Making Sense of the Global, ed. Raúl Acosta, Sadaf Rizvi, and Ana Santos, is now going to press at Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP).
I have a lot of affection for this book, having been copyediting it on and off over the last four months. Its papers apply anthropological concepts and methods to the understanding of global [...]

Turkey’s main English language daily used to be so in need of language polishing as to be virtually incomprehensible in places. So I was very excited to see new activity in its copyediting department. Maybe now we would find out what those articles were about.
But unfortunately the energy seems to have died away; the nicely [...]

Wendy

Truly: to know a work it is only necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the index.
I remember a Wittgenstein lecturer at Leeds saying how life was transformed after the Philosophical Investigations was republished with an index (the third edition, 1967).
Why read the whole thing when you’ve got an index which includes entries like ‘beetle‘, [...]

October 12, 1999: the day the UN declared that the Earth’s population had passed six billion. Also, the day I discovered there was a difference between a UK and a U.S. billion.
The population of my world collapsed like pricked balloon. And the significance of the “historic milestone” was lost.
The sub-editors’ desk sums up the issue [...]