Greetings from Silicon Beach
Does technology mean something different when it leaves the Valley and goes to the Beach? In the summer of 2016, during preliminary fieldwork in California, I met with…
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Affective Landscapes of the Past and Present in Santa Clara
Long-term residents’ experiences of technological disruption and resilience are an untold yet essential part of the Silicon Valley story. In May 2018, I spoke with Tom, an elderly…
Disrupting Silicon Valley’s Stories
In a climate of pervasive narratives of wealth creation and success, how can anthropology hold corporate and tech sectors to account? In March 2014, Business Insider published the…
Mapping Dispossession, Mapping Affect
How Silicon Valley’s wealth produces uneven impacts throughout the region. Silicon Valley is a geographic region, shorthand for all things tech, the global hub of the technology industry,…
Navigating Silicon Valley’s Contradictions
Silicon Valley’s workers must maneuver their way through this place of diversity and discrimination, capitalist aims, and countercultural aspirations. You can spot the extremes on the street in…
Roxana Wales
Roxana Wales, recently retired, is a respected corporate ethnographer and research scientist. She was one of the first anthropologists to begin working on corporate ethnographic projects and she…
What Our Skeletons Say About the Sex Binary
Stanislawa Walasiewicz won the gold for Poland in the women’s 100-meter dash at the 1932 Olympic Games. Upon her death, an autopsy revealed that she had intersex traits.…
Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector
“I hope that more people will listen to more music outside of their own little comfort zone. I think that we enrich ourselves, we are better human beings…
‘Now is the Time of Monsters’: The Painful Birth of a New World Order
President Trump calls the WTO a “disas…
Sharing Sonic Space: Music as Home, Soul and Connector
“I hope that more people will listen to more music outside of their own little comfort zone. I think that we enrich ourselves, we are better human beings…
‘Now is the Time of Monsters’: The Painful Birth of a New World Order
President Trump calls the WTO a “disas…
My key learnings about #globaldev 20 years after I took my first undergrad course (Links & Contents I Liked 300)
The anniversary of my 300th link review coincides with another one: Pretty much exactly 20 years ago I took my first undergrad class in international development during my…
Kate Parker Horigan, “Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative” (UP of Mississippi, 2018)
Kate Parker Horigan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology at Western Kentucky University, and a co-editor of the Journal of American Folklore.…
Andrew L. Yarrow, “Man Out: Men on the Sidelines of American Life” (Brookings Institution Press, 2018)
In the era of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald Trump, masculinity and the harmful effects that follow certain versions of masculinity have become national conversations. Now, like many…
China’s Uyghur re-education centres in Xinjiang will not produce a loyal and obedient population
by James McMurray **Previously published on The Conversation UK.** The Chinese government’s denials of its mass interment of Xinjiang’s Uyghur citizens have evaporated as international pressure has pi…
Wer hat Angst vor einem globalen Pakt (für Migration)?!
Von Constantin Hruschka und Tim Rohmann Dem in einem zweijährigen Aushandlungsprozess erarbeiteten global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) droht kurz vor seiner Verabschied…
Design at Scale
In the closing keynote of @designopssummit, IBM design leader @douglaswpowell shares some of the practices they use to drive change & measurable impact, thereby securing buy-in for design…
Turning Research Ripples into Waves
In this @designopssummit presentation, Hana Nagel shares what she learned about designing for social impact, and what service design in the non-profit world can teach us about our…
Continuous Design
How do we support immediate design needs, while still being mindful of the long term? In this @designopssummit presentation, we learn how Maria Skaaden and her team have…
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022
Vanderbilt’s Dr. Ted Fischer speaks to the class of 2022 on how to find their passions in life
Selectively Scrappy Research Ops
We kick off the afternoon of @designopssummit with thje ‘Methodologies and Work Environments’ theme. Here, Megan Blocker shares her ‘selectively scrappy’ approach to building ResearchOps at McKinsey.
Creativity and Culture
In this @designopssummit presentation, @milesorkin talks to us about the importance of culture, and the power of moving from empathy to true compassion, thereby enabling people to bring…
Taking it to the next level
Our ‘Growing People and Teams’ theme @designopssummit concludes with lessons learned from the mature Design Program Management team at Facebook.