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Q&A with Damien Sojoyner, author of Joy and Pain
Nov 09 2022
Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums is a poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people—and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.At the Southern California Library—a community organiz
Racial Violence, Land, and Indigenous Reparation in Bolivia
Nov 08 2022
By Mareike Winchell, author of After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaIn 2010, I was just beginning an ethnographic study of Quechua water activists in Cochabamba. At the cusp of starting my doctoral fieldwork, I had a conversation with an activist friend in Bolivi
Q&A with Edward F. Fischer, author of Making Better Coffee
Sep 15 2022
Edward Fischer. Source: Vanderbilt University/Steve GreenAn anthropologist uncovers how "great coffee" depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers.What justifies the steep prices commanded by small-batch, high-end Third
Virtual Warfare is Already Here — But We Can Still Push Back
Mar 08 2022
By Roberto J. González , author of War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the FutureThe time is a year after tomorrow.The place is the United States of America.Turmoil has steadily enveloped the country following contested midterm elections, multiple
Q&A with Natali Valdez, author of Weighing the Future
Jan 14 2022
A new release in our Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series, Weighing the Future is an ethnographic exploration of how epigenetic thinking is changing the way pregnant women are seen as maternal environments, as revealed through two major clinical studies. In the intervi
The Understudied Social Lives of Public Transit
Nov 08 2021
By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of InfrastructureOne of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, was a woman in her fifties who I call Vanit