A Delhi Hip-Hop Odyssey
SAROJINI SAPRU
What does it mean if your fieldwork takes place in the comfort of your hometown and to work on a subject like music that is oblivious to ‘professional’ and ‘private’ spheres?
Rethinking the ‘War Frontier’ Label
MARIO GRAÑA TABORELLI
What if a ‘war frontier’ was not only a place of violence and conflict but one of exchange and conversation? Not an impermeable border but an open space?
Buried in Plain Sight
MARGARET COMER
What do we look at when we look at old monuments, like churches? What if we tried to look beyond that is visible, opened ourselves to the unknown? Chances are that we see much more than meets the eye.
Memory Multiplied
FUHITO ENDO
Walking the streets of London, Fuhito Endo is reflecting on the complexity of memory and place, and he is pondering these questions, how could it be otherwise, by way of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
Felling for Freedom
SOPHIE CHAUHAN
A reflection on the place-making of colonial statues and, especially, their felling to imagine a future when the colony will have fallen.
The Black Atlantic at 30: Diaspora in Conversation
KEISHA BRUCE, GUYANNE WILSON
The third and final instalment of this mini series celebrating Paul Gilroy’s seminal book discusses approaches to diasporic studies, the conceptualisation of diaspora and questions concerning diaspora in communication.
The Black Atlantic at 30: Even the Whales Don’t Read
PHOEBE BRAITHWAITE
The second instalment of this mini series celebrating Paul Gilroy’s seminal book, explores the enduring tension in his work between music and the written word, and how this generates a planetary version of human life.
The Wastiary: Zero Waste
PUSHPA ARABINDOO
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Third: Zero Waste.
The Wastiary: Yawning and Yearning
TATIANA THIEME
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. Second: Yawning and Yearning.
The Wastiary: Xenophobia
HUDA TAYOB
To celebrate the IAS publication Wastiary, Think Pieces is publishing three chapters that reflect different perspectives on waste, the meanings and manifestations of it. First up: Xenophobia as waste.
The Black Atlantic at 30: Introduction
LARA CHOKSEY
The Black Atlantic holds the peculiar summoning power of a history under reconstruction. That the book is also an invitation to join its project reflects the capaciousness of its historical interventions.
Van Dyck and English Portraiture
MARTHE LISSON
In his Anecdotes of Painting in England, published in 1762, Horace Walpole confessed that his native country ‘has very rarely given birth to a genius in [painting].