Enikő Vincze, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoc On May 28th the liberal Romanian government published the last data on the employment situation. This is …
Mao Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London One thing is sure. If just briefly, the pandemic struck at the heart of capitalism. It paralysed …
Don Kalb, University of Bergen At some point in late January I told my family over WhatsApp with the Marxist bluster they …
In a time of global convulsion, I’m rethinking the purpose of Living Anthropologically as a blog and website. And yes, that image …
COVID-19 highlights the limits of compassion and the need for sacrifice in contemporary capitalism Compassion with the leader When the British Prime …
Gavin Smith, University of Toronto “One of the many perils lies in normalizing the ‘batshit crazy’ presently underway.”—Wallace, Liebman, Chavez & Wallace …
Field hospital constructed in Gothenburg, Sweden in March 2020. Photo: Helén Sjöland. While reading Giorgio Agamben’s (2020) anthropological note on the “danger” of …
Given the recently instigated social distancing rules in Canberra, this week we bring you a special “online” episode! For the safety of …
The metabolism of a city is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in its archaeology. Decades of excavations triggered by cultural heritage management …
In France, like many other places, social confinement due to the Coronavirus unfolded quickly. On March 12, President Emmanuel Macron addressed the …
We are firmly set in the middle of a global pandemic at the moment. As it currently stands, the World Health Organization …
For Portuguese click here. For French click here. In December 2015, a Brazilian photographer with The Associated Press took a photo of …
There are few better descriptions of colonial extraction than this one where Marx eviscerates the Brits in India. He was on the …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
The metabolic rift “All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of …
What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation …
In December 2019, a new respiratory virus outbreak began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei Province. A new strain of coronavirus, …
Can someone in the UK souvenir one of these fab posters for me please (for ‘research’ purposes). I find them amazing. Yes, …
→Trinketization: answers to all questions about trinkets, and Capital.
Issues of trade have come to renewed attention, as the global trading system has been rocked by upended agreements and cries for …
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang …
Disponible en español aquí. This afternoon, I began to notice increasingly alarming images, posts, and tweets from my interlocutors in Santiago. It …
In reading and thinking about my eco-anxiety, I’ve recently learned of a Swedish neologism that describes a new way of thinking about …
In his new collection of essays Class, Race, and Marxism, David Roediger provides the reader with an incisive and accessible prose an entry point …
As an urban compost coordinator I have supervised efforts to increase compost collection both commercially and residentially in New York City over …
Recently, physicians, public health experts, and anthropologists (among others) have pointed to a prevalence of gender, class, race, age, and ethnic bias …