Sarah Muir on her new book, Routine Crisis
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo69688117.html Interview by Kabir Tambar Kabir Tambar: Routine Crisis is about the aftermath of the economic collapse in Argentina in 20…
The Nature of the Copy
From the dead center of an all-white eye, a lone sapling rose two feet tall. Cyclical ridges and valleys, etched in bioplastic …
What Is This Lahu Thing Called Love?
How pop music videos perform a simultaneously Lahu and modern identity. As the music video begins, we see a young man waiting …
Infrastructure after disasters
On October 21, 1868, at approximately eight o’clock in the morning, a major earthquake on the Hayward Fault near Oakland, California shook …
A Note on MUHUM
Muslim Humanitarianism – short MUHUM – is a platform that seeks to foster debate on the complex relationship between charity, philanthropy, humanitarianism, …
Living a good life through infrastructure. A Review of three recent monographs on Central Asia
This post belongs into a series of posts on the workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” organized by Prof. Dr. Judith …
Speaking Of Jinn…
I recently participated in a podcast about jinn, material culture and modernity and globalization on the Archaeological Fantasies podcast. Here’s their episode …
Are The Media Using The Wrong Yardstick To Measure The Revolution?
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western …
Summary of Classical Sociological Theory
The basic premise of all classical sociological theory is that the contemporary world is the outcome of a transition from “traditional” to …
NO WALL TO LEAN ON #newtonloss
Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our being socially constituted bodies, attached …
Latour’s new book assembles big names to “Reset Modernity!”
MIT Press has its new site live for Bruno Latour’s new book Reset Modernity! The book has many leading thinkers making contributions; …
21st century ‘barbarians’: Modernity, the breeding of fighting bulls and EU farming subsidies
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their …
Routines of everyday life
It is a classic observation of anthropologists that we seek to document the everyday activities of people within various cultural contexts in …
→The Anxious Anthropologist: culture, health and everyday life
Vortrag: Indigene Modernität durch digitale Medientechnologien?
Budka, P. 2015. Indigene Modernität durch digitale Medientechnologien? Infrastrukturentwicklung, Technologieaneignung und soziokulturelle Praktiken im Nordwestlichen Ontario, Kanada. Vortrag im Colloq…