Nara Milanich’s Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father (Harvard University Press, 2019) explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological…
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
What aspects of Natural History Museum samples contribute to the perpetuation of colonialism? And how can we conduct anti-colonial research with them?
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph…
In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but…
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…
Written by Neil Turner The study of Maroon sites is a rich and virtually untapped area that can advance our …
Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland (Routledge, 2024) explores ways in which queer families from Central and Eastern Europe complicate the mainstream picture of queer kinship…
In a reference within Trần Gia Thảo Vy’s essay on Malinowski I notice that old Bronio’s volume “The Sexual Life of Savages” (on kinship systems and beliefs, so…
January: The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hilarious – this book was nothing short of a fantastic way to launch 2024. As we transition into a new…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/uncommon-cause/paper Chip Zuckerman: Thank you, John, for engaging with me about your new book. I should start by telling readers that we went to graduate school …
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Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of democracy, moving beyond its institutional frameworks to focus on…
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in…
By Own screenshot, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26632754 I watch people on the Seoul subway playing 쿠키런 (Cookie Run) while we barrel towards Chongno. It’s the successful coloniz…
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD), September 19, 2024 – February 2, 2025 Cuts thumb and finger on a table…
I’d be hard-pressed to explain all the reasons why this text is worth your time. And indeed it might be a lot of time, since the reading of…
Note to self to transpose my ppt slides on Richard Burton into a text since he is problematic enough to take a place alongside The Victorians (Tylor, Spencer,…
By Peter Versteeg – This year, as Christmas approached, I felt a strong urge to visit a church. An advertisement in a vegan deli shop caught my eye:…
https://www.routledge.com/Mother-Tongue-Prestige-The-Sociolinguistics-of-Privilege-in-Urban-Middle-Class-Education-in-India/Chandras/p/book/9781032404554 Priya M. Dabak: This book is divided i…
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender…
Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…