Built on silt, but gold.
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
The kind people at Heidelberg dug this out of the drawer the mice keep for snacking in the lean times. I did not have a digital copy before…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/BYWRD9F7JJPIYUBJGNUX?target=10.1111/apv.12445 Or email me for the usual rapid response avalanche of wordage.
There are many dimenesions of Nancy Cunard, born on this day, 10 March, in 1896. She wrote “These were the hours”, about her publishing imprint, through which she…
… We used to write letters to mobilise the comrades, by hand, on letterhead, with biros, put em in envelopes, lick stamps and then carry them to the…
Writing on the ways the changes in museum display can be understood as a record of political and economic, especially colonial, articulation (without insisting there are any direct…
Thomas Mouat Tate, with a cuppa and (ship)mates was, he said, taken in Malta in May 1942. They are, I expect, quite jolly since they will have just…
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess…
The Sundarbans: Where anthropology meets history in recounting the riverine delta – Sundarbans: Nơi nhân học gặp lịch sử trong việc kể lại vùng đồng bằng ven sông…
RAAF Squadron Leader Keith “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Some slightly…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
Dow chimicals… grrrr. but there is a backstory to this despicable substance, I cannot yet see a full version of Pantelis Vougaris’ film With Heart and Soul (- yet,…
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
Note to self to transpose my ppt slides on Richard Burton into a text since he is problematic enough to take a place alongside The Victorians (Tylor, Spencer,…
Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…
Epicurus and good coffee. Notes are a habititual mode of reading to help me push my thoughts through the pages, but its the pages that are the pleasure.…
check <here> if you can get it free or write me an mail for a copy.
This comment on the British Left was buried I guess, but had cause to think of it again today: “…the Left collapsed under the weight of a sectarian…
From: (1846) Course of lectures on dramatic art and literature. Translated by John Black. Revised, according to the last German ed. by A.J.W. Morrison.
Read more here: https://www.academia.edu/49434453/The_chapatti_story_how_hybridity_as_theory_displaced_Maoism_as_politics_in_Subaltern_Studies The_chapatti_story_how_hybridity_as_theoDownload
Comparison rebooted as participatory research did not quite take off as a turn (not only through lack of time and funds) but thankfully it is still bubbling away…