Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […] The post Perfect Victims and the Politics…
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […] The post Perfect Victims and the Politics…
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
Together with Cameron Harrington (Durham University), I’ve co-authored a new article on water weaponisation in the journal Political Geography. It is open access and free to access, and…
In one testimony from Colombia’s armed conflict, a parrot named Lola repeated the phrases she heard around her: “Paraco asesino” (“paramilitary murderer”), “Viva la guerrilla” (“long live the…
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence. The post “There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the…
We write at a time of genocide, war, and the feeling that whoever has the more guns can do whatever they want. We ask how different forms of…
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive […] The post Go to Palestine—And Go with…
“What happened to the women who fought for the revolution?” This question has frequently come up when I have been […] The post Anti-hero*ines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives…
This article examines the social media use of Gazans since the Israeli military offensive following 7 October 2023. Based on […] The post «Please don’t scroll»: Social Media…
Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on […] The post The Killing of Gaza: Reports…
Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie and Tim Newburn examines the UK’s public‑health approach to reducing violence and challenges to imp…
SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany during and after her fieldwork, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS this year. If you missed Uzma Falak’s …
An anthropologist-poet listens to echoes of laughter and other sounds of crossings in Kashmir. In the house once occupied by soldiers laughter echoes as three women sing Yamberzal…
In November 2023, during the first phase of the genocide in Gaza, I published a text in Allegra Lab, asking […] The post Humanitarianism Hijacked: Israel’s instrumentalization of the humanitaria…
Lisa Bhungalia. 2023. Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Israel kills 59 Palestinians in […] The post Reading Elastic Empire: Refashi…
Adam Raz, 2024. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. New York: Verso. Adam Raz’s Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property is a […] The post Pillaging Palestine: Policy, Property, and…
SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a share in history.” —Walter Benjamin, Dream Kitsch …
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in […] The post Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture,…
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that […] The post The Destruction of Palestine is…
Through her field recordings, SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to murmurings of clay, debris, and time in Kashmir’s Tsaar. ✽ 1 The shared taxi meanders through Tsaar— resting…
As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through quieter, bureaucratic means to displace and dispossess…
A Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽ brick and mortar like skin and bone wisps…
An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. ✽ BEFORE I FORMALLY BECAME an anthropologist, my mom and I lived…
Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and Russia unleash similar destruction in Gaza and Ukraine.…