In Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town (Duke UP, 2024), Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement…
2026 AJJ Annual Conference May 23-24th, 2026 Akita University Conference Theme Entanglements and Embodiments: Anthropology, Ethnography and Sensing Japan Location The conference will be held …
Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370237407_Studying_tourism_means_going_to_have_a_look_for_yourself_co-research_vu…
Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the…
https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/nb-mapping-goffman Interview by Erving Goffman’s ghost, on the assumption that he would have had opinions about this research Erving Goffman: Why, when I …
Last week, my wife Asmaa Essakouti was re-reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a class on censorship she teaches. I was reading over her shoulder and found it…
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but…
This is from the summer of 2025—attendance at two conferences, one Inter Asia Cultural Studies, the other on Islands at Jeju. A squib commentary, well organised events, notable…
By Marina de Regt – Since a month I am in Cairo as a visiting fellow at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute. I am here to finish a number of…
Published as a Guest Column in The Irrawaddy, Reading Time: 7 mins read In 1949, the newly independent Burma was said to be on the verge of collapse…
Dogwhistles and Figleaves by Jennifer Mather Saul and Safe Havens for Hate by Tamar Mitts explore how extremist rhetoric thrives online and why content moderation doesn’t effectively tackle…
from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (free download): 本書收錄 2019-2025 年發表於「衝突、正義、解殖」(CJD) 的著作，主題涵蓋以色列-巴勒斯坦戰爭、加沙的種族滅絕、巴勒斯坦的殖民結構，以及阿拉伯世界中的社會政治鬥爭歷史。 出版單位：國立陽明交通大學文化研究國際中心 全書開放下載…
Many people in China have started buying residential apartments, not to live in, but to store the ashes of deceased family members. These are called bone ash apartments.…
We look forward to seeing many of SAFN’s members at the AAA meeting in New Orleans. For those of you attending the event, we are sharing a list…
A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science. ✽ Southeast England. 400,000 years ago. A young woman squats by a river…
Paying attention to gender relations in north-eastern Gabon leads to an emphasis on ethnography's propensity to provide access to the ‘minor mode of reality’: what flaws, signs of…
In November 2023, during the first phase of the genocide in Gaza, I published a text in Allegra Lab, asking […] The post Humanitarianism Hijacked: Israel’s instrumentalization of the humanitaria…
Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare by Nora Kenworthy (MIT Press: 2024) One chilly winter day, I (the author of this review) was standing in line…
A visual anthropologist explores how divine cattle collide with urban realities in Kathmandu, revealing contradictions between ancient values and contemporary lifeways. ✽ In the haze of dawn, Kathmand…
To register, visit: https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/register/
“This exhibition was not aimed at inviting people into the Ballroom space as that’s not my responsibility, but to share some of the aesthetic tools from the culture…
In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans,…
Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their…