Shameless modernity: Reflexivity and social class in Chinese personal growth groups
Shameless modernity: Reflexivity and social class in Chinese personal growth groups Critical scholars suggest that self-help psychology discourages political activism and encourages entrepreneurship by promoting a “positive” attitude. This article…
Troubling emotions in China’s psy-boom
Troubling emotions in China’s psy-boom The rise of psychological counseling, 心理咨询, as part of China’s unfolding psy-boom has brought with it a new discourse of distress. In particular, this article…
Introduction: The politics of negative affects in post-Reform China
Introduction: The politics of negative affects in post-Reform China If there is such a thing as a dominant public sphere in post-reform China, its emotional tonality has often been described…
Art, affect, and art effects
Art, affect, and art effects Go to Source
Nature and its discontents
Nature and its discontents Go to Source
One year later: Reflections on the farmers’ protest in India
One year later: Reflections on the farmers’ protest in India Beginning November 2020, over two hundred thousand farmers have gathered in a prolonged sit-in on the borders of New Delhi.…
Behind the “racism” of the 2019 Hong Kong protests
Behind the “racism” of the 2019 Hong Kong protests Scholars, intellectuals, and left-wing activists have recently come to reflect on the hostility and exclusion of Hong Kong protesters against mainland…
Destroying the negatives: M. N. Srinivas, fire, and photography
Destroying the negatives: M. N. Srinivas, fire, and photography Go to Source
Natural relativism in lieu of moral absolutism: On the making of a philosophical anthropologist
Natural relativism in lieu of moral absolutism: On the making of a philosophical anthropologist Go to Source
Against what?
Against what? Go to Source
Beyond order, beyond the human: Unruly socionatures and contested politics
Beyond order, beyond the human: Unruly socionatures and contested politics Go to Source
The polyphony of nature
The polyphony of nature Go to Source
Ethnography and applied metaphysics
Ethnography and applied metaphysics Go to Source
Risky business: Temporal vulnerabilities in contested spaces
Risky business: Temporal vulnerabilities in contested spaces Go to Source
But beautiful …
But beautiful … Go to Source
From ethics to politics
From ethics to politics Go to Source
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them: The moral economy of squatting
We are unhousing people and so are obliged to rehouse them: The moral economy of squatting Go to Source
Ethics and the spacetime discontinuum
Ethics and the spacetime discontinuum Go to Source
Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism
Empathy, solidarity, and the work of law and humanitarianism Go to Source
Sentiment and pragmatics in Teheran
Sentiment and pragmatics in Teheran Go to Source