“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Anthropology and Environment Society Panels and Events at AAA 2016 INVITED SESSIONS Friday, November 18, 2016 10:15 – 12:00 pm UNCOMMON TERRITORIES OF THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ (Oral session…
Koncert med Simon Kvamm, der for godt et år siden flyttede vest på: fra Vesterbro til klitmøller. Sange og snakke om det enklere liv. Og om at nyde…
In New York queer youth ask how art can combat violence. To exist is to resist. We have heard this phrase uttered by activists representing marginalized communities, from…
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
Im September 2016 kam der chinesische Film „Red Amnesia“ 闖入者 in die deutschen Kinos. Kurz nach der Aufführung hat SAC mit dem Filmmacher Wang Xiaoshuai王小帅 über seine Werke, sowie den…
Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
Hi all, Don’t leave the office or desk without clicking through your favorite development content summary 🙂 Development news: Chemonics discriminated against 124 African-American applicants; Bono-man,…
When Confederate immigrants began growing crops in the Brazilian Amazon, they found fertile soils that offered a window into pre-contact Amerindian peoples and their way of life. Nicholas…
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by…
November 4, 2016 Dear Members, I write with great excitement to announce the launch of the Palestine-Israeli Fellowship Fund for Travel (PIFFT), a project that emerged as one…
Door Freek Colombijn Europeanen staan vaak snel klaar om de Amerikanen te bekritiseren om hun milieuonvriendelijke gedrag. We hebben maar ten dele recht van spreken, want veel beter…
Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky, Anthropologist, Heidelberg University Recently I visited the exhibition You can’t please them all – a retrospective of modern Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) at…
Gerade relativ aktuell hat Ilja Trojanow in einem Gastbeitrag der FAZ Sufismus als den “größten Feind des islamischen Extremismus” skizziert (19. August 2016) als Antwort auf Stefan Weidner…
Nature Culture Now!, an upper division anthropology lecture course at the University of Michigan, traces the trajectory of nature/culture debates in American anthropology through modules on race, sex,…
The most common pattern for bonded labour in Pakistan is for a landlord or an employer to extend a loan to labourers, in advance of the work done,…
If you’re going to read anything I write about the election this week, make it this piece for De Correspondent — on white supremacist mobs, political violence, and…
For about a year, I have been arguing that Trump is trying to pull fringe movements to the center and mainstream extremism — and has succeeded thanks to the…
I wrote a 3000-word essay for World Politics Review on Uzbekistan’s history as an independent state, the rise of Islam Karimov, the death of Karimov, and the challenges for…
Ever since the accidental discovery of oil in Perm in 1929, the so-called “Second Baku” has been known to be an industrial hub as well as the home…
I had no idea I was singing the saddest song about motherhood of all time. It all started when I became curious about a lullaby my grandmother used…