Of rails and rubbish: critique and the absurdity of cleaning days
In January 2020, the Senegalese President Macky Sall announced a nation-wide ‘Cleaning Day’. Together with a ‘Zero waste’ campaign and followed […]
The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of
Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are
Trolley homes and hopes for the future
This year, once again, the national capital of India is witnessing a farmer’s protest, amidst state repression, media blackout and
The Complexity of Human Rights: A Discussion of Sally Engle Merry’s Work
Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process
Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
The climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking
Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by
Why ‘Framing Gaza’?
There has never been a better documented war than the one unfolding in Palestine at the moment. As Elshaik, Martinez
AnthroKino: Spring Program
This spring, Allies meet (online) to watch ethnographic films and discuss with their makers. We have a line up of