A war against diabetes, a war against shame

This piece explores how public health campaigns in Singapore surrounding diabetes stigmatize and shame individuals and ethnic communities. It also highlights the potential for reclaiming this shame to challenge ineffective, individualizing public health approaches and their underlying narratives.

Rebecca Karl, On Fredric Jameson

It didn’t seem possible that someone so full of life and thought and humor could die, but Fredric Jameson has passed. Those of us who were fortunate enough to sit...

episteme issue 10: maoism on the move

episteme issue 10 approaches Maoism as a traveling theory, highlighting how Maoism was interpreted and implemented in a variety of contexts outside of socialist China.

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This issue offers a new perspective on indigeneity and encourage us to consider the ways in which settler colonialism continues to play a major role in extractive capitalist projects, land dispossession, and political domination in “Asia.”

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