IMF plots “credit event” to push Greece to the brink of default
Even though other international events have largely pushed it in the background, the Greek debt drama continues. The IMF and the EU institutions cannot agree on the terms…
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The Power of Menstrual Politics
The latest in the abortion wars: “One Indiana woman recently created the Facebook page Periods for Pence where she encourages others to call the governor’s office to report their periods,…
Groundings, or seeing-one’s-feet: An introduction
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Proshant Chakraborty] Over the last year or so, I have found that nearly every academic essay I have written for my courses contains…
Bad Marxism
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34. In search of psychedelia: for a technopolitics beyond institutions
This is the thirty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series This past March 2016 I spent three weeks in Lima (Peru), as well as a few days in…
Origins and Scope of Thick Ethnography
Within a historical context, ethnography attempts to be holistic in nature based in part on emic views. It is written, observational science that provides an account of a…
Special Issues – Insurance and Health Reform; Digitised Medicine by Anna Zogas
In addition to our regular roundup of journal articles, these two special issues were published this month: In Medical Anthropology Quarterly, “Toward an Anthropology of Insurance and Health Re…
In the Journals — March 2016, Part II by Anna Zogas
Here is the second half of our March roundup of journal articles. There are also two Special Issues out this month that may be of interest, including the current Medical…
Iselin Åsedotter Strønen: After the Bolivarian Revolution: What’s in store for Margarita?
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). I still clearly remember Margarita,[1]…
Review “Letters of Stone. From Nazi Germany to South Africa” (Steven Robins, 2016)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Heike Becker „Stumble Stones“ of Siegfried and Edith Robinski | planted by Robins in memory of his relatives When Steven Robins delivered…
Notes From a Crime Scene
Drive out in the late afternoon to one of the many hills on the outskirts of the tiny Arizona town of Arivaca and look west. You will see…
Keulen: een goed begin?
“Unser Feminismus ist antirassistisch – Reclaim feminism” (12 maart 2016, Keulen) © strassenstriche.net, via creative commons Door Marina de Regt en Reinhilde Kōnig De discussie ove…
Culture: Public or Private?
Museums to prevent insurrection Many countries in the world have State financed national museums, based on the European model of the nineteenth century centralized state. These museums all…
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 2
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
Smeared Disguises: A Reply to Hirschkind
(Savage Minds is pleased to present this occasional post by Gregory Starrett, professor of anthropology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This piece is a response to…
In the Journals – March 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
Skeleton Sex Pots
The Moche, one of the world’s great ancient civilizations, occupied the northern coast of Peru from roughly A.D. 100 to A.D. 800. They produced beautiful ceramic vessels; hundreds…
OTG 5: Un[der]heard Messages from Ferguson
brothers dying in the street and our hoods in crisis we need more messages for the grassroots we need resurrections like Osiris corner stores b-boys wondering what freedoms…
Article Alert! New articles and books in Discard Studies
Since discard studies doesn’t have it’s own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books from all over …
Human Smugglers | Workshop Abstracts – Part 1
The workshop “Critical approaches to irregular migration facilitation: dismantling the human smuggler narrative” is fast approaching! Unique in its genre, the workshop aims to problematise…
How great development discussions look like on facebook – Build Africa’s “Time Machine” video edition
There is always space for more snark, memes, satire or ironic commentary on development-related topics, so it is worth documenting a great teachable moment that happened on facebook…
Philosophers without infrastructure, Part 2
Following up on my last post (and indirectly on a couple of older posts), I came across an interesting interview extract that comments in a bit more detail…