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…
Radhika Govindrajan, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
In what is sure to become a classic, Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press, 2018) mobilizes the thematic of “inter……
Victoria Cann, “Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures” (I.B.Tauris, 2018)
How does cultural taste regulate our lives? In Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Dr. Victoria…
The Immeasurable Impact of Anthropology
What are the many ways anthropologists can impact the world? How should we think about impact in anthropology specifically? In a new blog series our researchers address the…
Radhika Govindrajan, “Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
In what is sure to become a classic, Radhika Govindrajan’s Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press, 2018) mobilizes the thematic of “inter……
Victoria Cann, “Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures” (I.B.Tauris, 2018)
How does cultural taste regulate our lives? In Girls Like This, Boys Like That: Understanding the (Re)Production of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Dr. Victoria…
The Immeasurable Impact of Anthropology
What are the many ways anthropologists can impact the world? How should we think about impact in anthropology specifically? In a new blog series our researchers address the…
The Internet & Democracy: Have We Learned Anything?
In the first wake of the Egyptian uprisings, and their framing as a “Facebook” revolution or Twitter revolution or “social media revolution” there was a lot of Utopian discours…
#4GenderStudies: Care – Migration – Gender
Heute ist der bundesweite Aktionstag für Gender Studies: “Hintergrund der Aktion, die erstmals im Dezember 2017 stattgefunden hat, sind die immer wiederkehrenden massiven, rechts-konservativen …
#4GenderStudies: Care – Migration – Gender
Heute ist der bundesweite Aktionstag für Gender Studies: “Hintergrund der Aktion, die erstmals im Dezember 2017 stattgefunden hat, sind die immer wiederkehrenden massiven, rechts-konservativen …
Engagement, Regierungspolitik und Medien 2015-2017
Artikel zu Entwicklungen seit dem Sommer 2015 Autor: Prof. Dr. Dietrich Thränhardt Dietrich Thränhardt zeichnet in diesem Artikel Diskursentwicklungen in Deutschland seit dem Sommer 2015 nach. Dabe…
‘The Pursuit of Ruins’ by Christina Bueno
Christina Bueno. The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico. 280pp., 23 illus., 3 maps, notes, bibl., index. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
Disability from the South: Toward a Lexicon by Michele Friedner
In this series, we work to broaden the horizons of an emergent anthropology of disability[1] by taking two considerations as the starting point for a conversation. On the…
Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,” provided…
Film and theory: Knots and Holes
By Matthias Teeuwen “What becomes of the medium of film in the hands of an anthropologist?” asks Mattijs van de Port in the introduction to his new…
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
The British Museum Department of Africa, Oceania and the Americas recently launched a new grant programme to fund documentation of critically endangered material knowledge systems across the globe,…
Melissa Gregg on her new book, Counterproductive
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://www.dukeupress.edu/counterproductive Ilana Gershon: When did the argument for Counterproductive come to you in the process of researching and writing? Melissa Gregg…