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Quirin Rieder: Drinking tea with the IMF: sticking to prices and protesting inflation in Aliabad, Northern Pakistan

FocaalBlog

Aziz put down the newspaper and sighed. “This is bad, the situation is bad”. Sitting in his small tea shop, he had just finished his routine practice of…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Daromir Rudnyckyj: When is inflation a problem?

FocaalBlog

Amidst the media frenzy in recent years regarding inflation, it is worth asking when, and for whom, is inflation actually a problem? As economists are quick to point…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Mélissa Gauthier: Inflation as pressure: coping mechanisms from Eastern Cuba

FocaalBlog

When the daily Miami-Santiago de Cuba flight landed in Cuba in May 2024, a passenger at the back of the plane shouted in Spanish: !Ya llegaron los dolares!…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Eva van Roekel: Money and ruin: hyperinflation and moral loss in the complex humanitarian crisis in Venezuela

FocaalBlog

A few months before the Covid-19 lockdowns were implemented globally I travelled to the border between Venezuela and Brazil for a stint of ethnographic fieldwork about the complex…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Sian Lazar and Dolores Señorans: Argentina: inflation, monetary disorder, and political experimentation

FocaalBlog

The election of Javier Milei, a chainsaw-wielding anarcho-libertarian, to the Presidency of Argentina promises to cement Argentina’s status as a prime experimental site for inflation-tackling policies…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Harry Pettit: Theft, resistance, and the struggle over cash circulation in Beirut’s platform economy

FocaalBlog

In October 2023, I sat with Hameed in a café in Hamra in Beirut, nearby his flat. He had just collected his salary, a stack of green 100,000…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Alexandrine Royer: ‘In Kigali, life is expensive’: how everyday inflation talk gives voice to political and class frustrations 

FocaalBlog

I encountered the phrase ‘in Kigali, life is expensive’ everywhere during my 15 months of fieldwork within the tech ecosystem of Rwanda. Official government figures stated that the…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By focaal_admin
  • Post categories In English

Steffen Köhn: Tokens of survival: the rise of crypto gaming in Cuba’s inflationary economy

FocaalBlog

Cuba is currently facing one of its most severe economic crises in decades. The island nation is contending with the compounded effects of a global pandemic, tightening U.S.…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By focaal_admin
  • Post categories In English

Ståle Wig, Sian Lazar and Eva van Roekel: The social life of inflation: introduction

FocaalBlog

After a period of relatively low inflation in many economies in the Global North, inflation has once again become a major world concern. The COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Focaal Web Editor
  • Post categories In English

Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality – Chapter 07 – Human rights and humanitarianism

Aidnography

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…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Tobias Denskus
  • Post categories In English

Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia

Allegra Lab

“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian […] The post Of Home and Ghosts: Notes…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Nabil Salih
  • Post categories In English

The Manufacturing of Job Displacement

Sociology/Anthropology – LSE Review of Books

Laura López-Sanders‘ The Manufacturing of Job Displacement is an ethnographic study examining how racial capitalism shapes labour inequality in a company based in South Carolina, US. Though lim…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Dalton,A
  • Post categories In English

Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop

SAPIENS

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. military mission that drops toys and supplies throughout Micronesia. ✽ On a balmy December morning…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Roberto J. González
  • Post categories In English

In the Journals, December 2024, Part 1

Somatosphere

Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of December edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Ellen Hausner
  • Post categories In English

Aisha M Beliso-de Jesús, “Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease” (Duke UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

In 1980, Charles Wetli—a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions—identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Honungstassen lurar bland träden

Kulturanalyser

”Björ-nen so-ver, björ-nen so-ver i sitt lug-na bo.” Björnen är stor, mäktig och lurvig – och vanligare i berättelser än den är i skogen. I alla fall upplever…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Kulturanalyser
  • Post categories In Norwegian / Swedish / Danish

Wendy Pearlman, “The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora” (Liveright, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

War forced millions of Syrians from their homes. It also forced them to rethink the meaning of home itself. In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom.…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Maintenance of Forest Restoration: The Fragility of Promised Futures

Platypus

As a growing area of inquiry in STS, maintenance studies brings two critical insights to the post-Actor Network Theory (ANT) landscape. First, relations are not a state of…

  • Post date 10th December 2024
  • Post author By Syed Shoaib Ali
  • Post categories In English

Announcing the winners of the APLA Book and Paper Prizes

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More

  • Post date 9th December 2024
  • Post author By dafnarachok
  • Post categories In English

Junehui Ahn discusses her book, Between Self and Community

CaMP Anthropology

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/between-self-and-community/9781978831384/ Hyemin Lee: Your book wonderfully illustrates the encounters between globally dominant socialization ideologies…

  • Post date 9th December 2024
  • Post author By |
  • Post categories In English

TRABAJO INTERNO, ESCLAVITUD MODERNA

Anthropologies

Read Time:8 Minute, 6 Second «Nunca me había sentido tan sola y humillada. Esa noche mientras mi empleadora dormía hui de su casa, pasé…

  • Post date 9th December 2024
  • Post author By anthropologies
  • Post categories In Spanish

Survival Notes

SAPIENS

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. ✽ despite the Maangamizi,( Maangamizi…

  • Post date 9th December 2024
  • Post author By Alma Simba
  • Post categories In English

Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson, “The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design” (Duke UP, 2024)

New Books in Anthropology

The Ethnographer’s Way: A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design (Duke UP, 2024) guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. Kristin…

  • Post date 9th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English

Stacy Torres, “At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America” (U California Press, 2025)

New Books in Anthropology

To understand elders’ experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification,…

  • Post date 8th December 2024
  • Post author By New Books Network
  • Post categories In English
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