Changing socio-political landscapes surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine
Anonymous
Panel Discussion
On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met at UCL Anthropology to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine is impacting everyday lives, politics, and relationships.
Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022
Deadline
1pm, 11th July
We encourage you to think about decolonisation and anti-racism as guiding principles for how we represent or approach our discipline.
A Tale of Two Olhas: Reframing Ukrainian women’s experiences of war
By Amandas Ong
PhD Anthropology
This incident, which I later jokingly dubbed “the tale of two Olhas”, elevated the seemingly inconspicuous events of the everyday above the hulking framework of war, which prioritises the discussion of aberrant acts in an aberrant time.
CRISPR: Rewriting the story of humanity and evolution through gene-editing
By Tarisha Kaushik
BSc Anthropology
CRISPR is a phenomenal technology, but we cannot understand its implications in the social world through a binary perspective.
Quarandream With Me: The World After Covid
By Pepe Weischer
BSc Anthropology
The surreality of quarantining, day in day out in the same monotonous space, resembles that of a strange dream – a quarandream.
Spiritual Aliens, DJ Shamans, and Us: Experiences of liminality and communitas within the psytrance rave
By Izzy Davies
BSc Anthropology
The psytrance community ‘neo-tribe’ then, is characterised by shared utopian ideals of childlike playfulness, love for all, and egalitarianism.
Gathering Impressions of London’s Walthamstow Wetlands
By Phoebe Hamilton-Jones
MSc Social and Cultural Anthropology alumnus
Lockwood reservoir looks bleak even on a sunny day: skirted by telephone pylons, the moon-like gravel beach slips into an expanse of water.
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