On the Spectacle of Walking

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in the face of the 21-day nation-wide lockdown imposed in India since 22 March 2020, the migrant worker has become the focal point of public discourse. With public transports being cancelled and the inter-state borders seale…

Fixing Inequalities in Time

Precarity and uncertainty are a key axis of inequality; yet these are not problems in or of time. They are experiences generated by the forms of financialised speculation that have eroded long term planning for the public good since the late 1980-90s. …

New issue: Volume 17

A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 17 contains the dossier “Anthropology in times of intolerance: challenges facing neoconservatism”.
Available at http://www.vibrant.org.br/lastest-issue-v-17-2020…

‘Why Do We Need Your Research?’

The anthropology of security is slowly developing into a substantial sub-discipline of anthropology, yet there are only a few works that elaborate on how the research on security is conducted, what ethical issues emerge in this process, and how this di…