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"Amid discussions about rising interest rates, new monetary policy and government price caps...what can anthropology add to the academic study of inflation?" Find out here with essays by different anthropologists on the social life of inflation #OpenAccess FocaalBlog

In this FocaalBlog, Adia Benton (Adia Benton) sums up and reflects on the contributions to the Taxonomies of Difference in Global Humanitarianism feature. ⌲ Edited by Malay Firoz and @pedrosrlima.bsky.social, EASA AHN (Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network) Read it here ⤵️ buff.ly/3Vp8rr3

First blog for 2025 just dropped. An insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. Thanks for writing for us, Gorkem Akgoz #Refugees #Denmark focaalblog.com/2025/01/08/gor…

Imagine being forced to choose between an indefinite limbo in a deportation center or returning to a war zone. In The Sad Truth, Helle Stenum exposes this harrowing reality, linking it to Denmark’s broader historical patterns of refugee exclusion and marginalization. In my latest

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“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy First blog for 2025 from FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. ⌲ By Gorkem Akgoz #Refugees #Denmark buff.ly/4asabX3

I wrote a blogpost for the London Review of Books on why Trump’s imperialist fantasies about the Panama Canal and Greenland is not just about building Trump hotels. lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/janu…

Tune in to the new episode of "Talk On — Debates in Anthropology" Christoph Brumann chats with Xenia Cherkaev about her book 'Gleaning for Communism', which FocaalBlog has listed among their "One Hundred Indispensable Works for Thinking in Our Times." youtube.com/watch?v=_xvIC6…

“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy 🇩🇰 First blog for 2025 from FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. ⌲ By Gorkem Akgoz #Refugees #Denmark buff.ly/4asabX3

New blog discussing the challenges of ethnographic research in contemporary #CentralAsia, #Russia and #China #anthropology focaalblog.com/2025/02/20/dr-…

📰 The latest Open Access issue of FocaalBlog has been published 🚨 This issue has a special theme section entitled “Managing problem debt in Europe: Financialization, households, and debt apparatuses”. View the TOC here ⤵️ buff.ly/HP0ZeE8

Chris Hann writes about how the war in Ukraine might have been the west's geopolitical fatal flaw, cementing the east-west divide and leading to a resurgence of nationalism. #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar️️ focaalblog.com/2025/03/13/chr…

How do war and displacement reconfigure practices of cultural heritage? Anna Balazs reflects on three projects developed by Ukrainian cultural practitioners during the Russian invasion #UkraineWar focaalblog.com/2025/03/18/ann…

Congratulations to Maria Șalaru! Her #OpenAccess book An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4jzt7qY #Architecture #Romania #UrbanTransformation

Sindre Bangstad traces the emergence of the contested working definition of #antisemitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and shows how it is used to curtail #academicfreedom focaalblog.com/2025/03/28/sin…