In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (Rutgers University Press, 2023) relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages…
The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security…
The screen is dark, the music sombre. There are sounds of muffled voices and explosions. The dark screen breaks to reveal blue skies as the words “2011: A…
Marielys Padua Soto originally posted a list of “10 things you should know” in a post on LinkedIn and she kindly expanded the list and allowed me to…
In my new book, The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry (University of Chicago Press, 2022) I study the work of repair and maintenance necessary…
Graham M. Jones Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy University of Chicago Press, 2017 240 pp., 25 halftones, notes, bibl., index Editor’s note: This essay was origin…
On April 9 the Middle East historian Jere Bacharach, emeritus professor at the University of Washington, passed away. He was an amazing individual, great scholar and friend. He…
Photo and text from the Asahi Shimbun, 4/16/23. Thanks to L.D. for forwarding it to me. Eleven men were injured, three seriously, when a “danjiri” float toppled over…
Interview with Robyn Taylor-Neu https://www.routledge.com/Dragging-Or-in-the-Drag-of-a-Queer-Life/McGlotten/p/book/9780367439521 Robyn Taylor-Neu: It’s conventional (for this blog ser…
Chimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but this plan proved hardly feasible with his low…
On Unsustainable Refugee Livelihoods and the Politics of Time in Humanitarian Governance. Estella Carpi with Amina al-Halabi[1] In this short article, in an attempt to question the politics…
A Ghanian American poet-anthropologist crafts her own African diasporic and Indigenous identity through weaving herself into a famous story of African resistance and survival. “A Birth and a…
Avatar 2 seems like its channeling every Hollywood Vietnam War fantasy ever – what is up with that? Western cowboy military in the delta and includes an apocalypse…
Mark – A Call to Action (Trailer) FINAL from Anchor Media Group on Vimeo. Source: https://vimeo.com/815400131?fbclid=IwAR3QXITgvcS_FgUybR3IHJ5ktQJFuvXVz35nkHbSmKARrC7YiCFpAd3X25A
Photo and text from PR Times, 4/15/23. The certified NPO Good Aging Yells has been working with world-famous photographer Leslie Kee since 2015 with the aim of positively…
Gender in Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) examines how gender norms are constructed and contested in a region the book describes as ‘a fertile place for analysing gender differences that…
On March 1st 2023, an impromptu protest rally took place outside the headquarters of Greece’s only railway company, Hellenic Trains (HT). HT is the passenger carrier of the…
Hi all,As many Easter breaks are wrapping up, I’m happy to share the usual eclectic mix of food for thought, discussion & re-discovery – from the Peace Studies…
This is was a tako yaki shop that was open for 23 years. The owner turned 80 and seemed to be having health problems. I went there a…
Freddy Foks’s Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain (U California Press, 2023) is a novel new history of the role of social anthropology in…
In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the…
Cinegogía is an open-access website devoted to the teaching and study of Latin American cinemas. Bridget Franco, an associate professor of Spanish at College of the Holy Cross, founded…
Alf Hornborg: Vår kollektiva rörelse mot katastrof är i sista hand inte en konsekvens av hur ekonomer tänker utan av hur de pengar är utformade som formar deras…