In 1939 Martinican writer Aimé Césaire first published his book length poem variously translated as Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, Return to My Native Land, or Journal of a Homecom-ing, in which this epigraph appears. As the colonial powers were taking the world into an era of mass destruction, Césaire drew upon a Caribbean imaginary to counterpose to th…
This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a le…
Any business entity which wishes to maintain and strengthen its position in the market must adapt to changing market conditions and the requirements and needs of its customers. This applies to all sectors of the economy, including business entities in the cultural sector, such as cultural institutions. For over twenty years, we have been able to observe dynamic develop…
Stuff is happening. The book Hyperobjects is now in a way irrele-vant—everyone knows, everyone intuitively feels (which is much more important) what a hyperobject is. Coronavirus is everywhere. You can’t see it. It operates on all kinds of different scales—terrify-ing interpersonally or if you’re being forced back to work or school; weirdly amazing…
Considering the wide range of projects, scales, issues, and epistemic frames that the project ended up traversing, it is important to mention that Forensic Architecture had a modest start: it was inspired by the unassuming work of building surveyors—the careful and systemic analysis of the structural and infrastructural conditions of a building.17 Building surveyors understand a crucial thing…