In fear of spatiotemporal overlap: Coping with the infrastructure of zero-COVID
In fear of spatiotemporal overlap: Coping with the infrastructure of zero-COVID This paper draws attention to the ways in which the policy of zero covid disciplines spatiotemporal proximity to control…
Embodied border control on the move: Self-management of Chinese returnees under the zero-COVID regime
Embodied border control on the move: Self-management of Chinese returnees under the zero-COVID regime For more than two years, China was one of the most difficult countries to enter. Within…
“Our sacrifices were in vain”: Zero-COVID and the betrayal of trust
“Our sacrifices were in vain”: Zero-COVID and the betrayal of trust For the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, most urban Chinese displayed a high level of…
Food shortage and its discontents during the Shanghai lockdown
Food shortage and its discontents during the Shanghai lockdown During the Shanghai lockdown in the spring of 2022, over twenty-five million residents had difficulty securing staple food and fresh groceries…
Coping with stress as a collective?: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown
Coping with stress as a collective?: Residents learning to engage in community affairs during the Shanghai lockdown During Shanghai’s two-month lockdown in 2022, residential community members coped with stress collectively.…
A dissonant lockdown of a post-danwei neighborhood in a third-tier city
A dissonant lockdown of a post-danwei neighborhood in a third-tier city This article offers a case study of six-day lockdown experiences in a post-danwei (work unit) neighborhood in Mianyang, a…
From lockdowns (fengcheng) to silence (jingmo): Zero-COVID politics in China
From lockdowns (fengcheng) to silence (jingmo): Zero-COVID politics in China COVID-19 lockdowns instituted a new kind of normal for many in China in the past three years. From Wuhan to…
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more
Introduction: Zero-COVID was forever, until it was no more How were lockdowns implemented, experienced, and perceived under China’s zero-COVID regime? How do we make sense of its sudden collapse after…
From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon
From busting cults to breeding cults: Anonymous h/acktivism vs. the (a)nonymous far right and QAnon Go to Source
Appearance, disappearance, transience
Appearance, disappearance, transience Go to Source
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state
Comparisons and contradictions: The tactics of subversive archaism in anthropology and the nation-state Go to Source
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism
On resistance and pluriversal voices of subversive archaism Go to Source
Subversive comparisons
Subversive comparisons Go to Source
The perils of national narratives
The perils of national narratives Go to Source
Trad nationalist a/effects
Trad nationalist a/effects Go to Source
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains
From a museum of Others to a museum of Selves: Repatriation, affective relations, and social values of archaeological human remains The mummy of the Altaian Princess is one of the…
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity
Ti binni ruyubi, beyond binaries and median points: Methodological reflections on brownness in the field and intersectional reflexivity Using theoretical debates about how to deploy reflexivity in ethnographic research to…
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism
Is subversion just another version of state aversion? Notes on Herzfeld’s Subversive archaism Go to Source
Scales of subversion
Scales of subversion Go to Source
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia
Unable to see the diagnosis: Harmed bodies and oil extraction in Peruvian Amazonia This article discusses two distinct notions of harm, wakllichishka and oil harm, and two distinct ways of…