The National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) offers the annual Student Achievement Awards to recognize undergraduate and graduate student contributions in practicing…
In celebration of fifty years of Resident Scholars at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), we will share a …
By Ajmal Khan A.T, National Law University of India and Harvard University Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is emerging as one of the major global climate solutions. Currently,…
By Veronica Bayiha ñwa Quillien, The Language Attitude Institute Self & Climate Change As a member of the Bàsàa people of Cameroon, I have witnessed firsthand the profound…
By Cristóbal Emilfork, University of California, Davis Not only countries met at the COP. The venue also seemed to be a meeting point for diverse temporalities. As yet…
By Emma Banks, Bucknell University When I stopped by the Colombia Pavilion during week two of COP28, I was greeted by a familiar name on the speakers’ list:…
By Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Harvard Medical School, United States On a sweltering afternoon in the congested Expo City of Dubai, I entered the COP28 Visitor Center to collect my…
By Mark Ortiz, the Pennsylvania State University An image of the exterior of the Youth Hub in the COP 28 Green Zone, Dubai, UAE. Photo taken by Author.…
By Ryan Cecil Jobson, The University of Chicago In November 2023, Caribbean heads-of-state, government ministers, and environmental advisors arrived in the United Arab Emirates for the COP28 C…
By Sarah Hautzinger, Professor of Anthropology, Colorado College People from a variety of faith traditions gather at the Faith Pavilion of the United Nations climate summit COP28 for…
Dutch policy practitioners seek to cooperate with citizens in ethno-racially diverse and disadvantaged neighborhoods. How does this turn out in the face of social inequalities and societal distrust?…
INTERSECT is a research project consisting of a diverse team of scholars with a multidisciplinary approach that criticizes and questions grand theories on Islamophobia. They e…
What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Yaojun Li, a Professor of Sociology at the University of…
In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative…
The Dhufar Revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was an attempt to depose the British-backed Sultan and implement social ideals based on egalitarianism. But the revolution was suppressed by the…
Join us for an enlightening discussion on the transformation of digital news consumption with Alex, the visionary founder of Other Web. I’m Adam, your host, and in this…
Emma Kowal Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Duke University Press, 2023 264 pages, 27 illustrations, appendices, notes, references, index This book is like a …
An anthropologist follows a group of men who work in India’s rickshaw industry, revealing how their practices of masculinity and mutual aid shape their responses to intensifying flood…
In Fluke, Brian Klaas explores the phenomenon of chance, examining how seemingly random happenings and actions can profoundly shape our lives. Klaas skilfully interweaves different perspectives – from…
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and…
Nisrin Elamin is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto whose work investigates the connections between land, race, belonging, and empire-making in Sudan and the…
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the 2011 revolution and are…
Observe (verb) notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant. watch (someone or something) carefully and attentively. take note of or detect (something) in the course…
I am presently reading a chapter in the monumental Fowler Museum exhibition catalog The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of…