Whose Life Is Worth More?
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code […]
The Kiss of Death
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage many places in the world, it is hard to imagine a book that
Suicidal
In “Suicidal – why we kill ourselves” Jesse Bering asks what drives some of us to die by a self-directed
Just Transitions
November 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or
Animal Intimacies
The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an
Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one
Tasting Qualities
Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes
Tasting Qualities
As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in
Landscapes of Power
The cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B.
Landscapes of Power
In her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development