Forum
A regular feature of Focaal is its Forum section available here online for free. The Forum features assertive, provocative, and idiosyncratic forms of writing and publishing that do not fit the usual format or style of a research-based article in a regular anthropology journal. Forum contributions can be stand-alone pieces or come in the form of theme-focused collection or discussion. Dipankar Gupta—Misreading Capital: The makings of Weber, Arendt, and FriedmanDouglas R. Holmes—Fascism at eye level: The anthropological conundrum
Sindre Bangstad, Bjørn Bertelsen, and Heiko Henkel—The politics of affect: The rise of far-right and right-wing populism in the West
Hadas Weiss—Reclaiming Meillassoux for the age of financialization
Richard H. Robbins—An anthropological contribution to rethinking the relationship between money, debt, and economic growth
Katharina Bordirsky—The commons, property, and ownership: Suggestions for further discussion
Isak Niehaus—Anthropology at the dawn of apartheid: Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski’s South African engagements, 1919–1934
Katharina Bodirsky—From the “state-idea” to “politically organized subjection”: Revisiting Abrams in times of crisis in Turkey and EU-Europe
Edward Simpson—Is anthropology legal? Earthquakes, blitzkrieg, and ethical futures
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer—Local legacies of the GULag in Siberia: Anthropological reflections Maria Theresia Starzmann—Global privatized power: Heritage politics and private military contractors in Iraq
Gavin Smith—Anthropological practice: Ethics and dilemmas Jonathan Parry—The anthropologist's assistant (or the assistant's anthropologist?): The story of a disturbing episode David Mosse—Misunderstood, misrepresented, contested? Anthropological knowledge production in question
John Clarke—Conjunctures, crises, and cultures: Valuing Stuart Hall
Don Kalb—On the reunification of anarchism and Marxism in world anthropology
Tommaso Bobbio—Never-ending Modi: Hindutva and Gujarati neoliberalism as prelude to all-India premiership?
Forging the urban commons
Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat—Transformative cities
Susan Narotzky—What kind of commons are the urban commons?
Jane Collins—The urban public sector as commons: Response to Susser and Tonnelat
Alain Bertho—Urban commons and urban struggles
Ida Susser and Stéphane Tonnelat—Transformative cities: A response to Narotzky, Collins, and Bertho
Daniel M. Knight—The Greek economic crisis as trope
James G. Carrier—Anthropology after the crisis
Spaces of exception: The private administration of populations in the North and the South
Unfolding the crease in liberal republican citizenship: An introduction to the post-colonial critique of Andrés Guerrero, Christopher Krupa
Andrés Guerrero, Tristan Platt
Silence, echo, theory, Mark Thurner
The phantasy of theory and the missing people, João Biehl and Sebastián Ramírez Hernandez
Reply to Commentators, Andrés Guerrero
Iran at the crossroads of democracy and dictatorship Jakob Rigi
Civilizational analysis for beginners Chris Hann
Wal-Mart, American consumer citizenship, and the 2008 recession Jane Collins
Sexular fantasies: The Occident and its religious Others
Sexular practice: Notes on an ethnography of secularism, Oskar Verkaaik and Rachel Spronk
Naming our sexualities: Secular constraints, Muslim freedoms, Katherine Pratt Ewing
The nationalization of desire: Transnational marriage in Dutch culturist integration discourse, Willem Schinkel
Our 1989s
My long 1989: Anticipations of a new Europe, Douglas R. Holmes
Bridges to the future: Hungary's gradual transformation, Béla Greskovits
Reflections on 1989: When Poland’s future opened up, Solidarity’s sense of agency disappeared, David Ost
My multiple, manifold, and endlessly contested 1989s, Don Kalb
Remembering 1989 and its aftermaths in the depths of Russia, Caroline Humphrey
A Romanianist's perspective on 1989, Katherine Verdery
Buried in the rubble of communism, Michael Burawoy
New lamps for old? Why Veblen beats the Nobel Laureates Keith Hart
Ostrom, the commons, and the anthropology of “earthlings” and their atmosphere Dan Rabinowitz
What makes our projects anthropological?
Culture and praxis in post-modern times, Kirk Dombrowski
Emergent anthropologies, Douglas R. Holmes
Coincidences as connections: “Reading across” disciplines while “reading from” anthropology, Jane K. Cowan
Accumulation by dispossession and Asia's modernizing Left
What's left? Land expropriation, socialist "modernizers," and peasant resistance in Asia, Luisa Steur and Ritanjan Das
The meaning of Nandigram: Corporate land invasion, people's power, and the Left in India, Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Chowdhury
"Communist" dispossession meets "reactionary" resistance: The ironies of the parliamentary Left in West-Bengal, Projit Bihari Mukharji
Land expropriation, protest, and impunity in rural China, Bo Zhao
Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary Vietnam, Nguyen Van Suu
On “tribes” and bribes: “Iraq tribal study,” al-Anbar's awakening, and social science, Roberto J. González
Social reproduction, situated politics, and The Will to Improve, Tania Murray Li
International policy, development expertise, and anthropology, David Mosse
Development, trans/modernities, and the politics of theory, Arturo Escobar
Putting neoliberalism in its place(s)
Living with/in and without neo-liberalism, John Clarke
Reflections on neo-liberalism in Africa, Peter D. Little
Thinking about neo-liberalism as if specificity mattered, Donald M. Nonini
Neo-liberalism: Dominant but dead, Neil Smith
Reply: Power, politics, and places: What's not neo-liberal? John Clarke
What is interpretation? A cultural neurohermeneutic account, Steve Reyna
The making of terrorists: Anthropology and the alternative truth of America's 'War on Terror' in the Sahara, Jeremy Keenan
The Sydney riots, Andrew Dawson
On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan, Mathijs Pelkmans
No end to Nepal's Maoist rebellion, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
American imperialism? "The current runs swiftly," Steve Reyna
Comments on Reyna: from string beings to empire au vinaigre, Jonathan Friedman
Between Budennovsk and Beslan, Zaindi Choltaev and Michaela Pohl
And a merciful God did not come: a reflection on John Kerry's Viet Nam quagmire, August Carbonella
Europe, the Pope and the Holy Left Alliance in Poland, Kacper Pobłocki
Anthropological adventures with Romania's Wizard of Oz, 1973–1989, Katherine Verdery