Wednesday Round Up #5
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy We know the role that anthropology has played in the erasure of Indigenous peoples…
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J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, “Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon” (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first…
Race-Blind: Rethinking a French-American Conversation
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.…
Women, gender and viruses: coronas and microscopes in the time of a pandemic by María Jesús Santesmases
Among the multitude of narratives prompted by the current pandemic, the biography of June Dalziel Hart Almeida has been circulated by the BBC and other periodicals in numerous…
Science and Justice: “Impartial” Water Monitoring and Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Guatemala
Editor’s note: This is the third post in an ongoing series called “The Spectrum of Research and Practice in Guatemalan Science Studies.” The surface installation of the Escobal…
The plight of domestic workers during India’s lockdown
Bhaagya (not her real name) is in her early thirties. She is married, and has two teenage children. She cooks and cleans for several households in Bengaluru, a…
Thinking Sex in Times of Corona: A Conversation by Max Schnepf
Over 30 years ago, Gayle Rubin argued in her seminal piece – “Thinking Sex” – that “sexuality should be treated with special respect in times of great social…
Christopher Kelty’s The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories by Talia Dan-Cohen
The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories Christopher M. Kelty University of Chicago Press, 2020. 344 pages. A book about participation? Chris Kelty’s delightful new bo…
Rituales cotidianos y retos de la población migrante con discapacidad/Daily rituals and challenges of the migrant population with disabilities
Claudia Morales, a graduate student from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has written about the added effects to quality of life for disabled migrants in the United States…
Jane Setter on her book, Your Voice Speaks Volumes
Interview by Paola Medina González https://global.oup.com/academic/product/your-voice-speaks-volumes-9780198813842 Paola Medina González: In your book, you address a variety of topics including speec…
Mixed Messages: COVID-19, a Cartoon Heroine, and Violence Against Women in Mexico (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Catherine J. Letcher Lazo One of the gendered impacts of COVID-19 is the surge of violence against women and girls (VAWG)…
The Making of a Paper Crisis: Coexisting with COVID-19 in Indonesia
GEGER RIYANTO The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly far from over in Indonesia. In fact, as I write this piece (June 6th), the COVID-19 infections are constantly escalating. Each…
Interview with Sarah Zhao (The Ubyssey).
June 26, 2020. Auto transcribed with ‘happyscribe.’ Minor corrections and edits made but what you see is mostly what the machine did. Some modifications to clarify the text were…
Localising support to displaced populations during and after Covid-19
As Covid-19 continues to spread at a worrying pace, refugees around the world run the double risk of being hit by the virus and by the negative impact…
Tactics of Silencing MRK II – shaming.
Online shaming has become a popular sport -or, if you rather, tactic- for many across the political spectrum. The effects can be devastating for the objects of this…
“Out of options:” The implications of COVID-19 for hospitalized patients with cognitive impairment by Kelly Colas
“How about a walk today?” I asked Mr. T each morning I arrived to the hospital, visiting him on my morning rounds. Mr T. grinned back at me…
Don Nonini: Black Enslavement and Agro-industrial Capital
Don Nonini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Insa Koch’s recent (2020) FOCAAL blog, “The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain,” reminds us that enslavement and…
Links & Contents I Liked 372
Hi all, This is going to be the final link review before my summer break until early August. I said that last year as well and a week…
Sarah Knott, “Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History” (Penguin, 2020)
Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—the history of pregnancy,…
Jonathan Parry, “Classes of Labor: Work and Life in an Indian Steel Town” (Routledge, 2020)
Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town (Routledge, 2020) is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic…
The Case Against The ‘Singularity’
GRAHAM WILKES The definition of a ‘Singularity’ is something with ‘an unusual or distinctive manner or behaviour’. Something, or an event, that is ‘out of the ordinary’. Something…
#Review: Animal Intimacies
In her book Animal Intimacies Radhika Govindrajan takes us through a series of human-animal relations in India’s Central Himalayas, the Kumaon division in the hills of Uttarakhand. Each…
Arctic view on Russia’s changed constitution
The population of Russia officially supported the suggested changes in the world’s largest country’s constitution, with almost 78% of those who voted. Half of the circumpolar Arctic, incl…
Dear White Anthropologists, Let Not Symbolism Overshadow Substance
Racism permeates the academy. We will need more than performative allyship and symbolic statements condemning racism in society if we are to build a more inclusive anthropology. …