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Current and former students at Simon Fraser University tell us where to eat, drink, and pet cats in Vancouver. #AAACASCA British Columbia is host to more than 400,000…
Bienvenue/Welcome to Vancouver
CASCA Local Organizing Committee members Pamela Stern and Jaime Yard on what to do in Vancouver this November. #AAACASCA The 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association…
Agricultores Estadounidenses “Made in Brazil”
Brasil es el segundo mayor productor de soya a nivel mundial. Diego Giudice/Getty Images Lea este artículo en inglés o portugués. En las afueras de la ciudad de…
Stringing Together an Ancient Empire’s Stories
For centuries, Andean people encoded messages in intricate patterns of knotted and colored strings known as khipus. Thanks to the collaborative approach of anthropologist Sabine Hyland and others,…
Anthropologies of and with Asia, at Leiden University
What anthropologies of, and with, Asia do we practice at Leiden University? And how do we want to move forward?
No Go World: How No Go Zones Make the World a More Dangerous Place
As neo-nationalists gain strength across Europe and the promise of ‘strong’ borders continues to gain traction with electorates across the world, we need few reminders of the paradoxes…
Ein Koffer voll Hoffnung
Das Einwanderungsland Baden-Württemberg Autoren: Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Weber Baden-Württemberg ist durch Zuwanderung entstanden und spielt heute noch eine Spitzenroll…
Content Moderation: Mediating Public Speech Privately
Social media constitutes a universe of more images, text and videos than can be humanly experienced, read, and heard. However, disinformation, terrorist content, harassment, and other kinds of…
Sundarbans, Climate, Tigers, Law.
Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will This forms the first part of a new research concentration for me, and…
RStudio on Amazon Web Services
Here a situation that may have occurred to some of you: your R script (a model analysing a big dataset, a simulation where you test many parameter combinations)…
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, saying…
From The Undercommens: Fugitive Planning and Black Study: So, as a youngster heading out to do what damage I could to the world, I inadvertently joined, as…
Shalini Shanker on Beeline
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/shalini-shankar/beeline/9781549168222/ Interview by Ilana Gershon Ilana Gershon: When did you first realize that there was such a rich research project in South Asia…
No insides on the outsides
“The main goal and mission of a content moderator is to clean up the dirt.” — unnamed content moderator in The Cleaners (00:06:20). All systems must rid themselves…
Ashanté M. Reese, “Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.” (UNC Press, 2019)
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of…
International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019
International Conference at Ton Duc Thang University October 4-5, 2019 Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities Innovations are the key. In method and analysis, in the ways…
In University Restructures, is Trauma too Strong a Word?
I would argue that the unhappy academics were creating and adding to what I described in my thesis as affective swirls of discontent, and that they were doing…
Marx in Calcutta, 2018, CITY, Vol 22 (4); 490-509.
Marx in CalcuttaCITY2018 Just click on the page to read the whole thing.
„Volk“ und Ironie. Mit ständiger Rücksicht auf den Rechtspopulismus
Populismus und ironische Kommunikation erscheinen zunächst als unvereinbar. Der Appell ans Volk scheut gewöhnlich die Ironie, die als arrogant und elitär gilt. Was hat es zu bedeuten, wenn…
About anthropology and climate change
This is a conversation between Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Dasa Licen, published in Eurozine, about public anthropology and how it can connect to the climate crisis. Thanks, Dasa!…
Jadavpur University and the pecuniary investment jealousy rag (need some infrastructure surely).
I don’t have cause to say so often enough, but I consider Jadavpur a second alma mater for me (just as second breakfast is the most important meal…
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it?
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? Well, so glad you asked – I can talk for…
In the Journals, September 2019 by Todd Ebling
Below you may find this month’s “In the Journals” updates. American Anthropologist Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant SleepHelen L. Bell, Cecilia Tomori & James J. …
Brand love or emotional relationships with brands
In the world of customer engagement, it is common to hear that companies want to transform their brands into “Love Brands”. A Love Brand is a brand that…
Amazing triple set of resources on Indigenous waters: from Standing Rock to Australia (book + 2 special issues)
There are three recent (and really good) resources that have come out on Indigenous waters in the past several weeks: a book and two special issues, each below…