There’s no such thing as “We”
Put simply, evoking the universal “we” is a way to discard differences and maintain business as usual.
Tag: activism
Staying (at Home) with Brain Fog: “Un-witting” Patient Activism by Emily Lim Rogers
Scene 1: It’s Sunday afternoon, around one o’clock, and a group of a dozen or so people log onto a video call from their apartments. Occasionally someone’s cat…
Black Latinx Activists on Anti-Blackness
A few weeks ago, the Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists (ALLA) released a statement condemning anti-Black violence and calling for “an intimate reckoning with anti-Blackness and whit…
“Islands in a sea of disbelief” – Militant activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in…
Films & videos on media activism & more
This is a selection of films and videos on mediated activism, anthropological perspectives on media and culture, and globalization and (de)colonization in relation to media.Compiled by Philipp Budka…
Towards anthropological self-de-confinement #PostCoronaUniversity
While we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much discussion regarding the long-term…
Remembering Dr Abhay Xaxa, 1983-2020
“So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar, I make my own tools to fight my own battle, For me, my people, my world, and…
My Petrochemical Love
For women of color on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, everyday environmental and climate activism is entangled with intimate lives. It is April, and it is hot and humid in…
How are Foreign Domestic Workers Implicated in the Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong?
by Charlotte Brill ‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of tear gas on her day off. This tear…
Discard Studies Solidarity Strike
The field of discard studies is united by a critical framework that questions premises of what seems normal or given, what is valued and not valued, and the…
Ep #52: An exploration of truth & trust: This month on TFS
Welcome to our first podcast of 2020! And to kick of the new year season of TFS, we are joined by the lovely Kirsty Wissing, PhD candidate from…
Sending surplus food to charity is not the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
While giving food that would otherwise go to landfill to hungry people may be a convenient part of a solution to reduce greenhouse gases, it will do little…
Sujatha Fernandes talks about her new book, Curated Stories
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618049.001.0001/acprof-9780190618049 Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: What led you to first start thinking about storytel…
Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero
Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…
Before They Erase It: Memory and the social media archive
Disponible en español aquí. This afternoon, I began to notice increasingly alarming images, posts, and tweets from my interlocutors in Santiago. It appeared that Santiago was on fire,…
The power (and disempowerment) of Menstrual Hygiene Management
Development initiatives focused on menstrual health and sanitary pads in Southern countries actually disempower women as knowers and innovators.
Witnessing Puerto Rico, Recognition, and Feeling in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
As the plane descended to land in San Juan’s Airport in August 2018, almost a year after Hurricane Maria jolted Puerto Ricans on the island and elsewhere, I…
Optics and Fluidity: Evading Surveillance in Hong Kong
請點此閱讀中文版 Eyes in/on/for Hong Kong At the Hong Kong airport, thousands of protesters line the arrivals hall. Creating a corridor for passengers to walk through, they stand silently,…
Ep. #47: Meaningful Declutter, Local Activism, Managing Fire & Writing Up: This month on TFS
Firstly, we’d like to introduce you all to Alex D’Aloia, who is managing our Facebook group TFS Chats – you might remember the blog post that he wrote…
‘We’re Not Allowed to be Girls!’ Resisting Gender-Neutral Uniform
by Anne-Meike Fechter For those unfamiliar with the issue, the news that a group of parents and pupils at an East Sussex secondary school staged a protest on…
Een stil protest met een luide boodschap – Een impressie van ‘Hand in hand tegen het niqabverbod’
Na een afspraak elders in Den Haag (dank voor de koffie en de soep!) loop ik vrijdagmiddag 9 augustus naar de Hofplaats, nabij het Binnenhof in Den Haag.…
Baaaz: Ibtissam Abaaziz (Meld Islamofobie) en Annelies Moors (UvA) over het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding
Op 1 augustus 2019 is het verbod op gezichtsbedekkende kleding (ook wel boerkaverbod genoemd) ingegaan. Hoe heeft het verbod ooit tot stand kunnen komen en en wat zijn…
Our Governor Resigned via Facebook: #RickyRenuncia, Puerto Rico’s Summer of Protest
Disponible en español aquí. On July 13th, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Center for Investigative Journalism) leaked 889 pages of a Telegram App chat between the governor of…
Closer Heat Wave Service – Really good podcasts on Intersectionality, Gender, Race and Islamophobia
As I was cycling through the beautiful Bommelerwaard and resting near the water (yes, there is a reason I’m cycling here and not in the Tour de France),…