• Empire State building shooting

    Shooting in the Empire State building: And once again, brace yourselves for the post-massacre debates. Gun control will be but a blip on the screen, and quickly the deterrence narrative will devolve into either 1) the mental state of the shooter or 2) an insistence that “if only someone in the crowd had a gun, Read more

  • How Difficult it is to be God

    How Difficult it is to be GodThis was a collective labor of love and admiration for our dear colleague, Carlos Iván Degregori. Read more

  • Más sobre el Cuartel Cabitos y el juicio que está en plena marcha.

    Más sobre el Cuartel Cabitos y el juicio que está en plena marcha. Read more

  • The Cabitos Trial, Ayacucho, Peru

    The Cabitos trial continues in Huamanga today.  Yesterday two women testified about rape and other forms of sexual violence they endured in the military base.  “Alcira,” now over 70 years of age, was a young schoolteacher in the community of Machente.  She was detained and taken to the Cabitos base, where the soldiers stripped her Read more

  • “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Reparations,” at “Ways of Knowing After Atrocity: Assessing the Methods Used to Research, Design and Implement Transitional Justice Processes,” Oxford Transitional Justice Network, June 28-29th, 2012, Oxford University, England. Read more

  • “Anthropologies of Justice,”  American Anthropological Association 111th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 14-18th, 2012. Read more