Anti-heroines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives
Images of female fighters in liberation movements from the global south have a wide appeal as symbols of radical social emancipation and iconic revolutionary heroines.
She braids, I listen
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair
Between Borders and Ballots
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he
Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response
I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were
Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments
In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island
Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments
“The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the
Letter from Gaza with a response from New York
The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by
Waiting as Productive Fieldwork
Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in
A knot in the throat, or that time a gangster died of appendicitis
Based on “Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)”