Brexit, Trump, and Public Anthropology
In the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for articles explaining why the…
Read MoreIn the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for articles explaining why the…
Read MoreWho can believe that it’s almost Spring – where did the time fly?! At Allegra we just realized that we never paused to reflect…
Read MoreIt’s time for some exciting events!! Let’s go on a little bit of a time travel as we attempt to anticipate the future and…
Read MoreIn 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and…
Read MoreIntroduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison….
Read MoreI was excited to dig into the book by the sociologist Kenneth A. Kolb. Why? I was keen to read something analytically powerful, critical…
Read MoreFashion is deeply expressive of social and individual identities, and thus, changes in fashion trends reveal much about changes in culture. This contention is…
Read MoreMasculinities Under Neoliberalism (2016), edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne is the successor of the groundbreaking work ‘Dislocating Masculinity’ (1994)….
Read MoreWithin the past several years, prenatal testing has significantly advanced, developing numerous methods of non-invasive prenatal testing such as examining fetal cell-free DNA in…
Read MoreFollowing up on Felix Girke’s review of Rogers Brubaker’s book #trans, this #reviews week is dedicated to more new publications that explore #gender at…
Read MoreThe city rattles, rustles and roars unremittingly. In Buenos Aires you hear the constant medley of restless mechanical noises and the humming of millions of lives. The central pitch of this soundscape…
Read MoreMy forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite of the wide-spread European…
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