From Home Movies to Homs
The amateur film is becoming a global visual lingua franca, a consequence of the conjuncture of the digital with new and widely accessible film technologies (notably the camera…
Tag: colonialism
NEW! — Massimiliano Mollona: Ethnographic filmmaking and the political imagination: A review of “Desert People” by Ian Dunlop (1967)
In the opening sequences of Desert People (1967, 49 minutes, Australian National Film Board), we read, “This is a film on two families of the western Australian desert.”…
The Corruption Complex
The cultural logics of corruption and how they can be found in T&T Writing about corruption from the petty to the massive in Africa, anthropologist Jean-Pierre Sardan proposed…
‘Colloquial Malay’
I bought Colloquial Malay, the book I'm using to study Jawi, for £3 at a second-hand bookshop in Oxford. I want to say a few words about it…
Bruno Latour: Imperialist?
I recently saw a blogpost that took Bruno Latour and his disciples/fellow travellers to task for being colonialist ('An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’…
Weapons of Anti-Blackness
Chik-V and Ebola and the realities behind conspiracy theories Listening to local radio shows, reading the newspapers, and talking to colleagues and friends it is clear Chikungunya (Chik-V)…
Chinese political scientist endorses positive sides of European colonialism
I am reading Wang Yizhou’s book Creative Involvement: The Evolution of China’s Global Rise (as is often the case, the book is in Chinese but also has an…
The Return of the Colonial
What logic connects Ferguson, Gaza and east Port of Spain? What cultural logics connect recent confrontations in Ferguson, Gaza, and east Port of Spain? The short answer is…
The Perpetually Confused Conflicts in the Middle East–public lecture by William O. Beeman with discussion from Portland Oregon
The Perpetually Confused Conflicts in the Middle East Attached is a recording of a lecture given to the “Thirsters” civic group in Portland, Oregon on August 7, 2014…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Keti Koti 2014 – Celebration, Protest, Commemoration
“The chains are cut” (Keti Koti in Surinamese – Sranantongo) is the Emancipation Day, in which the end of slavery in Suriname is remembered (legally 1963, de facto…
Fantasies that matter: Images of sex work in media and art
I am looking forward to being in Hamburg, Germany, in August, for this unusually interesting event. My own talk is called Disqualified: Why sex workers suffer social death…
Documentary on migration to the EU (in French and Italian)
I recently discovered this series of videos about recent state approaches to migrants in Europe. I recommend it because it traces the origins of different policies and strategies…
Documentary on migration to the EU (in French and Italian)
I recently discovered this series of videos about recent state approaches to migrants in Europe. I recommend it because it traces the origins of different policies and strategies…
Documentary on migration to the EU (in French and Italian)
I recently discovered this series of videos about recent state approaches to migrants in Europe. I recommend it because it traces the origins of different policies and strategies…
Documentary on migration to the EU (in French and Italian)
I recently discovered this series of videos about recent state approaches to migrants in Europe. I recommend it because it traces the origins of different policies and strategies…