Photo taken at Southern California rally in response to the rescission of DACA on September 5, 2017. On February 13, 2018, in a case known as Batalla Vidal [...]
by Alison Cool AES is pleased to launch a new feature: interviews celebrating the 25th anniversary of a major article in American Ethnologist. Alison Cool, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of [...]
by Elizabeth Cullen Dunn The power of writing for a non-academic audience first hit me when I was quoted in the New York Times. Four short words of mine—“the guy’s a [...]
by Bryan Dougan Bryan Dougan, AES editorial intern and graduate student at the University of North Carolina, interviews Jon Bialecki, honorary fellow at the School of Social and Political Science at [...]
“A political contribution which we feel we have already made is the expansion of the feminist principle that the personal is political,” wrote the Combahee River Collective in 1977. [...]
Alison Hanson, AES editorial intern and graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, interviews Miriam Ticktin, professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research about her latest [...]
(Courtesy of Gil Schmerler.) For two years, I have been trying to find a way to talk about Henrietta Schmerler without joining the wake of vultures that [...]
The popularity of social media in Indonesia, combined with the rise of political Islamism in recent years, are changing the ways in which people engage with religious matters in the [...]
On December 2, 2016 an estimated 500,000 to 750,000 Muslims gathered in central Jakarta. It was the biggest demonstration since the fall of Suharto, and possibly the largest religious mass [...]
President Obama’s first official visit to Indonesia in 2010 was broadcast live on national television. Political choreographers were eager to capitalize on the homecoming of Indonesia’s adopted prodigal son. To [...]
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