Month: April 2021

New book: The Truth Society by Noelle Molé Liston (Cornell University Press, 2020)

SAE member Noelle Molé Liston has recently published The Truth Society: Science, Disinformation, and Politics in Berlusconi’s Italy (Cornell University Press, 2020). How does the way in which we know about world shape who we think should rule it? The Truth Society seeks to understand how an era of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred

Uncertainty and Viral Emergencies in the Margins of Georgia

By Görkem Aydemir Anthropology News, March 24, 2021 For people from Gali, the lockdowns and unpredictability brought by COVID-19 are not new. Life in this liminal conflict zone has long been punctuated by border closures and crises. Since the start of the pandemic, the word “uncertainty” has become ever present in our lives. A convenient