Why We Need a Truth Commission on White Supremacy
The author leads a teacher training seminar as part of a genocide education project run by the Documentation Center of Cambodia, a local nongovernmental organization heavily involved in Cambodia’…
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How does/did Modi do it? The significance of ‘decisionism’
An introductory note: In the short space of time that has elapsed since I first drafted this essay – in the last week of March 2021 – and…
Wazhmah Osman, “Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Local Activists” (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the…
S. Garnett Russell, “Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen (Rutgers UP, 2020), S. Garnett Russell argues that although the Rwandan government makes use of global… Visit New Books in…
Visions of Black Futurity Amidst the Double Pandemic of COVID-19 and Police Brutality by Nadia Mbonde
When I ask Willow, an Afro-Puerto Rican young woman in her 20s, if quarantine has helped reduce the stigma of mental illness, she responds: I think it will…
Spider Woman’s Knowledge and the Survival of Diné Textile Arts
Detail of weaving by Venancio Aragon (Diné), SAR’s 2020 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow. Guest post by Abra Wenzel. &…
Multiple Modes of Being Human
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Evolution (photo by and copyright of Oliver Berger) In the last couple of years,…
Wednesday Round Up #49
The Challenges of Animal Translation: Artificial intelligence may help us decode animalese. But how much will we really be able to understand? Magnasco doesn’t think that anyone has…
A Jewel of a Book by Marjorie Ransom
AIYS member and long-time supporter Marjorie Ransom published her beautifully illustrated and diligently researched book on Yemeni silverwork in 2014 . This is a must for anyone interested…
Poulami Roychowdhury, “Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India” (Oxford UP, 2020)
How do women claim rights against violence in India and with what consequences? By observing how survivors navigate the Indian criminal justice system, Roychowdhury provides a unique lens…
Sarah Muir on her new book, Routine Crisis
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo69688117.html Interview by Kabir Tambar Kabir Tambar: Routine Crisis is about the aftermath of the economic collapse in Argentina in 20…
CLEAR mini-documentaries
CLEAR has worked with Couple3 Films to make a series of short documentaries about the lab and our processes. We’ve also brought those processes into the filmmaking.
LaTonya J. Trotter, “More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State” (Cornell UP, 2020)
In More Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State (Cornell UP, 2020), LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday wo… Visit…
Tetyana Lokot, “Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)
Tetyana Lokot’s new book Beyond the Protest Square: Digital Media and Augmented Dissent (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public dis… Visit…
Samantha Matherne, “Cassirer” (Routledge, 2021)
Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a leading neo-Kantian who developed a systematic view of how we construct and experience culture, widely construed to include mathematics, science, religion, my… Visit…
Slack (not that one) is necessary for effectiveness and productivity
A short post on a book by Tom DeMarco: Only when we are 0 percent busy can we step back and look at the bigger picture of what…
The Moral Economy of the English Football Fan in the Twenty-first Century
In late April of this year, it was announced that twelve of the wealthiest and best supported teams from across Europe would be competing in a new competition…
The Shrine of Nabi Hud
One of the most impressive architectural sites in Yemen is off the beaten track in the Hadramawt, about 90 miles north of al-Mukalla. This is the shrine of…
Links & Contents I Liked 405
Hi all, When I was compiling this week’s post I deleted/excluded more articles than I usually do; a long read on the terrible impact of Assad’s air force…
J. Andrew Bush, “Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Between Muslims Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan (Stanford UP, 2020) by J. Andrew Bush asks what it means to be Muslim, yet not pious, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Though Islam…
Mourning for Aicha, Mourning for Yemen
By Marina de Regt. “Marina, if I die, will you then forgive me for all the trouble that I caused you?” my Yemeni friend Aicha wrote me ten…
Welcome!
This is the personal homepage of Grant Jun Otsuki. I’m a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent Publications:In Anthropology Now: “…
Writing Life No. 9: An interview with Danya Fast by Robert Lorway
It is 11 am in Vancouver. Danya sits at a desk beside a large window that looks out onto tree tops and electrical wires. Rain pools in the…
Anti-Asian Racism’s Deep Roots in the United States
People protest anti-Asian hate crimes on April 4 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violen…