Democracy on speed #Brexit
The question, when it came, was striking in its simplicity: “should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?” Two boxes.…
The Anthropologist’s Brexit
Anthropologists have responded to the result of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union with a mixture of condemnation, despair, and reflection on the conditions that created ‘Brexit’…
Changing Global Economies
For decades, investors in advanced economies (AEs) have shaped the evolution of global markets. Research shows that advanced economy investors tend to hold diversified…
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler
Welcome to the Anthropocene – Video of debate with Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler (via Philippe Theophanidis) We no longer live in the Holocene. Welcome to the Anthropocene!…
In praise of muddling
I’ve been rather harshly reminded of late how bad a forum Twitter is for complex discussion, so I’m going to try to work through some tangled thoughts and…
Style, bad prose, and Corey Robin’s theory of public intellectuals
Ten years ago, before I started doing research in France, I wrote my MA thesis about the politics of “bad writing” in the American humanities. Empirically, my major…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Brexit: a View From Johannesburg
This post is a translation and an adaptation of the Italian-speaking radio report that was broadcast on 28 June on Radio Bullets. By Gaia Manco The UK vote…
Rubber Barons’ Abuses Live On in Memory and Myth
The Kukama people who live along the lower part of Peru’s Marañón River tell intergenerational myths that recollect the violence and trauma of the rubber era, which peaked in…
Remaking the Museum for the 21st century
Several months ago, Robert Fogarty asked if I wanted to contribute something to a special issue of The Antioch Review called “The Future of Museums.” I did! It’s been…
Links & Contents I Liked 189
Hi all, Welcome to an almost Brexit-free link review that focuses on the mundane absurdities, LOLs, but also thoughtful insights that a week in development communication has to…
Aboot the Canadian "about"
Canadians — like the authors of anthro everywhere! — are pretty used to hearing English-speakers from the US and elsewhere in the world poke fun at our accents,…
Book Forum––Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria by Todd Meyers
Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category Between 1670 and 1820 focuses on the socio-medical category before its better-known (and more heavily studied) late ninet…
On the UK Referendum
by Jane K. Cowan For me, the UK referendum story began a year ago with another referendum: that of Greece. Elected in January 2015 on a promise to end…
#Brexit, Europe and Anthropology: time to say something
Brexit means trouble, that is for certain; what is less certain is what kind of trouble. Some might sympathise with the immediate response of Chris Gregory (ANU): “I…
Racing for what? #Slow
In this post, Ruth Mueller explores how the compulsion for speed in academia plays out in the lives of postdocs. Slow science is interesting for me because I…
The myth of millennials
My latest for Quartz is on the danger of generalizing generations: Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy,…
Web Roundup: Ethical Technology, Moral Medicine by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
Researchers at MIT have launched Moral Machine, a web project to help gauge human perspectives on “moral decisions made by machine intelligence.” The project comes in the wake…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…
Brexit: a View From Scotland
By John Bryden On Thursday 23 June, two of the four constituent nations of the formerly United Kingdom – England, and Wales – voted to leave the EU,…