“We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa
I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to…
Read MoreI met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to…
Read MoreEvery so often something happens that perfectly encapsulates the consumptive death rattle that is the job market in higher education. A few weeks ago,…
Read MoreNovember 2018. A wave of nearly 300,000 women and men in yellow vests floods France. A protest without leaders or spokespersons, rises from the…
Read MorePart Two: New Opportunities, New Stress In the Gulf region, Dubai has been a forerunner in the transformation towards a neoliberal market of skills…
Read MoreFor the occasion of this year’s Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, the likeness of a migrant woman was chosen for a much-celebrated idol of…
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 MoreIn their introduction to this thematic series, and the symposium that preceded it, Berisha, Mafizzoli and Ojani invite us to reflect on what happens…
Read MoreAs of 2019, Ghana is the country with the largest gold-mining industry in Africa, overtaking South Africa, after two South African gold mining companies…
Read MoreRoad building in the Maldives – an archipelago of small coralline islands – sounds a bit like a euphemism for a ridiculous task. Maldivian…
Read More“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had just spent ten days…
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