Introduction to stateless/displaced/disappeared
This thematic thread evolved out of a workshop on Claiming justice after conflict. The stateless, the displaced and the disappeared at the margins…
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…
Read MoreWorking the System is a great book. It holds the promise of its subtitle and offers a deep ‘political ethnography of the new Angola’….
Read MoreThis month’s round up of the best anthropology podcasts brought to you in collaboration with the ever amazing New Books in Anthropology features motorcycles, Catalonians, sex…
Read MoreThis text, written by our guest editor Salvatore Poier, is a plea for solidarity and a request to engage in a vigorous and honest…
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