#Academic Fictions: Cape Town through Time and Space: An Experimental Poem
Part 1: 1921 “Poison Tea, Colonial Imports”, by an Observer “Them nasty Malays can make it work months after you take it”, quotes Lady Duff G.: This,…
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Stop Destroying African American Cemeteries
A gravestone in the Morningstar Tabernacle No. 88 Cemetery in Cabin John, Maryland. Craig G/Flickr In the late 19th century, a group of once-enslaved, free African Americans in…
Becoming without: Rearing and Releasing Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
How Plants Become Bits: The Politics of Harmful Algal Bloom Mitigation in Lake Erie
The Power of One While seated at my kitchen table in my apartment in Columbus, OH, the site of my dissertation fieldwork, I attended an Ohio Agribusiness conference…
Lithographic Camels
I am a fan of 19th century lithographs of images about the Middle East. One of the books with a plethora of such images is Story of the…
Anarchism In Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy
Most anarchist organizing requires the full participation and consensus of all members. Sterling College/Flickr Two hours into a weekly planning session, the 15 or so black-clothed, tatto…
British Channel 4 report on Kameel Ahmady in English (TV version with subtitles)
British Channel 4 report on Kameel Ahmady in English (TV version with subtitles) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and…
The (Anthropological) Vaccine Rush
BEN KASSTAN It would be an understatement to say I rushed to the Jerusalem Arena stadium to receive the COVID-19 vaccination last week. Rolling down my sleeve after…
Academic Fictions: A Tale of Two Value-Based Cities
I am very fatigued. Since the first day of 2020, something strange has happened to me. Every day I wake up to a different place – well, technically…
Jessa Lingel talks about Craigslist
Interview by Nazli Azergun https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691188904/an-internet-for-the-people Nazli Azergun: In your book, you describe craigslist as a precedent to curren…
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – Vaccines in View: Social Science Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations
Incorporating pandemic public health, social inequalities, geopolitics, conspiracies and beyond, COVID-19 vaccines find themselves at the centre of the most significant debates of our time. As anthro…
Is the world poor, or unjust?
Social media has been ablaze with this question recently. We know we face a crisis of mass poverty: the global economy is organized in such a way…
Ana-Maurine Lara, “Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ liv… Visit…
Ep #69 An Anthropologist’s Guide to the US Elections: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #69 An Anthropologist's Guide To The US Elections: This Month on TFS Hello and Welcome back to The Familiar Strange! We are so…
Afârit on Parade
When I was young, one of the major sci-fi programs on television was Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone. It was fun because it was fiction. Now it seems that…
British Channel 4 report on Kamil Ahmady in English (TV version with subtitles)
British Channel 4 report on Kamil Ahmady in English (TV version with subtitles) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and…
Kamil Ahmady Interview with Channel 4 in the UK (short version with subtitles)
Kamil Ahmady Interview with Channel 4 in the UK (short version with subtitles) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and…
Kamil Ahmady Interview with British Channel 4 (Long Version)
Kamil Ahmadi Interview with British Channel 4 (Long Version) Kameel Ahmady, a British-Iranian academic sentenced for nine years and three months in prison and heavy fine escaped Iran…
Social anthropologist facing nine years in prison escapes
Social anthropologist facing nine years in prison escapes Brendan O’Malley 06 February 2021 An Iranian judge on 1 February overturned in absentia the appeal of a British-Iranian social anthropologis…
UK-Iranian Academic Says he Escaped Iran While on Bail
UK-Iranian Academic Says he Escaped Iran While on Bail A British-Iranian academic said Wednesday that he had fled Iran across a mountain border after being sentenced to nine…
British academic facing jail in Iran makes daring escape to UK
British academic facing jail in Iran makes daring escape to UK Anthropologist who studied FGM describes harrowing experiences in infamous prison Wednesday 03 February 2021 15:30 Kameel Ahmady…
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself
Helping the British academic imprisoned in Iran is Boris Johnson’s chance to redeem himself After failing to protect Iranian-British detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the prime minister now has a…
British academic jailed in Iran escapes to UK
British academic jailed in Iran escapes to UK Jailed British-Iranian academic sentenced to nine years in prison escaped Iran to the UK while he was awaiting a court…
Kameel Ahmady: British academic facing jail escapes Iran over mountains
Kameel Ahmady: British academic facing jail escapes Iran over mountains Published 3 February Kameel Ahmady travelled high over the mountains on foot to escape Iran’s Revolutionary Guards A…