Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
Read MoreInformation and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations (such as the sending…
Read MoreAnthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate power dynamics. These are…
Read MoreThe surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…
Read MoreThe HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition in which academic anthropology…
Read MoreI would like to make the case that open access remains relevant to the mix of painful problems and worthy opportunities still before the…
Read MoreFor people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kinds of organizational…
Read MoreOn the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how…
Read MoreJulie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth in Africa….
Read MoreMonrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and urban imaginations in Monrovia….
Read MoreAs students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
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