Code from nowhere
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI.
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.
Strengthening Women’s Financial Rights After Marriage: Matrimonial Property under Muslim Family Law in Pakistan
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of women’s rights to matrimonial property has been uncharted territory.
Health justice two ways: examples from the field
Through storytelling for health, the authors provide examples of different practices designed for justice and connection, community acupuncture and ethnographically informed research.
What Migration Studies Can Learn from Architecture
Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable.
Care, Commons and Thinking Together: An Allegra Approach to Book Reviews
Of the many experiences shared by early career academics, feeling perpetually behind undoubtedly counts among them. Casual conversations with colleagues
Everywhere is a Border, Everywhere a Wall
On Stratified Topologies of Urban Passing 1 April 2024, London. Written while shifting from one transient stay to another, sixteen
“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.
Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within
The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues