Alva Gotby‘s Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously res…
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The contortions of Empire got a new lease of life in recent years, again, ugh, over and over, the deeply problematic desire to lord it over others as…
May Day. On proletarianisation. Consider the extent to which you contribute to the production of surplus value, directly or indirectly (working for wages or not, adding value to…
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González…
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
To be updated regularly. Last update March 21, 2025 Contact: Heath Cabot (heath.cabot@uib.no) Have you found yourself under attack within … More
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, … More
In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria, I returned to […] The post Syria in transition: Impressions from…
Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services […] The post “You have to do …
Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the U.S. South. But in the end, they celebrate…
This essay uses the demise of the cyborg candidate to challenge faith in social constructionism without an examination of how authenticity sows meaning. I begin by revisiting the…
When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. Contributors to a resulting volume, As If Already Free, reflect on his legacy. ✽…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
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As the European Space Agency launches its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moons, an anthropologist explores the gap between launch enthusiasts and local residents. This piece is part…
A poet moves through rituals of silence and erasure that permeate the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. “An Order for My Backpack” and “Three Stages of…