Post-doc position in community-based research in Nunatsiavut
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
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Presentation: Cultural dimensions of digital ethics
Budka, P. (2023). Cultural dimensions of digital ethics: Anthropological notes and perspectives. Presentation at Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE) Workshop, Vienna, Austria: …
Unsteady grounds: On ethnography, academic precarity, and motherhood
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
The Complex Roots of Patriarchy with Angela Saini
In this episode, Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule,” traces the material and social roots of patriarchy with host…
Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to bear the weight to redeem the discipline while…
Susan Hartman, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town” (Beacon Press, 2022)
How can scholars employ the practices and techniques of investigative journalism? Susan Hartman provides an answer in her intimate look at refugee experience in the United States. In City…
Violence/Freedom: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance in Public Parks
Cities all over the world have witnessed a surge in the use of surveillance technologies, such as data-gathering phone apps, facial recognition software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras…
“Japan moves to criminalize exploitative photo voyeurism”
Text from Japan Today, 5/2/23. A bill has been submitted to an ongoing session in the Japanese Diet targeting a crackdown on people who take surreptitious photographs, a…
Gens
Der zweisprachige boasblog Researching Capitalism sucht nach ethnographischen Möglichkeiten, um den zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus zu erforschen. Im Zentrum steht dabei ein Manifest („Gens“), das einen…
sNAPAshots: Briana Nichols
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.05.01-Briana-sNAPAshot.mp4 Transcript 0:07 [On Screen] NAPA Logo sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:07 Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with practi…
UNCC Shooting Four Years Later…
Yesterday marked the fourth year since a shooter entered my classroom in Kennedy 236, took two lives, and changed dozens more forever. The University of North Carolina at…
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania – By Cristina A. Pop – Someone has a fondness for purple decor, I decide, as I look around the examination…
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who…
Civilians caught in the middle of Sudan conflict
Written by Jerhron Muhammad Recent Sudanese history paints the current conflict waging between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the …
Mauro Porto, “Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
In Mirrors of Whiteness: Media, Middle-Class Resentment, and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023), Mauro P. Porto examines the conservative revolt of Brazil’s white…
“T”
A poet-anthropologist celebrates how the Orring people of southeastern Nigeria conceptualize the origins—and workings—of the cosmos. “T” is part of the collection Indigenizing What It Mean…
K. N. Sunandan, “Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar” (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth-Century Malabar (Cambridge UP, 2023) investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation…
sNAPAshot: Briana Nichols
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.05.01-Briana-Commercial.mp4 We’re excited to share our next webisode centers the experiences of Briana Nichols, Post-Doctoral Fellow in…
Macs Smith, “Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City” (MIT Press, 2021)
The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are…
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On March 11, 2011, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan triggering a massive tsunami and shifting the earth on its axis. Nearly 20,000…
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Slow Death by Volcano
A biocultural anthropologist shares new research on the surprising long-term hazards of volcanoes in Iceland—and how to address them. THE RISE OF ICELANDIC VOLCANOES In the fall of…