Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
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User Experience Research at SpendWell – My First 3 Months
Three months ago, I started a new job as user experience researcher at SpendWell Health, a start-up here in Portland, OR. SpendWell is building an online marketplace where…
Big Man Bibi
The prospect of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress has generated a great deal of political heat. People in…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Workshop note on digital media and socio-political change
By Victor Lasa On 20 February 2015, Dr John Postill convened a workshop with fellow RMIT scholars and research students around the topic of “Digital media and socio-political…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Big Man Bibi
In the face of such powerful opposition, how can we account for Bibi’s stubborn determination? Why is he so resolute? Why all the bluster and bombast? Anthropologists have…
Book review of Flemming Rose’s “The Tyranny of Silence”
My review of Flemming Rose’s latest book “The Tyranny of Silence” can be found here. It’s titled Flemming Rose and the absence of empathy. The review is published at…
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination
Pacific Islanders March for Self-Determination by Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu Photo by Dan Bacher. Part of the Pacific Islander (Melanesian, Micronesian, Polynesian) Contingent at the major Climate Change M…
The freedom to love
As a result, a new youth culture rides on love and its insignia of commercialized love (hearts on objects, a flood of cards, new fast food items and…
A New Politics of Distribution
What is a Basic Income Grant and what might it mean for Trinidad and Tobago… My last two columns asked questions about transforming the status quo, such as…
Self-imposed discrimination in brazil
When I arrived in Brazil seven years ago as an American anthropologist seeking to discover if Brazil would be a good place to do research for a…
Introducing the More-Than-Human Lab
After five years of research and teaching, the Design Culture Lab has been retired and I’m excited to announce my new adventure: the More-Than-Human Lab. I’ve imported all…
Anthropologists in Practice: An Interview with Janne Flisrand, Network Weaver and Owner of Flisrand Consulting
Anthropologists in Practice is an ongoing series of interviews featuring practicing anthropologists who work outside the academy. The goal of the series is to provide a source of…
Radical Leftists or Mild Keynesians? Syriza’s Transition to Power
By Theodoros Rakopoulos It is not news that the Greek left has abandoned its radical agenda. Syriza steered their wheel rightward way before the election they won at…
Anthropological Documentary for Public Policy in Jakarta
Sarine Arslanian, Visual Anthropology student from 2012, reports from Jakarta and shares her latest documentary. With the support of the Center for Public Policy Transformation, Sarine Arslanian exp…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…
Terrain as Insurgent Weapon
Below is the abstract of my essay “Terrain as Insurgent Weapon: An Affective Geometry of Combat in the Valley of Death,” which I’ll present at the workshop Space, Materiality,…