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…
Stafettpinnen går videre i Månedens antropolog! Dette er en spalte som løfter frem bredden, engasjementet og mangfoldet i norsk antropologi, både innenfor og utenfor akademia. Hver måned vil…
Victor Mallet’s Far-Right France examines the rise of the far right in France through the successful alliance between the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Blending…
In an era dominated by visual information, what can the sounds of a pandemic reveal about crisis and care? How might attuning to sonic atmospheres uncover new dimensions…
At India’s southern tip, eight reactor buildings line the shore of the coastal communities of Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu—one of the four districts my family and I call…
NAPA invites professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists to show our colors at the upcoming AAA meeting in St. Louis, MO Wednesday, November 18, 2026 – Saturday, November…
The volume Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Challenges edited by Rik Peels and Lorne L. Dawson, turns the gaze of extremism research on the…
Alawite communities in Syria have been associated with the regime of Assad as the latter’s family itself is of Alawite descent. Consequently, Alawites have frequently faced accusations of…
Grazia Ting Deng. Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2024. 288 pages. ISBN: 9780691245799 Dr. A…
By Yukisato Azai, International and Development Studies, Geneva Graduate Institute. On a blazing sunny day, when I walked toward the site of a sit-in protest against the construction…
By Erin Moriarty and Octavian Robinson When we think about The Crip Linguistics Reader, what strikes us most is not the theoretical architecture that it assembled. Rather, it…
In this episode, YAIM members recount their experience of detention in Tariq al Sikka, one of Libya’s official detention centers, […] The post Detention appeared first on Allegra…
This episode features a conversation with Murali Shanmugavelan and Sareeta Amrute about how caste structures IT workspaces and communication infrastructures. We began with their reflections on how they…
The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands’ history, sea-lanes and trade patterns…
“The world is very troubled, and while peace is supposed to have been secured, active and murderous warfare is going on in at least a quarter of the…
Im Urlaub habe ich Tomer Gardis neues Buch Liefern gelesen und kann es nur empfehlen. Tomer nimmt uns mit zu Lieferfahrer_innen in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Istanbul, Buenos Aires…
Im Urlaub habe ich Tomer Gardis neues Buch Liefern gelesen und kann es nur empfehlen. Tomer nimmt uns mit zu Lieferfahrer_innen in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Istanbul, Buenos Aires…
There are far too many wars, not-wars and rumors of wars today. My commentary on the war-torn-apart Middle East was published today on Juan Cole’s Informed Comment site:…
In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid development in the Himalayas on the minds…
Die Identitätspolitiken der Rechten haben in den letzten Jahren eine „woke Rechte“ konstruiert, in der sich Akteure wie Kirk oder Fuentes als Opfer inszenieren. Besonders weiße, christliche Männer…
2008. “Martin Heidegger Goes to the Movies.” In, Cultural Politics in a Global Age (112–119). Oxford: One World. Was never really satisfied that I had understood Heidegger in…
In Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke UP, 2026), the cultural anthropologist Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou’s fast…
Fragmento de Hordas espectadores. Fans, hooligans y otras formas de audiencia en turba, en Ignasi Duarte y Roger Bernat, eds., Querido público. El espectador ante la participación (Cendeac.…