New Middle East, Same Old Story
There are far too many wars, not-wars and rumors of wars today. My commentary on the war-torn-apart Middle East was published today on Juan Cole’s Informed Comment site:…
There are far too many wars, not-wars and rumors of wars today. My commentary on the war-torn-apart Middle East was published today on Juan Cole’s Informed Comment site:…
In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds…
2008. “Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies.” In, Cultural Politics in a Global Age (112–119). Oxford: One World. Was never really satisfied that I had understood Heidegger in…
In Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke UP, 2026), the cultural anthropologist Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou’s fast…
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Time leaves traces—on institutions, on disciplines, on the stories we inherit and the futures we imagine. As UCL marks its 200th year, we find ourselves invited into a…
One of the most troubling features of Trump-era politics is not simply nationalism, authoritarian style, or contempt for institutions. It is the extent to which large parts of…
I do not have all of it in a nice neat single package – there should be 9 hours of love (what I do have is 9 hours…
The German International Ethnographic Film Festival will take place between 13.5. – 17.5.2026 in Alte Mensa, Göttingen, Germany. The event is also a meeting point of young students…
Annoucement forwarded from H-Japan in the H-Net Commons: The final talk in the CIEE Kyoto Seminar Series this Spring, on Friday, April 3, 2026 by Benjamin Dorman (Senior…
By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28th of November 2025. As we approach the ritual site, the waxing gibbous moon casts a faint reflection of…
1. Biopolitical Fieldwork By the end of 2023, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 public health emergency to be over. With this announcement came the realisation that,…
In my post earlier this week I addressed cost of dismissing women’s health conditions. But it’s not just about costs – medical gaslighting and systemic racism is incredibly…
In today’s digital age, online harassment has become more common, and researchers are no exception. This particularly affects those who work on politicized or contested topics…
In The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty (Duke UP, 2025), Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian beauty parlors in Bangalore. Exploring the gendered world of…
Most employers in the United States routinely conduct criminal background checks on job applicants, weeding out those with criminal convictions—and thus denying opportunities to those who need them…
The Cultural Competence Collective welcomes Marika Duczynski onto the podcast to discuss cultural competence, decolonial practices, and community-led curation. Marika is a Gamilaraay and Mandandanji writer and curator and…
What do transitional justice aspirations look like a year after the downfall of the Assad regime for Syrians in the country? What can transitional justice mean for a…
27 March 2026 Priyanjali Mitra I initially intended to study the working lives of migrant workers in a city I grew up in and thought I knew. What…
Reading early descriptions of the Tualatin Valley, they are all focused on the valley’s potential in agriculture. This theme is similar throughout the Willamette Valley, settlers and farmers…
This week my posts will address some of the ways that medical gaslighting and dismissal of women is both expensive and dangerous. Women in the U.S. spend $15B…
One might intuitively assume that the Syrian Sunni ulama (religious scholars) would valorize periods emblematic of Islam’s bygone grandeur, such as the Umayyad or Ottoman empires. In practice,…