Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK. Citizen science has…
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By Astrid Countee “Only Forward,” that is the message of Netflix’s latest superhero show, Luke Cage. A message that seems to have shown up just in time for…
The Philippine tarsier, a small primate that is increasingly threatened by habitat destruction and the pet trade, is just one example of the many primates throughout the world…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin… #038;blog=8589899&%23038;post=4997&%23038;subd=anthropoliteia&%23038;ref=&%23038;feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ />
The question of engagement With the persistence of civil wars, social inequality, violence, and injustice, anthropologists have been struggling with issues of universal rights and cultural relativism…
with Aneil and Ryan Special Guest: Serra Hakyemez Is waiting political? Can you cut in line at Starbucks during your hectic morning commute? In this episode of TAL…
A cold, wet, arctic wind graces the concrete skin of the Tenderloin. Pill Hill, the three-block stretch of inner city urbanity, along Leavenworth Avenue and between Turk and…
I wanted to repost a useful graphic from a French academic feminist group in Lyon. The self-explanatory title reads (approximately), “Women’s share declines, the higher you go up the hiera…
From the Great Wall of China to Hadrian’s Wall to the New Amsterdam Wall on Wall Street to the Wall defended by Castle Black, walls have a long-standing…
The City University of New York (CUNY) is the largest urban university system in the country and ranks alongside the California and New York State systems for total…
#038;d=identicon&%23038;r=G’ class=’avatar avatar-32′ height=’32’ width=’32’ />Progressive Geographies Genealogies of Environmentalism: The Lost Works of Clarence Glacken– edited by S. Ravi Rajan with Adam Romero and Michael Watts –…
By Hedda Askland, The University of Newcastle The sun was glittering on the Goulbourn River. The cicadas were loudly calling in the 40 degrees heat. The constant hum…
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The year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra Lab needs you! We are calling for proposals…
by Branwyn Polykett, University of Cambridge § In the years between the two world wars another global war was declared, the war on the rat. The rat was a stray…
One Wednesday afternoon, about four years following my family’s migration from Israel to New Zealand, I was gripped by a sudden urge to bake “challah” (The Friday night…
Courtesy of Square, Inc. by Lesli Davis A short film produced by Square, Inc. tells the story of a refugee family living in Knoxville, TN. Yassin Falafel, as some…
Bet for Nothing. Source: Hapal. Flickr Creative Commons trumped-up conflict with Iran The Berkeley Daily Planet published an opinion piece by William Beeman, professor of cultural anthropology at…
The unprecedented crime of the 1994 Rwandan genocide demanded an unconventional legal response. After failed attempts by the international legal system to efficiently handle legal cases stemming from…
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography has gathered links to a number of syllabi that “attend to some combination of performance, theatre, visual media, writing and ethnography.” This treasure…
Today’s D+A minisode follows on the heels of last week’s powerful conversation with Jara Connell on protesting and people-powered forms of resistance. In this minisode Jara offers us…