Ethnographic Explainers

Short anthropological essays on contemporary politics

Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”136″ />What Can Acronyms Tell Us? Media Coverage and the Limits of Proxy War Analysis in Northeast Syria

Firat Bozcali

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”126″ />The Kurds: A Stateless People, Turkey’s Enemies, or the Colonized Other?

Deniz Duruiz

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”125″ />Turkey’s Incursion into Northeast Syria: Authoritarianism Within and Beyond Borders

Çağrı Yoltar

 

Contemporary Latin American Politics

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”127″ />The Politics of Spite: Confinement and the Return of Political Terror to Southern Chile

Magnus Course and Fabian Painemilla Ancan

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”127″ />Brazil Is Burning!

Rafael do Nascimento Cesar

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”128″ />The FMLN’s Electoral Implosion in El Salvador: A Fiasco Foretold?

Ralph Sprenkels

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”127″ />On Digital Populism in Brazil

Letícia Cesarino

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”201″ height=”112″ />Tragedy and Resilience in Brazil’s Carnival 2019

Thais Pavez and Camila Góes

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”116″ />Crisis in Venezuela

Naomi Schiller

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”128″ />Power to the People:
Between Death and Insurrection in Nicaragua

Julienne Weegels

 

Politics in South Asia

?w=200″ alt=”” width=”200″ height=”133″ />Dilution as Political Vitality:
Hate Crime Legislation and Right-Wing Populism in India

Pinky Hota