Minggu, 21 Oktober 2012

The wall around life

The kinds of processes that I have been looking at are processes of impoverishment; processes in which the state is an active agent, and active actor, in letting people’s lives waste in certain places and at certain times. Anthropology has had a role in studying this displacement and this dispossession by showing how connections matter, how other lives here are entangled with those in remote processes, remote places, in the hope that we can at least broaden a moral compass. Thank you very much.

(Shalini Randeria)

Sabtu, 28 Juli 2012

Becomes a woman

One is not a woman but rather becomes one (Simone de Beauvoir)

Sabtu, 11 Februari 2012

Adichie on Lee

--sometimes novels are considered "important" in the way medicine is – they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are good for you. The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre--

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie