Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips
In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic in…
Can a Robot Guess What You’re Thinking?
What on earth are you thinking? Other people think they know, and many could make a pretty decent guess, simply from observing your behavior for a short while.…
Chicaneries of Power and Subterfuge:
On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Union Government of India unilaterally revoked the special status accorded to India’s only Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir…
Kathleen Klaus, “Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Kathleen Klaus, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco has written a terrific book, Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making published in 202……
Leah Zani, “Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos” (Duke UP, 2019)
In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life in the Former…
Bollywood and the Banality of Militarization
On August 5, 2019, the Parliament of India unilaterally rescinded Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granting relative autonomy to the state…
El fin de los fines
La foto es de Sharad Haskar Reseña de ¿Por qué vivimos? Por una antropología de los fines, de Marc Augé, Traducción de Marta Pino, Gedisa. Barcelona, 2004. Este artículo apareció…
Octubre con sabor a mandarina y olor a flor de muerto
En la comunidad campesina de Zaragoza, Naranjos (México), la vida sigue marcada por las festividades. Apenas empieza el año, la vida de las personas en la comunidad van…
Education Philosophy and Theory Vol 52, Issue 11
Volume 52, 2020 Innovating Institutions: Instituting Innovation – section editor John Hutnyk Introduction An intuition of innovative new institutions Le Thi Mai & John Hutnyk Pages: 1120-112…
Summer Break!
Standplaats Wereld is going on summer break. We appreciate all the contributions to our blog this year and would like to wish everyone a great summer! Below a…
A Room with a View: Observations from Two Pandemics by Linda M. Whiteford
From my balcony, I see Tampa Bay’s calm water, the Dali Museum’s distinctive architecture, the Mahaffey Theater’s empty parking lot, the balconies and porches of St, Petersburg, Florida,…
Sanitary cordons in COVID-19: experience and the object of epidemiological interventions by Alejandro Cerón
What is the object of epidemiological interventions during an epidemic? Is it the virus, the disease, the fear, the chaos, or the threat to security? And what is the objective…
What I’m Reading – Aug 2020
This article is cross-posted from the ZS intranet (which we call ZSpace), where I write episodically about issues of interest to the LGBTQ+ community and our allies. It’s…
Panel: Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts & Methodological Approaches
Panel “Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts & Methodological Approaches” @ Vienna Anthropology Days 2020 (VANDA2020, Sept. 28 – Oct. 1), convened by Philipp Budk…
Greg Beckett, “There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince” (U California Press, 2019)
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is No More Haiti: Between Life…
Arte y Neocolonialismo
Estimad@s lector@s, Quisiera haceros partícipes de una experiencia etnográfica que refleja la alargada sombra del colonialismo europeo en África, donde en la actualidad, aún se siguen produciendo sit…
Twitter shaming won’t change university power structures
“Another one bites the dust,” a colleague quipped. They were responding to news that Michael Korenberg, chair of the University of British Columbia (UBC) board of governors, had…
Place-naming in the Takelma Homelands
This essay came about due to the present project to rename Dead Indian Memorial Road to something less overtly racist in the eyes of native peoples. There have…
Tribus de leyenda
La foto es de Miguel Trillo para El País Reseña del libro de Carles Feixa, De jóvenes, bandas y tribus. Antropología de la juventud, Ariel. Barcelona, 1998, 287 páginas, publicado en…
The Poetics of Internet Memes
By Kai Blevins I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference…
Irfan Ahmad on Liberalism & Islamophobia & Domophilia
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his…
Lieke van der Veer: Group-making and distrust within the infrastructure of refugee support
In the Netherlands from 2015 onwards, the ‘spectacle’ (Casas-Cortes et al. 2015) of people arriving into Europe seeking refuge was channeled by vast media attention and political debate.…
Why Anthropology? How four new PhDs found anthropology
We – Eero, Hanna, Jenni and Maija – are the newest recruits to anthropology, all starting our PhDs in the department in January 2020. It’s been an unusual…
Guilherme Fians takes the Page 99 test
On page 99 of my dissertation, the reader finds themself in the middle of an ethnographic description of a heated political debate held during the 101st Universal Congress…