The Neoliberal Race to the Bottom Affects Us All!*
Over the last years academics from different disciplines have become increasingly visible on popular and social media, narrating personal stories […]
In defence of our universal double standards
The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and
Crisis and Continuity: A Critical Look at the “European Refugee Crisis”
Writing ethnography in sites and times of “crisis” is a challenge that more and more anthropologists are dealing with, as
REDUX: The Rise and Fall of Human Rights in Occupied #Palestine – by Lori Allen
When Lori Allen‘s The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine appeared last year, it was
Palestine Threads
REDUX: An educator’s perspective on the academic boycott of Israeli institutions #BDS
Over the past months, colleagues in anthropology and other fields have laid out strong arguments for why one should support
The Road to Oslo and Its Reverse
“If we fail to defend our cause, then we should change the defenders, not the cause.” (Ghassan Kanafani) Oslo has
Crisis in focus
This week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofti on a very timely theme: CRISES. Etymologically
Investing without wealth: The financialization of social reproduction
A few years ago, even an expert on the risks of subprime lending would have been astounded by the very
Asking Gramsci’s question crisis
Some object to the word ‘crisis’. However, it is useful for describing the sense that what seemed to be an
Crisis on the opposite shore – Notes from the field on crisis, revolution, and the possible
This piece is a from-the-field reflection on the ways in which grand events and processes such as global financial crises