Researching Street-level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions (Routledge, 2024) is the first among a number of new titles in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods that we’ll be featuring on New Books…
Disaster Nationalism by Richard Seymour examines the rise of contemporary far-right movements, which he describes as neoliberalism that has been radicalised along ethno-nationalist and protectionist l…
Just a month ahead of the Dutch elections, Léonie de Jonge and Iris B. Segers raise concerns about the growing normalization of extreme-…
Orthodox Choreographies: Boundaries, Borders and Materiality in Jerusalem’s Old City (Gorgias Press, 2024) offers a comprehensive anthropological study of lived Christianity in Jerusalem’s Old City, with a special focus on…
I am an Indigenous woman from Karipuna people and an anthropologist living in Belém, one of the largest cities in the Brazilian Amazon in the state of Pará.…
“Multimodal anthropology gives a name to something that many of us have actually been doing for long, but maybe as side projects”, says Christine Moderbacher, soon new Professor…
Louana Meloche, Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada The conclusion of The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP29) offered a painful but important moment for…
Julian Baggini. How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Pegasus Books. New York. 2025. ISBN: 978-1-63936-819-8. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) What does a philosopher …
https://www.dukeupress.edu/beautiful-mystery Josh Reno: I just finished your book a week ago, and I feel like it is still happening to me. It is so good at exploring anxious,…
SAFN is honored to recognize Lucas E.A. Prates with the 2025 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right award for his ongoing research in Brazil’s Amazon. This annual…
Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led […] The post Colonizing…
The Unforgotten Women of the Islamic State (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Gina Vale explores the governance of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization through the lives and…
by Yvonne Zoethout – In Friesland, she is widely known. But, depending on who is asking, the question can cut deep: “Wêr komsto wei?” (“Where do you come…
In Ordinary Rebels: Rank-And-File Militants Between War and Peace (Oxford University Press, 2025), Kolby Hanson argues that these periods of state toleration do not simply change armed groups’ behavior, but…
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This forum has shed light on vastly different but interrelated contexts of Palestine solidarity. The essays draw attention to the interplay of shifting solidarities with Palestine and the…
With this video essay, we strive to establish a dialogue—both literal and symbolic—between flows that pour into what floods us entirely: ongoing and past genocides. Water like language,…
One question has been haunting me since the current wave of repression of pro-Palestinian speech began in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the genocidal campaign-disguised-as-reprisal…
Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online …
written after a research visit to the Linen Hall Library with a team of researchers to examine Northern Irish civil rights activist records
Book Launch reading and discussion video (bilingual: English – Tieng Viet – nearly 2 hours).
It’s important to show occasional signs of life on a personal blog. It’s been nearly two years since my last post, and a lot has happened since then,…
“I don’t think I could ever be convinced to use an iPad as a replacement,” said Elisabeth Dorion [1], a songwriter, composer, and musician based in Toronto, in…
Words and worlds Guest post by Sophie ChaoUniversity of Sydney We inhabit an age of ecological unmaking, wherein intensifying anthropogenic activity is undermining possibilities…