When the Silk Road Vanished
“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…
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…
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 MoreHow does work confer dignity and a sense of belonging? Is work the central identity-conferring activity of society? What if society were structured around…
Read MoreThis meeting was, for me, overshadowed – and somehow defined – by the #CaliforniaWoodfire smoke. I was flying in from smoggy, post-Diwali Delhi or…
Read MoreGiulia Mensitieri’s book “Le plus beau métier du monde” Dans les coulisses de l’industrie de la mode examines labor in the cultural and creative…
Read MoreAs an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU and the Society of…
Read MoreAnthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate power dynamics. These are…
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 MoreThe HAU controversy is both a disappointment and an opportunity. It is a disappointment because it reflects the troubled condition in which academic anthropology…
Read MoreFor people immersed in bureaucratic institutions, like universities, the current ruckus over HAU raises at least one longstanding anthropological question: what kinds of organizational…
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…
Read MoreOn the 22nd of February 2018 University and College Union (UCU), the largest academic union in the world with over 100,000 members went on…
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