Reflecting on Hong Kong protests in 2019–2020
Reflecting on Hong Kong protests in 2019–2020 Mass protests erupted in June 2019 in Hong Kong due to widespread anger about a proposed amendment to the extradition law. As a…
Black bloc against red China: Tears and revenge in the trenches of the new Cold War
Black bloc against red China: Tears and revenge in the trenches of the new Cold War During the mass protest movement, Hong Kong has witnessed intense and disturbing levels of…
Amidst backward-walking somnambulists
Amidst backward-walking somnambulists This Currents section provides accounts of Britain’s exit (Brexit) or departure from the European Union (EU)—a decision based on a closely won referendum in June 2016, and…
Brexit and the temporalities of racism in British higher education
Brexit and the temporalities of racism in British higher education Brexit has brought into visibility various strands of racist thinking and practice that have, for many years, simmered under the…
Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land
Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land Brexit was a project shaped at the fringes of official politics. Unusually, however, it maintained its fringe-like qualities,…
Youth political agency in Hong Kong’s 2019 antiauthoritarian protests
Youth political agency in Hong Kong’s 2019 antiauthoritarian protests The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) protests have witnessed unprecedented levels, both in terms of size and violence expressed by the…
Hong Kong identities and the friends and enemies of recent protests
Hong Kong identities and the friends and enemies of recent protests This essay analyzes the current protests in Hong Kong from the perspective of the friends/enemies dialectic. It depicts the…
Is Mainland China the source of all of Hong Kong’s problems?
Is Mainland China the source of all of Hong Kong’s problems? In the protest movement in Hong Kong in 2019, the growing influence of Mainland China was perceived to be…
Living between incongruous worlds in Hong Kong
Living between incongruous worlds in Hong Kong This article explores the uneasy position of Mainlanders within and in relation to the Anti-Extradition Movement amid rising anti-Mainland sentiment in Hong Kong.…
Infrastructure and its discontent: Structures of feeling in the age of Hong Kong-China dis/connection
Infrastructure and its discontent: Structures of feeling in the age of Hong Kong-China dis/connection This essay reveals that infrastructure, both transit and legal, not only facilitates exchanges across distance and…
On peace, self-love, and humanism
On peace, self-love, and humanism Go to Source
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions
World peace in the Cold War: Anthropological contributions Go to Source
Anthropology and world peace
Anthropology and world peace The pursuit of world peace has long been part of the telos of modern anthropology, although this may not be particularly obvious in the discipline’s teaching…
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture
Black cargo: 2019 Lewis H. Morgan Lecture Go to Source
Racial burdens, translations, and chance
Racial burdens, translations, and chance Go to Source
Review of Jens Kjaerulff. “Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre”
Review of Jens Kjaerulff. “Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre” Go to Source
Hesiod’s Theogony and analogist cosmogonies
Hesiod’s Theogony and analogist cosmogonies Philippe Descola’s work on ontologies has created new possibilities for exploring the rich connections between creation myths and their ontological underpinnings. This has proven fruitful…
Ghost twitter in Indigenous Australia: Sentience, agency, and ontological difference
Ghost twitter in Indigenous Australia: Sentience, agency, and ontological difference By distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency we begin to take crucial analytical steps to consider ontological and cosmological…
Constructing cosmoscapes: Cosmological currents in conversation and contestation in contemporary Bolivia
Constructing cosmoscapes: Cosmological currents in conversation and contestation in contemporary Bolivia This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to compose a shifting “cosmoscape” in Kaata,…
Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre
Situating time: New technologies at work, a perspective from Alfred Gell’s oeuvre A scholarship on “time” has emerged that pays attention to the ways contemporary economic life and information technology…