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 just spent ten days…
Read More“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had just spent ten days…
Read MoreMany academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists, virologists, microbiologists, weighing in…
Read MoreWhere do we draw the line of separation? Who draws it, and for which purposes? When the former interior minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini,…
Read MoreThe NGO personnel in Gaziantep’s office (Turkey) was in shock. Little groups were talking loudly in Arabic, or keeping their lips firmly closed. “It…
Read MoreIn September 2018, Jarosław Gowin, Poland’s Minister of Science and Higher Education, abolished anthropology as an academic discipline by an executive decree. The much-protested…
Read MoreBe free. Eat sweets. Do not go to university (but use the university to print for free). Resist academic hierarchy. Do not believe what…
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…
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…
Read MoreIn her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda….
Read MoreHillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era….
Read MoreA cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue…
Read MoreThe past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption…
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