Declaring Crime to be a Public Health Emergency: Trinidad & Tobago Out Front
When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime. “There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the…
Tag: authoritarianism
Focaalblog: New Times? Confronting the Escalating Crises of Global Capitalism
Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies and the Commission on Global Transformations and Marxian Anthropology – IUAES, in cooperation with the Working Group for Public Sociology…
Day 3 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
The final day of hearings focused on family law in the context of courts that simply uphold, without any question, state doctrine on the Covid so-called “vaccines” and…
Day 2 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
The Citizens’ Hearing is, “an independent inquiry into Canada’s response to Covid-19. We will hear evidence from scientists, legal experts, and healthcare providers, as well as test…
Day 1 of A Citizens’ Hearing: Examining Canada’s Covid Response
From Wednesday, June 22, through Friday, June 24, 2022, a combined effort by the Canadian Covid Care Alliance and Fearless Canada, brought three full days of testimonies that were stre…
Introducing: “Disaster X”
Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already…
Multispecies Anarchism in the Postnuclear World
Connect the dots between “state”, “imperialism”, and “war”. Add “leaders”, “testosterone” and “nukes”. Look at the picture and tell me anarchism was a bad idea. In effect, as…
Street Affects in Kashmir
This piece offers an ‘inside-out’ perspective on everyday life in a militarized space. As a researcher and a Kashmiri, the writer is struggling to document the ordinary-everyday lives…
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne and James Taylor: State and crisis in Sri Lanka and Thailand: Hearing but not listening in the Theravāda Buddhist world
Although historically and geographically diverse, but sharing religious cultural roots, contemporary Sri Lanka and Thailand are both characterised by authoritarianism. This parallel cannot be explain…
#PoliticalEngagements: Introduction
Ethnography and Political Engagement This Thematic Thread emerged from a workshop organised (online) at the LSE in February 2021, entitled “In the moment and after the fact: Ethnographic…
Statement of Non-Compliance with Mandatory Vaccination in Canadian Universities
First it was not even a university, but Seneca College. Then it was the University of Ottawa. Then Carleton University, the University of Western Ontario, and the University…
On Quebec and its “Vaccine Passport”
Since the Government of Quebec under Premier François Legault decided to jump the gun today and announced the coming of “vaccine” certification on September 1st, possibly in response…
The Pandemic Narrative and the War Against the People: Day 2 of an Online Interdisciplinary Symposium
Friday, July 30, 2021 was Day #2 of an online international and interdisciplinary symposium organized by Doctors for Covid Ethics (see the report for Day #1). The symposium…
War between good citizens and bad citizens: tools for today’s totalitarianism in Brazil and the Philippines
On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police forces in Rio de Janeiro killed 28 people…
The False Pandemic and the Great Reset: Day 1 of an Online Interdisciplinary Symposium
A brief note before the main content for this report: since last publishing to this site I have been occupied with preparing a long and detailed series of…
ResonanceCast #2: Incitement and Coups
Podcast with Jastinder Kaur and Daniel White, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast 2: Incitement And Coups Referenced articles: Towards an Anthropology of…
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 2
In Part 1 we ended with the documentary’s discussion of the type of business model that has been created around COVID-19, or to match the title of the…
COVID-19: THE SYSTEM, Part 1
On March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19’s spread was now a pandemic, and on March 13, 2020, when here in Quebec a total…
Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador
For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…
Authoritarian vernaculars of the right to truth. Exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and Burundi
Astrid Jamar (SOAS) and Laura Major (University of Strathclyde) will present on ‘Authoritarian vernaculars of the right to truth. Exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and Burundi’. Gerhard A…
Aliki Angelidou: “It is not the police that enters the universities, but democracy”: Greek universities as spearhead of an authoritarian turn
On February 22nd police forces entered the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, heavily beating many students, arresting 31 of them, and teargasing all those present, including…
Imagining the #PostCoronaUniversity in Brazil
Frequently, we Brazilian scholars have received concerned questions from foreign colleagues asking what the h… is happening in Brazil. In fact, the situation in the country since June…
Allegro vivace… the Italian laboratory, for better or for worse
This little essay was conceived wandering in the Swiss countryside. I’m on sabbatical leave and my whole work and travel program has been disrupted by the measures taken…