Posts by: Alex DeWaal
I’m both honored and humbled to be the 2023 recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Huxley Award. Established in 1900, the recipients include some of the luminaries of the […]
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Originally published by The New York Times on August 13, 2023.
An uninterrupted swath of African countries from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea is now under military […]
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Thirty years ago this week, on July 11, 1993 to be precise, a military attorney attached to the UN Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM) instructed that I should be detained.
The […]
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Many of the world’s conflicts are in places where institutions have failed and violent transactional politics rules. Often, the battlefield is only the tactical arena—what counts strategically is the material […]
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No group in history has been as dangerous as soldiers who feel betrayed. Whether they are conscripts, volunteers or mercenaries, the men who fought for a cause that later became […]
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The social meaning of famine is to be found in memory.
A just-published special issue of Third World Quarterly on famine and memory, includes contributions on
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