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The “Suitcase Trader”: The Middlemen in the Cosmetics Market of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
3 days ago
Introduction I’m walking through Mwenge, one of Dar es Salaam’s central business...
In the Journals – July 2026
8 days ago
Somatosphere welcomes you to the July edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll...
We are all fakes brokers: reflections from staging fakes in Mombasa
15 days ago
It’s a Ramadhan morning in the port city of Mombasa, early April...
Middlemen, fakes, and global health: Opening provocations
29 days ago
Why should the figure of the middleman matter for scholars of global...
In the Journals – June 2026
about 1 month ago
Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll...
The virology of history: notes from a workshop on symbiotic viruses
about 1 month ago
A workshop report of Symbiotic Viruses, convened by Benjamin Hegarty and Frédéric...
Book review: ‘Get it out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy’
about 2 months ago
Get it out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy by Andréa Becker (New...
Biopolitical Fieldwork in Practice: Notes from Our Delhi Workshop
4 months ago
1. Biopolitical Fieldwork By the end of 2023, the World Health Organization...
The Politics of “Essential Work”: ASHA Workers and the Essentialization of Labor in India
4 months ago
Since 2020, the category of “essential work,” and the exploitative conditions it...
The Politics of Isolation: Caste, Care, and Control amid COVID-19 in India
5 months ago
Introduction In the summer of 2020 in a rural village in Telangana,...
Caring for the Algorithm: Care, Love, and the Relational Personhood of Chatbots
5 months ago
Introduction In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Reddit user shared...
‘No Covid Here’: Pandemic Afterlives in a Delhi Informal Settlement
5 months ago
When I began doctoral fieldwork in 2022 in Unity Colony[1]—a low-income informal...