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 [...]
An image of a conscientious objector standing trial in Second World War Britain, distributed by the Central Board for Conscientious Objectors. From Soviet refuseniks to Kurdish activists [...]
by Sahana Udupa and Purnima Mankekar AES is pleased to share this interview celebrating our 25th anniversary American Ethnologist article from 1993. Sahana Udupa, professor of anthropology at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München interviews Purnima [...]
AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our 2018 Small Grants Competition. When the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp was built in 1948 for refugees fleeing their homes and [...]
A constant striving was endemic to the human situation, Søren Kierkegaard considered, since at the heart of every individual life was a tension and unrest concerning future possibilities: “eternally it [...]
What happens to a progressive temporal orientation when the future is cancelled out? How might social life be invested with a futural drive but without an end-point to guide anticipatory [...]
At one of the busiest roundabouts of north Nicosia, Cyprus’s divided capital, two men film for an online comedy program, standing at a small cafe table while traffic rushes by. [...]
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