An Anthropology of Nothing in Particular
Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where everything seems to be…
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Do the efforts to avoid meaningful action among young Nihilists in an undisclosed location make sense in a time where everything seems to be…
Read MoreDid you hear the one about the sperm and the consultant? No? How about ‘why did the UFO cross the road’? (Was it too…
Read MoreSore eyes? Glasses need cleaning and you’ve misplaced your cleaning cloth? Need something to do whilst desperately hoping your baby will fall asleep on…
Read MorePolitical developments in many parts of the world today call us to challenge the forces that thrive on fascism, racism, anti-genderism, and the collapse…
Read MoreVictoria Canning’s (2018) new book makes an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the asylum system, bringing much-needed attention to the…
Read MoreHilary Parsons Dick’s multi-site ethnography Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants is based on fieldwork conducted between 1997…
Read MoreIn the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as under attack, desperately in…
Read MoreHow does work confer dignity and a sense of belonging? Is work the central identity-conferring activity of society? What if society were structured around…
Read More“Tuesday 8:30 – Good morning circle 9:00 – I’m raising the children you have forgotten. 10:15 – And you have no goddamned clue….
Read MoreUnless they are disrupted, deportations tend to go unnoticed. It is usually only the shocking deaths of deportees, or direct action of activists that…
Read MoreA close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how to become a hero.”…
Read MoreLast month our dear podcasting heroes at New Books in Anthropology brought us some truly wonderful interviews. And, ever grateful for their work, this…
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