We Are All the South
A Call from Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees to academic and cultural communities worldwide On the twenty-seventh day of the genocidal war being waged by the…
Tag: decolonisation
Birzeit University Union: Palestinian Resistance is a Way of Being
2023 will be recorded historically as the year that Palestinians stood boldly in the face of colonial fascism and screamed in defense of their homes, humanity, and lives.…
The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
We stand with Palestine, whether right or wrong
“We stand with Palestine, whether right or wrong!” (nahnu m‘a falastîn zâlimâ aw mazlûma) is a phrase uttered in 1974 by former Algerian president Houari Boumediene. It has…
No peace without decolonization
In the central Gaza Strip, the colonial state of Israel bombed the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and a UN-run school on Tuesday, October 17, killing over 500 civilians.…
Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I was five, my father…
On Censorship and the American Anthropological Association’s Declining Democracy
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is awaiting the results of a membership vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions submitted in response to a solidarity call…
Section Three: Understanding as Resonance
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance, the essays explore that which happens when words…
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic power. Yet when holding bureaucratic sinecures, anthropologists’ daily…
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South Africa. Drawing on narrative accounts from political protests,…
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press. South Africa 2022 is a troubled nation: a continuing energy crisis…
An anthropological chronicle from EASA 2022
I invite you to share in a partial and subjective review of the exhausting academic marathon that was the 17th congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists…
Decolonising indigenous knowledge? Reading circle 12 May 2022 noon Finnish time
Indigenous knowledge, or better indigenous ways of knowing, have been key to anthropological debates on human-environment relations in the Arctic, even more so since climate change has increased…
Heritage Out of Control: Musealising (Hi)stories of Migration
Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have been increasing initiatives in Vienna that involve municipal…
Heritage out of Control: Today’s utopia tomorrow’s waste?
Exploring how beliefs and spiritual dimensions of inequality turn today’s realities of waste into future heritage and (invisible) monuments Cite this article as: Fouad Asfour. January, 2022. ‘Herita…
Ethnographic Poetry and Academic Writing: A Reflection
“Whatever your eye can see, it’s vecik.” This line resonated with me while I was conducting my fieldwork in Taiwan with the indigenous Paiwan village known as Paridrayan.…
Colonial Spectres
What would it mean to be no longer ‘in country’ in Australia? How would the legacies of British colonialism, and the attempted extirpation and survival of Australia’s indigenous…
“Imperialist Goats” & Tanzania’s Oct. 28 Elections
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice that the United Republic of Tanzania is usually…
#events: Let’s Get Geographical!
They say ‘the early bird catches the worm’. Would you like to catch that worm? Or, perhaps, that worm isn’t so enticing! How about a short course on…
Reading List: 15 Recommended Reads on Colonial Histories, Colonial Legacies
Image Credit: African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton, London (Kelly Foster CC BY SA 4.0) In this reading list, we recommend fifteen books previously reviewed on the…
Ep. #26 Mining Banaba: Katerina Teaiwa talks mining phosphate & decolonising modern anthropology
“The body of the people is in that landscape so when it’s mined and crushed and dug up, you’re not just doing it with rock, you’re also doing…
Ep. #23 Decolonizing anthropology, with Sana Ashraf and Bruma Rios-Mendoza: this month on TFS
“We think we are supposed to be comfortable. As long as we are trying to do everything to be comfortable, we will never make a change.” In this…
Anthropology for Liberation readings
Next trimester I’m teaching a new course, Anthropology for Liberation. Here’s the course description: How can anthropology advance human emancipation from racism, gender inequality, class …