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Lila Abu-Lughod publishes "From the Politics of Representation to the Ethics of Decolonization: What MENA Social Research Can Learn from the 'Indigenous Turn'" in Daedalus, Spring 2025 volume 154 number 2. You can read her piece in Daedalus here.
Lila Abu-Lughod delivered the Keynote Lecture " Decolonizing Research/Politicizing Ethics" for the workshop on "Feminist Epistemologies and Area Studies" at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, part of the program of EHESS on Social Sciences and the World.
In this year's 'Juliet Mitchell lecture,' at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, Lila Abu-Lughod revisited Marilyn Stathern's famous essay, 'An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology.'
Yet another wonderful set of achievements by our doctoral students.
In her new short essay, On the Disappearance of Fireflies, Maria José de Abreu engages with the writings of Paolo Pier Pasolini in his Corsair Writings (1973-1975) and the topic of authoritarianism.
You can read her piece in the Critical Times here.
Anthropology alum, Dr. Fernando Montero and Dr. Nabila El-Bassel have received a 3-year R34 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop their concept of supply-side harm reduction, working with Puerto Rican and Black people who sell drugs in Philadelphia to design and pilot a drug overdose and HIV prevention intervention. With the study, they aim to reverse the historical exclusion of people who sell drugs from public health research and harm reduction interventions.
Our doctoral students have been getting their ideas into the world. Click here to get links to new publications by Amanda Althoff, Emily Hoffman, Aaamer Ibraheem, Saphe Shamoun, Rishav Thakur, and Emre Deniz Yurttaş
Doctoral students in social anthropology and archaeology have outdone themselves this year. We're celebrating their many awards and fellowships!
Maria José de Abreu publishes "How to Child a Future?" (response to article The Katechon and the Messias: Time, History and Threat in Brazil's Aspirational Fascism" by Bruno Reinhardt in Current Anthropology, Spring 2025).
Maria José de Abreu will give a talk on 'Not a Small Country: Cartographic Imaginations and Maritime Connections in Portugal’s Geopolitical Discourse' at this year's Asia-Africa, New Axis of Knowledge International Conference in Dakar, Senegal on June 11-14, 2025.
Maria José de Abreu publishes "Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists" in e-flux. You can read the article here.
Congratulations to Rosalind Morris, whose book, Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa, has been published by Columbia University Press.
Since the deaths of 78 informal miners in the town of Stilfontein, South Africa, Rosalind Morris has been arguing for a new approach to the question of informal mining in Africa, and the need for regional economic repair.