A Youth Center Struggles With Israeli Occupation
A staff member at Lajee Center, a youth organization in Aida Refugee Camp in the Israeli occupied West Bank, went “live” on Facebook on the afternoon of Sunday,…
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In Love with the Ugly Face of Alexandria
(This is the beginning of an article I’m preparing for publication that is called “Where is Alexandria: Myths of the City and the Anti-City in Alexandria after Cosmopolitanism.…
In Love with the Ugly Face of Alexandria
(This is the beginning of an article I’m preparing for publication that is called “Where is Alexandria: Myths of the City and the Anti-City in Alexandria after Cosmopolitanism.…
Paying for sex in Graham Greeneland: Sex work in fiction
The other day I lightly said It’s a blokey thing to a young person who replied That’s a sexist thing to say! The next day another young person heard me use…
Paying for sex in Graham Greeneland: Sex work in fiction
The other day I lightly said It’s a blokey thing to a young person who replied That’s a sexist thing to say! The next day another young person heard me use…
Stakes of Life: Science, states, policies, publics and ‘the first thousand days’ by Fiona C. Ross
Welcome back to the “First Thousand Days of Life” Somatosphere series. Here we continue to explore the ways that a global health initiative driven by new findings in…
anthro in the news 6/19/17
Credit: Next28/Wikimedia Commons genetic modification/ genetic editing: word game? The Washington Post reported on efforts by DuPont Pioneer, the division of DuPont that produces GMOs, to build consum…
Review: Metabolic Living
Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and The Absorption of Illness in India. Harris Solomon. Duke University Press, 2016. Gauri Anilkumar Pitale Southern Illinois University …
Alessandro Zagato: “Spokesperson for the people and candidate for the media”: An indigenous woman for the 2018 presidential elections in Mexico
María de Jesús Patricio, known as Marichuy, is an indigenous Nahuatl woman born on 23 December 1963 in Tuxpan (“land of rabbits”), a small town located in the…
Caremotions 2017
CAREMOTION –noun- finding balance between the care of others and self, and the emotions during video making. Etymology-(coined in Canterbury 2017) a synthesis of care, motion, emotion, motion…
The Relationship between Social Justice & Anthropology
2017 on a whole has been a deadly year. This post was spurred by the terrorist attacks that we’ve seen in Western media but on a whole, many…
Community Responses to Toxic Hazards: A Reading List
A reading list of the David and Goliath story of communities versus industries, governments, and polluting infrastructures.
On Educating Well-Meaning White People
“I give blood to white people” I give blood. Every day, to white people, I give blood. Red Blood. Culturally anemic academics beseech me to provision them…
When the Internet goes dark on 12 July, so should anthropology
I’ve written on this blog before about the Trump Administration’s recent changes to net neutrality rules. These rules will let your Internet Service Provider — your cable or…
Blood bowl: The Other Fantasy Football, Part 2: The Block Dice of Sociality
Editorial Note: This is part two of a three part series. Click here to read part one, “Warming Up,” Round 2: Following our defeats across the board in…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part XIII
Taking it day by day, learning to live like an animal in the jungle where we play… My latest articles and interviews: Trump is reportedly under investigation. Does…
Introduction to “Maintaining Refuge”
This introduction is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. The last few years have witnessed a rising tide of concern about a rising tide of refugees and migrants. As…
Migrant Resilience and Refuge in the Trump Era
As we enter a new deportation era migrant communities near and far from the border are getting organized. This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. Following the…
Ethnic Refuge
South Sudanese refugees reshape institutional and social spaces into “ethnic refuges” that resist assimilation and promote community well-being. This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. …
Links & Contents I Liked 237
Hi all, Welcome to a packed Friday link review!Development news: The UN’s ‘new way of working’; political inaction and the Congo; Canada’s feminist foreign policy; Facebook roles out…
Zambia’s political crisis is not just about democracy
Check out my latest piece on the ongoing Zambian political crisis, published today in Al Jazeera English. Here are some extracts: “[Zambia] is the world’s seventh largest copper…
The Razor’s Edge LLC Brings You “Reality Tourism”™
You are on top of the world. And sometimes it feels like that is the problem. That is where we at Razor’s Edge LLC come in to support…