by Alia Ayman AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition.The 1952 revolution was a turning point in Egypt’s history. The Free Officers [...]
What is it like to study people anthropology (supposedly) despises? The small room that hosted the roundtable session on Anthropology’s “Repugnant Others” at the AES/ABA/ALLA joint meetings in March 2019 [...]
Haredi Jews in Jerusalem looking at a "pashkevil", a kind of intra-community political or activist poster. (Wikipedia Commons) Anthropologists have demonstrated the discipline’s historical valorization of resistance [...]
A man placing a banner in the centre of Moscow with an image of a house and a caption “Execution ‘Hit’ House” (rasstrelnii dom). (Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic.) On [...]
How and for whom does the intimacy of family matter in political dissent? Consider this sentence a British colonial officer wrote in 1946: “He was accompanied on one or more [...]
Ideological divergences and ethnic boundaries can test intimate relationships, maintaining friendships despite these hurdles could appear thus as an attempt to live ethically one’s political life. The context of the [...]
Former student activist examining his personal archive, including photocopies of his court documents, his statement of amnesty from Reform-era president B.J. Habibie, and hand-written postcards and letters. (Doreen [...]
This image was produced by the Central Board of Conscientious Objectors in Second World War Britain and shows an imprisoned conscientious objector sewing mail bags. In the [...]
Zehra Dogan. Fugitive Times (Gold mica flake and acrylic on a newspaper page). 2017. Kedistan Collection. Reproduced by permission of artist. At a court hearing held in [...]
The Tamil caption reads “In 1985, comrade Joe with comrade Padmanabha and comrade Ketheeshwaran in Kumbakonam.” The image is watermarked EPIC (Eelam Peoples Information Centre) which was the [...]
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