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APB jigsaw – BliarDownload
APB jigsaw – BliarDownload
Indignity: A life Reimagined by Lea Ypi explores the period of transition between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Enver Hoxha’s communist regime in…
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainians have been gathering to support the war effort by creating camouflage nets for fighters on the frontlines. ✽ On a hot…
Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online …
This film, as directed by Đặng Thái Huyền. a hard watch, educational rather than informational (that is a good thing) and powerful. Aggravated eye infection by some degree.…
Only adding this to the archive – tanks are not needed just now in Indonesia. It is a Matilda Tank of the 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment in Tarakan…
Lets not forget the redundancies built into the news cycle. #1 What was the Trump—Musk alliance if not the merger of two distorted character masks representing shills for…
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.…
An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. ✽ WITHIN A FEW HOURS…
The CIA brags about the US being the largest weapons exporter/producer – Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? From their very own world factbook. that one browses over coffee…
In photo and video material of violent conflict, a phenomenon regularly occurs that needs interpretation: perpetrators of violence who appear to enjoy their actions, or bystanders laughing or…
What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. The dominant discourse about war is that soldiers…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. Commenting on my research for the WarFun project,…
I am currently wrapping up an essay film, Falling, about my fraught relationship with Pepe and his brother, two retired Argentine military officers whom I met during my…
An archaeologist considers whether students should learn from antiquities looted from Iraq. ✽ IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece…
The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the border of North and South Korea is the site of the longest ceasefire in the world. In this region, the effects of…
“On the form, I ticked that I had got enough pads. I ticked that I had been instructed. I ticked that I had applied for microloans, more than…
Introduction Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an earlier post on this blog (Hann 2022), I emphasized the geopolitical and economic interests of the west, especially…
Thomas Mouat Tate, with a cuppa and (ship)mates was, he said, taken in Malta in May 1942. They are, I expect, quite jolly since they will have just…
It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human? Late in life, Erika Jacoby and Ursula Martens…
RAAF Squadron Leader Keith “Bluey” Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Some slightly…