Living by the gun
Outside observers have often interpreted Chad’s long history with rebellion as reflective of internal chaos and questionable moralities. Marielle Debos […]
Mobile Secrets
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been hailed as the holy grail of “transformational development”, the source of growing innovations
Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic
Monrovia Modern
Monrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and
Sovereignty in Exile
As a contributor to a recent issue in Cultural Anthropology noted, enough attention has been devoted to sovereignty over the
#Review: Working the System
Working the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography
#Review: Moving by the Spirit
In Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt, Naomi Haynes provides a compelling ethnographic study of
#Podcast Interview Round Up: The Best of March
This month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in
Remediation in Rwanda
In her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation
Rise against – call for reviews on precarious work and protest music
From patronising hierarchical superiors to casual, zero-hour contracts, to pension cuts, we are witnessing in many countries the entrenchment of