1. Bending over the kitchen table, Regina reached out with her hand and lightly touched my arm. My hand had caressed the flowery cloth next to my coffee mug. [...]
Coming up the escalators from the Potong Pasir MRT station on a humid Tuesday evening, I walk ahead through the decks of the public housing blocks that surround the station [...]
Mural in a shelter for the elderly urban-poor in Lima, Peru, depicting older adults dancing. Photo by Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori. Anthropological studies have underscored aging as a [...]
As an anthropologist working at the intersection of technology, business, and design, I often straddle two worlds with seemingly opposing philosophies. In industry, the mantra is "move fast and break [...]
I My passion for writing has brought me this far. Today, that same passion places me, in both employment and financial terms, in a position of insecurity. Since my childhood, [...]
Olosara Beach in coastal Sigatoka, Fiji. The picture shows a “line” of purple, red, and yellow flowers along the beach, with coastal dry forest in the background and various [...]
Selfie before setting up my desk for an online interview. Photo by author. This photo is not just a selfie. This photo is part of an autoethnographic [...]
Palihan (2020) is a mixed-media statue artwork by local artists Duvrart Angelo and Lulus Setyo Wantono. Photo by the author, June 2023. A Statue at YIA Entering the [...]
So many thoughts lined up in my head as I looked for the vaccination room. I was sweating. The metallic chairs in the hospital’s hallways reflected a cold light that [...]
A ruined building, a runner muses, as he makes his way along the yet-to-be-gentrified quarter opposite Durban, South Africa’s new cruise ship terminal. Morning light streams through the cracks [...]
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