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 at the top. They…
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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 bad job market. The…
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Unravelling Academic Precarity
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that derive from them. From…
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Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption…
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NO WALL TO LEAN ON
By Dalene Swanson. Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our being socially constituted bodies,…
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A Short Reflection on the Evidentiality of Evidence
Evidence sometimes suffers from a peculiar problem. It is not always evident. I call this the problem of the evidentiality of evidence. By definition,…
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Call for papers: Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation
Workshop: Critical Approaches to Irregular Migration Facilitation: Grounding the Theory and Praxis of Human Smuggling Where: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso,…
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Podcast Interview Round Up: New Books in Anthropology
After getting all worked up about new publications via last week’s #Reviews, we thought to indulge a bit more – by revisiting podcasts on…
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Inside-out Jokes & Scientific Pantomimesis: Questioning Interpretations of the Inhuman
In a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during the spring 2016 semester….
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Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War
When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image…
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Call for Reviews: Recent Publications on Gender
While gender remains a mostly female domain of inquiry, our list of recent publications features not only male authors, but also discusses contemporary masculinities….
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Virtual Roundtable – Paul Anderson’s response
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? Michel de Certeau argued that agency comes in different…
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