What’s the matter with Ethnography?
Robert Potts is a filmmaker, lecturer, designer, and PhD candidate at the HighWire Centre for Doctoral Training who takes special interest in a diverse range of subjects including shared narr…
Tag: ACADEMIA
REDUX: Bourgeois Knowledge #UniversityCrisis
Young man: Hey, what’s he talking about? Old man: The professor is discussing ideas of justice and humanity in the philosophy of Plato. Young man: Plato? Old man:…
What happens in Turkey?
On January 19 we posted on our website this petition as a form of support to Turkish academics. We have then asked a Turkish scholar – who prefers…
Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century
On 4-5 February 2016, honored to participate in several sessions around the theme “Defending Anthropology 101 and the Mega-Class: Relevant Teaching for the 21st Century.” The idea of…
What on Earth is Post Disciplinary Ethnography?
This post is part of the Post Disciplinary Ethnography Edition. ‘Jargon free’ text is the name of the game according to the Ethnography Matters style guide, so titling…
Support Academics for Peace! Sign the Petition!
Recently, a petition written by Turkish academics has circulated online, demanding an end to the Turkish government’s attacks on the Kurdish provinces of the country. Since the website…
Picture of a House – toward the ethnography of the academia
There was a time when universities were modelled after churches. Today their designs echo temples of different kinds – namely corporate headquarters. In light of what is going…
Anonymous Reviewer – we need to talk! #rejection
A while back I experienced bitter disappointment as yet another funding application was rejected. The fact that I was only one of thousands of disappointed applicants did little…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
Anthropologist in the Cane
A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away… Last week one of the greats of North American anthropology, Prof Sidney Mintz, passed away. Mintz was…
In Memoriam, Sidney Mintz, 1922-2015
Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, affectionately known as “Sid,” passed away on December 26, 2015. In a first and now widely-shared post, Elizabeth Dunn succinctly conveyed the thoughts of…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
Book Launch: Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
The cozy University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights, edited by Pamela Slotte…
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Learning About Police Culture
how might the police and anthropologists collaborate? Those traditional, far-away and so-called exotic groups anthropologists once studied – and “othered” – at the …
Allegra TV: Tsing and Descola in videos! #CFAS
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We conclude the week with…
The second Helsinki Knots Symposium: 23 October 2015
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic condit…
Anthropology as the study of composite worlds – an interview with Philippe Descola
An academic interview is just a snapshot but it can offer a vivid account of a life’s work. The following is an edited version of an interview with…
Report on the 2015 Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This week, Allegra makes a five-day trip to the northern capital of Finland, Helsinki! Our fantastic local allies have put together a comprehensive string of posts about the…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…
Industrialisation Was A Big Change – Anthropology/Sociology
There was a brilliant article on Aeon recently about male tears in European history and how men appear to have wept just as much as women until…