Stefan Voicu: Huffing and Puffing with a Marxist Anthropologist
This text is not about the huffing and puffing you would expect. Although Don Kalb is Dutch, his new book, Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist…
This text is not about the huffing and puffing you would expect. Although Don Kalb is Dutch, his new book, Value and Worthlessness: The Rise of the Populist…
In Value and Worthlessness, Kalb has set out to do something that nobody has attempted to do since the 1970s. He develops a programmatic line of Marxist research…
The term “commod bod” is used with humor and affection. It also offers a critical way to describe bodies shaped by long-term reliance on U.S. federal commodity food…
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Children’s Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya by Elizabeth Ngutuku is a theoretically and historically grounded ethnography of childhood deprivation in Siaya, Kenya. The book…
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Laura Kihlström discusses the objectives of the healthcare reform in Finland in relation to the lived experiences of healthcare service users. The post Antropodi: Shifting healthcare landscapes and…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
“What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?” asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship The Unruly Dead: Spirits,…
In Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education (Columbia UP, 2020), sociologist Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of a new wave of…
Over the past decade, Pakistan has been steadily expanding its digital security, policing, and surveillance architecture, which is sensorially and materially altering how security is experienced and e…
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…
What should we do today? How would you write Data Borders differently today? But what can I do? People often ask me these questions when I present my…
Records of the Mountain Molalla are very limited. Besides a few records of the tribe living around Pleasant Hill, at Lost Valley, there is nearly nothing known of…
In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and […] The post Return appeared first on Allegra…
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9781800413023/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOor53v9eMQDN9re1MILUy8hPJyJvYq9n7U15EyYlBPpCm-HAunkK Khoi Nguyen: As you state in your introduction, you…
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible. The post Rooms That Refuse to…
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence. The post “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the…
My conversation with Nico Slate began with him reflecting on his own path into the study of historical connections between South Asia and the United States. We then…
By Steven Dashiell Tabletop role playing games (TRPGs) have been around for over a half century but have experienced something of a renaissance in the twenty-first century, with…
Portrait of President Ho Chi Minh by Vu Cao Dam 1946 – Original in plaster or terracotta, cast in Bronze by his daughter.
How Sanctions Work by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez explores how Iran has managed to endure decades of economic warfare. Taking a mixed methods…