Beyond Zero-Sum Logics on Israel/Palestine
The upcoming vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academia is unprecedented in our field’s history, and is being followed throughout the social sciences and humanities as a…
Judith Beyer & Felix Girke: Naypyitaw: Rescaling materiality, capitalizing space
Since 2012, we have carried out twelve months of urban anthropological research in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city and its economic and cultural center. Until February 2016, however, we…
CFP: Police Un/Bound: new ethnographies of policing at #AAA2016
Organizers: Victor Kumar (Johns Hopkins U) and Amrita Ibrahim (Georgetown U) At a time when many aspects of law enforcement are coming under increased scrutiny, anthropologists have a renewed…
Trump’s Tactics and Republican Speechlessness
The most astounding thing about the rise of Donald Trump is not his willingness to use racist hatred as a central theme in his presidential campaign—it’s the unwillingness…
Waarheid leidt niet automatisch tot gerechtigheid
People carry a picture of late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in San Salvador. Romero was assasinated after denouncing violations of human rights in El Salvador. REUTERS/Jessica Orellana Door…
The Boundary That Holds Its Own Narrative by Clare Twomey
We built a sculpture to physically and visually discuss boundary and immunity. As a conscious act of investigation for two days we instigated a physical boundary. The sculpture…
CFP: Living and Dying with “Waste Infrastructure”: Affect and Practicalities (AAA)
This panel takes seriously the way of living or dying near the waste infrastructure, showing explicitly ethnographic inquiries of despair, anxiety, hope, and sense of purity, safety, and…
Chinesische Hochzeiten: Zwischen Tradition und Parteivorschriften
Dem Brautpaar Geldgeschenke zu überreichen, ist in China Brauch. Geht es aber nach der Kommunistischen Partei soll sich das ändern. Ein Eingriff ins Privatleben, der bei Chinas Netzbürgern…
Did the Belgian Authorities Purposely Trigger the Brussels Attacks?
Among the dense clouds of speculation from mainstream journalists and the many supposed national security experts whose expertise lies in repeating nothing (“I have been briefed, but I…
Philosophical lab infrastructure
The short version of this post: Philosophers have practically no lab infrastructure. The long version: Coming back to my research about philosophy departments in France, I was recently reading an…
Tuberculosis and ethics
It’s World TB day and a few initiatives are underway! But, before you read on, you can update your profile page on facebook, twitter, etc. using this beautiful floral emblem…
Diamond Mine Threatens Stone Age Artifacts
Researchers are panicking as a Stone Age archaeological site in South Africa called Canteen Kopje is facing demolition by diamond mining. Miners have already started to clear the…
A Business for the Future? Redefining Value, Quinoa and the Quest of Pachakuti Foods w/ Alexander Wankel
We’re back in Peru! Join Adam and special guest Alexander Wankel of Pachakuti Foods for a conversation about the future of food production, agrobiodiversity, sustainability, and keeping traditio…
Exploring the big issues of our time: Meet four master’s students doing fieldwork on four continents
The country that host some of the largest numbers of refugees. A natural wonder under threat. A government building in Norway’s capital. And a retreat in the rainforest…
Exploring the big issues of our time: Meet four master’s students doing fieldwork on four continents
The country that host some of the largest numbers of refugees. A natural wonder under threat. A government building in Norway’s capital. And a retreat in the rainforest…
Exploring the big issues of our time: Meet four master’s students doing fieldwork on four continents
The country that host some of the largest numbers of refugees. A natural wonder under threat. A government building in Norway’s capital. And a retreat in the rainforest…
Exploring the big issues of our time: Meet four master’s students doing fieldwork on four continents
The country that host some of the largest numbers of refugees. A natural wonder under threat. A government building in Norway’s capital. And a retreat in the rainforest…
Exploring the big issues of our time: Meet four master’s students doing fieldwork on four continents
The country that host some of the largest numbers of refugees. A natural wonder under threat. A government building in Norway’s capital. And a retreat in the rainforest…
Donna Haraway’s new book: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene
Donna Haraway’s new book is out in September with Duke University Press: Description In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers prov…
OTG 2: The Movement for Black Lives Conference
Photo Courtesy Daniel Suave The Movement for Black Lives conference took place in Cleveland, OH on July 25–26 on the campus of Cleveland State U. In all, approximately…
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now: March 23rd Edition
March 23rd, 2016: From the podcast The Sporkful, an episode titled “Other People’s Food,” which discusses the pros and cons of culinary appropriation in an interview with celebrity…
Seeing Revolutionary Info-structure
[extract from keynote at the Mobile Life Centre, University of Stockholm, March 17, 2016] Its the summer of 2015 and I am on a former Naval Air Force…