Walking in Soqotra
Anne Meneley
I have long been wistful for my first field site of Yemen, but as I have been unable to return there, I decided to go to the island of Soqotra [...]
Walking in Soqotra
A Fordist Fantasy? Managing fluidity in the French asylum system
Tessa Bonduelle
The French system of asylum is steeped with liquid metaphors. Scholars have highlighted the ways in which demographers, politicians and media have long tapped into hydraulics and hydrology to [...]
The Afterlife of Unconstitutionality
Roshni Chattopadhyay
Introduction In 2014, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no gender-related cases can be arbitrated at the village level; any assembly of this nature remains unconstitutional. 1 This judgement [...]
An Ethnographic Encounter with “White” AI
Christina Kefala
“Excuse me, miss. Do I understand you were looking for a particular AF [Artificial Friend]? One you’d seen here before?” “Yes, ma’am. You had her in your window a [...]
Intimate Precarities: Growing Old in Lima, Peru
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
The cracked floors and peeled walls of a resident’s room. Dilapidated furniture, peeled walls, cracked floors, cluttered up spaces. These are deteriorated landscapes, precarious topographies. How does [...]
Borders of Care: Ethnography with the Monarch Butterfly
Columba Gonzalez-Duarte
Monarch resting in oyamel tree in Mexico. Photo by author. The migratory monarch butterfly, sometimes also called the “super butterfly” and the “Bambi of the insect world,” performs a [...]
Accessible Atmospheres and Medically Assisted Death: Dignity, Oppression, and the Eugenic Impulse in Canada
Sophia Jaworski
Content warning: This article discusses suicide, genocide, eugenics, and other forms of violence.In Canada, it is easier to access physician-assisted suicide than it is to secure accessible housing. What sense [...]
“Be Strong Like a Kitchen Cabinet”: Indestructible Objects as Symbols of Resistance in Ukraine
Alisa Sopova
“Cities are about life, not just about walls. The objects that we hold sacred cannot be destroyed in principle because walls and roofs constitute only one percent of their essence, [...]
Sovereignty in Settler Colonial Times: Kinship and Education in the Tibetan Exile Community
Dawa Lokyitsang
When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more than 80,000 Tibetans, fled to Nepal and India following China’s military retaliations against the Tibetan uprisings of 1959, they [...]
An Anthropology about Us, for Us, by Us
Argenis Hurtado Moreno
I said to her, “I’m grateful to be here, but my life here is not like my life at home. I spent my time there working the nightshift with my [...]
