The human smugglers roundtable is back!
While irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. Depictions of irregular migrants from war-torn and economically…
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Roundtable II: Responses by Luca Rainieri
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Within fragile countries of the European neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood, anti-smuggling and ant…
Roundtable II: Responses by Jared P. Van Ramshorst
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies are intended to disrupt and deter cross-border smuggling and…
Roundtable II: Responses by David Danelo
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Let’s consider two continents. At the beginning of 2015, Europe prided itself on the freedom of movement …
Roundtable II: Responses by Caitlin Blanchfield & Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies have far reaching impacts in borderlands communities. For th…
Roundtable II: Responses by Wendy Vogt
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? It is widely estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked in Mexico each year. Since 200…
Pierre Cachia 1921-2017
Pierre Cachia 1921-2017 Pierre Cachia slipped away peacefully on 1st April, a few days shy of his 96 th birthday, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. With the…
AAA CFP: Famines and Food Crises in Africa
For the upcoming 2017 AAA meetings in Washington DC. Contact the organizers listed below if you are interested in participating. Famines and Food Crises in Africa: Causes, Consequences…
AAA CFP: Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food
We are looking for 1 more paper for the following session. Please send abstracts to Micah M. Trapp, mmtrapp@memphis.edu, by Tuesday Apr. 11th. Circulations, Logics, and Logistics of Food…
The ethnographic case: series conclusion by Emily Yates-Doerr
This entry concludes the series “The Ethnographic Case” which ran every other Monday between June 2015 and July 2016. The bookCase, which holds 27 cases, can be accessed…
Islam Nusantara: Conferentie over een vreedzame Islam.
Door Freek Colombijn. Van 27-29 maart vond in Nederland de “1st Biennial International Conference on Moderate Islam in Indonesia” plaats. De conferentie was georganiseerd door de Nederlandse afdeling…
‘No cash, friend. Digital India.’ 48 hours in the Indian cashless economy
Emancipation through finance? When India woke up on 9 November 2016, people learned that their 500 and 1000 rupee notes had become worthless. The Indian government and proponents…
Links & Contents I Liked 227
Hi all, Some writing took place ‘behind the scene’ this week, but there’s still time for a great link review with lots to explore across all the themes!…
Links & Contents I Liked 227
Hi all, Some writing took place ‘behind the scene’ this week, but there’s still time for a great link review with lots to explore across all the themes!…
Pandora’s Brew: The New Ayahuasca Part 6
Oklevueha Native American Church In addition to the widespread appropriation of Native North American culture that characterizes neo-shamanic discourse, the current spate of ayahuasca churches in the …
AAA CFP: Environmental Worlds
Call for Papers AAA Annual Meeting 11/ 29-12/ 3, 2017 Washington, D.C. Environmental Worlds: Between Craft and Emergence Organizers: Mackenzie Cramblit (Duke) and John Moran (Stanford) Discussant:…
Anthropology is an empty pint carton, and our existential projects are the ice cream
Because I regularly teach the history of anthropology, I have thought a lot about classical texts and the shape of our discipline. I also recently had a chance…
Lisa Wade, “American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus” (Norton, 2017)
“Hookup” has become a buzzword, a misleading concept for students, parents and educators alike–one that confuses more than explains the nuances of this complex and pervasive trend. I……
The Return of Support for Acquiring a Liberal Arts Degrees: An Anthropological Perspective
There have recently been a spate of news articles discussing the importance of liberal arts degrees and graduates’ chance for success: Liberal arts degrees are here to stay (The…
The Return of Support for Acquiring a Liberal Arts Degrees: An Anthropological Perspective
There have recently been a spate of news articles discussing the importance of liberal arts degrees and graduates’ chance for success: Liberal arts degrees are here to stay (The…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies!
Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.