Genocide Never Sleeps is an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of the contested terrain of international criminal law from an anthropological perspective. Targeting a

broad audience that includes legal scholars, practitioners, and NGO workers, and drawing on extensive ethnographic research conducted at the International Criminal [...]

Interesting article via JD Supra on an issue that keeps coming up: whether non-commissioned, illegal street art on private property is blessed with intellectual property and

moral rights. [...]

It seems inevitable that others who traded on this basis—loans against art—may find themselves in difficulty because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have already heard

numerous reports of discounting, and with lower prices, borrowers may struggle to pay back their debts. [...]

What if the police were not independent from political interests? What if various citizens and influential figures constantly intervened in officers’ decision-making, influencing

the outcomes and therefore preventing officers from dealing with the cases based on the rule-of-law ideal? And what if, finally, this “weakness” of the police [...]

You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.— Toni Morrison,

May 30, 1975 [...]

In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division in the hills of Uttarakhand.

Each chapter provides vivid stories that altogether form an insightful account of how affects play out in human-animal interactions. [...]

In Contesting Leviathan, a reference on both the mythical sea-serpent and Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy, Les Beldo seeks to provide a multi-faceted view of the Makah

whaling conflict, a legal struggle between the indigenous Makah of North-Western United States, the US Government, and anti-whaling activists that has been ongoing [...]

Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers)

have had to leave the field, pause their research, or restructure it to online, physically-distant modes. [...]

Frequently, we Brazilian scholars have received concerned questions from foreign colleagues asking what the h… is happening in Brazil. In fact, the situation in the country

since June 2013 has been somewhat complex, mixing in one single moment past, present, and expectations for the future. [...]

Micha Rahder’s An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation is an ethnographically rich account of the dense conservation networks

and politics that operate within the country’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Hailed as a global “hot spot” for ecological research, the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) [...]