Month: September 2024

Welcome to the first round of ‘In the Journals’ for September! Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist Banker, pastor, teef: Christian financial elites and vernaculars of accountability in Ghana Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, Girish Daswani When nine Ghanaian banks collapsed during the country’s 2017–2019 financial […]

Burnout. The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024) Hannah Proctor’s Burnout is not about how tiredness arises from the daily grind. Instead, “burnout” is conceptualised as an emotional fatigue which emerges from political struggle. Proctor is a historian at the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the […]