Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite…
Margaret Rex, University of Buffalo In the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere. The tamest of these theories assert that FEMA is…
Podcast with Clémence Schantz, sociologist and midwife, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196, in discussion with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral…
By Fred Wojnarowski, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, LSE. At COP28, water was everywhere. COP28 was based on the first UN Water Conference in March, which…
Extensively based on fieldwork material, From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sādhus’ Understanding of Embodied Practices (Equinox, 2024) primarily analyses embodied practices of ascetics belonging to four religious orders historically associated…
Sanne Krogh Groth Fragility of voltage Needless to say, electronic music has something to do with electricity. As a genre, […] The post Electricity appeared first on Allegra…
“Have thousand bolts of lightening struck the city? No, not from the sky-from the caverns of hell have come thousands of monsters! Mad, hungry from ages and aeons…
Humanitarian action is marked by a striking disjunction between the universalising humanist vocabulary that undergirds its ethical commitments, and the taxonomies of racialised difference that govern …
Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality. ✽ In…
Niina Oisalo Weather, diary of the body Meri Kytö Weather walking In Venice, there is a habit of “andar sconte” […] The post Weather appeared first on Allegra…
Remains in France found by archaeologists and geneticists suggest at least two lineages—not just one—of late Neanderthals in Europe. This article was originally published at The Conversation and…
Mónica Degen The Reciprocity of Touch Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […] The post Skin appeared first on Allegra…
Publishing is confusing and complicated. There are often barriers to understanding it fully. And the process is very rarely fully transparent. So, I’m sharing my experiences of the…
When offered the chance to take the page 99 test, I imagined that page 99 of mydissertation would have little to do with its core purpose—using anthropology as…
TEONÉ BURRIDGE Sir Chris Bryant House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Sir Chris Bryant, I am writing to you, the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on…
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation in Rural China (Anu Press, 2023) provides an original and powerfully intimate bottom-up perspective on China’s recent tumultuous history. Drawing on ethnographic and life-history…
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Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China (MIT Press, 2021) by Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright digs deep into the paradoxes, ambivalences, and wide range of emotions and strategies people…
By Anja Hofer – Bojan sits opposite me, playing nervously with his water bottle when he tells me: “Our son, Krastio, was in a bilingual daycare but he…
Christof Lammer’s fine-grained ethnography describes the complexity of political processes in an eco-village in Sichuan. The usual pigeonholing of the Chinese state does not work here. An exciti…
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This is Gaza – a place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now utterly devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless…
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Richard Rorty once remarked that in times of uncertainties and profound transformations, there is a tendency to turn to philosophy […] The post On the Grievability of Palestinian…