Atmospheres of change
This month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the…
Read MoreThis month, Chileans will decide whether to set in motion a process to change the country’s dictatorship-era constitution while marking a year since the…
Read MoreThe brutal murder of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 has once again revealed the terrifying fissures that cut across our societies and the…
Read MoreSummer comes to an end, and some of us will start commuting again. Others will desperately wonder how to fill up the ‘spare’ time…
Read MoreWhile we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much…
Read MoreSpoiler: I hate to say it, but Americans have only begun the five stages of grief, and we aren’t all going through it…
Read MoreFebruary 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be glimpsed through the hanging…
Read MoreThe Sudanese revolution had slowly been gaining recognition since December 2018, when, in April 2019, a photo of women’s activism pushed the protests into…
Read MoreHow can an anthropologist who teaches at a university work towards helping indigenous people in their efforts to make their lives better? Many turn…
Read MoreIn State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard moves away from an anthropological tendency to study the margins…
Read MoreOutside observers have often interpreted Chad’s long history with rebellion as reflective of internal chaos and questionable moralities. Marielle Debos nuances these superficial understandings…
Read MoreAs students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
Read MoreWhile media attention is focused elsewhere, a new phase of the “European border crisis” is unfolding around the snow-covered mountain passes between Italy and…
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