I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
Screenshot of suggestion to add a 2018 piece titled Microfinance in India to my profile.
Google Scholar is now suggesting I add something that is clearly an AI hallucination to my profile.
Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...
Remembering Professor Tim Allen
The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department.
One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.
Screenshot of article in FT with interview with Tyler Cowen claining that somehow people working at Google DeepMind have the ability to discern good food.
Aren't these the people who just drink Soylent?
today is the 2 year anniversary of Hind Rajab being shot 335 times by Israeli forces. she was 6. I cannot look at her pictures of her face without crying. I genuinely, in a soul deep way, cannot understand people who can look upon this and think "good."
my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
As a parent of a similarly aged child, but more importantly, as a human being, this picture really breaks me.
The centre-left's determination to thwart anyone with charisma is a real superpower. bsky.app/profile/jess...
All empires fall. You just don’t think you’ll observe it in real time.
Searching for "Traitors" on here when I just want to see chatter about Harriet's meltdown on television, but ending up with depressing political discourse...
Meme of dog in a room on fire sitting and drinking coffee. Text says Happy New Year!
When was the last time you could honestly say "Happy New Year!" without silently adding "despite everything..."?
while simultaneously working to undo or lessen some of the harms caused by extractive industries.
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
Header image from @Culanth showing the label ‘Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) – Articles’ and the article title in large text: ‘The Financial Activist: Shareholding and the Inconvenience of Collective Ownership.’
Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,
Articles Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: Scale and Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa by Hanna Nieber and Davide Chinigò Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal by Ina Zharkevich Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship by Fiona McCormack Fugitive Kinships: Imperial Legacies, Wayward Acts, and Queer Bonds among Filipino Migrants in Japan by Suma Ikeuchi The Financial Activist: Shareholding and the Inconvenience of Collective Ownership by Sohini Kar The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities? Activism, Failure, and Uneventing by Elliott Prasse-Freeman My Neighbor the Gringo: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela by Alessandro M. Angelini and Gareth A. Jones Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín by Meghan L. Morris
Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
The article looks at forms of shareholder activism as a way in which finance is politicised by both financial and non-financial actors and activists.
It's been a few years in the making, but a global pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby (now 4...) later, my work on financial activism is now out in the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (open access)!
Photo of a Poem on the Underground piece on the tube in London titled Epitaph on a Tyrant by W.H. Auden. Poem: "Pefection, of a kind, was what he was after. And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand. And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter; And when he cried the little children died in the streets." January 1939
Well played, London Underground.
Have always loved Tagore's Kabuliwala. A lovely piece on its meaning now.
I had debilitating nausea in pregnancy that required anti-nausea tablets. Perfectly safe, but even as a well-informed, pro-biomedicine person, I was anxious to take it b/c of the discourse around medicines in pregnancy. Putting this kind of anxiety on women for taking a Tylenol is unconscionable.
If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...
Sorry to disappoint.
Deleted. Please get in touch with me if you would like access to one of my papers. Always happy to share.
Congratulations!
They also conveniently left out the part where the Bible is also part of the Core Curriculum... but facts are inconvenient to narratives.
