We consider how zones of exclusion, zero tolerance zones and other similar geospatial “exclusionary regimes” emphasize “the undeserving and the unreformable nature of deviants” (Becket and Weston 2001…
2017-18 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (JINELC) at Washington University in St. Louis invites application…
In 2014, Vincent Ialenti wrote about deflated optimisms among European scientists grappling with political questions about their legitimacy, the capitalization of their expertise, and the frustrations…
Since 2009, the blog AnthropologyWorks has created an annual list of the “Best Cultural Anthropology Dissertations.” Being included on this list seems as if it might be a…
By Nathalia S. Brichet, Frida Hastrup, and Felix Riede § From the late 1930s until 1970, low-grade brown coal was extracted at Søby in mainland Denmark. This activity carried out largely…
Folgender Gastbeitrag stammt von Fabian Goldmann, Journalist und Islamwissenschaftler, Autor des Blogs “Schantall und die Scharia” über “Islamophobie in Deutschland und überall sonst”. Ursprünglich e…
via Alice Carey, Wellcome Institute We are delighted to announce that Wellcome is now accepting applications for a new group of residents in The Hub, beginning at the end…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the #teachingthedisaster series. By Rucha Ambikar The day after Trump won the election, I went into my class as usual.…
From our colleagues at the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, a book prize competition that may be of interest to SAFN members and other readers of this…
Here’s SCROTUS warning us of the pantomime terrorism situation in Sweden. The double speak bubbles capture his discourse with uncanny accuracy. People may think this is kids stuff,…
This is from E-flux: Dheisheh Refugee Camp. Photo: Luca Capuano. Refugee Heritage, a new project by DAAR The Architecture of Exile IV. B: February 24, 7pm, with Suad…
not “beautiful” A letter to the editor by Charles Thompson appeared in The New York Times. He is professor of cultural anthropology and documentary studies at Duke University…
Of all the characters destined to work selling sex in The Three-Headed Dog, Marina has the most experience. Now in Spain for the second time, Marina comes from…
Dr Paolo Favero giving his AALS lecture at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam By Matthias Teeuwen Last AALS lecture was an inspiring and thought-provoking presentation by Dr. Paolo Favero…
This blog will feature a series of posts on a new (2017) resource for first-time and long-standing ethnographers – a ‘guided journal’ for doing anthropology by Luis A.…
These are the lessons we have learned in efforts to salvage neglected information in the form of narrative fragments salvaged from the waste stream. Our working laboratory is…
by Elisa Sandri This article is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni, PhD researcher, and to his family, whom I never met but I hope they’ll find…
By Boris Verbrugge, Radbout Universiteit On February 2, 2017, Philippine Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, who has the full backing of the country’s controversial president Duterte, announced the clos…
Introduction I fought 32 wildfires over fifteen months as part of my ethnographic research. I fought them with men who are currently in prison. Many western U.S. states…
Sorry to miss what looks like a great symposium and launch of the new Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa. SOMAA By Nayantara Sheoran Appleton. On Wednesday February…
Katie Cooper There are just somethings that we do not like to talk about. Like how often you wear the same pair of socks, or how you take…