Government Of, By, and For the Trolls
Countering Trump begins by recognizing his role as troller-in-chief. The United States and the world have now spent two years trying to figure out how to deal with…
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„Why are White People Expats when the Rest of Us are Immigrants?“. Hochqualifizierte Arbeitsmigrant_innen in Kenia zwischen Kosmopolitismus und Abschottung
Ein Essay von Lara Berens 1. Dein Essay in einem Satz: In meinem Essay zeige ich, auf Basis welcher Merkmale, Norm- und Wertvorstellungen sowie Lebensstile Inklusions- sowie Exklusionsmechanismen…
Berufliche Ausbildung: Für junge Geflüchtete doppelt wichtig
Von Franziska Schreyer und Angela Bauer Asylberechtigte und anerkannte Flüchtlinge können aus einem befristeten in einen unbefristeten Aufenthaltsstatus wechseln, wenn sie ihren Lebensunterhalt überwi…
LSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part Two)
Image Credit: (Pixabay CC0) What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? Following Part One, which counted down from 12-7, in Part Two we reveal the 6…
Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu
The University of Oulu is strengthening their Arctic profile and have announced several jobs. Let’s hope they will hire anthropologists eagerly! It depends on how many good anthropologists…
Job: Arctic Sustainability, resilience and climate change
Fancy a career in Canada? If your are suitably qualified, you can try this one. They claim they want a special focus on indigenous knowledge too: SSHRC CANADA…
In der Schreibphase angekommen
Nun bin ich mit meiner Dissertation in der „Schreibphase“ angekommen. Das heißt für mich: JEDEN Tag schreiben, selbst wenn es nur wenige Minuten sind. Mit dieser Methode ist…
Switched on Pop
On this episode of This Anthro Life, hosts Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz are joined by assistant professor and musicologist Nate Sloan and music journalist and songwriter Charlie…
Switched on Pop
On this episode of This Anthro Life, hosts Adam Gamwell and Matt Artz are joined by assistant professor and musicologist Nate Sloan and music journalist and songwriter Charlie…
Zines!
Rather than do terms papers or group presentations for my History of Anthropological Theory class this semester, I had students work in groups to develop zines based on…
Coffee Culture Comes Home
By Jesse Dart Anthropology Department, University of Sydney Starbucks opened in Italy a few months ago. While the hype has worn off a bit, some days you still find…
Issuing Trigger Warnings in an Age of Mass Shootings
Ellie Fleischer writes “Enough Is Enough” at a memorial near the Tree of Life Synagogue on Monday, October 29, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Salwan Georges/Getty Images On the last…
Ayça Çubukçu, “For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Harkening back to the tribunal on Vietnam once convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged in 2003 from the global antiwar…
LSE RB Year in Review: The Top 12 Book Reviews of 2018 (Part One)
Image Credit: (Pixabay CC0) What were you reading in 2018 on LSE Review of Books? In Part One of our review of the year, we count down the 12…
Ayça Çubukçu, “For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Harkening back to the tribunal on Vietnam once convened by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged in 2003 from the global antiwar…
Material Culture Journalism, 2
Continuing with the Material Culture Journalism series…. “We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head“ by Thomas Brewster at Forbes. (H/T JB) #techology “An…
Being Afghan in America: In the Field With Morwari Zafar
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS How does an immigrant become an “American”? How does any newcomer join any group? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez shares the story of Morwari Zafar, an…
Migrant sex worker: a term that has arrived
I wouldn’t have been surprised if the term migrant sex worker had died out except amongst rights-activists, given the hegemony enjoyed by reductionist trafficking narratives. When I was…
Pockets: Reflections on the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne
Preface: this is the first in a series of posts by scholars who attended the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, an event hosted in September by Deakin University as part…
Speculative Anthropology Series in Cultural Anthropology
Please check out this provocative collection of papers at cultural anthropology. Edited by Ryan Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy and Jeremy Trombley (and including my…
Teaching Latin America 2019
In January 2019, I teach “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean” as a one-month anthropology course at Hartwick College. I first taught this as a…
Fighting America, One iPhone at a Time
Boycotts, illusions and the making of the new Turkey Find it absurd. Find it irrational. But while those infuriated with Nike in the United States were busy cutting…
Mein Uni-Leben
Neben dem Erkunden von Shanghai und dem Reisen habe ich hier natürlich auch ab und zu mal studiert. Einen Eintrag über mein Uni-Leben in Shanghai mag ich euch…