Environmental historians get wasted: ASEH conference report
What’s my take on this torrent of waste at ASEH? I think it really signals a maturation of a second generation of waste scholarship in environmental history that…
A former ‘frustrated senior aid official’ talks-and the Daily Mail is happy to spin a story of waste and lying bureaucrats
As part of my engagement with popular and public (re)presentation of development issues, I have commented throughout the years on how mainstream media, e.g. CNN, NYT, BBC, the…
Visaliberalisierung für die Türkei – Ein neuer Zuwanderungskanal?
Im Rahmen des umstrittenen EU-Flüchtlingsabkommens vom 18. März 2016 sagte die EU der Türkei unter anderem die dort schon lange angestrebte Aufhebung des Visumzwangs zu. Skeptiker warnen nun,…
Moments when ‘things happen’: BOREDOM – REDUX!
To set this week in motion we revisit a theme that we seem unable to escape: boredom. Whether at academic conferences or the elaborate corridors of international…
SAFN Membership Drive
We’re having a membership drive! SAFN members, please tell friends and colleagues about our section and ask them to join. A lot of people do research on…
Kurzurlaub in China: Zum Ausflug auf die Autobahn
Essen, Tee und ein Schachspiel: Das bereitet man oft für den Tag der Arbeit vor. Allerdings nicht für ein Picknick im Grünen, sondern um für einen Autobahnstau gerüstet…
Archives Matter Conference features cultural anthropologist Gloria Wekker
Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters When: June 2 and 3, 2016 Who: Centre for Feminist Research Where: Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London…
DC event at Georgetown University
The Georgetown Americas Initiative & Institute for the Study of International Migration present: Susan Terrio, Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Author of: Whose Child Am I? Unacco…
Anthro in the news 4/18/16
Global mental health and economics Source: Flickr USA Today carried an article about a report from the World Health Organization claiming that every U.S. dollar invested in mental health…
Cheap Chinese Goods
In a new project, I trace the fortunes of three interrelated communities across four northern Andean cities. Indigenous Otavaleño traders, mestizo apparel producers in the manufacturing cluster of…
Thomas Grisaffi: After the Referendum: Evo Morales and the Movement Towards Socialism
This post is part of a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). In February 2016 Bolivian President…
Links & Contents I Liked 179
Hi all,After a busy week of teaching, blogging and ranting about #allmalepanels let’s enjoy the new week with fresh food for thought! Development news features a great think-piece…
Three Millimeters by Christine Labuski
The first time I encountered Judy I was with Dr. Erlich, gathering fact sheets about vulvar pain conditions. Dr. Robichaud, the other physician at the Vulvar Health Clinic…
“I was nowhere”
By Marie Linne Dalal contaced me during my fieldwork among refugees who aspire to study in the Netherlands. She agreed to meet with me for an interview, to…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 2: SQUIRREL!
This is the second of a series of posts I am writing on the topic of the AAA boycott vote. You can read the previous post here. Last…
Ethnography and the work of the ancestors
Ancestral protection During fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, the Xhosa residents of the townships would sometimes talk about their ancestors. They told me their ancestors offered protection…
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,…