How to feed the world through small-scale farming
In Feeding the World as if People Mattered, Andrew Flachs critiques the capitalist global food system which commodifies agriculture, wastes food and leaves many hungry. He calls for…
In Feeding the World as if People Mattered, Andrew Flachs critiques the capitalist global food system which commodifies agriculture, wastes food and leaves many hungry. He calls for…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
Written by Gary M. Feinman As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus …
If you saw the film Injustice, about deaths in UK police custody, and then Ken’s UltraViolence, or saw any Migrant Media stuff, or if you just want something…
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available…
Inequality: The View from Manywheres by Séamus Power explores competing perspectives on economic inequality, capitalism and social mobility through a lens of anthropology and cultural psychology. Powe…
a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
Review of Madhava Prasad’s 2014 book seems now more than ever… “Cine-Politics asserts that after a distinct period in which writers were dominant in the movies, the celebrity…
“Asian workers ‘at home’ have been organized, culturally and politically, and have provided a critique of anthropological categorisation themselves by focusing on political and organization…
In Queer Conflict Research, editors Jamie J. Hagen, Samuel Ritholz and Andrew Delatolla map an emerging field at the intersection of security studies, conflict research and queer theory.…
The Arcana of Reproduction More to say on this soon as it is invaluable for the book I am working on and is so much more than the…
It was 38 degree Celsius, another day of scorching heat in Delhi in the month of June when I decided to go out and book my first order…
Ten years after the Brexit Referendum, Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the vote forged two issue-based identities that continue to shape UK politics.…
Amplify, a new book by Adam Met and Heather Landy, argues that the collective energy and sense of community created at live music events is a powerful force.…
Outbreak mitigation always operates within a tension between technical expertise (lo técnico) and political imperatives (lo político). My conversations with epidemiologists in Guatemala over the past …
The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory edited by Jairo Funez-Flores et al. resists Eurocentric, institutionalised norms in decolonial theory by establishing a scholarship that takes a ground-up perspe…
Robert Dorschel‘s The Social Codes of Tech Workers is a sociological study of class identity among mid-level digital labourers. Drawing on interviews with American and German data scientists and…
How Sanctions Work by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez explores how Iran has managed to endure decades of economic warfare. Taking a mixed methods…
Capitalism in the Web of Life by Jason W. Moore, recently re-issued for its tenth-anniversary, refigured how we understand capitalism’s relationship to nature, arguing that economic systems, social…
Victor Mallet’s Far-Right France examines the rise of the far right in France through the successful alliance between the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Blending…
Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the 2016 Brexit Referendum created (rather than revealed) two opposing political identities in the UK: Leavers and Remainers.…
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of (and struggles over) power, in politics and beyond. Analytically…