By Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Doctoral Candidate, York University Photo 1: McKinley Park Government Pier is a half mile stretch of concrete extending south, toward downtown Milwaukee, from McKinley…
New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…
New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…
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…
The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought […] The post Beyond Preaching Unit…
On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was […] The post On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian…
It is a Tuesday in May in upstate New York, and the world is greening all around me. A little rain falls from a clouded-over sky scattering bright…
This is the sixth day of the war. The sixth day of unprovoked aggression by the Israeli genocidal regime against Iran, my country. The killing spree and the…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 3 Minuten Text: Petr Kodenko Kubala Few challenges cut across social, economic and ecological lines as sharply as the twin crises of the global urban housing…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/guarded-by-two-jaguars Max Conrad: You argue that Catholicism as a religion facilitates heteroglossia and is ultimately shaped – formed and reformed – by dialo…
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […] The post The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian…
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe, […] The post Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality…
Racializing Caste: Anthropology Between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970) (De Gruyter, 2025) analyzes how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and…
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in […] The post Return to a Bare Land…
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year […] The post Their Life Has Been Taken;…
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […] The post Recalibrating Syria:…
Foguera de Sant Joan del 2016 a la cruïlla Lepant/Casp/Ribes, a Fort Pienc Article publicat al Diari Ara el 20 de juny de 2017 Les fogueres de Sant…
In The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2024), Dr. Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so…
Wohl kaum ein Begriff wird so stark instrumentalisiert und vermag es, eine Fülle an so unterschiedlichen wie starken Emotionen zu evozieren, wie das Reizwort „woke“. Die einen verwenden…
By Maaike Matelski – Four years after the military coup of February 2021, Myanmar was hit by a massive earthquake on 28 March 2025. While the earthquake may…
BySylvie PlanelPhD Anthropology First Place Winner, Writing Competition on the Theme of Transformation Their figures project shifting shapes on the ground, cutting out the sun as they fly…
Norsk til liks med til dømes tysk, svensk og dansk er eit språk med eit prinsipielt uendeleg ordtilfang. Språksystemet vårt legg nemleg til rette for at vi nesten…
The Council for Museum Anthropology is seeking nominations for its Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes CMA members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have adv…
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings […] The post On Silence appeared first on…