Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice: An Exploration Through Seva
What lies ahead?Reimagining the world. Only that.– Arundhati Roy, Azadi On 11 November 2024, I sat in the audience at […] The post Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice:…
What lies ahead?Reimagining the world. Only that.– Arundhati Roy, Azadi On 11 November 2024, I sat in the audience at […] The post Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice:…
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. […] The post British Culture After Empire: Race,…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Covid-19 is a pandemic that has to be approached as syndemic. This is what Yasar Abu Ghosh convincingly argues in this deeply disturbing and profoundly illuminating collective volume,…
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […] The post Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japan…
An article in the Baltimore Banner by Rona Kobell (https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/hampton-national-historic-site-east-towson-URF5WGM5TZCAZMJAZBGRU7JYMY/) reminded me about the…
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….
Noemi Tousignant, Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, in conversation with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer in the Department of Global Health…
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group.…
The entrance of the room where the Mocambo group works. Photo by the author. This essay is one of the results of a roda de conversa (a conversation…
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the 2011 revolution and are…
In Contesting Moralities: Roma Identities, State and Kinship, Iliana Sarafian challenges established scholarly practices that attempt to define Romani identity, instead exploring how individuals navig…
***Note: Originally published on EFH in 2017*** INTRODUCTION On February 22nd, 2017 Agent Orange’s administration revoked the transgender protection guidelines on Title IX in a “Dear Colleague” letter…
***Note: Originally published on EFH in 2017*** INTRODUCTION On February 22nd, 2017 Agent Orange’s administration revoked the transgender protection guidelines on Title IX in a “Dear Colleague” letter…
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by far-right leader Le Pen. They condemned this latest…
The murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass grave. War’s soundtrack echoes in the background, tearing…
Introduction At present, we are living through several major, arguably foreseen, historical events and political shifts. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised and further fragmented …
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
We will not be silent in the face of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and we hope we will see a free Palestine in our lifetimes. As scientists…
As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as well as designated minister of the economy in…
The algorithm swiftly gets it –yes, I am sucked in by news about Gaza- and collapses my social media platforms’ feeds into a monothematic thread that mirrors my…
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalaya…
Diversity according to whiteness is not about who should occupy the spaces of public discourse, so much as it is about who should have the power to decide…