Cheap Chinese Goods
In a new project, I trace the fortunes of three interrelated communities across four northern Andean cities. Indigenous Otavaleño traders, mestizo apparel producers in the manufacturing cluster of…
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Thomas Grisaffi: After the Referendum: Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). In February 2016 Bolivian President…
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Hi all,After a busy week of teaching, blogging and ranting about #allmalepanels let’s enjoy the new week with fresh food for thought! Development news features a great think-piece…
Three Millimeters by Christine Labuski
The first time I encountered Judy I was with Dr. Erlich, gathering fact sheets about vulvar pain conditions. Dr. Robichaud, the other physician at the Vulvar Health Clinic…
“I was nowhere”
By Marie Linne Dalal contaced me during my fieldwork among refugees who aspire to study in the Netherlands. She agreed to meet with me for an interview, to…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 2: SQUIRREL!
This is the second of a series of posts I am writing on the topic of the AAA boycott vote. You can read the previous post here. Last…
Ethnography and the work of the ancestors
Ancestral protection During fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, the Xhosa residents of the townships would sometimes talk about their ancestors. They told me their ancestors offered protection…
New Allegra week: #Boredom, Laughter – and a few farts!
And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination to chew our intellectual…
Structural Vulnerabilities and Global Migrant Crises: What Can Activist Scholars Do?
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nolan Kline Plakat Refugees Welcome G7 Gipfel Gegendemo am 06.06.2015 in Garmisch-Patenkirchen Elmau | Metropolico.org CC BY-SA 2.0 At recent Donald Trump…
Philadelphia Street Style: Gibbs, Walnut St
Nearly everything Gibbs is wearing in this shot has either been personalized in some significant way or has a personal story attached to it. As an anthropologist, that’s…
The Wall: A Monument to the Nation-State
Reaction against globalization often takes a visceral nationalist turn in many parts of the globe, no less in the US where the impacts of globalization are increasingly registered…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
Am I alone, or is there an exponentially expanding audience of people who have grown tired of our fight club presidential politics? In this 2016 political season, which…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Lockjaw from Telephone Publishing. Book launch.
Dreamflesh was a loose group of writers, graphic artists and musicians who would have rejected the term “collective” in favour of something more like, say, “gang”. They produced…
If I was going to be interviewed about blogging by The Geek Anthropologist: 15 questions
(… this is very informal…) Why do I blog? When you work outside academia and you’re not actively researching you still want to write, you still want…
#allmalepanels in international development are about more than just the absence of women
At least my tweet on the recent high-level World Bank Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 made it into the top 5 tweets for the hashtag #investininfra: Nothing says “inclusive…