Mwenda Ntarangwi on his book, The Street is My Pulpit
Christine Chalifoux: By focusing your ethnographic attention on the hip hop artist Juliani, you were able to weave together so many important facets of life in Kenya: socioeconomic…
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Jacqueline Hazan takes the page 99 test
The 99th page of my dissertation, “Mediating Micronesian Futures: Potentialities and Precarity in Cultural Production Among Mobile Pacific Islanders,” marks a transition in a chapter introducing how …
Ela Drążkiewicz: Blinded by the Light: International Precariat in Academia
I was reluctant to contribute to this blog series. The recently published EASA report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) draws attention to precarious labour in anthropology. However, in…
Susana Narotzky: A History of Precariousness in Spain
The EASA report on The Anthropological Career in Europe (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) is an important initiative that offers quantitative evidence about a situation which all of…
Natalia Buier: What sample, whose voice, which Europe?
The EASA membership survey and the associated ‘precarity’ report (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020) are an important and timely contribution. Surely these are findings we must build on…
Don Kalb: Anthropological Lives Matter, Except They Don’t
The PrecAnthro Collective within EASA has shown staying power and bite. That is what the EASA precarity survey demonstrates (Fotta, Ivancheva and Pernes 2020). Mariya Ivancheva has turned…
Web Roundup: Annals of Injury and Dispossession by Talia Gordon
In a 2013 essay in American Anthropologist, Andrea Muehlebach summarized the concept of “precarity” as “a shorthand for…the multiple forms of nightmarish dispossession and injury that our age…
Speculative Health by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
The last thirty years have seen an intensification in ways of thinking about our health and disease in the future tense. Risk, precarity, subjunctivity — all three point…
Towards a Transnational Anthropology Union #UniversityCrisis
At the last European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) meeting, a few of us called an open meeting for early career and precarious anthropologists to discuss precarity in…
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Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…
Links & Contents I Liked 208
Hi all, We enjoyed a great teaching seminar with our students in Paris! Now back to work and Friday blogging… Development news: India’s farm suicide widows; Nepal’s slow recovery;…
Fetishized and degraded academic labor
The precarity of academic workers, far from being a merely local or institutional problem in academia, indicates the foundational contradiction of universities’ missions in neoliberalizing times…