Mobiles and protest: four areas in need of further theorisation
Extract from Monterde, A. and J. Postill 2014. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.)…
Wahrheitsliebe im Bewerbungsverfahren: Wie genau nehmen Sie’s mit der Ehrlichkeit?
Von Dr. Katrin Roppel Ehrlichkeit. Ein Wert, der vielen Menschen wichtig ist. Die Wertekommission ermittelte im Jahr 2013, dass Glaubwürdigkeit, Zuverlässigkeit und Ehrlichkeit für Führungskräfte uner…
Von der Atlantikküste Nicaraguas – drei Geschichten fernab der Revolution
Nicaragua – das kleine Land in Zentralamerika, war in Deutschland in den 1980er Jahren jedem ein Begriff, in Ost und West. 1979 erlebte das Land eine Revolution, angeführt…
Writing, writing, writing
Writing looms large in my life now. I’m getting better at it than I was. I like short form [140 characters] but adore longer form, like blogs. And…
Second session of digital ethnography reading group
by Will Balmford Research assistant Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) School of Media and Communication RMIT University Melbourne, Australia After a successful first session of the Digital Et…
Job opportunity: Can you help the world discover our findings?
Can you help us build our dissemination materials? (photo by MF) As part of our project’s ambitious dissemination plans we are currently seeking to recruit a content manager to assist…
REDUX: #Review: Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World #postsocialism
Patterns of food provision and consumption have become objects of increasing concern among both scholars and activists. In the last few decades, the ways in which food is…
Web Roundup: Empathy in the news by Jane Roberts
The capacity of individuals to imagine another’s perspective or personal agenda, and our own ability to feel anger, despondency or frustration in response to their pain and distress,…
Purikura: a ‘kawaii’ phenomenon in Tokyo
by Sophie Vilé On the 26th of June, I handed in my Master’s thesis at the department Social and Cultural Anthropology. I have written my thesis about socalled…
We’ve Modified Our Behavior So We Can Text and Walk
We may be driving technology to respond to our needs in various areas, but this is one instance where we’ve definitely demonstrated that we’re also adapting to…
VISUAL TURN IV: People and Stuff– A Conversation with Keith M. Murphy (2/2)
In a previous post, I described the process of an ‘Ethnocharrette’ – essentially a strategy that incorporates aspects of design methodology into anthropological practice. As part of a…
Can you win a war on Facebook? By Simon Turner
Recently, I have been trying to keep up with the situation in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi in light of the protests and the violence. And while…
Un/Inhabitable Worlds: The Curious Case of Down’s Syndrome by Gareth Thomas
In her superb exposition of staring, Garland-Thomson (2009) draws attention to Chris Rush’s artistic piece Swim 2 which depicts a woman with Down’s syndrome in a regal pose…
Hactivists aren’t terrorists – but US prosecutors make little distinction
[written with Luca Follis, Lancaster University] Activists who use technology to conduct political dissent – hacktivists – are increasingly threatened with investigation, prosecution and often disprop…
Searching for (post-)Soviet taste #postsocialism
This project was inspired by a curiosity in whether people from the former Soviet states, more than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, share similar…
How Do We Normalize Pregnancy?
Is our cultural antipathy toward pregnancy and children creating a health hazard? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Ethiopian Art and Sunken Military Craft: Updates from the AAA Interns
Update from Katelyn at the National Museum of African Art This week once again was full of wonderful experiences. Dr. Chris Kreamer and I went through the remaining…
“Waiting” in the Neoliberal University: The Salaita Case and the Wages of an Academic Boycott
This essay by anthropologists Martin Manalansan and Ellen Moodie at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides an updated account of the fall-out from their institution’s un-hiring of Steven…
REDUX: Border Work by Madeleine Reeves #postsocialism
In contemporary political anthropology, ‘the state’ is a curious as if object (Navaro-Yashin 2002). It has come to dominate the sub-discipline since the 1990s. Students of the state…
Case against campesinos connected with coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 takes surprising turn
An important point of the aftermath of the parliamentary coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 was reached today — although with a rather surprising turn of events. The…
Case against campesinos connected with coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 takes surprising turn
An important point of the aftermath of the parliamentary coup d’etat in Paraguay in 2012 was reached today — although with a rather surprising turn of events. The…
Summer Writing: Units of Time
In the 2002 rom-com About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a well to do bachelor who lives off the royalties of a song his deceased father produced. With no…