Who is Going to Fix the Road to Europe?
Road M15 near Reni, Ukraine in October, 2013. Photo courtesy Simon Schlegel When protests erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013, I was conducting fieldwork in southern Bessarabia,…
Neely Laurenzo Myers’ Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Ellen Rubinstein
Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency by Neely Laurenzo Myers Vanderbilt University Press, 2015, 192 pages “RECOVERY! GET IT, GET OVER IT, OR…
Hvorfor ikke gå etter petroholikerne Jonas, Erna og Siv?
Publisert i Morgenbladet nr 9. Utfordringen, når det gjelder klimaendringene, er at vi må få til en veldig rask forandring bort fra fossil energiproduksjon. Fra mine studier av…
Lived Theories: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and #Pragmatism
One way of characterizing Amy Levine’s rich ethnographic inquiry into pragmatism is to posit South Korean Civil Movement Organisations as a satisfyingly thorough answer to the question: “how…
Reading as caching
When you spend a few years writing code, the principles of programming can start to spill over into other parts of your life. Programming has so many of…
Inclusive recycling Workshop (April 2016, Amsterdam)
What policies and technologies make waste systems friendly or unfriendly towards informal recycling? Join us on the 22nd of April at the Design & The City Conference in…
Lemon Difficult: Building a Strategic Speculation Consultancy
Joseph Lindley works with design fiction in order to facilitate meaningful speculation about the future. In between he likes to make music, take photographs and combine the other two…
An interview with Noemi Charlotte Thieves
I had a chance to interview Noemi Charlotte Thieves on January 10. We were at a going-away party in Brooklyn and fell into conversation. The conversation was SO INTERESTING…
Poetry in the Anthropocene
By Autumn Sharp, University of Kent § I’ll only ask questions I don’t want to know the answers to “Jupiter’s gravity slings long-period comets out of harm’s way, while…
Post Doc ad, Rovaniemi, Arctic Indigenous Anthropology?
Dear friends, The unversty of Lapland advertises a 2 year postdoc in Arctic Indigenous studies. It would be great to get as many as possible good applications from…
Meat Culture
You might have heard: The Obama administration released its new Dietary Guidelines for Americans in January to an outcry. While the new rules tell us to limit our…
Antropologisch portret van de Egyptische Revolutie
Filmposter ‘Ik ben het volk’ Door Ellen van de Bovenkamp Egypte 2011: net als documentairemaakster Anna Roussillon terug is in Frankrijk breekt de revolutie uit. Ze baalt verschrikkelijk…
#Pragmatism & the Magic Book for Nuclear Power
This is a brightly colored South Korean pro-nuclear children’s book adorned with friendly animals dancing around a light bulb in front of a nuclear power plant. The title…
CFP: Ethics and Transboundary Waste Movements (3/20/16)
This session invites papers exploring ethical considerations of transboundary waste movement.
An Anthropologist among Future Seekers
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Deepa S. Reddy] For a few years now, I’ve been working in the space of future imagining—seeking out trends and rationales by which…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now: March 2 Edition
Hello FoodAnthropology readers, we have a short round-up this week, featuring a lively internet debate about the nature of American millenials. As always, please send any links you’d…
CFP: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance
Call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance, Rome, 14 October 2016 Sponsored by…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
The Anthropology of Trump: Myth, Illusion and Celebrity Culture
Mr. Trump is convincingly entertaining. He is not yet the president, but is trying to play one on television. Although he seems ignorant of the social, political and…
Deirdre de la Cruz, “Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
There is no female religious figure so widely known and revered as the Virgin Mary. Filipino Catholics are especially drawn to Mama Mary and have a strong belief…