Finding Our Way Forward—by Remembering
In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror…
In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror…
Burnout. The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024) Hannah Proctor’s Burnout is not about how tiredness arises from the daily grind. Instead, “burnout” is…
In A Vital Frontier, Andrea Muehlebach considers how the neoliberal financialisation of water as a public utility has sparked citizen-led resistance across Europe. Sharing ethnographic insights into a…
. Against descriptive abstracto-clerical abstentionism. Down with soft-time precario-sectionalcellerationism. Neverforget hard-core solidarnozprojectovognoscism. Exotico-vanguardianist…
Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with…
KRÖNIKA. En civilisation byggs inte bara med institutioner, grundlagar, marmor och stål, utan i lika hög grad med respekt, visdom, lyhördhet och kärlek. Och den behöver en vision…
KRÖNIKA. En civilisation byggs inte bara med institutioner, grundlagar, marmor och stål, utan i lika hög grad med respekt, visdom, lyhördhet och kärlek. Och den behöver en vision…
Educators and students critical of Israel’s war on Gaza face censorship, harassment, and dismissal. An anthropologist who researches coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians argues such critics n…
Big Day – happy birthday Theodor Adorno.… and the tragedy of architecture that leads to warmongering warbucks… The algebra of need: = the culture industry + tourist rubbern…
Why do people go to college? In Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility (U Chicago Press, 2024), Melissa Osborne, an associate professor at Western Washington University, explores the experiences of students…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves discuss their new book, Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite. Drawing on years of…
I started to code the mixed metaphors in the first page of Critique of Exotica (because I do this for other texts and it helps understand them) but…
Outside Budapest – mood. One day I will make a list of things to do (that isn’t just a contrawise procrastination). Is it weird that no-one reads novels…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
When I took on this challenge, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would happen to contain some brilliant insight of mine, or at least some…
After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the echidna’s message through the storied lens of the people…
When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora (U Chicago Press, 2024), Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the…
From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatrists come to understand the workings of the mind –…
… Skillset work needed. Cadre who can scuba dive so as to cut the fibre optic cables providing internet to elite islands; Cadre who can reprogram delivery drones…
. He (I once) swam ashore amidst waves and debris under a typhoon sky. The tops of the waves were blown back against themselves, progress was near impossible,…
Professor David Zeitlyn’s book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return…
William Walter, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani’s Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion stands as a uniquely articulated […] The post The Materialities of Human Mobili…
. It is now all the more necessary to make anti-war a credo with results. Would you defend the saboteurs of attack aircraft, the sugar in the tank’s…
by Aleeha Ali – It is said that when Hussain’s infant son Ali Asghar was pierced with an arrow bigger than his frame, his neck gushed pools of…