Here you will find the latest entries from selected blogs in the field of social and cultural anthropology.
Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1).1 That year […]
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Hafsa Kanjwal. 2023. Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Decolonization across the so-called Global South led […]
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Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is […]
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Join us at the upcoming Anthrokino to watch The Rose of Ioannina by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz. […]
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I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in […]
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Realizing that things are because things are connected. In the spaces between, we create. Some days I wonder if this is […]
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Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge […]
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I love Ikuno Naka’s and Garima Jaju’s film State of Address. I have my reasons. They’ve something to do with […]
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Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that […]
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It demands a kind of compliance to a taxonomised structure. For us to follow a set of instructions to turn in the correct documents, forms, proofs and annexures.
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On 20th July 2025, Frantz Fanon would have turned 100 years old. Despite having died at only 36 years of age, the Martiniquan psychiatrist is still today perceived as a great anti-colonial thinker and revolutionary whose works are still widely…
Budka, P. (2024). Notes on the transformation of a railway in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at Vienna Anthropology Days 2024, Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 23-25 September.Co-chairing of Panels “Building Tomorrow: Exploring Infrastructures and Futurities”, 25 September. Introduction On a chilly day in February 2022, I boarded the Via Rail Canada train in Winnipeg for… Continue reading Paper: Notes on the transformation of a railway in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Budka, P. (2024). Comparison in anthropology – what to compare?. Paper at InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison”, Stockholm, Sweden: Nordregio, 10-11 September. Introduction In a statement written by the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists on “Why anthropology matters” in 2015, comparison is defined as… Continue reading Paper: Comparison in anthropology – what to compare?
Budka, P. (2024). Transport infrastructure and community development in Churchill: Findings from future scenario workshops. Presentation at Churchill Barber Symposium 2024, Churchill, Canada: University of Manitoba et al., 28-29 August. Abstract The Town of Churchill, a community of 870 people on the Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, is unique in terms of transport infrastructure. It… Continue reading Presentation: Transport infrastructure & community development in Churchill
Budka, P. (2024). Planes, trains, ships and rockets: Infrastructural temporalities and entanglements in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Barcelona, Spain: University of Barcelona, 23-26 July.Co-chairing of Panel “Infrastructural Residues: Reproduction and Destruction of Infrastructures Across Space and Time”, 26 July. Abstract This paper explores… Continue reading Paper: Planes, trains, ships & rockets