You are John
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#Failures: When things don’t hold: Anthropologies of failure, breakdown, and dysfunction
The fragility of our infrastructures and modes of living seldom become as ubiquitously palpable as they have with the current
Clouds of Failure
Anticipating the failure of digital devices has become part of the fabric of everyday life in the digital world. With
Genocide Never Sleeps
Genocide Never Sleeps is an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the contested terrain of international criminal law from
Magical afterlives in post-genocidal Turkey
One enters the city of Dersim, surrounded by the steep holy Munzur Mountains in central Anatolia, after showing one’s ID
The Corona Diaries
Welcome to The Corona Diaries from Allegra, first recorded in April 2020 as part of the Corona thematic thread. The
Coronavirus: Less Humanitarianism, More Politics!
This essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the
The return of the plague-spreader
Written in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the
When the Silk Road Vanished
“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had
On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic
Many academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists,