My new book which features conversations with Didier Fassin, Angelique Haugerud, David H. Price, Richard Ashby Wilson, Claudio Lomnitz, Magnus Marsden, Ruben Andersson and Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi, in addition to a foreword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and an introduction by me will be out from Palgrave Macmillan on July 31 2017. Here is a selection of blurbs from […]
The edited and referenced version of my AAA 2016 Annual Meeting Roundtable on ‘Anthropological Publics, Public Anthropology’ with Irfan Ahmad, John R. Bowen, Ilana Feldman, Mayanthi L. Fernando, Angelique Haugerud, David H. Price and Richard Ashby Wilson out now in HAU- Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (1) 2017. Open access and downloadable free of charge.
My new essay on the voice of James Baldwin and Raoul Peck’s fine documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ (2016) for antirasistisk.no
My May column for Anthropology News on the anthropology of secularism and “the secular.”
A commissioned article on the concept of ‘race’ past and present for Norsk Sosiologisk Tidsskrift 1 (3) 2017. Open access and free of charge.
My commissioned review of Prof Emer Richard Werbner’s magisterial monograph ‘Divination’s Grasp: African Encounters With The Almost Said’ (Indiana University Press, 2015) for American Ethnologist is out now.
A new essay of mine for the SSRC’s excellent Immanent Frame blog on Norwegian ‘counter-radicalization’ and ‘Christianist secularism’ went online today, 19.05.2017.
My review essay for Africa is a Country about two new books by and about the late Stuart Hall (1932-2014), namely Stuart Hall and Bill Shwarz’ ‘Familiar Stranger’ (Duke UP/Allen Lane, 2017) and David C. Scott’s ‘Stuart Hall’s Voice’ (Duke UP, 2017). With thanks to Sean Jacobs for the edits.
My new column for the American Anthropological Association (AAA)’s Anthropology News – this time on anthropology and hate speech – is here.