Other Books
& Special Issues
BOOK
Detachment: Essays on the limits of relational thinking
This volume urges a reconsideration of the productive potential of disconnection, distance and detachment, as ethical, methodological and philosophical commitments. In so doing, we write against the grain of a strong tendency in contemporary social theory and public life.
BOOK
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Anthropology and Humanism (2020):
Volume 45, Issue 2: 175-402
Special Section: Unsettling Anthropologies of Care
In this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and across shifting subjectivities and intersubjectivities, we show how enactments of care are often unsettled by the transforming dynamics of relationships across time and often entail a multiplicity of competing affects and aspirations, such as hope and failure, love and resentment, pragmatism and utopianism, and connection and disconnection. We thus suggest an analytic approach to care that questions care as either morally suspect or morally virtuous and instead allows for the compromised, shifting, and ambiguous dimensions of care practices to take center stage.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
Anthropology Today (2022): Volume 38, Issue 2: i-ii, 1-31
Special Issue: Mindfulness and Culture
In this special issue of Anthropology Today on mindfulness and culture, we reflect on the historical and cultural contexts that inform mindfulness and meditation. The anthropologists in this issue provide rich, qualitative accounts of mindfulness’ historical and cultural complexities. Each article shows that broader ontological and metaphysical ideas about what it is to be human and to engage with the world necessarily inform mindfulness practice.
Taken together, this special issue illustrates that anthropological approaches enable
us to explore the lived experience of culturally embedded assumptions about the mind and mental health.