همراه با باد…
درباره منوچهر طیاب پاره ای از کتاب «همراه با باد» اثر ناصر فکوهی طیاب، یهودی سرگردان چهار گوشهی ایران از دل کویر تا کوههای زاگرس. همراه با باد.…
Matt Tomlinson on Culture and Theology in the Pacific
I’m very happy to announce that I have a new interview up at New Books Network. This one is with Matt Tomlinson, an anthropologist of the Pacific at…
Maile Arvin on Possessing Polynesians
I announce my publications and interviews and things on social media but I have fallen behind on announcing them on my blog, which is supposed to be a…
طیاب هم رفت…
طیاب هم رفت… دلنوشته ای برای منوچهر طیاب وقتی دوستی میمیرد، ولو آنکه در سنین بالا و ولو آنکه انتظار مرگش را داشته باشی؛ و ولو آنکه حتی…
طیابی که بود، طیابی که خواهد بود…
طیابی که بود، طیابی که خواهد بود… / دلنوشته ای برای منوچهر طیاب مرگ پایان حیات فیزیکی همه انسانها و آغاز حیاتی دیگر در کیهان و جهان است.…
معرفی و بررسی کتاب «اتلاف»
افول، فرسودگی و اتلاف، اجزای لازم زندگی و رشد هستند. باید بیاموزیم که آنها را به اجرا بگذاریم و به شیوه ای مناسب با آنها برخورد کنیم. این…
الهه سازان عصر مدرن
حضور «الههها» در فرهنگ و تمدنهای کهن، پیوند تنگاتنگی با آگاهی از وضعیت اگزیستانسیال دارد. به معنایی، این بغرنجیِ «هستی و نیستی» است که همزمان عمیقترین «دلهرهی وجودی»…
شب سفر در ایران
دویست و بیست و ششمین شب بخارا، پنجشنبه یکم بهمن ۱۳۹۴ ساعت پنج عصر در کانون زبان فارسی، به معرفی و رونمایی از مجموعه چهار جلدی «سفر به…
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا (۳)
جنبش متابولیسم و زایش تکنوتوپیا؛ از اپیستمه تا تعرض یا چگونه تکنولوژی از خود عبور کرد؛شرق در مواجه با معاصربودگی، شهر، تکنولوژی و یوتوپیا : بخش سوم اما…
Why White Kids Need Hamilton More Than Ever
[no-caption] Travis Wise/Flickr Every morning when my son opens the dishwasher for his morning chores, his daily tribute to the Broadway musical Hamilton begins in song: “How does…
The Making of Vizag Gas Leak Disaster: Procedural lapses or Regulatory Design?
Hundreds of tonnes of poisonous Styrene gas leaked out of the LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh on the 7th of May 2020, leaving 11 dead and…
Social Contract and Its Discordance in Gilgit-Baltistan
By: Aziz Ali Dad This piece is part of APLA’s newest Speaking Justice to Power Series, which focuses on Kashmir … More
Laughter and leaked memos: debating state violence at a Kashmiri baker’s shop
A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…
William G. Pooley, “Body and Tradition in 19th-Century France: Félix Arnaudin and the Moorlands of Gascony, 1870-1914” (Oxford UP, 2019)
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were…
Abolition and the Colonial Amnesia of Caribbean Prison Systems
The need for alternatives to prisons and prison reform in the Caribbean is long past due IntroductionProcesses of historical erasure scar the Caribbean and remove transhistorical context. …
The physics community needs to include, listen to and hire Black scientists
In the summer of 2012, as a rising senior physics major at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a 10-week NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program at…
Chemical Sensitivity by Aaron Bradshaw
Sitting at a table in his home in Snowflake, Arizona, Steen reads a book encased in a clear, plastic box. The front of the box is fitted with…
Tener presente
La foto es de Roland Dahwen Del artículo de Manuel Cruz y Manuel Delgado, ¿Para qué tanta memoria?, Mal Estar. Psicoanálisis/Cultura, 9(9), 2011, pp. 29-54. Capítulo de Pensar…
In the Journals – Police Abolition
Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) by The Metropolitan Museum of Art via PICRYL Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations…
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community …
“Proving” the language/culture connection
Over the weekend, several anthropologist called attention to this research report produced by Princeton University (link to full report here). The headline touts the research with the claim…
Denis Provencher on his book, Queer Maghrebi French
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781781382790/ Interview by Adeli Block Adeli Block: Your monograph Queer Maghrebi French (2017) frequently references your first book, Queer Fre…
The Militarisation of the COVID-19 Response in South Africa (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Susan Levine, Lenore Manderson The imponderabilia of our COVID times As medical anthropologists well versed in the social grammar of infectious…
Kareem Khubchandani, “Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife” (Michigan UP, 2020)
Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020) follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangal… Visit…