Tag Archives: Morality
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Borders and the Production of Ill-Being. (An Invitation for) a Global Conversation
Claire Bullen, Manuel Dieterich, Polina Manolova, Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand
In the summer of 2020, the conveners of the International Forum on Wellbeing and Subjectivity across the Global South invited us1 to prepare a Panel to reflect critically on the notion of ‘well-being’, the set of aspirations for a ‘good life’ that it foregrounds, and the specific political and ideological models that it draws upon forRead more
Insights: Sign language as “SWEET” and “HARD”: qualia and morality in Adamorobe, Ghana
Annelies Kusters
‘SWEET and DELIGHTFUL’, or ‘HARD’ are adjectives connected to Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL), a sign language used in Adamorobe, an Akan village in southern Ghana marked by a history of hereditary deafness. By calling AdaSL eg. SWEET (Picture 1) or HARD, deaf people in Adamorobe attribute qualia to AdaSL. Qualia are sensuous qualities such asRead more
ATC: On Solidarity: Solidarity and Democracy: Lessons from Social Activism Under Austerity in the UK
Shana Cohen
The normalization of far-right politics and racist rhetoric in Europe and the US has led, unsurprisingly, to the rapid growth of a literature examining the potential return of fascism and the concomitant decline of democracy (e.g. Albright (2018); Temelkuran (2019); Bonikowski (2017); Rooduijn (2017); Inglehart and Norris (2016); Albertazzi and McDonnell (2015, 2008); Moffit (2016); MuddeRead more
Insights: Where is Democracy in India? Asking Anthropological Theory to Open Its Doors
Veena Das
A recurring question that haunts theories of democracy is: how has torture become part of routine police procedure in these societies (Rejali, 2007)? It is a question that troubles the novels of J. M. Coetzee, especially Waiting for the Barbarians (1982) and Diary of a Bad Year (2007), and makes for stunning reading in GuantanamoRead more