Engaged Anthropology: The AAA’s Israel/Palestine Task Force Report
On 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university […]
Palestine Threads
AAA, BDS and Palestine: New Thematic Week
When the Jewish Agency in Tel-Aviv announced the institution of the Provisional Government of Israel on 14 May 1948, the
New Anthropologies of Political Performance – thematic thread on performance
Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the
#Review: Anthropology, Theatre and Development #Performance
In their introduction to Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius do an
Kabul Carnival. Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
I recently had the challenging pleasure of reading Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival on my first visit to Afghanistan. As a
Performance Threads
The press conference as performative (political) space
In this short piece, I would like to consider a performative site that is often overlooked: that of the press
Million Mask Marching
People have been trickling into the top of Trafalgar Square since noon. By five darkness has launched its steady discolouration
REDUX: Fear by Numbers: On the rise of Europe’s ‘Illegality Industry’
It’s no longer all quiet on the western front. In recent years, Europe’s “fight against illegal migration” has alternately been
Crisis in focus
This week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofti on a very timely theme: CRISES. Etymologically
Investing without wealth: The financialization of social reproduction
A few years ago, even an expert on the risks of subprime lending would have been astounded by the very