Platform Workers’ Organizing Diaries: Messages from Union Organizers to Researchers
This article is the first article in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network[1] . Read…
This article is the first article in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network[1] . Read…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heritage-fever-9780197756041 Byron Dueck: This fascinating study examines a recent groundswell of work to enshrine expressive practices as intangible cu…
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript 0:00[On screen image] sNAPAshots Logo Interviewer 0:08Welcome to Snapchashots:…
a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music…
Image: Inō Tadataka (1745-1818), the famous Japanese surveyor and cartographer whose bronze statue resides in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine grounds in present-day Monzen Nakacho, joined…
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For more than a century, SAR Press has published scholarship that continues to change how we understand people, culture, history, and place. Since its earliest archaeological publicati…
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By Peter Versteeg, on behalf of the SpW team – Good people, Summer has arrived – sing cucu and drink saison! We look back at a fruitful year…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
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Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
My friend and colleague Kevin Ming has published his new book, The Art of Getting By: Wisdom and Resilience from China’s Migrant Women (Algora Publishing 2026). Here is…
ByRie KimotoMSc Anthropology and Professional Practice “Dead bodies are buried under the cherry trees! For how can it be believed that cherry blossoms bloom so brilliantly otherwise?R…
John Snow’s 19th century dot-map (from the series introduction) is representative of a shift in the public management of infectious diseases towards measuring density of confirmed cases within…
As I write this I have sixteen Claude threads open. They look scattered, but every one ladders up to something I’m trying to accomplish — and I’m the…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology with Year Abroad When I visited the British Museum, I happened to chance upon a display of Javanese puppets and models tucked away in one of…
This article is a part of a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. On a sunny day in November 2021,…