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So anthropology grounds Asya. At the same time, the novel gestures to the discipline’s troubled past, with its colonial underpinnings and tendency to exploit, extract, and other its subjects.

Cara Blue Adams • Infra-ordinary People | Cara Blue Adams

Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

what’s dystopian always involves surveillance and monetization, what’s utopian is unmonetized and unsurveilled.

Gordon Glasgow • 12 Questions for Jia Tolentino

Top-down state mandated agendas, however, are unlikely to fulfill the task of environmental protection despite the commitment of the central government, in part because the state itself sends mixed messages and is constituted by different agencies and levels of government with varying if not contradictory attitudes towards the environment.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

But approaches to sustainability, which we will consider here, have yet to be integrated with these espousals.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

Committed to reducing the social inequalities and loosening the traditional disciplinary boundaries that subtend the academy, we aim to facilitate freedom for everyone’s curiosity to pursue seemingly incommensurable ideas and applications.

Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection

Transforming swaths of land into laboratories where laws and regulations are subordinate to accumulation is generative, “reconfiguring relationships between governing and the governed, power and knowledge, and sovereignty and territoriality.”

Jesse Robertson • A Complicated System of Traps: On Quinn Slobodian’s “Crack-Up Capitalism” — Cleveland Review of Books

Although Guha later came to regard his own version of environmentalism to be similarly chauvinistic, his work triggered major debates in environmental studies, which remain with us today.

Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

“[…] the glass of anthropological knowledge has become darkened by despondency, dystopian, and extinction theories. The earth is exhausted, and ontologies are dying. Many anthropological monographs read as funeral rites for communities. Alternatively, anthropologists offer hyper-micro studies of specific communities and their life worlds that still