Paper: Digital & transport infrastructures in remote Canada
Budka, P. (2023). Digital and transport infrastructures in remote Canada: Notes on ownership and control. Paper at InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”, Vienna, Austria: …
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Book Review: Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand by Eli Elinoff
In Citizen Designs: City-making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand, Eli Elinoff explores citizenship struggles and the political engagement of residents living in Northeastern Thailand. Unlike tra…
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anti-Boycott Laws?
Anthropologists are often quick to decry the law as a fig leaf for the exercise of raw political or economic power. Yet when holding bureaucratic sinecures, anthropologists’ daily…
Orit Avishai, “Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel” (NYU Press, 2023)
Until fairly recently, Orthodox people in Israel could not imagine embracing their LGBT sexual or gender identity and staying within the Orthodox fold. But within the span of…
Leela Fernandes, “Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State” (U Washington Press, 2022)
Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water…
Daniel E Agbiboa, “Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context” (U Michigan Press, 2022)
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (U Michigan Press, 2022), Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary…
CFF: Tromsø Educational Film Festival (deadline: 15 September)
We are pleased to announce TREFF (Tromsø Educational Film Festival) – a festival that combines education and film. We are a festival connected to UiT the Arctic Univsersity…
Chris Hann: Thanks, Türkiye
How does Recep Tayyip Erdoğan do it? In Spring 2023, the economy is in a mess, inflation accelerating, and corruption rife. Government aid in the wake of a…
Links & Contents I Liked 486
Hi all,Botched biodiversity projects in Guinea, harmful algorithms in Jordan, tea pickers destroying machines in Kenya, sugar & global health in Barbados, plus stories about UN leadership &…
East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
SUBTRACTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS
The following curated collection of fragments outlines two main strategies used over the last ten years in the creation of contemporary artworks to memorialise events: subtraction and accumulation.…
Archive of Articles on 2023 Cuts at VUW and Otago
If you have any links that can be added, please email me. News Stories “University redundancies undermine Government’s own science strategy – academic” (RNZ, June 14) …
Anthropology for pressing issues: climate change and inequality, Tuesday 20 June 14:00 Rovaniemi
Prof John Ziker introduces his research and plans in the European Arctic. The anthropology team is pleased to announce a rather spontaneous talk by our visiting professor at…
Dr. Louis Olsen (MOCA 1 of 2)
Louis comes to visit me in my office I am very saddened by the recent passing of my friend, colleague and fellow anthropologist, Dr. Louis Olsen. My deepest…
Marielle Risse, “Houseways in Southern Oman” (Routledge, 2022)
Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2022) explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman. Based on long-term research in the Dhofar region, it draws on anthropology, sociology,…
How Microbes Became Friendly: Visualizations of the Microbiome in Public Media
The biology, as astonishing as it is, does not tell us what it will mean. -Stephan Helmreich, “Homo Microbis” (2014, 4) Within microbiome research, the human body can…
SAR Honored for Architectural Stewardship by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
Unearthing Culinary Pasts—With Help From Llama Poop
A food archaeologist investigates everyday eating and lean times among the ancient Moche of Peru through a remarkable discovery of thousands of llama “beans.” A DAY IN THE…
(Update) They turned the closed bakery into bicycle parking…
The local bakery that closed earlier this year (VAoJ, 2/15/23) has been gutted and turned into bicycle parking.
Daniel E. Agbiboa, “They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria” (Oxford UP, 2023)
Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to…
Francis Cody, “The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Not merely the act of representing events with words or images, a “news event” is the reciprocal relationship between the events being reported in the news and the…
2023 Native Arts Speaker Series Wrap-Up
By Paloma Lopez, Educator, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research The 2023 Native Arts Speaker Series, Grounded in Clay Conversations, has ended. This year we partnered…
Malini Ranganathan et al., “Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City (Cornell UP, 2023) illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted…
Platypod, Episode Seven: An Anthropology of Data, AI, and Much More
Download the transcript of this interview. For this episode of Platypod, I talked to Dr. Tanja Ahlin about her research, work, and academic trajectory. She’s currently a postdoctoral…