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…
This episode features Suvi Rautio’s (University of Helsinki) lecture at the Finnish Anthropological Society’s annual meeting on April 27th, 2025. Suvi discusses love letters between her Ch…
Pores compose materials around us such as gypsum, clay, lead, concrete, whose strength and durability are paradoxically analyzed in their capacity to resist porosity, or contain. Anthropogenic engagem…
The Right-wing Terrorism and Violence (RTV) dataset tracks severe right-wing attacks in Western Europe since 1990. The latest report shows a significant decrease in such viole…
After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.…
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
A scientific protocol for how to identify microplastics from non-plastics using a full range of senses
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
Sherine Hamdy: Roxanne, it was such a delight to read this book! I’m not sure what I was expecting – well, I’ll admit that I was expecting a…
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India (U California Press, 2024) is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of “backend” IT work to an…
Im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit habe ich mich mit dem Thema „QAnon als eine Neue Religiöse Bewegung? Q als Propheten, Trump als Erlöser und dem bevorstehenden Ende der Welt.“…
Issue Contents President’s letter Dear NAPA Members, This is not the moment any of us expected. The last three months have been overwhelming for so many in our…
2025 ist nicht nur der 150. Geburtstag Thomas Manns, sondern auch der 90. Todestag Magnus Hirschfelds. Während Mann seine ersten Erzählungen und Romane schrieb, erfand Hirschfeld die Theorie…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
Matt Durington and I had a wonderful time giving a talk at UBC Okanagan. Thanks to Dr. Fiona McDonald and the Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography Lab. Multimodal…
by Lars Gabriel Unlayao Slettebø[1] and Fabio Nicolás Venero Figueroa[2] Atop a finely woven gold-threaded mat sits a man with immaculate posture, adorned with a cape of shimmering…
The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement:…
by Emma van der Tak – “I saw that you have written for newspapers before,” Albert remarks as the waitress puts down our coffee. While I did so…
Cancelling Mbembe On June 6 2024 I was present in the grand hall that is the University Aula of the University of Bergen in Norway when my friend…
Syaifudin Zuhri’s book Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition (Leiden, 2022) is a detailed examination of the recent emergence of the Wali Pitu (“Seven…
The kind people at Heidelberg dug this out of the drawer the mice keep for snacking in the lean times. I did not have a digital copy before…
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
La foto es de Dave Bottons Fragmento de “Horizontes perdidos”, texto para el catálogo de la exposición Islas y horizontes. Obras de la colección Es Baluard (Fuenlabrada, 2016)…