Projects and Anti-Projects
Introduction This essay is an inquiry into projects, the model of agency that projects presuppose, and the limits of that […] The post Projects and Anti-Projects appeared first…
Introduction This essay is an inquiry into projects, the model of agency that projects presuppose, and the limits of that […] The post Projects and Anti-Projects appeared first…
When I began doctoral fieldwork in 2022 in Unity Colony[1]—a low-income informal settlement (or Jhuggi Jhopdi Cluster) in south Delhi—just over a year after the pandemic’s second wave…
What lies ahead?Reimagining the world. Only that.– Arundhati Roy, Azadi On 11 November 2024, I sat in the audience at […] The post Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice:…
We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series hosted at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), co-sponsored by the National Association for the…
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
As we write this, in January 2026, there is, theoretically speaking, a ceasefire in place in Gaza. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the war, the genocide, the…
This article is the third in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network. Read the introduction…
Positioning the “anti-hero*ine” framework In this short piece, I explore Chrysanthi and Elektra, two street-level bureaucrats I encountered during my fieldwork, who used […] The p…
Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment, near the White House, Washington, D.C. Photo Source: https://commons.wikim…
Vera Egbers, Christa Kamleithner, Özge Sezer and Alexandra Skedzuhn-Safir. 2024. Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter […] The post Archit…
Introduction: Morality and power in humanitarian honors The arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Europe nearly a […] The post In the grey zone of…
Dairy Creek sign In the past 2 years, I have worked on signage projects in the Portland area for agencies of the city or state. In 2025, I…
Timepass: having sat four days under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya and watched in procession: – an ant struggling to go the wrong way as hundreds of devotees…
https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T/The-Evidence-Is-Life2 Timothy Loh: I love the framework of pilgrimage/peregrinación that you foreground in this book, drawing upon your interlocutors’ use…
The Nenets word for white cotton grass, livăr” refers to this beautiful, abundant white plant that grows throughout the Nenets tundra. This plant is treasured by both the…
Welcome back to a new year!Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in…
Maren Larsen‘s Worlding Home is a study of UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life. Larsen…
This thematic thread considers the figure of the anti-hero/anti-heroine and the lens of anti-heroism, and proposes a heuristic reformulation, the […] The post Anti-hero*ines of international soc…
“What happened to the women who fought for the revolution?” This question has frequently come up when I have been […] The post Anti-hero*ines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives…
By Igor Von Rosenberg – At the start of 2025, I came to Fiambalá to study how the local population of this small town of approximately five thousand…
Solidarity as practice, not posture
See also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649373.2024.2293553 Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint Bardot with Marst…