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…
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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…
Parsing out Identity Claims
Identity is as much about how others see us as it is about how we see ourselves. Identity depends upon how we feel about ourselves, how we present…
Remembering Art Wolf and Chrisine McHorse
Remembering Art Wolf and Chrisine McHorse …
Cairo in 1920
This is an interesting Youtube video posted by Mostafa Khalifa. It has the voice of Munira al-Mahdiya with footage taken in Cairo and Alexandria in 1920.
The Northern Sea Route and waterway infrastructure in the Russian Arctic: a seminar on anthropological perspectives
The European University at Saint Petersburg will host a seminar on the Northern Sea Route at its research Center for Arctic Social Studies. The seminar will be held…
Prof. Dr. Ulla Johansen passed away
On 14th of February 2021 in her 94th year of life a great person, colleague in Arctic Anthropology and professor emerita of ethnology, Ulla Johansen passed away. Born…
Remembering Leith Mullings (1945 – 2020)
Leith Mullings, Social Justice Anthropologist Jeff Maskovsky, City University of New York Leith Mullings’ death is a terrible blow to anthropology – and a heartbreaking loss to those…
Disability Justice and Material Needs: Reflections on the Experiences of Autistic New Yorkers Living Under Covid-19 by Cara Ryan
As a member of NYU’s Disability Equity in the Time of COVID-19 research team during the summer of 2020[1], I had the opportunity to conduct seven virtual interviews by…
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Hi all, My highlight of this week was definitely an opportunity to deliver a short keynote and participate as a judge in the annual challenge of Engineers Without…