The contemporary politics of climate change—especially in places framed as “climate ground-zeros”—demands a recognition of and a reckoning with dystopia’s politics

Review of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. 288 pp, and Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic

Ilinx: [By way of] a rapid whirling or falling movement, a state of dizziness and disorder (Caillois, 2001: 12). Covering a variety of transport … a disorder that may take organic or psychological form. The Greek term for ‘whirlpool’, from which is also derived

Jeff VanderMeer’s (2014) Southern Reach trilogy of weird fiction evokes a creeping relation between the strange territory called Area X and vertigo, a set of visceral

ed note: as part of our on-going initiative examining how theory gets made, we are featuring interviews with recent Anthropological Theory authors, inquiring into their writing and thinking process. This interview, with Terra Edwards (University of Chicago) about her article

I had two research interests quite independent from each other from the very beginning as an undergraduate student: the role of law in social and political life

My work is mostly concerned with understanding the politics of health science and technology in the context of postcolonial Ghana

I suppose I have a rather serendipitous academic trajectory – although, in hindsight, it makes some sense. I first graduated as a bioengineer in tropical forestry