Yasmeen Arif
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 585048 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yasmeen Arif |
| PRENOMES | Yasmeen |
| SOBRENOME | Arif |
| ASSINATURA | ARIF Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography University of Oxford Oxford UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1117-1265 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What language do machines speak? LLMs and the simulated social
Large Language Models (LLMs) form a ground of convergence between computational capacity and language in unprecedented ways—a convergence that occupies a growing literature. Using OpenAI’s Chat GPT, I explore a somewhat counter-intuitive concern—rather than following the emerging dilemmas between human language, cognition, and humanist philosophical conundrums on one hand and on the other, ‘literate’ machines, I ask what language do machines inde…
Tensions of Care
This Symposium examines the ‘tensions of care’ that permeate the everyday practices, politics and infrastructures of care particularly in the Global South. Building on debates about the crisis of care and the unequal distribution of reproductive labour, the collection foregrounds how care is simultaneously sustaining and depleting, agentic and constraining, enabling and exploitative. By centring proximate, vernacular and historically situated for…
(Un)safe Spaces
This paper contributes to feminist urban geographies by drawing attention to gendered danger in the supposedly “safe” space of a women's hostel in urban Pakistan. While hostels are supposed to protect women against male sexual violence, residents suffer physical, financial, emotional, and reputational forms of danger. Hostel residents carry out safety work to mitigate these threats within the private space of the hostel, showing how gendered form…
Economies of Empathy
Relationships in the city are much about economic transactions and market exchange, as scholarship about the urban amply documents. Drawing on a film that follows the precarious possibility of sleep in Delhi, India, this essay recognizes the work of ‘sleep entrepreneurs’—ordinary people who offer sleep for a price. Vignettes from Delhi illustrate the theme of empathy in the city as it is pursued here—framed differently from dominant discourses of…
Compassion and the City
Compassion and the city is an unusual coupling in the urban analytic. The five essays in this Interventions collection propose compassion in the city as a form of life embedded in the conditions of the urban. Posed against the grain of extant scholarship that addresses these concerns in terms of discursive care or aid, this collection brings in five urban contexts—Dhaka, Delhi, Cairo, Jakarta and Horsens—to highlight understated nuances of how co…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Urban Anthropology
Urban anthropology in India resonates with its counterparts in most of the world in that it is multidisciplinary and that it shares the imprint of colonial legacies that urban research trajectories of the global South carry. If the nearly seventy‐five years since Indian independence can be a time line, the first half of that is the slow but sure recognition of the urban in sociological and anthropological perspectives, which were dominated by at …
Calling a Pandemic by Its Name
The reluctant native
Anthropologists, in regular intervals, tend to ask a cardinal question: How do we know what we know? Storms about ethnography and theory, epistemology and representation rage, and in their wake the debris of epistemic inequities, philosophical villainy, and more, scatter. What do these issues imply for those practicing the discipline outside the power centers where these issues circulate? In this essay, arguments built from the ground up will map…
We Don’t Need Another Hero
Ethnographic work occupies an uneasy spectrum of experiences, and in this timely discussion where ethnographic challenges are being given their rightful place – my arguments join the discussion by urging a slowing down, a stopping and taking stock about what counts as good work in our current professional environment. I attempt a reflection on immersed anthropologists, and in some ways, on those amongst whom we immerse. The base queries that anim…
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology
Questions of alternation might be read as intrinsic to sociological approaches to sexual difference and diversity. By this we mean ways in which the sexual as social scientific subject/object has oft been conceived of against the background of fluctuating conceptual and contextual registers. Terms for the empirical description, recognition and analysis of sexual life-worlds have most often been contested and queried. This might be especially so w…
Life, Emergent
Life, Emergent advocates for an affirmative life-politic that places the social squarely in the ‘meaning of life’, animating contemporary theory and practice on life in unexplored terrains. It privileges the social by exploring life-worlds of mass violence and questions the ability of the bio-political paradigm to contain a politics of life in the biological. What does an inquiry into life from the ‘social’ look like? Life, as it lives or dies in…
Anthropologizing the World and Worlding the Anthropologist
A conversation with Marilyn Strathern
Religion and Rehabilitation
Episodes of urban violence, particularly those inflected by religious sectarianism, have a particular dynamic of ordering urban spaces and identity publics, not just during the episodes themselves but long after. Using sketches of urban violence in Lebanon (Beirut) and India (Delhi and Ahmedabad), this article focuses on an emerging phenomenon associated with such episodes - one that orders city spaces around rehabilitative activities in such a w…
We Don’t Need Another Hero
Ethnographic work occupies an uneasy spectrum of experiences, and in this timely discussion where ethnographic challenges are being given their rightful place – my arguments join the discussion by urging a slowing down, a stopping and taking stock about what counts as good work in our current professional environment. I attempt a reflection on immersed anthropologists, and in some ways, on those amongst whom we immerse. The base queries that anim…
Religion and Rehabilitation
Episodes of urban violence, particularly those inflected by religious sectarianism, have a particular dynamic of ordering urban spaces and identity publics, not just during the episodes themselves but long after. Using sketches of urban violence in Lebanon (Beirut) and India (Delhi and Ahmedabad), this article focuses on an emerging phenomenon associated with such episodes - one that orders city spaces around rehabilitative activities in such a w…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Anthropologizing the World and Worlding the Anthropologist
(Un)safe Spaces
This paper contributes to feminist urban geographies by drawing attention to gendered danger in the supposedly “safe” space of a women's hostel in urban Pakistan. While hostels are supposed to protect women against male sexual violence, residents suffer physical, financial, emotional, and reputational forms of danger. Hostel residents carry out safety work to mitigate these threats within the private space of the hostel, showing how gendered form…
A conversation with Marilyn Strathern
Religion and Rehabilitation
Episodes of urban violence, particularly those inflected by religious sectarianism, have a particular dynamic of ordering urban spaces and identity publics, not just during the episodes themselves but long after. Using sketches of urban violence in Lebanon (Beirut) and India (Delhi and Ahmedabad), this article focuses on an emerging phenomenon associated with such episodes - one that orders city spaces around rehabilitative activities in such a w…
A conversation with Marilyn Strathern
Life, Emergent
Life, Emergent advocates for an affirmative life-politic that places the social squarely in the ‘meaning of life’, animating contemporary theory and practice on life in unexplored terrains. It privileges the social by exploring life-worlds of mass violence and questions the ability of the bio-political paradigm to contain a politics of life in the biological. What does an inquiry into life from the ‘social’ look like? Life, as it lives or dies in…
Anthropologizing the World and Worlding the Anthropologist
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology
Questions of alternation might be read as intrinsic to sociological approaches to sexual difference and diversity. By this we mean ways in which the sexual as social scientific subject/object has oft been conceived of against the background of fluctuating conceptual and contextual registers. Terms for the empirical description, recognition and analysis of sexual life-worlds have most often been contested and queried. This might be especially so w…
We Don’t Need Another Hero
Ethnographic work occupies an uneasy spectrum of experiences, and in this timely discussion where ethnographic challenges are being given their rightful place – my arguments join the discussion by urging a slowing down, a stopping and taking stock about what counts as good work in our current professional environment. I attempt a reflection on immersed anthropologists, and in some ways, on those amongst whom we immerse. The base queries that anim…
Urban Anthropology
Urban anthropology in India resonates with its counterparts in most of the world in that it is multidisciplinary and that it shares the imprint of colonial legacies that urban research trajectories of the global South carry. If the nearly seventy‐five years since Indian independence can be a time line, the first half of that is the slow but sure recognition of the urban in sociological and anthropological perspectives, which were dominated by at …
Calling a Pandemic by Its Name
The reluctant native
Anthropologists, in regular intervals, tend to ask a cardinal question: How do we know what we know? Storms about ethnography and theory, epistemology and representation rage, and in their wake the debris of epistemic inequities, philosophical villainy, and more, scatter. What do these issues imply for those practicing the discipline outside the power centers where these issues circulate? In this essay, arguments built from the ground up will map…
Comparing the situations of anthropologists around the world as to publication and evaluation criteria
In January 2022, the World Council of Anthropological Associations Task Force "Making Anthropology Global" was formed, consisting of Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.-j. Ezeh, Shannon Morreira, Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gordon Mathews (chairperson), and Takami Kuwayama, reporting on Chile, Norway, Nigeria, South Africa. India, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. The task force met via Zoom once a month during 2022 and early 2023, with ass…
Economies of Empathy
Relationships in the city are much about economic transactions and market exchange, as scholarship about the urban amply documents. Drawing on a film that follows the precarious possibility of sleep in Delhi, India, this essay recognizes the work of ‘sleep entrepreneurs’—ordinary people who offer sleep for a price. Vignettes from Delhi illustrate the theme of empathy in the city as it is pursued here—framed differently from dominant discourses of…
Compassion and the City
Compassion and the city is an unusual coupling in the urban analytic. The five essays in this Interventions collection propose compassion in the city as a form of life embedded in the conditions of the urban. Posed against the grain of extant scholarship that addresses these concerns in terms of discursive care or aid, this collection brings in five urban contexts—Dhaka, Delhi, Cairo, Jakarta and Horsens—to highlight understated nuances of how co…
What language do machines speak? LLMs and the simulated social
Large Language Models (LLMs) form a ground of convergence between computational capacity and language in unprecedented ways—a convergence that occupies a growing literature. Using OpenAI’s Chat GPT, I explore a somewhat counter-intuitive concern—rather than following the emerging dilemmas between human language, cognition, and humanist philosophical conundrums on one hand and on the other, ‘literate’ machines, I ask what language do machines inde…
Tensions of Care
This Symposium examines the ‘tensions of care’ that permeate the everyday practices, politics and infrastructures of care particularly in the Global South. Building on debates about the crisis of care and the unequal distribution of reproductive labour, the collection foregrounds how care is simultaneously sustaining and depleting, agentic and constraining, enabling and exploitative. By centring proximate, vernacular and historically situated for…
(Un)safe Spaces
This paper contributes to feminist urban geographies by drawing attention to gendered danger in the supposedly “safe” space of a women's hostel in urban Pakistan. While hostels are supposed to protect women against male sexual violence, residents suffer physical, financial, emotional, and reputational forms of danger. Hostel residents carry out safety work to mitigate these threats within the private space of the hostel, showing how gendered form…
Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Epistemology (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)