The Privileged Discomfort of Border Crossings
As social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is rarely…
Read MoreAs social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is rarely…
Read MoreDonald Donham’s The Erotics of History: An Atlantic African Example is not a traditional ethnography. The author first became aware of a provocative erotic…
Read MoreBrook Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who examines dominant narratives, often relating to colonialism and modernist theories. Through museum and archival interventions, he aims…
Read MoreYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects – Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet It’s 2013 and I am poring over the…
Read MoreMatan Kaminer is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan and a member of the Israeli Anthropological Association and of Academia for Equality,…
Read MoreThe book “Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation” by Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann…
Read MoreAre Eastern and Central regions of the EU more Islamophobic than its Western part? This was the question that brought together scholars from different…
Read MoreWhat makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness…
Read MoreAfter getting all worked up about new publications via last week’s #Reviews, we thought to indulge a bit more – by revisiting podcasts on…
Read MoreIn February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university….
Read MoreOver the next two days, Allegra will be busy reporting on the international workshop Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: Engaging political anthropology…
Read MoreWe just came across the last filmed interview of Edward Said, made available on the blog of Verso Books on the occasion of the…
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