Book Review Essay: The Waste of the World
Writing almost 20 years ago, Nicky Gregson and her research partners claimed that “…(W)aste’s capacity as a theoretical vehicle is immense; like food it is good to think…
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Book Review Essay: The Waste of the World
Writing almost 20 years ago, Nicky Gregson and her research partners claimed that “…(W)aste’s capacity as a theoretical vehicle is immense; like food it is good to think…
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, “Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia” (Fordham UP, 2022)
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin’s New…
What It Means to be Human in an Asylum
A sociocultural anthropologist from Pakistan speaks to how women in asylums in a patriarchal culture are in a battle between their realities and their lost dreams. Yet those…
Ami Harbin, “Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity” (Oxford UP, 2023)
In Fearing Together: Ethics for Insecurity (Oxford UP, 2023), Ami Harbin explores how fearing is a central part of how we relate to each other and the unpredictable world. Fearing…
Bomb shots… what a great idea…
Photo and text from The Japan Times, 5/6/23. In between talks on security and technology, the leaders of South Korea and Japan plan to unwind over a drink.…
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Rupal Oza, “Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India” (Duke UP, 2022)
In Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India (Duke UP, 2022), Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape…
Brian Valente-Quinn, “Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa” (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Brian Valente-Quinn is an Associate Professor of Francophone African studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His book, Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa, was published at Northwestern University…
The Rumour of Calcutta update
27 22 years ago my first book was typeset and laid out in the days before electronics – well, an electric typesetting machine was plugged into a wall,…
The Kodomo no hi koinobori (carp streamers) at Ishizu Canal in Newagawa-shi
Resource: 【寝屋川市】子どもたちの健やかな成長を願って泳ぐこいのぼり。石津導水路の知られざる秘密をご紹介！[Neyagawa City Carp streamers swim to pray for the healthy growth of children. Introducing the unknown secrets of the Ishizu Canal!] htt…
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Hi all,This is a quite a bleak newsletter this week, unfortunately. In Sudan, Somalia & Afghanistan crises continue; even Mayotte, a tiny French outpost between Madagascar & Mozambique,…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, “Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality” (Oxford UP, 2023)
In her moving, sophisticated, and analytically groundbreaking new book Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality (Oxford UP, 2023), Shenila Khoja-Moolji recounts and engages…
Marx and South Asia
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies vol 1 2023…
Sahlin Biography May 2023 Update
As most of my friends and colleagues already know, the project I will take during my sabbatical in the (boreal) fall of 2023 is a biography of Marshall…
Donor Profile: The Susan L. Q. Flaherty Collection
Donor Profile: The Susan L. Q. Flaherty Collection …
Feelings of hurt and hate in post-partition South Asia: A Conversation with Neeti Nair
In the book, Hurt Sentiments, historian Neeti Nair traces a political history of secularism, one which made a virtue out of hurt in twentieth-century India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.…
Unfinished adulthood: discontinuous precarities as epistemic opportunities
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
Whose crisis is this crisis?
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
Ethnographic postcards: The Smartest Engineer
The engineers were able to overcome their differences and incorporate diverse perspectives to develop new engineering knowledge. The post Ethnographic postcards: The Smartest Engineer appeared first o…
đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
Dating Apps Can Gauge Attraction but Not Chemistry
Why do attraction and chemistry feel different in the digital age? The answer lies in how digitally mediated information is changing the way we come to know potential…
A striking comparison: on young Senegalese wrestlers and precarious scholars
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…