Space Junk: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You
At 3:54 pm local time yesterday, a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base into Earth’s lower orbit. On this rocket wer...
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Women forced to “give birth in classrooms” as USAID freezes leave Thai authorities overwhelmed
Thai hospitals are discharging thousands of Myanmar refugees requiring urgent care including women in labour, as US President Donald Trump’s USAID cuts take ...
“We Thought The War Would End”: Why Sudan’s Conflict Rages On
A shaky video call on a grey November afternoon rings five times before connecting me to Duaa. She is almost 5,000 kilometres away, sitting on the floor of h...
Why the Celebrity Lookalike Craze Shows That The Kids Are Alright
Let’s face it - the newsbeat is hardly one of joyous optimism at the best of times; and as we head into the depths of a winter marked by global conflict, an ...
Staple Crops and Symbolism: How Religion Influences Cuisine Across sub-Saharan Africa
Lying south of Earth’s largest hot desert and encompassing forty-six of Africa’s fifty-four countries, sub-Saharan Africa is renowned for incredible landscap...
Racial Disparities in the NHS are Leaving UK Mothers at Risk, New Data Shows
Black and Asian women in the UK are up to three times more likely to die during pregnancy than their white counterparts, according to new findings from the n...
Virtual Fitting Rooms: The Next E-Commerce Trend? Permalink
Unpacking whether virtual fitting rooms are set to transform the online shopping experience.
Meet the Green Artists Making Waves Permalink
How sustainability becomes art.
Resistance, Power, and the Everyday Permalink
An examination of resistance as an everyday phenomenon through a critical Anthropological perspective.
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The Anthropology of Kinship
Traditionally one of the key topics in Anthropology, kinship encompasses the study of how individuals are related to one another through biological, legal, a...
Tattoos in Western Society
Popular depictions of tattooing in contemporary Western society have often synonymised this form of body-art with riskiness, crime, and exoticising narrative...
Uncomfortable Odonyms, Suspicious Streets.
A mundane part of life for many, the problematising of street-names in cities has been witnessing a growing interest from anti-racist and decolonial activist...
In What Ways Have Third And Fourth Wave Feminism Reshaped Narratives Surrounding The Monstrous Feminine?
Rooted in early manifestations in Greek mythology, the non-victimised female body in filmic Horror has historically been constructed as a site of dangerous d...
Old Lula, New Tricks?
In the dénouement of a fierce Presidential election marred by protests, scaremongering, and fatal violence, Brazil’s reappointment of left-wing Luiz Inácio L...