Rob Kitchin, “Data Lives: How Data Are Made and Shape Our World” (Policy Press, 2021)
The word ‘data’ has entered everyday conversation, but do we really understand what it means? How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new…
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Whedon, Fandom, and Cancel Culture
By Alissa Whitmore “A guy who goes around saying ‘I’m a feminist’ usually has an agenda that is not feminist. A guy who behaves like one, who actually…
Wednesday Round Up #50
Play vocalisations and human laughter: a comparative review Complex social play is well-documented across many animals. During play, animals often use signals that facilitate beneficial interactions a…
What Makes Injections Hard to Swallow?
Humanity’s long history with medicinal compounds might explain some of the preference for one delivery mechanism over another. Xathity Perm Prayochn/EyeEm/Getty Images If you’re watching …
Help get Pierre Lankissa to NAFA in Lisbon
The Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) organises its annual international ethnographic film festival, the oldest in Europe, in cooperation with institutions in different countries. The 20…
Reading Lists: Waste Colonialism and Palestine
When there’s conflict, academics and teachers will often put together a reading list or syllabus to show the breadth and depth of knowledge on a topic that is…
Caring for home: The failures of vaccine nationalism, or, Why the pandemic will not be over soon by Luisa Madrigal
Para español aquí. It was one of those early spring evenings where the sun was warm and the air fresh. My friends and I were at the park,…
Alternatives to the Anthropocene: CFP for special issue in Radical History Review
See the full Call for Papers here; a blurb is posted below. Key deadlines: June 1 for abstracts, November for full papers. A Call for Proposals from the…
Horizon No Less Curved
Toutswemogala Hill in Botswana. Thato Moahi/Department of National Museum and Monuments, Botswana My poem “Horizon No Less Curved” grew from insights about humanity and history, timelessn…
Communication Anthropology: A Realization
Arbind Sinha Advisor MICA, Ahmedabad Email: arbind21@gmail.com The concept of communication is integral to anthropological knowledge generation and its applications, and has always been a part of …
Giulia Zampini on Researching Drug Taking
Today I talked to Giulia Zampini about her research into drug taking, and particularly about the “People and Dancefloors” project. Based on a participatory action research methodology, People… Visit New Books in Anthropology…
Matthew Clair, “Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court (Princeton UP, 2020) by Matthew Clair is a powerful ethnographic study of the experiences and perspectives of criminal de……
Land, Property, Technology: Exploring Blockchain as Infrastructural Promise
A view from the Rift Valley escarpment, illustrating a landscape that far exceeds official registries. Photo by author. In my work, I explore the ways in which blockchain…
War of Extermination & Help Planning the Reservation
Sometimes I find remarkable letters that sum up all I have been thinking about what was happening in the 1850s between the tribes and the settlers in Oregon.…
Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESApplied Anthropology »Cultural Anthropolo…
After a Year of Being Locked Down
Nobody (as far as I know) has commented on how hard this year of lockdowns has been on university professors. That’s good: nobody should. Many millions of workers…
Welcome to the Curatorial economy
Curatorial ability. You have it. And up until til now, you just gave it away. We are all culture curators one way or another. We are passionate about…
Mediating Mobility: Migration and Brokerage at the Borders of the State
Natasha Raheja (Cornell University) will present on ‘Mediating mobility: Migration and brokerage at the borders of the State’. Elizabeth Challinor (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) will ac…
Nathan Wendte takes the page 99 test
I was intrigued to hear about the “page 99 test,” according to which, the quality of a dissertation can be judged on the content of page 99. As…