This very good review by Bruce Williams in Film-Philosophy. of Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2014) Marx at the Movies: Revisiting History, Theory and Practice, London: Palgrave Macmillan.…
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which represents the results of our project.…
Talking with our hands is one of the most human things we do. While commonly used to add emotional emphasis to spoken language, hands have the unique ability…
Prisoners attending a prison concert which is meant to be a positive activity for them. Source: Noisey Inmates take control in many Mexican prisons Quartz reported on the…
I could see Aubrie’s vintage Liz Claiborne scarf from hundreds of feet away, that classic color-blocked patchwork that Claiborne has made so synonymous with her brand. Funny how…
New Facebook reactions, the expansion of “like” options to include “love,” “sad” and “angry” emoticons (among others), is just one way affect has collid…
This session invites contributions that explore themes related to ideas of recalibrated material flows and their socio-political and geographical implications.
The case that follows illustrates an ethnographic flashpoint in my work on disability. Here, I offer an account of a single morning during my first research trip in…
The theme of #pragmatisms comes from my fieldwork with a handful of civil movement organisations in Seoul during the mid-2000s. It was a buzzword in South Korea and…
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
In many West African societies, the crossroads is place of danger. It is where the social and spirit worlds intersect. Among the Songhay people of the Republic of…
You can download fifty years of publications by the Metropolitan Museum of Art for free. Yes, for free. There are books on the art of Islamic Spain, Egypt,…
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…
I can’t remember the last movie I watched in an actual movie theater. Some of that is because I find the dramatic TV serial so much more powerful…
We recently received the following announcement of an upcoming conference at New York University that may be of interest to our readers. The Manuscript Cookbook Conference, will be…
“the “inclusion” of animals is not necessarily the most interesting issue, but rather how they are included [Candea 243]. If following a classic or “Durkheimian” model, where social…
Irregular immigration has produced political heat across the world. Dramatic photos of migrants crammed into wretched boats circulate in the media, while journalistic accounts tell stories of poor…
Rethinking political agency in the Middle East: engaging political anthropology – International Workshop This workshop intends to bring ethnographic research in the Middle East into conversati…
Yesterday I tweeted about Trump’s relationship with the mass media. The tweets got a lot of attention, so I’m archiving them here. Trump captivates those sick of condescending,…
Manpreet K. Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods. London: Routledge, 2010. 185 pages, ISBN 978-415553742. Reviewed by Meraz Rahman New Mexico State Universi…
There is something very strange about this US presidential election. There is an air of stress, with bursts of odd comic relief, sliding uncontrollably from the grimly serious…
Several new titles on the Anthropocene worth checking out (plus the one I mentioned earlier this week). Here they are: The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the…