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Landscapes of Power

In Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises…

What to do with the predator in your bibliography?

In the early summer of 2020 I submitted what I presumed was a final round of extremely minor revisions to an article that I’d…

Don’t Come Home this Year

‘Don’t come home this year’ is a short video about Romanian migrants returning home from Italy during the Covid-19 pandemic. The video uses viral…

Fires of Gold

As of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies…

The Political Lives of Masks: Citizenship, civility and covering up during the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the science of masks has become hotly debated by epidemiologists, public health officials, and the public at large. The…

Genocide Never Sleeps

Genocide Never Sleeps is an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the contested terrain of international criminal law from an anthropological perspective. Targeting…

Sentiment, Reason and Law

What if the police were not independent from political interests? What if various citizens and influential figures constantly intervened in officers’ decision-making, influencing the…

An Ecology of Knowledges

Micha Rahder’s An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation is an ethnographically rich account of the dense conservation networks…

Towards anthropological self-de-confinement

While we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much…

Animal Ethos

Ethics, or moral philosophy, work with general principles of right and wrong, of just and unjust, of appropriate and inappropriate, which usually lean towards…

Uberland

In Uberland: How algorithms are rewriting the future of work, technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat tackles the political realities of the Silicon Valley mythos through…