The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian Drama’s Prescience
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians
Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality in the Wake of Al-Assad’s Downfall
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe,
Return to a Bare Land
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in
Recalibrating Syria: New Openings for Anthropological Engagement
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . .
A Crisis of Fiduciary Regulation: From ‘Access’ to Foundering Formalisation in South African Property Inheritance
Administration has a difficult history in South Africa: apartheid was centrally an administrative project, through segregation and exclusion. Areas of
“You have to do your business, right?”: Politics of regulating maternal health markets in Bangladesh
Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services
‘What is sustainability if not a regulation?’: Social Life of Sustainability in Metal Markets
London Metal Exchange Week is Europe’s biggest annual gathering of actors in the metal sector — representatives of mining companies
Movement and Meaning for Oil and Gas Data Vendors
In figure 1, the pen in John’s hand points to a column on the computer screen. On the same screen
Foreign Investment for Domestic Development
Foreign Capital to Boost the Development of Africa “How to earn money and contribute to the development of Africa?” This
Online Nuclear Regulators, Trust, and Feelings about the Future in Tanzania
‘When we talk about the National Atomic Energy Commission, what should an ordinary person think of?’ asked Tanzanian journalist Ramadhan