Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography
Speculative relations in Lima: Encounters with the limits of fog capture and ethnography This article draws on two examples of encounters with the limits of fog capture in Lima to…
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States
Postcolonial politics of elimination?: A view from Australia and the United States A common view is that states formulate and administer policy. However, there is much in the classification and…
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration
Alternative me? Anthropology and self-alteration Contemporary life across the globe is awash with enterprises, programs, and practices that purport to foster self-alteration. Developing the self; self-care; transcending the self; self-actualization;…
Testimonies and the Uyghur genocide metanarrative: Some reflections from the field
Testimonies and the Uyghur genocide metanarrative: Some reflections from the field This paper seeks to explore the epistemic role of testimonies in the ongoing Uyghur crisis, as well as their…
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide
The crisis of China research in an age of genocide Since 2017, it has become increasingly undeniable that crimes against humanity are occurring in the area now known as the…
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang
Chinese social media sources leave no room for denial: Documenting human rights violations in Xinjiang This article draws almost exclusively from Chinese-language social media sites with connections to the Chinese…
“Crimes against sovereignty”: Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang
"Crimes against sovereignty": Foreign diplomacy, state propaganda, and the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang Building on anthropological observations of the Chinese state’s specific strategies and practices in the field of international…
Should Uyghurs be considered an Indigenous people?
Should Uyghurs be considered an Indigenous people? This article asks whether Uyghurs should be considered an Indigenous people. In doing so, it highlights the contested issues this question raises and…
Eliminate all illegal births: Negative eugenics and Uyghur women as objects of contestation
Eliminate all illegal births: Negative eugenics and Uyghur women as objects of contestation In 2021 state statistics demonstrated that for the first time in modern history the Uyghur population itself…
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect
What does genocide feel like? An autoethnography of visual affect This article reflects on relations between individual and cultural experience to illuminate how anthropologists and political scientists approach Uyghur narratives…
Tabula rasa: Han settler colonialism and frontier genocide in “re-educated” Xinjiang
Tabula rasa: Han settler colonialism and frontier genocide in “re-educated” Xinjiang In his analysis of the frontier genocides waged against the Aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero…
Uyghur suffering, uncertainty, and academic interpretation
Uyghur suffering, uncertainty, and academic interpretation Scholars of life in Xinjiang have faced unprecedented stakes and uncertainty in recent years. Access to the region and its people is curtailed, and…
Identity, violence, and the uncomfortable necessity of categorization
Identity, violence, and the uncomfortable necessity of categorization Go to Source
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency
When “the state” is the absence of a sour red date: Memory, materiality, and agency Go to Source
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood
Place, materiality, and gender in subaltern memories of long lives in a poor Beijing neighborhood Go to Source
Scales of knowing
Scales of knowing Go to Source
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs?
The illusions of “magical thinking”: Whose chimera, ours or theirs? Go to Source
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses
How to do things with worlds: A reply to responses Go to Source
Burning translations
Burning translations This essay radicalizes the call for foreignizing translation in anthropology by pushing translation beyond a reference to an anthropological self. What I recognize as “burning translations” responds to…
“Where it was, I must come into being”
“Where it was, I must come into being” This article considers the problem of translation and radical interpretation from a post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspective, and challenges the notion of concept,…