Kenyan Mothers Take on Police Violence
Lucy Wambui is a convenor of the Mothers of Victims and Survivors Network in Nairobi. Ed Ram I first met Sarah Wangari three weeks after her son Alex…
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War between good citizens and bad citizens: tools for today’s totalitarianism in Brazil and the Philippines
On May 6, 2021, on the heels of Brazil’s deadliest month since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, special police forces in Rio de Janeiro killed 28 people…
Towards an Anthropology of Coups
When is a coup a coup? Reflections on the anthropological study of ‘coups’ There have been more than 200 coups in 95 countries over the last 75 years,…
Reciprocal Vulnerability in the Face of Patriarchal Violence
“Everything is research data.” As PhD students we must have heard this statement from teachers, mentors, and supervisors a hundred times. The advice points to the widely held…
When “Voluntary” Return Is Not a Real Option for Asylum-Seekers
Wrestling with the themes of violence, hope, and resilience, Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi often makes delicate use of red—the color of blood. Imran Qureshi “Love Me, Love Me…
What Will It Take to Stop Swimming in the Waters of Racism?
[no-caption] Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images In the weeks leading up to the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, I passed dozens of Donald Trump 2024 banners and…
Why the Camp Grant Massacre Matters Today
In 2015, members of the Apache Nation and their allies protested actions by the U.S. Congress that granted parts of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper Mining. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty…
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
Chronic living against all odds in Honduras by Nancy Worthington
Yesenia was born with congenital heart disease in 2000, a time in Honduras when heart defects meant certain, if not sudden, death for most children. Owing to surgical…
Ep #72 Weaponised Photography & Sex Work: Camille Waring on Online Intimacy & Lens Based Violence
The Familiar Strange · Ep #72 Weaponized Photography & Sex Work: Camille Waring on Online Intimacy & Lens Based Violence Before we dive into today’s episode we’d just…
What Does the American Dream Have to do With the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Protestors gather outside Dodger Stadium, a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles, in January. Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images On January 30, protesters disrupted a mass…
Anarchism In Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy
Most anarchist organizing requires the full participation and consensus of all members. Sterling College/Flickr Two hours into a weekly planning session, the 15 or so black-clothed, tatto…
How Imperialism Gave Us 2020
Violence and disease have long been intertwined in the Americas. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images The world is caught in the grip of a deadly pandemic and yet another wave…
Sex workers working with police: Sue Davis, Vancouver BC
We hear most about the big moments in sex workers’ rights movements – court decisions, parliamentary reports, conferences, public protests. But many groups engage in negotiations behind th…
Escape, Exposure, and Life on the Pacific Crest Trail
An act of walking into the wilderness implies an act of walking out of somewhere or something. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), which extends over the US states…
What Rez Dogs Mean to the Lakota
Painting by Lakota artist Keith Braveheart from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Keith Braveheart A tragic event occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakot…
The Cookout (and All Other Manners of Heavenly Black Things)
[no-caption] Manny Rodriguez As a poet and an anthropologist, I often write about the cycles of Black grief, death, celebration, and life. As a Black queer descendant of…
What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying
President Trump frequently uses language that White power extremists understand as expressing support for their views. Angus Greig Donald Trump’s path to the U.S. presidency in 2016 was…
The Public Problem With Counterterrorism
A British army helicopter flies over Estonian forests during a massive annual military training exercise. NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Flickr The terrorist attacks on Septem…
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
by Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, and Jerome Lewis Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative articles in the media, and…
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws & Jerome Lewis Extreme Citizen Science Research Group Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative…
Combating Anti-Black Racism in Brazil and Beyond
Protests against police violence in Brazil, like this march commemorating the life of a Black youth killed in his home, help speak to the transnational nature of anti-Blackness…
How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
In some parts of the world, giant rats are being enlisted to detect postwar land mines. APOPO At the third stop at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem…
The Murkiness of the Peruvian Lockdown
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers) have had to leave…