Globalization from below: The world’s other economy (New Preface)
1. The great transformation 2. Globalization from above 3. Globalization from below (and above) 4. The informal economy has taken over the world 5. The digital revolution and…
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
Barack Obama and the Slow Burn of Disappointment
The wrongheaded Obama college-ranking system, I’m afraid, is yet another example of how the gulf between rhetoric and behavior develops widespread disappointment and disillusion.
A House to Make a Home? w/ Guest Mengqi Wang – This Anthro Life
“A House to Make a Home?” Season 3, Episode 27 Aired 5/27/14 We are joined by guest expert Mengqi Wang to delve into the fascinating world of housing,…
Chinese premier says China will establish environmental institute in Kenya
Among the pledges made by Chinese premier Li Keqiang at the African Union meeting in Addis Abeba on 5 May, increasing the credit line to African countries to…
Broaching neoliberalism via old civilizational traditions?
Do old civilizational traditions still play a role in economic life today? In a new project, Overheating researcher Chris Hann wants to show that so-called civilizational anal…
INTER-REFLEXIONS-2014
Reflexion– expression without words; a remark expressing careful consideration; a calm, lengthy, intent consideration. Inter– Between, among; mutually; reciprocally Marlowe L…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
The moral economies of material things
The concept of moral economy is a natural fit to analyses of material culture. In this working paper, I show how the concept has applications to all three research projects…
Reflections and Reports on Open Access Published in the New Issue of Cultural Anthropology (@culanth)
The new, May 2014 issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now. It is the second issue of the journal to be made freely available online, which means anyone…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
What Pregnant Women Google Worldwide
I encountered a post on the New York Times of a Google word analysis of things people search about pregnancy in different parts of the world. I found…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan”
[Cross-posted from New Books in East Asian Studies] “[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man…
Anne Allison, “Precarious Japan” (Duke University Press, 2013)
“[All] I want to eat is a rice ball.” This was the last entry in the diary of a 52-year-old man who starved to death in an apartment…