With the recent default on debt payment (see Franqui Rivera and Colón-Garcia 2015), Puerto Rico became a failed state. State failure is the inability or incapacity of a…
On Sunday 29 November, Burkina Faso organized successful presidential and legislative elections. They marked the end of a one-year-political transition and a step in consolidating the country’s democr…
The cozy University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, edited by Pamela Slotte…
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Title slide of my final lecture at Swinburne Elizabeth Tunstall, CC BY-NC If you have been following the media, American universities are under pressure to make their campuses…
Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India by Bianca Brijnath Berghahn Books, 2014, 240 pages Bianca Brijnath’s book, Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia…
Rachel Black SAFN President Connecticut College It was a busy and productive AAA Meeting for the Society for the the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition. Our section sponsored…
This is an interesting looking book, from Verso. “Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing simply an environmental…
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in Denver. The proposed…
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the
Things are usually more creative on the margins, a notion that became evident during the recently concluded meetings of the
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. November has brought forth a number of engaging and…
Angelique V. Nixon View on Amazon It’s easy to conjure images of paradise when thinking of the Caribbean. The region is know for its lovely beaches, temperate weather,…
Tonight’s vote in the Commons about Cameron’s plans to bomb Syria has a relevance well beyond the UK borders. Things are heading towards a full military invasion with…
Along with Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste, Bond’s article adds to a growing literature on the environmental effects of military discard practices.
Families are sometimes reluctant to talk about death, and so, children first learn through fantasy: books, movies, games, and television shows. Gareth Matthew’s research showed that…