#BookReview: Digital Divisions
In the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within schools given in Matthew…
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Rahul Mukherjee, “Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty” (Duke UP, 2020)
In Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke UP, 2020), Rahul Mukherjee explores how the media coverage of nuclear power plants and cellular phone antenna… Visit New Books…
Natasha Behl, “Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Why do we find pervasive gender-based discrimination, exclusion and violence in India when the Indian constitution builds an inclusive democracy committed to gender equality? This is the puzz……
Chris A. Barcelos, “Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health” (U California Press, 2020)
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the racially……
Repost: for the Olympics and the Nostalgia…
Some notes from 2012… Gunnersbury Bagh. (Kill your darlings 10) 26/04/2017 ~ JOHN HUTNYK ~ [A set of cuts that jettison the last underworked section of the book – residue of…
“The State” Is a Story We Tell Ourselves
Protestors filled Plaza San Martín in Lima, Peru, last November to demonstrate against the legislative coup that removed then-President Martín Vizcarra from power. Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty…
Singapore’s journey towards integration through public housing
I want to introduce you to a policy that has revolutionised the way one of the smallest, but also one of the most powerful First World countries in…
The new trial communities: challenges and opportunities in preconception cohorts by Michelle Pentecost
The Excavating the Biosocial series has so far focused on birth cohorts as ethnographic object (Gibbon and Pentecost 2020). In this post, I explore the expansion of interest…
Kinship Theories: Descent, Alliance and Cultural
Youtube lecture on Kinship theories (Descent theory and Structuralism) Youtube lectu…
#Book Review: Digital Divisions
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The pandemic has proven justification…
Eugene T. Richardson, “Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health” (MIT Press, 2020)
In Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health (MIT Press, 2020), physician-anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson explores how public health practices—from epidemiological mo… Visit New Books in Anthropology for the…
Jacob Lederman, “Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—es……
Wednesday Round Up #59
Sexism Still Winning at the Olympic Games Most, if not all, of the IAAF investigations that have made it into the media have involved women from the Global…
Facebook on King Farouk
There is a Facebook site about Egypt’s last king, Farouk, with pictures from his time in office.
Five Ways Humans Evolved to be Athletes
The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist who focuses on the development of the human…
Book Review: The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media by Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis
In The Public and their Platforms: Public Sociology in an Era of Social Media, Mark Carrigan and Lambros Fatsis explore the discipline of sociology at a time when public…
Kailing Xie, “Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Today I interviewed Kailing Xie on her recently published book, Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations: Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). This bo… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Emalani Case, “Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki” (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
In Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki (U Hawaii Press, 2021), Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term th… Visit…
Theodore W. Cohen, “Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2021)
In Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Theodore Cohen examines the ways in which different protagonists sought to incorporate Blacknes… Visit New Books in…
NBN Interview with Nicholas Thomas on “Voyagers”
Happy to announce that New Books Network has just released my new interview with Nicholas Thomas about his latest book Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific. If you…
Five new books in series on Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
From Humans and Nature and Co-edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties…
Introducing the Other “AI”: Anthropology Intelligence
[no-caption] DrAfter123/Getty Images “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” —attributed to anthropologist Ralph Linton I sat in a drab Soviet hotel room in…
Mark Bevir, “How Social Science Creates the World” (Open Agenda, 2021)
How Social Science Creates the World is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Professor Mark Bevir. Mark Bevir is an…
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America” (U Chicago Press, 2021)
It’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation.…