Anthropology and urban transport planning mixed methods research! An article written by myself and Iqbal Hamiduddin on mobility, equity and access in #Ulaanbaatar's ger districts is now published in Local Environment: Journal of Justice and Sustainability tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

||NEW CONTENT|| China–Tajikistan relations gained momentum in the 2010s, as investment, aid, and grassroots engagements picked up speed. Concerns have since emerged on issues of sovereignty, corruption, debt, labour, and environment, writes Irna Hofman. thepeoplesmap.net/country/tajiki…

We are excited to share some of the pedagogical tools we have been developing. Please see our Patchwork Ethnography Syllabus at Society for Cultural Anthropology today! culanth.org/fieldsights/pa… A one-week summer school for Patchwork Ethnography is in the works! We look forward to hearing your comments.

the Flemington racecourse flood wall situation in Melbourne is a stark example of the way that more-than-human actors and processes can bring particular spatial territories of property into stark relief

Setting Knowledge Free: Towards an Ethical Open Access madeinchinajournal.com/2023/02/27/set…

This collectively written piece with colleagues across the world was the basis of both new thought as well as friendships! Cheers Adam Abdullah, Ricardo Cardoso, Shreyashi Dasgupta, Rebekah Plueckhahn, Tanzil Shafique, Shaun SK Teo, Junjia Ye, Yimin Zhao and most of all AbdouMaliq Simone!

So happy to be part of this collective of wonderful thinkers and scholars! Very pleased to see this collaborative writing out in the world! A huge thank you to the re-arrangements collective and AbdouMaliq Simone!

My conversation with Tanya Matthan for the wonderful Mergers&Acquisitions Economic Anthropology - Journal podcast is out! We talk feminist approaches to the study of capitalism, speculation, and multiverse comics. Listen here podcast.econanthro.org/2023/03/27/fem…

Hearing someone outside my office window play the star wars theme on a gamelan type instrument was exactly what I needed on this busy work day :)

CfP for this great session on Mapping Invisibilities: Socio-spatial entanglements of urban informalities at the upcoming RGS-IBG conference. Co-organised by our Tanzil Shafique. Submission deadline: 23rd Feb!

Honoured to have my book reviewed by Prof Manduhai Buyandelger in the current issue of JRAI!

Such an honour to be giving this year's Malinowski Memorial lecture @lseanthropology on Thurs 23 May. I'll be talking about economic legitimacies, economic concepts as racial forms, and the making of investable places and people. More details below!

Email received from student: “I was planning to come to office hours today but on my way I found myself in a situation of saving a baby duck so can I schedule another time to meet?”. They then attached picture of said baby duck. 10/10. No notes.

Can't wait to attend #RC21Santiago! See you all there :)

In this article, Rebekah Plueckhahn shows how cynical reflections of residents of a dilapidated housing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, assist their efforts to decipher & mobilize state authority. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…

An amazing symposium and incredible line up of speakers coming in October: Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of ‘Collaboration’ sfu.ca/publicsquare/e…

“Abolition is not a solution but a process, an ongoing method and strategy working toward liberation... it is a theoretical framework we use to create and transform institutions, such as academia” - Alexandra St Tellien (2024) anthropology-news.org/articles/aboli….

44 thousand homes are empty in Beirut but none to spare for the displaced? The Beirut Urban Lab argues for a public authority to recover abandoned buildings as temporary housing for displaced families. Read more beiruturbanlab.com/en/Details/201…