Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
I en värld som präglas av splittring, expansiv främlingsfientlighet och lokala likväl som globala konflikter är den gemensamma kampen för alla människors lika värde och rätt till ett…
ESSÄ. I en värld som präglas av splittring, expansiv främlingsfientlighet och lokala likväl som globala konflikter är den gemensamma kampen för alla människors lika värde och rätt till…
The Precariat in Western China by Xueyang Ma examines the experiences of workers in precarious employment in Ya’an, a city in Sichuan province, Western China. Drawing on interviews…
In this episode, Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak talk about their new co-authored book Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). This…
“Hannah, roll a six!,” Mahad, Alliance Wellness recovery program resident, pleaded as the game of Ludo intensified. Ludo, a strategic and competitive board game, was popular among Somali…
Photo: Dr. N. Fadeke Castor, 2025/26 Wenner-Gren Fellow Seven Academics Awarded Fellowships to Advance Critica…
Photo: Dr. N. Fadeke Castor, 2025/26 Wenner-Gren Fellow Seven Academics Awarded Fellowships to Advance Critical Research in the Social Sciences and Related Fields Santa Fe, NM, April 28,…
Kravanja’s essay is a reflective journey through academia, identity, and the politics of knowledge. From navigating class and care work to confronting the colonial legacies of anthropology ethnographi…
https://www.sup.org/books/revolution-within Sherine Hamdy: Yasmin, I loved this book, and I want to start by saying how much I admire the amount of work and careful thought and writing…
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world’s largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030,…
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […] The post Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japan…
An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting…
A much slicker photo of HCMC/Saigon last night than I could ever get on my phone (or with any kit probably) – lifted with thanks from Vietnam Travel…
Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Eleanor Paynter responds to the crisis framings that dominate migration debates in the…
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA Edited by Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar Just got this to read and it looks totally superb. Here is the cover…
I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Master’s program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a…
By Konstadina Naka – For the past three months, my master’s research has explored the complex world of the modern human-dog relationship in Amsterdam. This ethnographic journey took…
Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to…
Possibly Lepidiota, but more to be admired is that this intrepid visitor somehow managed to navigate to the 15th floor balcony today. Well bugged old beetle. (Indian example…
And today Imogen is reading Rosa, Jacques, Siegfried, Penny and Herbert. Still missed. The dedication in Pantomime Terror appeared on my desktop several times this past few weeks…
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González…
Andrew MitchelPhD Candidate, Department of AnthropologyThe Ohio State University On March 25th, the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon hosted a Traditional Food…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hailing-the-state Ilana Gershon: Why did you decide to call your book, Hailing the State? What becomes available for analysis when you understand protest as am…