“Sociology is a combat sport”
On February 20th, Allies Julie Billaud, Alessandro Chidichimo, Miriam Odoni, Marie-Claire Peytrignet, together with other members of the Swiss-based non-profit association Programme Indépendant de…
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“In Transit”: Wong Kwang Lin on the Fluid Mosaic
Introduction Wong Kwang Lin is an anthropologist and a dancer based in Singapore. K.L. Wong asked her colleagues and friends to create a collective…
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Podcast Round up: Best of May
Did you hear the one about the sperm and the consultant? No? How about ‘why did the UFO cross the road’? (Was it too…
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The Erotics of History
Donald Donham’s The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example is not a traditional ethnography. The author first became aware of a provocative erotic…
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Review: White Gold. Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Those of the general public who have heard of milk kinship usually regard milk kinship as a feature of “primitive”, “tribal” lineage-based societies, often…
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Some Thoughts on Movement and the MMTW
It was the moment that the sociologist from University of Amsterdam Olga Sezneva announced “I will be a talking artifact” while striking a pose…
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GONE RETREATING!
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed, we enjoyed the extraordinary…
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Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman –…
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(Mis)Fortune of ageing
It’s really bad with him. There are metastases in his head. He can stay at home tonight, and tomorrow night he has to go…
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Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past two months. When walking…
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Turning cool kids into outlaws – Legal fictions and the management of heroin abuse in post-reform China
Cool kids. On a rainy afternoon towards the end of my fieldwork in Qilin, southwest China, I sat with one of my informants, Jiao…
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Redux: Flatulanthropology
When Jon was a PhD student at Edinburgh University in the early 1990s, there was a running joke about the possibility of developing a…
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