Thailand – the Land of Smiles?
av Lotta Granbom Thailand – the Land of Smiles som det ofta kallas i reklamen – har blivit ett av de populäraste resmålen för många västerlänningar att…
Aaron Kuntz, “The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice” (Left Coast Press, 2015)
In this episode, I speak with Aaron M. Kuntz about his book, The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice (Left Coast Press, 2015). This book offers a…
Kontrolle oder Chaos? Zur Rechtswidrigkeit der Zurückweisung von Schutzsuchenden an den europäischen Binnengrenzen
Dieser Blogbeitrag versucht im Lichte der immer schriller werdenden Debatte zu Zurückweisungen an der deutschen Grenze aus europarechtlicher Sicht einen Blick auf die Voraussetzungen für Kontrollen an…
Calais: Eighteen Months On
by Elisa Sandri Calais has frequently made the headlines in the last two decades. The history of this border as a focal point for migration dates back to…
Our Ethnographic Ear: Using sound as an ethnographic tool and product
Our megalopoli are deafening: who would put up with this hellish din if we didn’t simply expect that with a group comes a racket? Being part of one means not…
#Report: Envy and Greed: A Political Economy of Accusation and Critique
On the fourth and fifth of June, the anthropology department at the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted a workshop exploring how accusations of envy and…
10 Jahre PASS: „Vom Interview bis zum Datensatz sind viele Schritte nötig“
Interview mit Arne Bethmann und Claudia Wenzig (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen) Vor zehn Jahren wurde die Studie „Lebensqualität und soziale Sicherung“, auch bekannt unter der Abkürzung PASS – Pa…
Which Door Has Opened? Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump, and the Singapore Summit
Both leaders arrived in Singapore, with significant excitement greeting them. Trump, arriving from a bitter G7 meeting, after which he attacked Justin Trudeau personally, flew into Singapore on…
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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