An uncountable number of innocent people have been jailed during this government’s time … Do you understand? This is the situation of the government policy. This is why those [...]
Velu and I watched the lights of the power plant flick on about an hour before sunset. With our backs rested to the sides of his boat, we saw [...]
One of the telescopes in South Africa, image included with SALT’s permission. © Southern African Large Telescope. Words are in the world and of the world (Barad [...]
The photo shows the inside of a restaurant with vibrant tiled walls. Photo by Pexels, Pixabay. “We don’t want incense sticks, thank you,” the woman at the [...]
In late 2023, my friend and longtime resident of the Indonesian coastal city Semarang, Pak Puji, sent me a cellphone video displaying the spread of the water hyacinth on [...]
Hasnapur’s post office is a modest complex which also houses an Aadhaar (national identification number) registration center. Although the latter opens at 9 AM, applicants are advised to begin [...]
Nothing seems to be enough. Biodiversity is plummeting, pollution is ever on the rise, and global warming is a visceral presence. Efforts taken so far to mitigate or adapt [...]
How do people live in a world that is characterized by crisis, uncertainty, and a profound sense of not-knowing? How do people act, socially and politically, amidst conditions not [...]
Photo by Xu Haiwei on Unsplash “I don’t even know who is human anymore? I open my phone and I am wondering if what I see is [...]
It has now been more than 50 years since I conducted ethnographic research for my PhD dissertation in San Jerónimo Amanalco, a bilingual Nahuatl-Spanish speaking community high in the [...]
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