New Allegra week: #Boredom, Laughter – and a few farts!
And what do you know – it is AGAIN time for a new Allegra week! Where does the time go, despite of our determination to chew our intellectual…
Structural Vulnerabilities and Global Migrant Crises: What Can Activist Scholars Do?
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Nolan Kline Plakat Refugees Welcome G7 Gipfel Gegendemo am 06.06.2015 in Garmisch-Patenkirchen Elmau | Metropolico.org CC BY-SA 2.0 At recent Donald Trump…
Philadelphia Street Style: Gibbs, Walnut St
Nearly everything Gibbs is wearing in this shot has either been personalized in some significant way or has a personal story attached to it. As an anthropologist, that’s…
The Wall: A Monument to the Nation-State
Reaction against globalization often takes a visceral nationalist turn in many parts of the globe, no less in the US where the impacts of globalization are increasingly registered…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
Am I alone, or is there an exponentially expanding audience of people who have grown tired of our fight club presidential politics? In this 2016 political season, which…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Anthropology and the Banality of Presidential Politics
If a person’s words and attitudes are consistent with her or his behavior, we find that person trustworthy. If there is incongruity between a person’s words and behavior,…
Lockjaw from Telephone Publishing. Book launch.
Dreamflesh was a loose group of writers, graphic artists and musicians who would have rejected the term “collective” in favour of something more like, say, “gang”. They produced…
If I was going to be interviewed about blogging by The Geek Anthropologist: 15 questions
(… this is very informal…) Why do I blog? When you work outside academia and you’re not actively researching you still want to write, you still want…
#allmalepanels in international development are about more than just the absence of women
At least my tweet on the recent high-level World Bank Global Infrastructure Forum 2016 made it into the top 5 tweets for the hashtag #investininfra: Nothing says “inclusive…
On the margins of politics
I am going slightly out of depths with this post, traversing into the territory of yet-to-be-formed thoughts, which could either be speculations or reflections; responses, or idiosyncratic musings.…
On Drones
Al-Jazeera has recently published an article on an American serviceman who helped design the drone program in Afghanistan. The article is online here. I published my critique of…
Lezing Meld Islamofobie – Islamkritiek, moslimhaat en racisme
Op 21 maart jongstleden presenteerde Meld Islamofobie haar eerste jaarrapport. Onderstaand stuk is de tekst van mijn korte lezing die avond over het begrip islamofobie. Laat me om…
Ethnologen im Beruf mal anders
Für das Magazin SHIFT habe ich einen jungen Mann porträtiert. Er heißt Peter Wolf und arbeitet als Hebamme in Berlin. Warum ich von ihm hin und weg war,…
The Construction of Anthropological Knowledge and the Construction of Research
To mark the publication of the newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture series, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood, the…
Coffee To Go
For the last couple of months, my husband Jerry and I have been traveling across Southeast Asia with a coffee maker. It’s a little lightweight Black & Decker…
How to Design a Great Poster
Think Visually First Posters are the perfect invitation to a conversation about your research. Since posters are inherently visual, the key to a strong poster is simplicity—their immediate…