Can people with bad political beliefs change?
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
Before, times like these have come before Times when we witnessed hurricanes that never stopped uprooting trees We thought that we had learned how to travel the road to…
A Postscript Note: I finished writing this piece prior to the Israeli-US attacks on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, which killed over a thousand people. There is, therefore,…
“History is what hurts,” stated Frederic Jameson; “it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis” (1982, 102). And the situation…
The reception of Haddon’s journals reveals the value of ethnographic archives for research and community empowerment.
Louana Meloche, Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada The conclusion of The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP29) offered a painful but important moment for…
This forum has shed light on vastly different but interrelated contexts of Palestine solidarity. The essays draw attention to the interplay of shifting solidarities with Palestine and the…
One question has been haunting me since the current wave of repression of pro-Palestinian speech began in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the genocidal campaign-disguised-as-reprisal…
Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online …
written after a research visit to the Linen Hall Library with a team of researchers to examine Northern Irish civil rights activist records
It’s important to show occasional signs of life on a personal blog. It’s been nearly two years since my last post, and a lot has happened since then,…
Words and worlds Guest post by Sophie ChaoUniversity of Sydney We inhabit an age of ecological unmaking, wherein intensifying anthropogenic activity is undermining possibilities…
This blog post is a response to LOST PREDICTIONS by Fiona Murphy and Eva van Roekel, LOST PREDICTIONS II by Maruška Svašek, and LOST PREDICTIONS III by Sweta Tiwari. It was produce…
This poem is an account of materiality through time-tracking and place-making, viewed from within the contours of home while wearing the ethnographer’s lens.
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
Growing public outrage with the political responses to conflicts and complex emergencies have led to increasing calls for solidarity with affected populations that identify a shared humanity. Disencha…
The docu-fiction film explores the changing meaning of Rapanui wooden sculptures. The trailer is now available online.
Each a Tiny Enclosure of an Essential Resource Guest post by Anand PandianJohn Hopkins University For the last eight years, I’ve been wrestling as an anthropologist with where…
When Frantz Fanon (1961) framed the legitimacy of anti-colonial armed struggle in The Wretched of the Earth, he likely did not imagine that his arguments would resonate, some seventeen…
The docu-fiction film explores the changing meaning of Rapanui wooden sculptures and is now available online.
SANTA FE, N.M. (July 8, 2025)—The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Timothy R. Pauketat as the new Director of SAR…