Tag: Anthropology

Democracy’s Borderlands

Democracy’s future in India lies in the politics of protest and resistance

What Remains of Francisco Franco

When the personal becomes necropolitical.

Trump’s Metaphorical Drug Deal and Lynching Fallacy

Trump invokes outrage to terrorize and intimidate while justice is served.

How to Stop Trump from Evading What’s Undeniably Impeachable

Why words alone do not convey all the meaning in Trump’s phone call with Zelensky.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Turns Towards Hollywood

Going beyond the label of propaganda in regime media. NARGES BAJOGHLI Parade of IRGC tank transporters. Photo by Mohammad Sadegh Heydari via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International . A professionally produced video surfaced on Iranian social media the last week of August. 

No Room for the Dead

On Grave Relocation in Contemporary China

Alisa Lebow on Filming Revolution

Alisa Lebow on Filming Revolution

Stanford University Press Digital Projects is proud to present a glimpse into the making of our newest project,  Filming Revolution. Alisa Lebow speaks to the wisdom, effort, curation, and collaboration that went into this project. ALISA LEBOW Filming Revolution in action. Over thirty filmmakers, archivists, 

The administration of “illegality”

“Illegal” immigrants are universally demonized, but it is exclusionary immigration laws that produce “illegality.”

Who Writes Iran?

Better US-Iranian relations could usher in more diverse portrayals of Iran—in popular literature and scholarship.