"It’s just a joke": Why We Need to Pay Attention to Far-Right Humour
There is a growing industry of far-right comedy. What role does humour play in the mainstreaming and normalisation of the far right?
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E. Gabriel Dattatreyan on his book, The Globally Familiar
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-globally-familiar Eléonore Rimbault: Much of the energy of The Globally Familiar derives from your candid and involved focus on the young b-boys and rappers …
Rita Kesselring, “Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seeks to understand the embodied and everyday effects of…
My 2023 Reading List
2023 was, iirc, the second year I’ve set the goal of reading a book a week — and this year I managed to do it again! It was…
Settler, Settler Colonialism, and the Indigenous
As bombs descend on Gaza and the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) slowly infiltrates the urban spaces of Gaza protesters around the world have taken to the streets. Pro-Israeli…
Jayaseelan Raj, “Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt” (UCL Press, 2022)
What does the collapse of India’s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of…
Matthew O. Jackson, “The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors” (Vintage, 2019)
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson, a professor at Stanford University, has studied…
2024: A Look Ahead
New Year’s festivities inevitably include reviews of the year that’s …
From Chaos to Clarity: How to Challenge Misinformation with James Mawhinney
What are the consequences of misinformation on personal relationships, business operations, and regulatory decisions? And how does the spread of misinformation pose an existential threat to society as…
Putting British social medicine in conversation with Black feminist health science studies: considerations for racial health disparities
Introduction At present, we are living through several major, arguably foreseen, historical events and political shifts. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised and further fragmented …
Why Shoes Do Not Make the Runner
East African runners wearing “super shoes” have outpaced global marathon records. But the shoe fervor—alongside older stereotypes about African runners’ “natural” abilities—means athletes’ hard work o…
120 A Roundup Conversation About Indian and Israeli Ethnonationalism
Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on our Violent Majorities conversations about Indian (episode 1) and Israeli (episode 2) ethnonationalism. The three friends discuss…
Women of Indology?
Caroline Michaelis, Böhmer, Schlegel, Schelling. Just leaving this here to look for later – seems there is more to the story of the founding of Indology… “Schlegel, Carolin…
An Interest in the Backside of Things
All our lives society has been represented to us as a hierarchy or pyramid in which the rich are located at the top, the middle class sits underneath…
Being LGBTQ+ in U.S. Protestant Churches
As homophobic and transphobic rhetoric sweeps the U.S., some churches are increasingly welcoming LGBTQ+ parishioners who participate in religious life and help reconcile Christianity with a spectrum o…
William G. Pooley, “Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914” (Oxford UP, 2019)
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were…
Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
To cite this article: John Hutnyk (2023): Robinson Crusoe: After the island, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2244204 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449…
Gabriel Abend, “Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science” (Princeton UP, 2023)
How social scientists’ disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do research on a variety of topics–gender,…
Matthew Gutmann, “Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short” (Basic Books, 2019)
In Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short (Basic Books, 2019), Matthew Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as violent and sex driven becomes a…
Chris S. Duvall, “The African Roots of Marijuana” (Duke UP, 2019)
There’s so much discussion in the contemporary United States about marijuana. Debates focus on legalization and medicalization. Usually, Reefer Madness, Harry Anslinger, and race are brought into the…
Now I am 23
I believe my first website was created in 1994 or 1995. This blog has now been running for 23 years as of 1 January 2024. One the years…
Nothing easy about this one
I’m sitting in a semi-dark room, the electricity has just cut out, and there’s a slight chill in the air. I love being in MohenjoDaro (Sindh, Pakistan) in…
Black Japanese: the African Diaspora in Japan
Written by Neil Turner Almost three decades ago, while at graduate school in California studying anthropology, I had a colleague …