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November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the…
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November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the…
Read MoreThe creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an important addition to the…
Read MoreHow does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages…
Read MoreSarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes a good cup of…
Read MoreAs I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British…
Read MoreThe cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B. Joe titled Bleeding Sky,…
Read MoreIn her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development project of the coal…
Read MoreIn Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises…
Read MoreThe brutal murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 has once again revealed the terrifying fissures that cut across our societies and the…
Read MoreThe global pandemic has brought death uncomfortably close for many of us. The way our governments, economists, scientists, and fellow citizens have reacted and…
Read MoreAs of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies…
Read MoreIf the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at…
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