Open Unit
Open Unit is another in the ongoing series of Smith and Willing films by Paul Antick. With music by Luke […]
Empathy and dialogue: embracing the art of creative review
Imagine the moment you first encounter a piece of creative ethnography—a poem, a performance, an image—that speaks to the heart
The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in
Being Fungible – They Only Want Us from the Neck Down
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and
Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies
Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than
Wild Computing: a view from anthropology
Star computation scientist Stephen Wolfram has said that in order to accelerate the capacity of artificial intelligence towards a much more
GONE ICE-FISHING
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for the many merry end-of-year festivities (or just
Call for reviewers: Books on settler colonialism, borders and empire
A note from our Book Reviews Editor: Thanks for your interest in submitting a review! Kindly note that all of
Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian