Affective Hegemonies
I wrote this review essay about the book Posthegemonyby my friend and colleague Jon Beasley-Murray over three years ago, for the book launch we had at UBC. I…
Affective Hegemonies
I wrote this review essay about the book Posthegemonyby my friend and colleague Jon Beasley-Murray over three years ago, for the book launch we had at UBC. I…
Ken MacLeish, “Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community”
Ken MacLeish offers an ethnographic look at daily lives and the true costs borne by soldiers, their families, and communities, in his new book Making War at Fort…
The world war of the intellect
A snippet from my dissertation chapter on the French university strike of 2009. Nicholas Sarkozy was elected President of the Republic on May 6, 2007, and took office…
Culture and utility
Re-reading a chapter in Marshall Sahlins’ Culture and Practical Reason, Le Penseé Bourgoisie today I could have cited multiple chunks of though-provoking writing. Instead, here’s a simple …
Anthropology and the State during Globalization
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
The Real News About Obamacare
If I hadn’t had superior health insurance, I would have died many years ago–a life cut short by a lack of access to health care. It makes me…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
Neuerscheinung: “Erzählte Prekarität”
Dass Ove Sutter, Mitglied des Forschungskollegs, mit einem Doc.Award ausgezeichnet wurde, stand hier im blog. Jetzt ist sein Buch Erzählte Prekarität. Autobiographische Verhandlungen von Arbeit und Le…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…
On racist racelessness in Europe
Consider these two scenes: 1) Recently talking to a graduate of a top-tier British university: I [concerned]: “This summer an Italian Senator referred to the black Minister of…