Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies […]
Eldercare in South Africa: Dreaming of a White Paper Christmas
About a year ago around Christmas, South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi and ANC colleagues released the anticipated White
(Mis)Fortune of ageing
It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night
Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past
Ethnographies of Academia
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon.
Insiders, Outsiders, and Intellectual Kinship
Marshall Sahlins once dismissed the possibility that teacher-student relationships might be a kind of kinship. ‘Persons may have various relational
Neoliberalism as Liberation in Russian Data Science
It should not be too controversial to say that the Russian university system is somewhat dilapidated. Certainly, this was the
Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic
“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the
Unravelling Academic Precarity
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that
Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis
At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early