The Emperor’s new class
Many of my students are fans of the “Humans of (insert city name here)” series of pages on Facebook, which posts stories of ordinary women and men residing in the…
Omissions
A few weeks ago, anthropologist Fr. Albert Alejo gave a lecture here at Leiden University entitled “President Duterte and his critics.” Many of us know that the Duterte administration is…
Coming together
We see the deployment of state apparatus to protect not the interests of the poorest and most vulnerable but the richest and most powerful
Stories
Stories are extraordinary. A writer would spend a lifetime crafting the perfect one, and an anthropologist would spend a lifetime unravelling them. Stories are potent. They can move people to weep and to fight and to believe things they might not have thought possible.
When Land Ends
One of the perks of going back to student life is having more time to read more books, something that, contrary to popular assumption, isn’t always true if you’re a full time teacher. Another perk is that you get great suggestions from your teachers, sometimes of books that you haven’t heard of before or had previously been inaccessible. Call me a nerd, but this is all very exciting to me.
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