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 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 . .
Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison
Collective Thinking, Collective Action
Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case
‘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
Regulating Underwater Worlds: Anthropology, experts & thinking cross culturally about the sea
Thinking about the sea Figure 1: The Sea is Not Empty’, the Women Dreaming emerging from the sea in Marra
Regulation (Un)Done: Introduction
Regulation in images While in the Western European/American context, regulation is the stuff of big companies, in Poland it is
In times like these
In the places where we work, the prisons fill. At first it seemed a trickle, no one we knew, then
Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian