What Do We Owe Students
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, […]
Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt: On the importance of ambiguity in an authoritarian state
In 1931, an American newspaper competition asked its readers to submit the best use of the word denial in a
A world upside down
In the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors –
The folly of little kings
On Monday, May 25th, 2020, Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canél, involuntarily found himself in the spotlight. Diaz-Canél had become the
Anthropology and absurdity: Introduction
Anthropology is often seen as the discipline that makes “the strange familiar and the familiar strange”. Here, however, we are
How solidarity with migrant people is stifled at the France-UK border
Over 150 organisations called for citizens to mobilise against the new, controversial French immigration law deemed ‘an ideological victory’ by
From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
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Heresies and provocations. For a politics of urban justice
In search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over
The politics of condemnation
As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as
Duties of Care, Servicing Debt
What better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo