The “Satanic Mill”: Karl Polanyi’s Radical Critique of the Free Market
We live in a world governed by “market forces.” We are told that the...
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Welcome to the Case Study Bank. This is a growing collection of classic and contemporary case studies, designed to provide relevant examples and ‘fodder material’ for your Mains answers. Each case study is tagged and linked to its relevant syllabus topic.”
The Price of Thought: Why a Warm Body and Big Babies Were the Secret to Big Brains
The human brain is an evolutionary masterpiece, but it comes at a staggering price....
The Flexible Brain: Why Risk and Impulse Are Not “One-Size-Fits-All”
Why do some individuals struggle with addiction or impulsivity while others do not? Why...
More Than a Tool: How Neanderthal “Crayons” Reveal an Ancient Artistic Mind
For more than a century, the Neanderthal has been our “brutish” ancestor, the dull,...
The 3,000-Kilometer Journey: How a Crimean Fossil Is Rewriting the Neanderthal World
The popular image of the Neanderthal is one of a brutish, primitive creature, confined...
The Skeleton’s Secret: How a New Test Can Reveal Ancient Pregnancies
The human skeleton is a remarkable archive. For an archaeologist, it’s a diary written...
The 90-Degree Twist: How Two Tiny Genetic Tweaks Reshaped Our Hips and Made Us Human
The moment our ancestors stood up and walked on two legs was arguably the...
The Ghost in the Machine, Reversed: How Technology Becomes Our Body
“A good tool is an invisible tool.” So wrote the computer scientist Mark Weiser....
Anxiety on the Move: Ethnographic Dispatches From the Unfulfilled Dream of Gorkhaland
How do we live with a political dream deferred, year after year, decade after...
Mothering AI, The Adivasi Way: Can Indigenous Knowledge Decolonize Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a neutral, objective, and universal technology, a disembodied...