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 …
Don Kalb: Anthropological Lives Matter, Except They Don’t
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and …
The Fiscal Life of Pandemics
In his summer statement, Rishi Sunak, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that VAT (Value-Added Tax) would be dramatically cut …
Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate …
Bordering the Digital Europe
Photo by — @pawel_czerwinski Historical contingencies and dynamic geographies for current future imaginaries of European borders Introduction The European Union is constructing new narratives of …
Italy’s Hidden Epidemic: The Shadow of the Mafia over Post-Emergency Europe
FRANCESCO FLORIS On 4th April, more than two months after the declaration of the state of emergency and almost one month after …
Brexitannia: The Faces and Voices of Brexit
First shown at London’s East End Festival in June of 2017, Brexitannia was the very first documentary about Brexit. It is a …
The Helsinki Summit: Trying to Turn the Page on the New Cold War
Finally, on Monday, July 16, 2018, the Helsinki Summit bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump took place, …
The Trade War is Here: Some of the New “Facts of Life”
In Madeleine Albright’s new book, dramatically titled Fascism: A Warning, she slams the anti-globalization crowd, claiming yet again that globalization is here …
Italy’s populist alliance and the national anti-migrant consensus
The League’s Matteo Salvini and the Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio have entered into coalition to form a government in Italy [AP] …
A Brexit in the World, and How It Found Its Place
On the relocation of the UK in a time of populist instability. [pquote]Once the formal Brexit process is completed, Britain will no …
Cris Shore: What is a European?: Solidarity, symbols, and the politics of exclusion
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University …
Chris Hann: Beleaguered pseudocontinent: Happy birthday, Europe!
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European …
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Norway and the transformation of the EU
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European …
Relics of the Future
The sociotechnical functions of secondhand trams in Romanian cities. This post is the first in a three-part series on Romanian Mobilities: Vehicles …
Neoliberalism, Brexit, and Higher Education
Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher …
Immigration and Capital
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or …
Anthropology, #Brexit and Xenophobia in Europe
The decision of people in Britain to leave the European Union has come as a surprise, even a shock to most of …
Waking up to #Brexit
On the morning of 24th June I had what I have since learnt to be a common experience. I lay in bed …
Clashing scales of #Brexit
Mainstream newspapers, politicians and commentators across Europe instantly expressed dejection and bitterness in the face of the Brexit outcome, and avid Brexiteers …
#Brexit, Europe and Anthropology: time to say something
Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with the immediate …
Katharina Bodirsky: The UK voted out: Some reflections on European “unity in diversity”
Against the predictions of the last polls, a narrow majority of the UK voters decided to leave the EU. Once again, the …
The World Changed Overnight
The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance …
anthro in the news 9/7/15
Chagos update The Financial Times reported on continuing efforts in the U.K. and elsewhere by displaced Chagos Islanders to return home …