GB. England. New Brighton. From ‘The Last Resort,’ 1983-85, Martin Parr. In the second interview for the series ‘The Good Life,’ Jonas Tinius and Johannes Lenhard invited anthropologi…
In the United States, like many countries, income inequality has been reaching staggering proportions. In 1980, the average pre-tax income of the top 1% was 27 times the…
After the 2008 financial crisis, the call for a more heterogeneous approach to studying and teaching economics intensified. But how can heterodoxy take up a more prominent place…
By Keith Hart There is a growing sense among the radical left in Europe and the United States which has crystallized after Brexit and Trump’s election. It is…
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
from Exeter/WHO Centre for Culture and Health: We eat for nourishment, but food is about much more than nutrition. What we eat is meaningful, and food is an…
Campaign truck for President Lungu and the ruling party, PF. Credit: Patience Mususa Part 1 of 2 – The unusual silence on a minibus in Lusaka By Patience…
–> “Orange blossom, white tea, syrupy” “Grapefruit, spicy pepper, olive oil” “Chocolate, red berries, roasted barley” The language used to talk about new high-end coffee comes straight out…
Broccoli, Anthropology, and the Humanities: Caitlin Patton discusses how the work of Ted Fischer, an anthropologist focused on food culture, specifi…
Credit: AFP By Joschka Philipps Thierno Hamidou Diallo, may he rest in peace, was fatally shot on August 16th, 2016. He is the sad victim of the anti-government…
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” Marx remarked in The Eighteenth Brumaire, and although we may all make…
Credit: 0x010C. By Keith HartThe secession of Britain from Europe by means of referendum has caused a big shock, not least in Britain itself. Various notables claim that…
Credit: Andrea Comas/ Reuters By Marta LobatoThe results of the Spanish general election on 26 June betrayed the expectations of many on the left. Pre-election polls predicted that…
Credit: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters By Simba J. Hungwe On Wednesday 6 July, while international mainstream media focused on South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence for murder, Zimbabweans engaged …
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Originally published in openDemocracy, in the openMovements series. By Keith Hart Ronald Coase won a Nobel prize in economics for inventing the idea of transaction costs in “The…
Originally published in John Bryden’s blog. The Norwegian government is proposing to liberalise the land market, effectively reforming the concession law regulating who may buy farms and at…
„Mit WLAN-Netz Shiva verbunden“.[1] Eine Reise zum Herzen der Welt. Heute hatte ich mich spontan entschlossen, in die Bibliothek zu gehen und nach einem Buch zu suchen, auf…
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
By Albert Farré I wrote chapter 4 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…