Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response
I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were […]
Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments
In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island
Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments
“The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the
Afterlives of Revolution: Fatemeh Sadeghi’s comments
The Dhufar Revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was an attempt to depose the British-backed Sultan and implement social ideals based on
A world upside down
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors –
Temporalities of revolt
Not long after Tufan Al-Aqsa in October, political ecologist Andreas Malm observed in an interview the peculiar temporality of popular
Encyclopedia of maladies in academic anthropology: counter-diagnosis for a sick working environment
What you are about to read is not fiction, but neither is it fact. It is a catalogue of illnesses
Waiting for ghosts
I am walking along a road on the outskirts of Leh town, in the Himalayan region of Ladakh. It is
Against making sense: Appreciating absurd roundabouts in Malaysian Borneo
In Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, I found a musical roundabout. Large loudspeakers turn this otherwise
The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room
It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I