Essays

Massive screen at the main stage of the regular Saturday evening Israeli democracy demonstrations at Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street from April 22, 2023, displaying a main message of the [...]

  Question posed by a user on r/MaladaptiveDreaming. Photo Credit: Reddit   The YouTube video starts with silence, so heavy that I initially suspected a problem with [...]

Our daughter, enjoying Pride festivities at Praça do Comércio in Lisbon. We were there for Andrea to conduct fieldwork in Portugal, which is the homeland of Tracy's parents. [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

  “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 [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]