Derek Hall: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Response to David Harvey
David Harvey’s February 25 FocaalBlog post is presented as “An Interim Report” on “Recent Events in the Ukraine”. Harvey’s essay effectively covers some of the core forces that…
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Mark Sicoli on his book, Saying and Doing in Zapotec
Interview by Grace East https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/saying-and-doing-in-zapotec-9781350142169/ Grace East: Your book takes us on an immersive journey through the complex and varied social…
Andrea Flores, “The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America” (UC Press, 2021)
Dr. Andrea Flores’ most recent book, The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (University of California Press, 2021), is a detailed account of…
Aminta Arrington, “Songs of the Lisu Hills: Practicing Christianity in Southwest China” (PSU Press, 2020)
The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. The…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
The Weight of History: Doing Fieldwork as an Ethnic Chinese Researcher
I have been asked about my research in China as a researcher from Taiwan by my colleagues in the US. One of them commented: “It’s not common for…
Book List – February
Over the last 365 days, I read 40+ books. Among them, some are selected my recommended book list for people who are keen on learning…
Javelinas and Texas Ebony Trees in South Texas
Texas Ebony trees (Ebenopsis ebano) is a species of legume native to South Texas. These trees produce large bean pods (see below) that ripen and fall to the…
Review: Nomadic Food
Isabelle Bianquis and Jean-Pierre Williot, eds. Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies Around the World. Rowman and Littlefield. London. 2019. pp.272. ISBN 978-1-5381-5. Rich…
David Harvey: Remarks on Recent Events in the Ukraine: An Interim Statement
Image 1: Young girl protesting the war in Ukraine, photo by Matti. David Harvey prepared this text for the 2022 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. We publish…
Book Review: Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis
In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful…
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Hi all, This week’s #globaldev review has turned into an outlet for me to avoid more doomscrolling, cope with feelings of helplessness as war unfolds in Europe &…
Fighting for injection in Paris by Johannes Lenhard
Figure 1: Non-safe-injection site behind Paris’ Gare du Nord, February 2016 (all photos by author). The first time I ever saw a person shooting up was right behind…
Book Review: White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s ‘An American Dilemma’ and the Making of a White World Order by Maribel Morey
In White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’s An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order, Maribel Morey explores the story behind the production of the influential study on US…
Writing Life No. 17: An Interview with Stacy Leigh Pigg by Stacy Leigh Pigg
Image 1: The desk where Stacy writes when she is actually at a desk. Have you ever taken a walk inside your article? Can you conceive of a…
Wahhabis in the Dustbin?
This is a fascinating analysis by Hassan Hassan of the Saudi royal family trying to rewrite its past. It is available on the New/Lines website. Here is the…
Paul Farmer (1959-2022) and SAR
Paul Farmer on the SAR campus, 2006. Photo credit: Katrina Lasko Dr. Paul Farmer, humanitarian, physician, and anthropologist, died in his sleep on February 21 in Butaro, Rwanda,…
Book Review: Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge edited by Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal
In Displacement: Global Conversations on Refuge, editors Silvia Pasquetti and Romola Sanyal bring together contributors to explore different experiences of forced migration at local, regional and glob…
What Chimpanzees Know About Giving Medicine
Chimps exhibit unique behaviors in different communities, such as these who clasp hands while grooming one another. P. Gagneux/GMERC This article was originally published at The Conversat…
Andrea Wright, “Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil” (Stanford UP, 2021)
More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find…
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, “Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora” (Duke UP, 2021)
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández once again engages in the fearless work of challenging structures of domination. In her most recent book, Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2021), Profesora…
On the use and abuse of networks in academia
Like most anthropologists, we have been watching events unfold at Harvard University’s anthropology department over the past weeks: accusations of abuse; letters in support of the man accused…
Massimiliano Mollona: Why the End of Work Will Not Be the End of Capitalism
One of the lowest moments of my undergraduate studies in Economics back in the 1990s happened whilst reading Tom Peters’ Liberation Management (1992), where the management guru/McKinsey-associate pro…
Should You Feel Bad About Your Pandemic-Era Plastic Waste?
Plastic waste has grown exponentially across the globe during the pandemic. Matthew Williams-Ellis/Universal Images Group/Getty Images “Sometimes I want to avoid producing excessive waste…