‘Hollywood’ and Social Identity
I never normally get hooked on TV shows, I’m more of a movie person. I like to know the endings and I’m usually too curious to wait 6…
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Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Cr…
Guest Post: How Can We Learn When We Have No Future?: Schools Strikes, Social Transformations, and the Possibility of Good Relations during Climate Emergency [Embodying Reciprocity Series]
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Crockford is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent…
Exceptional Geologies as Models for Life in Oklahoma’s “Fracking-Scenes”
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Bolsonaro’s politics of death, Covid-19 and racial inequality in Brazil
Covid-19 infections and deaths in Brazil continue to grow at an alarming pace: at the time of publication (8 July 2020), the Latin American country has recorded over…
Accessibility in the Switch to Online
As we experience the uncomfortable but necessary changes in response to COVID-19, many of us have continued our work by switching to virtual spaces, whether for meetings, classes,…
How Rats Are Overturning Decades of Military Norms
In some parts of the world, giant rats are being enlisted to detect postwar land mines. APOPO At the third stop at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem…
Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem
Most archaeological projects in the U.K. and U.S. are largely conducted by people of European descent. Wessex Archaeology/Flickr One hot, sunny day in the Sonoran Desert, I (William)…
Pandemic Time by Barclay Bram
I was sitting at my computer when we got the call. My father in his chair, my mother on the sofa. Two days earlier we had found out…
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…
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…