Dig for the humanities
What if: the digital humanities represents a wanna be elaborate theoretical effort with a retrograde political conception and naïve economic complicity – an intellectually restrained class bough…
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Philadelphia Street Style: Kat, Walnut and Broad St
Kat has gotten quite adept at recognizing the potential in the clothes her mother no longer wants. That bleached denim jacket was hers. So was the Gap sweater.…
‘Walls of Peace’ and memories of conflict in Belfast
Learning about a conflicting past Separating a protestant neighbourhood from a Catholic neighbourhood and an industrial complex on the other side of the street, the 15-meter-high wall is…
‘Walls of Peace’ and memories of conflict in Belfast
Learning about a conflicting past Separating a protestant neighbourhood from a Catholic neighbourhood and an industrial complex on the other side of the street, the 15-meter-high wall is…
Reconciliation’s Waste: heritage and waste in post-apartheid South Africa
Portable toilets and urine on colonial era statues are reconciliations ruins, the things leftover that heritage helps to frame but yet cannot fully explain. As matter that remains…
The discernment of knowledge: sexualized violence in the Mennonite church by Stephanie Krehbiel
This case begins with an unsettling email. It came from a powerful man of the church, a Mennonite executive, and it was a response to an email from…
New Forms of Law and Governance for and from the Arctic
This in an invitation to a seminar on adaptive law and governance in the Arctic. Researcher Ivanova (left) studying native fisheries governance with the Lariny family in the…
LIVING #FICTIONS
The theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and Rights network and builds on its…
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
by Ines Hasselberg **Originally posted at University of Oxford website** The UK Borders Act 2007 allows for foreign-nationals sentenced to 12 months or more of imprisonment to be…
Update
Just a quick update noting that Anne has been on long-term sick leave but will be returning to full-time research on 30 May, 2016. Stay tuned for more.
The geography of inequality
For Quartz, I wrote about the geography of the unequal economic recovery in the US. Coastal cities with thriving economies have become unaffordable for the average worker; heartland…
Half-Heads: A Dominant Force in US Politics
“Half-head”: this signifies a way of approaching problems that involves efficient thinking, where efficiency comes from an intensely selective focus. A half-headed approach could be a combination of…
Birgit Meyer, “Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana” (U of California Press, 2015)
Anthropologist Birgit Meyer‘s most recent book, Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana (University of California Press, 2015), explores the dynamic process of popular video… Visit New…
The Right to Own Living Memorials
Are you an organ donor? Have you donated your body to science? Have you donated a loved one’s body to science? If you answer yes to any of…
What is "sensemaking"? Anthropology in marketing
Quantitative research — which has long been the market research standard — can provide insights into broad patterns and customer metrics. While this ‘big data’ can tell a…
CFP: Towards an ecology of neglected things
Neglected things are pervasive in numerous contemporary practices and imaginaries. Our patchy knowledge about them is co-produced with a specific social order (Jasanoff, 2004), which is politically sh…
Michele Friedner’s “Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India” by Cassandra Hartblay
Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India by Michele Friedner Rutgers University Press, 2015, 216 pages An Indian coffee shop franchise advertises their practice of hiring deaf baristas –…
Notes on the 9th digital ethnography reading (Boellstorff et al 2012)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group On Wednesday 13 April 2016, we spent…
Notes on the 8th digital ethnography reading (O’Dell & Willim 2013)
By Nicholas Hansen MA student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Wednesday 09 March (12-1:30 @ B009-04-032)…
Links & Contents I Liked 180
Hi all, Your Friday and weekend deserve some new, critical reading suggestions! Development news on Thomas Friedman’s ‘just ask two people’ journalism; Barbie Savior is fun-so what? @UN…
University Destruction INC! RIP University of Helsinki
Today is a black day in the ongoing the destruction of Finnish universities, particularly the University of Helsinki! Under the the pretence of austerity the University will be…