Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR’s Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol…
Directions
Beyond Pseudonyms: Ethics and Politics of Ethnographic Representation
By Caroline Parker, Deniz Yonucu Directions May 2024 Introduction Volume 47, Issue 1 In this issue’s Direction Section, the authors…
Writing Opacity: Going Beyond Pseudonyms with Spirit Portraiture
By Vita Peacock Directions May 2024 Introduction The practice of giving our interlocutors ersatz names, to protect their identities for…
The Good Thief: A Note on Revisits in Long-Running Ethnography
By Kim Hopper Directions May 2024 Introduction When Caroline Brettell’s edited volume, When They Read What We Write, appeared in 1993, the…
Deploying Fetal Death: ‘Fetal Burial’ Laws and the Necropolitics of Reproduction in Indiana
This video features a conversation on the article “Deploying Fetal Death: ‘Fetal Burial’ Laws and the Necropolitics of Reproduction in…
Landscapes of Otherwise: Anthropological Critique in Want of “Better” Worlds
By Caroline Parker, Deniz Yonucu Directions November 2023 Introduction Volume 46, Issue 2 Cultural anthropology’s abandonment of value-natural “scientific” pretensions…
Reflecting on/for Better Worlds
By Amy J. Cohen and Ilana Gershon Directions November 2023 We begin with an obvious observation about trafficking in alternatives—when…
Indeterminative Critique: Epistemic Certitude and the Temporality of Crisis
By Malay Firoz Directions November 2023 I first arrived in Jordan in 2013 to start fieldwork on the international humanitarian…
An Otherwise Classroom and a Diagnosis, or, the Preciousness of a Pause
By Ridhima Sharma Directions November 2023 It Begins in the Middle It was late September last year. I was…
Racism and Policing in Global Perspective
Emergent Conversation 19 Edited by Deniz Yonucu and Caroline Mary Parker In this Emergent Conversation, we initiate a discussion on racism…