Sinicizing Islam in Contemporary China
Modern states, both liberal and non-liberal, tend to deploy totalitarian-style strategies which force an “internal other” to assimilate into the […]
Anglo-American hegemony in contemporary anthropology: Some personal dilemmas
Disclaimer: Over the last few days, I have had a writing episode. Nothing had come out of my brain for
Lettre à Madame la Maire
Le 4 janvier 2021 English Version Madame la Maire, Si je vous écris aujourd’hui, c’est pour vous faire
Animal Intimacies
The creative disentanglement of human-animal relationships in Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan is an
Connected by extension – How paying connects old regimes and new isolations
The situation in Myanmar during and shortly after my fieldwork in March 2020 reminded me of the uncertainty of
The Montanelli Case: Sexuality, Race, and Colonial Forgetting in BLM Italy.
Indro Montanelli (1909-2001), the most famous journalist in Italian history, is an intellectual figure whose memory commands respect across Italy’s
Landscapes of Power
The cover of Dana Powell’s book, Landscapes of Power, taken from a painting by Diné teacher and muralist James B.
Landscapes of Power
In her monograph Landscapes of Power, Powell takes the proposed – at the time of her initial fieldwork – development
Landscapes of Power
In Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being
Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest
“yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!” Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon