Cultural appropriation has been almost a buzzword lately, giving us anthropologists a lot of popular culture fodder on the topic — and perhaps more importantly, spurring critical discussion…
Together with Peter Brown and Chris Orr (both at McGill), I’ve co-authored a new article now available at The Anthropocene Review in advance of print. If you’d like…
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I do not think that political agency is no longer relevant to understanding…
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the Anthropologies #22 series. The second installment of the anthropologies issue on food comes from Zofia Boni, a food anthropologist.…
One month ago I happened to drop by Basement6 right on time for the opening of a solo exhibition by Shangainese artist 许聪 Xu Cong called Technological Spectacle…
Hi everyone, hope the first week of August is not beating down on you too hard! Here are your readings for the week. As the 2016 Summer Olympic…
The Community Literacy Journal has just announced the publication of a special issue on “Community Food Literacies.” This journal is available electronically, through Project Muse, but if …
This web-roundup looks at the problem of polarization. Several events during the past month have brought the issue to the forefront. As a result, the web was filled…
Via The Institute of Making Zoe Laughlin of UCL’s Institute of Making has a new podcast, Things That Make Us. Following the model of Desert Island Discs, each week, Laughlin interviews…
Time will tell. Several days ago I went ocean fishing with a friend and colleague. We looked forward to a glorious day out
Time will tell. Several days ago I went ocean fishing with a friend and colleague. We looked forward to a glorious day out
Protestors in Brazilian favelas—poor neighborhoods in urban areas—have been caught between the police and gangs. Marcos De Paula/Associated Press On the night of June 24, 2013, the street…
Hi all, Development news: Arms industry does well on refugee and terrorism threats; The hopelessness of Australian refugees in Nauru; hungry children in Northern Nigeria; the future of…
Olympic Games have become the largest international diplomatic and corporate gatherings, write Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier. In May 2015, American and Swiss authorities swooped into the annual…
One of the overarching aims of my blog is to engage critically and academically with new, different and alternative approaches to writing and communicating ‘development’. I believe that…
The account that follows depicts a visit with my neurologist. The visit was one of many within a five-month period of navigating various medical spaces to get to…
1. To which extent does the notion of political agency is helpful to understand political change? To some extent, the notion of political agency has been used in…
De Schutter, Olivier. and Cordes, Kaitlin Y. 2011. Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in an Era of Globalisation. London/New York: Hart Publishing (288 pp). Timmer, C.…
In the wake of several brutal and unwarranted police shootings of black men and women, and the subsequent retaliation against innocent police officers, politicians across the country have…