What is the Museum Anthropology Review Business (Labor) Model?
Alternate title: How to give away $99,000 worth of articles. Although it has become normalized in open access/scholarly publication reform discussions to speak in this way, it often…
Guest Post: Anthropology’s front-lines: Notes on crisis, coloniality, and violence
[The following is a guest post by Proshant Chakraborty. Proshant is an applied anthropologist and research consultant based in Mumbai, India. He obtained his master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropolo…
Open Secrets: On Power and Publication (#hautalk)
This is a Guest Post about the #hautalk by Emily Yates-Doerr Hau’s Editorial Board has just released its second response, this time unsigned, to the grievances aired by former…
Processing Settler Toxicities: Part I
This 2+ part post is adapted from a presentation at the 2018 Cultures of Energy Symposium at Rice University. Many thanks to everyone who responded to my call…
Anthro Reckoning and Reconnaissance
Over the past several days, the anthropological community has been forced to confront instances of abuse, exploitation and discrimination latent in the discipline. A tweet from Cultural Anthropology…
From push-backs to pull-backs: The EU’s new deterrence strategy faces legal challenge
Filed lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights may investigate cooperation between Italy and Libyan coast guards on pull-back operations in the Mediterranean resulting in massive human…
The Decolonial Turn 2.0: the reckoning
By now, many readers are familiar with the issues surrounding recent events at HAU: journal of ethnographic theory, including the letters released by the HAU Former Staff 7 here and…
After and Beyond the Genome: Taking Postgenomics Seriously by Maurizio Meloni
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge after the Genome Jenny Reardon University of Chicago Press, 2017, 304 pages. Genetics: A Situated View How enduring is the…
Links & Contents I Liked 286
Hi all, Welcome to this Friday’s review! So many great, interesting, powerful & enraging stories from & about women which hopefully indicate the lasting impact of #AidToo! Development…
#Review: Mobile Secrets
Julie Archambault’s Mobile Secrets is an ethnographically vivid and distinctive contribution to the ever growing anthropological literature on the topic of youth in Africa. Whilst ethnographic a…
Drones and Witnessing the Anthropocene
Drones sense from afar and see from a distance. They go where people can go but won’t because of cost to life or capital. Piloting precariously above coral…
Carbon Farmers Work to Clean Up the World’s Mess
It was a bright afternoon in March of 2011 when I met Pedro (a pseudonym) on his organic farm in the mountains of Costa Rica, north of San…
Bachelorstudiengang Musikwissenschaften / Musik verstehen von Björk bis Beethoven
Frankfurt mit seinem großen Kulturangebot bietet ein gutes Umfeld für den Bachelorstudiengang Musikwissenschaften. Hier geht es um Musiktheorie, um den reflektierenden Umgang mit Komponisten vom Mitte…
Does Malcolm Gladwell want rural Indian women to buy Chevys? A few reflections on DevEx World
In 2014 I shared some reflections on DevEx’s career forum (The future of expats in a globalized development industry). This week I followed DevEx World social media coverage…
HAU is dead, long live OA initiatives
This is going to be a brief note. But I have to clarify that these are my own opinions. Anthropological twitter exploded today after David Graeber issued an…
Transparencies 2018
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Introduction TRANSPARENCIES 2018 celebrated the creativity and initiative of our students, how they gave of themselves and collaborated to be able to realise the films they wanted.…
The neoliberal university is making us sick: Who’s to blame?
Outside the academy, I’m sure the perception remains that academics sit in leather armchairs, gazing out the gilded windows of our ivory towers, thinking all day. That has…
Politics in environmental research infrastructure formation: When top-down policy-making meets bottom-up fragmentation
By: Elena Parmiggiani, Helena Karasti, Karen Baker, and Andrea Botero The environmental sciences have been a fertile ground for the development of scientific infrastructures (a.k.a. cyberinfrastructur…
When Doctors Don’t Listen
[no-caption] Michelle Jones/SAPIENS It’s been almost a year since I tried to kill myself. As a doctoral student living in the leafy suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 2015,…
Guest Post: An Open Letter from the Former HAU Staff 7
[Footnotes has received the following open letter from “The Former HAU Staff 7.”] This open-letter was written in December 2017 by a collective of former HAU staff in…
Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition
Feast on this! We have just published a gorgeous new edition of Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, with a full-colour interior and a range of new…
Transgender Latina Activism in the Current Political Moment
The current political administration poses numerous threats to various minoritized communities in the United States. Anti-Latinx and transphobic sentiments and policy actions are on the rise. Given t…
Der inspizierte Muslim
Buchräsentation am 4. Juli 2018 Mit: Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami, Prof. Dr. Riem Spielhaus, u.a. “Muslime in Europa werden beäugt, beforscht und vermessen. Wie schafft die akademische Forschung…