The Gloss of Harmony
I spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
Read MoreI spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
Read MoreAllie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We…
Read MoreRelations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic…
Read MoreAn academic interview is just a snapshot but it can offer a vivid account of a life’s work. The following is an edited version…
Read MoreThis week, Allegra makes a five-day trip to the northern capital of Finland – Helsinki! Our fantastic local allies have put together a comprehensive…
Read MoreIt’s a theme that has been the subject of countless books, articles, monologues and debates: race. We’ve touched upon it in many of the reviews…
Read MoreAs shown by the myriad of events highlighted during International Open Access Week, the amount of talk and initiatives regarding open science and the transition…
Read MoreWhen Lori Allen‘s The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine appeared last year, it was – of course –…
Read MoreOver the past months, colleagues in anthropology and other fields have laid out strong arguments for why one should support the academic boycott of…
Read MoreA few months ago a fellow anthropologist colleague forwarded me a petition: Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions. The main goal is to…
Read MoreOn 8 October 2015, Israeli security forces brutally beat and arrested two students of Birzeit University, a major Palestinian university in the West Bank….
Read MoreEarlier this week the American Anthropological Association’s task force on Engagement with Israel-Palestine issued a 130-page report to assess whether the AAA should take…
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