Climatic Futures and Tree Response-ability: Can Urban Forests Restore Human-Tree Relations?
Listen to an audio recording of this post read by Tayeba Batool This browser does not support HTML5 audio How do we account for the agency of trees…
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När goda intentioner slår fel – nyanlända flyktingars erfarenheter av Etableringsprogrammet
Nina Gren: I en kontorsbyggnad nära stadens centrum fylls ett stort rum med människor. De samlas runt tre olika personer – tolkarna mellan svenska och arabiska, svenska och…
Siv Lie on her book, Django Generations
www.djangogen.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo114656860.html Interview by Lynn M. Hooker Lynn Hooker: First, beginning with the title, your book uses a variety …
Predominantly White Institutions’ Overtures to Black Students OR This Is What They Tell You Without Telling You
Enslaved people built the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in the 19th century. Chrispecoraro/Getty Images Go to undergrad, go to graduate school, get a Ph.D. heft onto…
Megan Tobias Neely, “Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street” (U of California Press, 2022)
Is the finance industry fair? In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, an assistant professor in the Department of Organisation at Copenhagen Business School,…
Being Like Family: Humanitarian Mobility and Metaphors of Kinship across Asia
In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We – this is Till Mostowlansky, an anthropologist at…
Anita Lama, “Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands” (Routledge, 2020)
Anita Lama’s book Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands (Routledge, 2020) analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity, and addresses the question of unequal integration of small…
Ghostly Encounters on Google: Spirit Photography, Reverse Image Search and Urban Critique in Baltimore
In 1866, Alfred Russell Wallace proclaimed a “new branch of anthropology” premised on the Spiritualist movement that was then exploding in popularity in England. For Wallace, that anthropology…
Ep # 89 Growing Pains in the Valley: Dr Eric Hirsch on Growth in the Colca Valley
The Familiar Strange · Ep # 89 Growing Pains in the Valley: Dr Eric Hirsch on Growth in the Colca Valley Welcome back to the Familiar Strange! This…
Guest lecture in Turku, Finland
On November 10, 2021, I held a guest lecture that was video-recorded. “The Study of Strategic Ignorance: Anthropological Perspectives on Racialization in Denmark.” In this talk, I …
Workshop report: ‘Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness’ by Els Roding
In 1992 Nancy Munn argued anthropological research should pay more attention to people’s lived realities of time. Since then, we have seen time and temporalities grow into a…
Alexander W. Anthony: Covid in the confines of the US
Introduction There is a calendar in my office which still hangs at March 2020; an artifact of the confusion and rush to ‘lockdown’ and to find shelter from…
TRAJECTORIA Vol. 3 online
TRAJECTORIA is an international online peer-reviewed journal published annually by the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Japan. The journal explores new horizons of Anthropology, Heritage Stu…
Update On "Taking Action on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine at the UBC-V Senate"
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the joint committees met again to consider their action on the motion I had originally proposed for the March 16, 2022 meeting. The…
Multispecies Anarchism in the Postnuclear World
Connect the dots between “state”, “imperialism”, and “war”. Add “leaders”, “testosterone” and “nukes”. Look at the picture and tell me anarchism was a bad idea. In effect, as…
South Africa’s two-tier economy (2012-2022) by Keith Hart
This analysis is based on the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report for 2011-2012. It identifies twelve “pillars” of sustainable … More
Ethno-graphic collaborations
Author: Laura Haapio-Kirk During my research in Japan, I became increasingly aware of the importance of visual communication, for example stickers and emoji, for how many of my…
Does Green on COVID-19 Maps Mean What You Think?
Picture a traffic light. This isn’t a trick question. We want you to visualize some sort of box housing three lightbulbs, each behind a colored filter: red on…
Rama Srinivasan, “Courting Desire: Litigating for Love in North India” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexuality, but also on the…
Paige Sweet, “The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath” (U California Press, 2021)
For women who have experienced domestic violence, proving that you are a “good victim” is no longer enough. Victims must also show that they are recovering, as if…
Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
Slavery, Sustenance, and Resistance
Archaeology helps re-imagine a fuller range of experiences, including how people ate, innovated, and rebelled. In this episode, “slave cuisine” opens a window to honor the legacy of…
Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Andrew Orta: The MBA won’t die. But it is trying to disappear
Responding to a question about future of the MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the wake of the pandemic, the Dean of a top program recently suggested that…