What I learned from curating thousands of #globaldev articles
My first ever link review in November 2011 featured 3 international development links on study advice for MA programs, sanitation & hygiene and facilitating social change. When my…
Arguing with Justice: Brexit and Biomedicine by Rosalind Williams
The aftermath of the UK’s recent referendum on European Union (EU) membership, which culminated in a decision for Britain to leave the EU, reminds us of Britain’s bleak…
Goodbye summer, hello autumn #EVENTS
What do you know: the summer is finally over – even in parts of the world where we would insistently like to think otherwise – and the fall…
Posters as Multimedia Powerhouses
Poster presented at the Society for Visual Anthropology’s 2014 Visual Research Conference. Photo courtesy Jonathan Marion. Posters are visual presentations. They display some combination of text…
North Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spark Historic Declaration
Native Americans from many different tribes have unified behind the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest in North Dakota against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The controversial…
Conjuring Property: An Interview with Jeremy Campbell
Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon By Jeremy Campbell 2015. 256 pp. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. § Theresa Miller (Postdoctoral Fellow, S…
How to save luxury brands (and American capitalism)
Elizabeth Segran has a nice essay in Fast Company: The Decline Of Premium American Fashion Brands. What Happened, Ralph And Tommy? As a teen, Segran admired ads by Ralph…
The deviant girl and feel-good feminism: Channeling Margaret Mead in Bangalore
In my field site of Bangalore, south India, I found support among young female professionals for feel-good feminism—that is, messages of female empowerment in pop culture that do…
Modern Waste and Industrial Ruins in the Anthropocene
Regarding Giant Mine, the Canadian government’s plan for containment involves freezing the arsenic underground in perpetuity. Beyond the technical challenges, the question of how to communicate risk a…
Articulating the Anthropological Toolkit to Non-Anthropologists
As a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology, I am currently teaching Communications to Engineering and Technology students. I am surprised almost everyday at the various ways I use my…
Unboxing the Buried Seeds of My Belonging
Latina/o History, Decolonized Pedagogies and the Politics of Inclusion “We, students, deeply internalized the limited exposure and hidden space allotted to vitally important alternative histories on c…
Colombia between hope and fear
by Lieke Prins When I initially left my house in Amsterdam to live in Colombia for three months I had planned to go to Chocó and study Afro-Colombian small-scale…
Kenneth Schaffner, “Behaving: What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
In the genes vs. environment debate, it is widely accepted that what we do, who we are, and what mental illnesses we are at risk for result from…
Mikroaggresjoner, kjerringer og sensitive kjipinger
Av Sigrid Øvereng Vi kjenner til følelsen, men begrepet er mindre kjent. Det er den lille følelsen som sier “Det … More
Is writing composition or improvisation?
In my corner of the academy, one isn’t really taught much about writing. One is taught constantly to produce texts and to judge texts, but that isn’t the same thing, because writing is…
Khanty activists Agrafena Sopochina travelled to Lapland
Together with with my friend and colleague Agrafena Semjonovna Sopochina and her daughter Marija Launonen travelled recently through northern Finland and Norway, to Tallinn and to St. Petersburg…
Tensions in Post-Coup-Attempt Turkey
Kurdish participants in politics face concerted challenges, some of their own making. In the days after the failed coup against the Turkish government on July 15, 2016, top…
Special Issue! Nonsecular Medical Anthropology by Anna Zogas
Ian Whitmarsh and Elizabeth F. S. Roberts have edited a Special Issue of Medical Anthropology called “Nonsecular Medical Anthropology.” Here is an excerpt from their introduction to the i…
Gustolab Spring 2017 Opportunity
We recently received this notice from Salem Paulos, of Gustolab, of an opportunity that may be of interest to our readers: We are still accepting applications for the…