When a Message App Became Evidence of Terrorism
Beginning in 2016, the Turkish government accused anyone with the messaging application ByLock of terrorism. An anthropologist investigates the risks of this kind of digital evidence. ✽ Summer…
Beginning in 2016, the Turkish government accused anyone with the messaging application ByLock of terrorism. An anthropologist investigates the risks of this kind of digital evidence. ✽ Summer…
“Camming” and “Beot-bang“[1] With the development of digital technologies, online spaces have transformed many aspects of individuals’ lives by creating infrastructures t…
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That’s right, after six and a half years of toil (and fun) spread between a rainforest in Cameroon and a library and office in London, the thing is…
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “ment…
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies. In Cameroon, French Polynesia, Papua…
Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path—cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit…
Budka, P. (2024). Planes, trains, ships and rockets: Infrastructural temporalities and entanglements in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Soc…
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group.…
Middle-class, conservative women in Pakistan have found a political voice as supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party—putting them at odds with the secular women’s movement their own daughters…
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“I am not reading all of that, but fuck Chu May Paing. What a fraud.” I didn’t see the comment on Facebook when it was first posted. I…
Fuchsia Dunlop. 2023. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food New York:: Norton, ISBN: 978-0-393-86713-8 466 pp. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State University) Best dish to start…
President Kennedy ended his 1962 speech at Rice University, the one made famous by the line “We choose to go to the m…
Recent publications in behavioral economics (Blink, How We Decide, Thinking Fast and Slow) are largely lab-based studies. But reality is messier – key business decisions often have multiple…
Tarleton Gillespie: This book is so many things, and I’m really excited that it’s out and can now be taken up in so many conversations – about the…
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
Here is Antony Gormley’s presentation of work at the ISSH2024 conference at Ton Duc Thang University this weekend just gone. This was the 3rd International conference on Innovations…
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Having misplaced the few pieces of eight I was able to scrounge up from the wreck, I’ve not yet bought this/these, but if anyone has, give a report……
In this episode of Anthro Life host Adam engages in a fascinating discussion with Chris Carter, a geoscientist-turned-design-educator, and Scott Dorely, a filmmaker-turned-design-educator. They explor…
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or resist? Based…