Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it…
As a year of multiple crises is coming to a close, I am a bit surprised that we have not heard more about the crisis of Think Tanks. The…
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke argues that contemporary US elites claim the language of social justice and identify with progressive causes on one hand while reinforcing…
The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia,…
The theme of this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans was “ghosts.” Never before had I seen contributors cling so tightly to the organizing theme of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
An academic’s office. A chair and a desk with a colourful scarf as table cloth. On the desk, a laptop, reading lamp, and a few books. Hanging on…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apv.12445?domain=author&token=4C3TESRPRVSEVSXAETSN Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case s…
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents. ✽ Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my…
Lara Helmke explores an obscure threat to German democracy posed by 'blood and soil' inspired groups who withdraw from the democratic system and form ethnically homo…
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of…
On World AIDS Day, I grieve all the lives of young gay men that were lost while the Reagan administration looked away. And for the Black community now,…
Page 99 of my dissertation appears in a section exploring how immunity is communicated and understood across different domains of the Korean ginseng industry. The page opens with…
Written by Sharon Kumar Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern society, revolutionizing industries, enhancing daily …
Care Poverty and Unmet Needs edited by Teppo Kroger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues and Kirstein Rummery, brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers from across the Global North to…
Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a…
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the…
We the Young Fighters: Pop Culture, Terror, and War in Sierra Leone (U Georgia Press, 2023) by Dr. Marc Sommers is at once a history of a nation, the…
I interviewed the much missed Keith Hart about a half dozen times across the last 30 or so years, each time planning to do something with it but…
Presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, durante encontro com o Curupira, mascote da COP30. Parque da Cidade – Belém (PA) Foto: Ricardo Stuckert / PR This…
Grave (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Allison C. Meier takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour…