Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Movement: to Be or Not-to-Be? #Palestine
A few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The […]
The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse
“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has
Palestine Threads
Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Israel/Palestine Task Force Report
On 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university
Essay One-Shots
REVISITING ISRAELI ANTHROPOLOGY AND AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY: OUR “SPECIAL RELATIONS” #Palestine
Earlier this week the American Anthropological Association’s task force on Engagement with Israel-Palestine issued a 130-page report to assess whether
AAA, BDS and Palestine: New Thematic Week
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an
Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a
Performance Threads
The press conference as performative (political) space
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press
Million Mask Marching
People have been trickling into the top of Trafalgar Square since noon. By five darkness has launched its steady discolouration