War and its absurdities
When Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the cheese from Luhansk to…
Read MoreWhen Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the cheese from Luhansk to…
Read MoreCal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in Malawi paradoxically proliferate suspicion….
Read MoreThis short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of trust relationships between human…
Read MoreSpurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself, this essay takes queries…
Read MoreUsing blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. The creation of trust…
Read MoreHow does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages…
Read MoreSarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes a good cup of…
Read MoreAs I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British…
Read MoreIf the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at…
Read MoreI can smell it, someone is cooking chicken, I screamed and ran to my sister. I think it is the neighbours. Let us call…
Read MoreEvery year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area…
Read MoreOne Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake…
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