Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways…
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […] The post Between Borders and Ballots appeared…
Since 2021, along with the British and Australian governments, the Canadian government has relaxed immigration policy for Hong Kong immigrants. This policy offers an unconventional path with lowered…
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness and community service. Alan Shawn Feinstein (ASF),…
Researchers refute a popular idea that black-furred squirrels behave more aggressively than gray ones—and suggest the myth stems from some people’s racist attitudes. SQUIRREL CHATTER A few years…
On Saturday of Labor Day Weekend 2020, a situation was rapidly deteriorating north of Fresno, California. Sometime around 6pm on September 5, the Creek Fire started, gained momentum,…
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More
Wednesday, 11/20: VIRTUAL3779 – Virtual Job Market and Career RoundtableTime: 12:45 PM – 2 PMThis virtual roundtable explores a range … More
Having already spent a month in Armenia, I uttered the usual “Barev Dzez ” [“hello” in Armenian] with confidence as I entered the Yandex taxi car. This magic…
https://utorontopress.com/9781487543686/moving-words/ Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader…
STEFFI SHARMA Wes Streeting MP Secretary of State for Health and Social Care 39 Victoria Street London SW1H 0EU Dear Secretary of Health and Social Care, I write…
It is an honor to write an afterword to this provocative and engaging collection of short essays and films by […] The post Afterword for Sensory Media Anthropology…
Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and…
Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world …
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) explores the interrelation between carceral conditions and substance use by considering the intersections between drug markets,…
The power of documentary to inspire action and agitate for radical change has developed alongside social struggles and mass movements for over a century. This article outlines the…
Thinking of returning to this problem of time – how everything has got more urgent, but nothing is moving at all – hyper-stagnation. From the reviews of Bad…
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Victor Alneng so appreciated the interview question style he read in ‘The Rumour of Calcutta’ he made me a t-shirt. From Vietnam, it has now returned home.
What happens when the elitist space of ‘Western’ classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions? The…
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025 at the…
Foreign policy played a minor role in the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September. The vice presidential exchange between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz…
MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN. That’s the bumper sticker on my friend’s pickup and that’s what I hope for. I like evidence and data, and I detest TV talking…
Leonardo Custódio Sometimes, when I think about multiple processes of communication in doing research, I feel as if I become […] The post Clocks appeared first on Allegra…