Where a growth of Islam does not mean a growth in anti-Muslim sentiments
“In Europe, we too quickly link the idea of converting to Islam with radicalization. Such discourses are much less common here. There is much less fear of Islam…
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Where a growth of Islam does not mean a growth in anti-Muslim sentiments
“In Europe, we too quickly link the idea of converting to Islam with radicalization. Such discourses are much less common here. There is much less fear of Islam…
Where a growth of Islam does not mean a growth in anti-Muslim sentiments
“In Europe, we too quickly link the idea of converting to Islam with radicalization. Such discourses are much less common here. There is much less fear of Islam…
Where a growth of Islam does not mean a growth in anti-Muslim sentiments
“In Europe, we too quickly link the idea of converting to Islam with radicalization. Such discourses are much less common here. There is much less fear of Islam…
Fiji Fieldschool press release
Photo by Suhad Hussain. 2015 Macquarie University students in the unit, Anth 225 ‘Field school in anthropology: Fiji,’ are currently on Beqa Island in Fiji where they are…
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
The Challenge of Public Dissemination
The following post was submitted by Elisa (EJ) Sobo, Professor of Anthropology, San Diego State University. The New York Times recently featured an op-ed piece titled ‘Academics seek…
ECAS2015 Panel: Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa
Miles Larmer (Oxford) and Vito Laterza (UCT) will convene a panel on “Social and Political Mobilisation in Mining Communities in Southern and Central Africa” at the 6th European…
New digital ethnography reading group
By Allistair Hill PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Due to scheduling clashes, this month we are running the first group Thursday 9 July…
Interviewing a Capoeira Legend
by Gaya Nikolsky Legacy, history and mythology are essential when forming a social group or a community. And for capoeira, its history and the story of its liberation…
#Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod’s book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, expands on her thoughts from an earlier article similarly titled. As she explains, this book is “a long answer to the…
Buses in South and North Teheran: Education and Schooling #Fieldnotes
The bus I was riding on my way to Tajrish (north Tehran) was beyond maximum capacity with its passengers. We were cramped and people stood and sat in…
Good bye (and good riddance) to Human Terrain System
Both Counterpunch and Inside Higher Ed ran stories recently on the end of Human Terrain System or HTS. What was HTS? A program run by the army and employing…
Community-Based Ebola Care Centres: A Formative Evaluation
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa differed from others in its unprecedented size and the high proportion of human-to-human transmission occurring in the community. This report presents an…
Thinking About Liminality in Tahrir Square
I have a chapter on the Egyptian revolution in this new book. As I struggled to make sense of the dramatic changes in Egypt from January 2011 forward,…
Why the #HackingTeam hack should be a wake-up call for the #globaldev community
You may have seen the #HackingTeam hack story emerging in your networks and thought it to be some strange, fringe tech-hack whatever issue…think again! As first insights from…
Unleashing the Chaîne Opératoire: Students’ experimentation with an old methodology.
Ludovic Coupaye, UCL Anthropology Over the last five years, undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in the course emphatically called “Transforming and Creating Worlds: Anthropological Perspe…
Canada’s Waste Network Launched!
Canada’s Waste Network has just launched! It aims to connect social science and humanities researchers interested in Canadian waste issues. Join now!
Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
By Aaron Vansintjan. How the food industry made waste ‘benevolent’. Food Banks: Canned Justice or Fuel For activism?
From Edgware Road to Brixton on 7/7
This piece was first presented as an academic paper at the 9th EASA Biennial Conference: Bristol, UK. September 18th – 21st, 2006. Introduction This paper focuses on observations…