On being voices of prudence in times of a pandemic
Many academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists, virologists, microbiologists, weighing in…
Read MoreMany academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists, virologists, microbiologists, weighing in…
Read MoreOut of “love” and “solidarity”, an ethnography written in Greek, is Katerina Rozakou’s insightful study of two volunteer organizations that helped refugees in Athens…
Read MoreIn this post, I outline first findings from my ongoing research project on “Accountability in statelessness.” The project is based on observations from ethnographic…
Read MoreThis thematic thread evolved out of a workshop on Claiming justice after conflict. The stateless, the displaced and the disappeared at the margins…
Read MoreA close friend, currently preparing to become a military firefighter in Brazil, described his training as an exercise in “how to become a hero.”…
Read MoreIn the days leading up to the 2018 AAA annual conference, Allegra Laboratory published an open call on Twitter for “a post on the…
Read MoreOn June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the extent of what was…
Read MoreIn September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received two violation notices from…
Read More‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966:…
Read MoreThe surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…
Read MoreOn the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how…
Read MoreAs students and academics in Poland are fighting to defend democracy and autonomy of the universities, this post is a battle cry. It outlines…
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