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Humanitarianism and “doing good”
An ethnography of Islamic Relief (IR), the largest Islamic NGO based in the West, Racializing the Ummah: Muslim Humanitarians beyond Black, Brown, and White explores h...
Biological existence and its theoretical complexities.
Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin argued that organisms do not adapt to their environments, but rather that organisms and environments co-evolve and construct on...
On revolutionary desire and decolonial struggle
Set in the counterterrorism courts and maximum-security prisons of Northern Kurdistan, Serra M. Hakyemez’s ethnography Deadly Refusals: Kurdish Decolonization in Times...
Montage and French cinematic history
Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitali...
Walter Benjamin, reimagined through the forgotten power of radio
Between 1927 and 1933, philosopher Walter Benjamin produced dozens of radio broadcasts that became a testing ground for his developing ideas and experimental pedagogy....