Secret sociality now carries a whiff of resistance. Before Covid-19 had fundamentally reorganized the world in which they lived, they were young, able-bodied men. You’d spot them selling rosaries by [...]
In the European context, “crisis” discourse – i.e., references to “migrant crisis” (De Genova 2018; Dines, Montagna, and Vacchelli 2018), “economic crisis” (Navarro 2013; Karanikolos et al. 2013) and most [...]
Anjali1 was diagnosed with cancer in 2017. In February of 2020 her husband Taruq, decided to take Anjali for treatment to Pondicherry’s JIPMER2 government hospital. JIPMER was well-known amongst Taruq and Anjali’s [...]
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, his life brutally taken in what has become an all-too-routinized, state-sanctioned police ritual whereupon misplaced, racist, and stereotypical anxieties are [...]
Everything looks as it always does: the streets, the shops, the parks. But you know from the persistent news reports that you are vulnerable. You know it from the neighbor [...]
With the Category 5 cyclone Amphan hurtling towards first the Sundarbans, then Kolkata, and the rest of Bengal in May, both of us, scholars who have been working on the [...]
Crisis, Crisis Everywhere Perhaps more than any other idiom, “crisis” has come to shape collective understandings and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. The term has become virtually ubiquitous in public [...]
by Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Janet Carsten AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1995. Kathryn E. Goldfarb, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, [...]
by Alize Arıcan AES is pleased to share this interview by Alize Arıcan, AES editorial intern and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with Fırat Bozçalı, Assistant Professor [...]
How does the sky bleed? Slowly. She bleeds slowly, until she doesn’t. She is whole again. All this foolishness about skies is done. Her people and some persons have taken [...]
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