Lauren Crossland-Marr takes the page 99 test
Re-reading page 99 of my dissertation, I’m snapped back to the mosque in Milan, Italy that I came to know so well. Where public school children convened to…
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Book Review: The End of Aspiration? Social Mobility and our Children’s Fading Prospects by Duncan Exley
In The End of Aspiration?, Duncan Exley reflects on the current social mobility crisis facing the UK and the ways that this can be addressed across government, business…
Surveys, Race and Symbolic Violence
This blog argues that the inhumane and racist treatment of non-white citizens in the Toeslagenaffaire, while shocking, draws on common racist logics we also encounter in seemingly innocuous…
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It” (FSG Originals, 2020)
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take…
Introduction to the ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’ Podcast
Far too often, the most evocative and interesting experiences that come out of ethnographic fieldwork are pushed to the margins. In the first episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, series…
Lessie Jo Frazier, “Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, Uni… Visit New Books in…
Lessie Jo Frazier, “Desired States: Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile” (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, University o… Visit New Books…
Introduction to the ‘Ethnographic Marginalia’ Podcast
Far too often, the most evocative and interesting experiences that come out of ethnographic fieldwork are pushed to the margins. In the first episode of Ethnographic Marginalia, series…
Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, “Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It” (FSG Originals, 2020)
In Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do and How They Do It (FSG Originals, 2020), the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff t……
Surveys, Race and Symbolic Violence
This blog argues that the inhumane and racist treatment of non-white citizens in the Toeslagenaffaire, while shocking, draws on common racist logics we also encounter in seemingly innocuous…
Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic
Religion is no “opiate of the masses.” Rich and poor, educated and ignorant alike flock to the call of certainty in these uncertain times. Rather than action based…
MyKnet.org: Traces of digital decoloniality in an indigenous web-based environment
This blog post is a shorter version of a paper presented at the Engaging with Web Archives (EWA20) conference in September 2020 (Book of Abstracts). Budka, P. (2020).…
Miha Kozorog: Borderwork with Wildlife on the Slovenian-Hungarian Border
https://aoe.fi/api/download/audioonly-1607253782503.m4a Miha Kozorog gave a visiting seminar in Anthropology at the University of Helsinki entitled “Borderwork w…
Blue Plaque for Ho Chi Minh
The blue plaque for Ho Chi Minh on the site of the former Carlton Hotel, where he worked as Van Ba. It is on New Zealand House in…
Links & Contents I Liked 387
Hi all, We have a full #globaldev reading schedule this week! From Plexiglass to child soldiers, from MSF to UN & FCDO, from Bolivia to Bangladesh & so…
Janet Roitman: Africa Rising: Class or Finance
https://aoe.fi/api/download/roitman-1607089987671.mp3 Janet Roitman (New School for Social Research) gave a seminar presentation on the 14th of November entitled ̶…
Writing Life No. 1: An interview with Rachel Prentice by Andrea Wojcik
Figure 1: Rachel’s writing space with friend Jasper (2007-2019) (Photograph by Rachel Prentice) Rachel E. Prentice is a no muss, no fuss anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the…
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, “Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity…
Oluwakemi M. Balogun, “Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation” (Stanford UP, 2020)
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity…
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
We are happy to announce the first winner of the new SAFN Student Research Award. This annual award supports the research phase of an original project focused on…
Ida Susser: Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?
On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including…
Facing COVID-19 as an Undocumented Essential Worker
Many immigrants in the U.S. continue working in agriculture and other essential sectors amid new pandemic safety protocols. Brent Stirton/Getty Images One afternoon in mid-April, I was si…
International Day of Persons with Disabilities: What Happens the Day After?
Twenty-eight years ago, in 1992, the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3 proclaimed December 3 as International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Immediately following the International Da…
Richard Seymour, “The Twittering Machine” (Verso, 2020)
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write…