Thinking about sex work as work: Dublin Anarchist Book Fair
I gave a talk called Thinking about sex work as work on 6 April 2013 at the Dublin Anarchist Book Fair. Local abolitionists and anti-prostitution folks were attacking…
CFP for AAA session – Bienestar: Transition and Wellbeing amongst Mexican-origin Farmworkers
CFP for AAA session Bienestar: Transition and Wellbeing amongst Mexican-origin Farmworkers. Session Abstract As U.S. food production has grown increasingly industrialized, the consolidation of small f…
Mijn Griekse vrienden van de Gouden Dageraad
Graffiti in Corfu stad: ‘Gouden Dageraad’ veranderd in ‘Gouden Eieren’ door slechts een aantal streepjes aan te brengen. Een bekende manier om supporters te ondermijnen. Kostas…
‘Pretend to be straight!’ What’s wrong with the world? #WeekendEssay
On February 26 the Guardian reported of new UK Home Office guidelines according to which the country would send back openly homosexual asylum applicants to Afghanistan with the…
Why is Anthropology so Critical?
Portrait of Giambattista Vico by Francesco Solimena By Matthias Teeuwen I want to thank Ton Salman for his insightful take on the question…
The Case for Rethinking the Calendar
Arguments against the current calendar and clock—fueled in part by frustrations with daylight saving time—are behind efforts to adopt a standard worldwide date and time system. Charlie Riedel…
Antonio De Lauri: Times of walls: The politics of fencing in the contemporary world
In his well-known poem “Mending Wall” (1914), Robert Frost effectively depicted the act of walling: Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling…
Ethnography and Street Photography
Two Arts of Serendipity Brent Luvaas Street photography, notes Magnum photographer Alex Webb, is a practice of harnessing serendipity. Photographers never know what they are going to find…
Links & Contents I Liked 223
Hi all, After a week spent mostly working from home, focusing on two research papers, I am happy to focus on ‘lighter’ writing in a way with the…
Links & Contents I Liked 223
Hi all, After a week spent mostly working from home, focusing on two research papers, I am happy to focus on ‘lighter’ writing in a way with the…
Humanitäre Visa für Flüchtlinge – Wirklich keine Angelegenheit der EU?
Sind die EU-Mitgliedstaaten verpflichtet, Flüchtlingen – insbesondere aus Syrien – unter bestimmten Umständen humanitäre Visa zu erteilen? Der EuGH hat hierzu am Dienstag im Urteil zur Rs. X…
Bangladeshi Cinema and Tanvir Mokammel’s “1971”, a review of John Hood’s ‘The Bleeding Lotus’
:: Prepare yourself for trauma. John Hood’s book The Bleeding Lotus: Notions of nation in Bangladeshi Cinema (2015, Palimpsest) is not intended primarily as a gore-fest horror but…
Grounded Dreams?
Hong Kong and Hollywood face the challenges of a globalizing movie economy. Hortense Powdermaker’s analysis of a Hollywood movie industry driven by extreme uncertainty, anxiety, and crisis in…
Watching Movies in Ghana
Re-presenting the stuff of dreams and invisible forces, films feed the popular imagination. “It’s true, it’s true. All these things happen, all these things happen in real life.…
The Accidental Celebrity
Achieving media stardom takes more than luck. It requires hard work and perseverance. City of stars Are you shining just for me? City of stars You never shined…
Film for Good
Can cinema produce social justice? Six decades separate the #OscarsSoWhite movement and the publication of Hortense Powdermaker’s ethnography on Hollywood’s inner workings Hollywood, the Dream Factory…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
Google Translate from Photos
Did you know that Google Translate now allows you to translate text from photos using the mobile app? (We’re living in the future!) Recent studies have shown that…
When Deep Time Becomes Shallow: Knowing Nuclear Waste Risk Ethnographically
When reflecting on these intertwined day-to-day, multi-decade, centurial, and multi-millennial horizons of nuclear waste risk all at the same time, a different set of sensibilities emerges. Namely, it…
Humanitäre Visa für FlüchtlingeNicht mit der EU
Das Flüchtlingsrecht unterliegt einem Paradox: Eine Person, die in ihrem Heimatstaat Verfolgung fürchtet, ist darauf angewiesen, in einen anderen Staat einreisen zu dürfen, um dort Schutz zu erhalten….
Vom Ursprung des Sikhismus bis zum Traum von Khalistan
Kaum jemand kennt den Sikh Verband Deutschland e.V. (gegründet 2013) oder das kürzlich neu eröffnete Deutsche Informationszentrum für Sikhreligion, Sikhgeschichte, Kultur und Wissenschaft. Vielleicht…