National Anthropology Day: Looking towards 2016
We celebrated the first National Anthropology Day on February 19, 2015. The celebration was a great success, with more than 80 college campuses, organizations, museums, elementary and high…
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Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
Happiness Isn’t (Just) a Personal Responsibility
In a recent interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, I made the case that our happiness depends on the happiness or the well-being of people around us. We often…
Alexander R. Galloway, “Laruelle: Against the Digital”
“The chief aim of [philosopher François Laruelle’s] life’s work is to consider philosophy without resorting to philosophy in order to do so.” What is non-philosophy, what would it…
Lisa Stevenson, “Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic “
Lisa Stevenson’s new book opens with two throat-singing women and one listening king. Whether we hear them sitting down to a normal night’s dinner (as the women) or…
Un-doing youth alienation: designs for belonging
2009 Walk for Harmony. Author’s first glimpse of Australian multiculturalism Elizabeth Tunstall “Could I have been Jihadi John?” asks British co…
14. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements
This draft article is the fourteenth post in the freedom technologists series. Field theory, media change and the new citizen movements: the case of Spain’s ‘real democracy turn’,…
Blinded by Humanity (book review)
One of the privileges of being able to read, think and write about books in the context of international development work and its people is to explore the…
Call for PhD Candidates
We’re looking for PhD candidates to join our Lab! The More-Than-Human Lab believes that everything is interconnected and interdependent, and we do research that is unusually lively and…
Human Economy postdoctoral fellowships and doctoral scholarships
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA THE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdocto…
Is Customer Social Responsibility The New “CSR”?
Sometimes work and life go together. For Narcissistic Anthropologists like me, this phenomenon happens more often than not. For the last several months I have been building momentum…
Cold showers and amazing little buckets
For the fifth year in a row a dozen students from Leiden University – some of whom were majoring in Cultural Anthropology and others taking part in the…
Buried in Snow! – This Anthro Life
It’s winter time here in the northern hemisphere, and in New England that means snow… a lot it. What can we learn from it? Join Aneil and Ryan…
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…
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
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
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…
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…