The screenshot above circulated my online social circle today (10 August 2025).
It's worth checking-out Sadiah Qureshi's Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
She was a ("suspected") sex worker. The original photo includes a hand-written note, dating it 11 October 1874 and naming her as "de Beyren (La Comtesse)." It was a self-promotional portrait she had taken before it ended up as File 329 in the "
Why contemplate spatiality, wider visual cutlure, the anthropology of photography, transnational migration, and imperial border-making? Considering lineage of governmental thinking on "vagrants," sex workers, political dissidents (like anti-rent strikers), and "migrants." Best not to collapse these into mere "threats to order," as
Might sound nice at first, on the surface. You might describe it as: "An Indian state is celebrating as a beloved nearly-extinct unique subspecies of lion, the Asiatic/Persian/Indian lion, a charming charismatic creature, has been brought back from the brink. India, with the power of science,
In December 1928, Benito Mussolini broke ground—quite literally—on a massive development project targeting the “death inducing swamps” of the Pontine Marshes, the substantial wetland region on Rome’s southern edges, which were to be remade into “New Town” settlements whose residents would model ideal standards of productivity. Having
