by Shormila Akter Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh examines the lives of female garments … More
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Review: ‘Reclaiming the discarded: life and labour on Rio’s garbage dump’ (2018)
by Holly Cawsey In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro saw the close of Jardim Gramacho, one of the largest landfills … More
Profit over people? The ‘big business’ of tough immigration laws.
By Renata Carvalho As the new Nationality and Borders Bill sparks yet another wave of debates over the United Kingdom’s … More
Review: ‘Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States’
by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover … More
Review: ‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea’
by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness … More
Review: ‘Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement’
By Jack Payne-Cook If I was asked by someone unfamiliar with anthropology to provide an example of the contemporary relevance … More
On the Edge of the Body
By Renata Carvalho Anthropology’s many attempts of conceptualising the body into clear and useful analytical categories has raised significant ontological … More
Recognising the Spirit of Ubuntu in Khayelitsha Community Response to the Covid-19 pandemic
by Megan Anderson In the second-largest peri-urban settlement in South Africa, Khayelitsha, the coronavirus has proliferated with recorded cases over … More
Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements
by Magnus Marsden For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to … More