“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 […]
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
The Erotics of History
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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”,
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”
GONE RETREATING!
Some of our devoted readers may have caught glimpses of cheerful Allies in the French Alps over the weekend… Indeed,
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
(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
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
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