Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

I am going to share a story with you.

Today I have the honour of bringing you a guest post written by my colleague and good friend, Rima Dib.

This article is also available as a YouTube video.

This article is also available as a YouTube video.

I can’t stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig’s book Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia.

Liberals—defined as people with progressive social beliefs who generally support capitalism implicitly because they don’t know what it is or because they have a poor understanding of it, ie. those who believe “sexism and homophobia are bad but land owners…

“They should know better.”

This essay is also available in video form.

I am consumed by a difficult realization I’ve come to lately.

I’m an anthropologist doing my PhD on activism and organizing.