The Cult’s Eye View: On ‘The Professor Is In’
My latest for the Chronicle is on “The Professor Is In”, a career counseling service that paradoxically highlights the worst elements of academia while encouraging people to join…
An Addendum by Patricia Sunderland: Witnessing and Speaking Charleston
On the evening of June 17th, the murder of nine African Americans took place at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. My Rachel Dolezal post was…
everydayhybridity: For those of you interested in digital…
everydayhybridity: For those of you interested in digital sociology/Anthropology Routledge is offering free online access to a host of journal articles relevant. These are organised into categories p…
Mitch Henriquez: Death by cop in the epicenter of global justice – and the virtues of (hashtag) activism
The Editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Paul Mutsaers with the latest entry in our ongoing Forum, #Ferguson and Elsewhere He had come to the Netherlands…
Rezension zu ‚Scrambling for Africa‘ von Johanna T. Crane
Rezension zu: Johanna Taylor Crane 2013 Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press Johanna Crane beschreibt…
Tim Ingold on the “correspondence of lives”
Professor Tim Ingold from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, gave a lecture at the University of Konstanz, Germany on June 17, 2015. Ingold was invited to give a…
Why does everything look the same?
Wooden floors. Open concept. Giant kitchen islands. Marble countertops. Large windows. High ceilings. Walk-in closets. Space for entertaining. Stainless steel appliances. These are some of the… — …
CFP for a Special Issue: Thinking through police, producing theory: the new anthropology of police as mode of critical thought
Abstracts are currently being solicited for a special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology on the theme “the new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought”…
Visual Turn II: Teaching to Take Stock
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Earlier this year I was reading the Internet and came across Duke University Press’…
How to make a “vulnerable population” by Laura Stark
“They used my ass and took advantage of me.” This was the story of Eddie Flowers, a former drug addict used in LSD experiments during the 1950s. Leaning…
Poignant Pasts and Uncertain Futures in the Greek Crisis: Ethnographic Snippets from ATM Queues
July 2nd 2015, it is 4.30pm and the temperature is touching 40’c. I am standing in a queue of some twenty-five people outside Ethniki Bank in central Trikala,…
Uzbeks: “We are not afraid”
My latest for Foreign Policy is on a group of Uzbeks who are using social media to fight back against a ruthless regime: “Today the main disease of…
The Lost Space of Dissent: Amidst Charleston’s Unity
The Editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Bradley Dunseith with a report from Charleston, South Carolina Knights of Columbus hall in Charleston, South Carolina. June 2015. Photo by Bradley Dunseith…
Clive Hamilton on “The Banality of Ethics in the Anthropocene”
Over the last two days, Clive Hamilton published a pair of essays that argue ethics in the Anthropocene are moot. The first essay largely lays out the problems…
Notes on the first digital ethnography reading session
by Allister Hill PhD candidate Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Last week, on 9 July 2015, the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) ran its first…
Links & Contents I Liked 150 (!!)
Hi all, Right in the middle of some kind of summer break, aidnography celebrates another link-related benchmark-welcome to link review #150!What I wrote in late 2013 to acknowledge…
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
Philipp Erath – Kirgistan
Кыргызстанда баарымүмкүн– In Kirgistan ist alles möglich … war einer der ersten Hinweise, den ich von meinem kirgisischen Gastbruder während unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit im CBT-Büro bekommen habe. …
A state of trance: Inner peace rising from chaos
The experience of getting inside Sound Academy for Armin van Buuren was the low point of the night. After an evening of rain and dancing at the electronic…