India’s Uber Dilemma: Entrepreneurship or Exploitation?
Uber is part of a “gig economy” trend in India and elsewhere—an economy partially powered by self-employed workers on short-term jobs. While it offers flexible schedules for its…
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Why are conferences in Africa excluding African scholars?
Savage Minds is excited to present this invited blog from Ellen E. Foley, an Associate Professor in International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University. She was also the…
‘Coming of Age in Chicago’ edited by Hinsley and Wilcox
Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox (Editors). Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World’s Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology. 624 pp., illus., tbls., apps., bibl.,…
Roundtable Report: “Globalization of Asian Cuisines”
To celebrate the publication of “Globalization of Asian Cuisines: Transnational Networks and Culinary Contact Zones,” three of the edited volume’s authors—Stephanie Assmann, James Farrer, and David Wa…
A guide to academic conversations
It can be a little daunting to approach a speaker after an academic talk. We’ve all been there at one time or another. You’ve just heard an inspiring…
Review: Teaching Food and Culture
Teaching Food and Culture. Edited by Candice Lowe Swift and Richard Wilk. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2015. 209 pp. US$39.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-62958-127-9. Review by…
Trump’s VP pick
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about how, if elected, Trump will outsource the day-to-day work of the presidency to the VP — most likely to be…
Ramadan Diaries: Introduction
Ramadan Diaries takes you into the Ramadan experience of two students of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, Oguz Alyanak and Dick Powis. They will be fasting…
A Brief History of Anti-Capitalism, Pulled from a Dumpster
By Alex V. Barnard “Seeing all the waste exposes very clearly the priorities in our society, that making a profit is more important than feeding people, than preserving the…
Extractivism, Refusals, and the Mining of Failure by Teresa Velasquez
Is ethnographic research analogous to a gold mine project, an extractive industry that makes a social and material landscape knowable, and hence governable? Is knowledge construction a veil…
The Political Agency of Refugees
by Matea Curcovic Westendorp Dr. Cindy Horst is an anthropologist located in Oslo, Norway where she works as a senior researcher at the research institute PRIO. Her main…
On book reviews and back covers
I spend ages reading and summarising Bourdieu’s mammoth On the State (2014 [2012]) for a journal review – I was even congratulated by a stranger on a Melbourne…
“It has taken more work and time to place our students in decreasingly attractive jobs.”
File under “Graduate School Has Always Sucked“: There was a time when graduate school didn’t suck that much, financially speaking at least. And then it did start…
Free Bikes, Free Enterprise, and Other Theories to Teach Poor Kids that “There ain’t No Free Lunch!”
The Lost Jingle Dress
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first published piece of creative non-fiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
The Lost Jingle Dress
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first ‘published’ piece of creative nonfiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
A Human Economy Approach To Development
Originally published in openDemocracy, in the openMovements series. By Keith Hart Ronald Coase won a Nobel prize in economics for inventing the idea of transaction costs in “The…
A Human Economy Approach To Development
Originally published in openDemocracy, in the openMovements series. By Keith Hart Ronald Coase won a Nobel prize in economics for inventing the idea of transaction costs in “The…
A Human Economy Approach To Development
Originally published in openDemocracy, in the openMovements series. By Keith Hart Ronald Coase won a Nobel prize in economics for inventing the idea of transaction costs in “The…
A Human Economy Approach To Development
Originally published in openDemocracy, in the openMovements series. By Keith Hart Ronald Coase won a Nobel prize in economics for inventing the idea of transaction costs in “The…
Around the Web Digest- Week of May 29
Hi everyone! My name is Eddie and I am the new Around the Web/Social Media Intern! I am a recent B.A. from Loyola University Chicago; flailing through post-grad…
A left vision for basic income
Today Swiss people are voting in a referendum that will determine whether to include a universal basic income in the federal constitution. The constitutional amendment proposes the institution of a…
The Games! They’re Alive!
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to participate in the Living Games Conference in Austin, Texas. Living Games, which started in 2014 at the NYU Game…