Tag: geopolitics
Tiên-Dung Hà , July 6th, 2021
“Chống dịch như chống giặc” (“Fight the pandemic like an invader”) has become Vietnam’s slogan in its battle against COVID-19. From the pandemic’s onset until April 2021, Vietnam…
Andrew Lakoff , March 4th, 2021
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus causing the disease remains uncertain. The predominant theory is that its emergence in human populations…
Maximilian C. Forte , April 26th, 2020
Part 1 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series lasting from April 26 through April 30. Corona—meaning: a crown. Travelling around the world, as if at full gallop. Firing…
jeremy schmidt , February 12th, 2020
A great looking new title from Simon Dalby from the University of Ottawa Press. Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability We now find ourselves in a new geological age:…
Daniele Cantini , July 18th, 2019
The conference No Country for Anthropologists? Ethnographic Research in the Contemporary Middle East, which we co-organized and hosted at the University of Zurich in November 2018, addressed major…
Focaal Web Editor , February 27th, 2017
In the past four weeks, Romania has witnessed some of the biggest protests in the post-communist era. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country took…
Human Economy Blog , December 30th, 2015
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
Unknown , December 30th, 2015
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
Human Economy Blog , December 30th, 2015
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
Human Economy Blog , December 30th, 2015
By Tijo Salverda There is not much new in the observation that markets are closely intertwined with political authority. In the past authorities guaranteed markets to operate, while…
John Postill , April 20th, 2015
By Muzammil M. Hussain This is the eighteenth post in the Freedom technologists series. The following are some passages taken (with permission) from chapter 4 of Hussain, M….