“humans just like us” (Michel-Rolph Trouillot 2003:137)
Reading Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s final chapter in Global Transformations, “Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work” and reflecting on what I’ve been teaching in Cultural Anth…
Tag: ACADEMIA
Graduate Resilience
the culture of post-graduate research at UWI can be described as tough in terms of adequate supervision yet the students themselves demonstrate resilience in this tough working environment…
Bruno Latour: Imperialist?
I recently saw a blogpost that took Bruno Latour and his disciples/fellow travellers to task for being colonialist ('An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’…
Art Connects
The power of art, dance and song in empowering the education and social connection of young Trinidadians… How much do we really know about the youth of Trinidad…
Teaching Cultural Anthropology (via a quote from Tim Ingold, Making, 2013:13)
Fall 2014, teaching Cultural Anthropology. The Hartwick College Anthropology format for teaching cultural anthropology is to begin with a four-fields Introduction to Anthropology, followed by mid-leve…
How do you write an anthropology textbook?
Over at my blog-page which attempts to review and integrate anthropology textbooks, got this question from Christopher DeCorse, anthropologist and archaeologist, and co-author with Raymond Scupin of A…
Jared Diamond and Future Public Anthropology
It was an honor and pleasure to be discussant for Margaret Mead and Jared Diamond: Past Publics, Current Engagements, organized by Alex Golub for the 2013 American Anthropological…
Anthropology Blogs Update – June 2014
It’s been too long since the last entry, and I’ve been notified of some new anthropology blogs–or ones I had not known about. Thank you for the update–the…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
On "Race in/outside post-WWII Europe" – notes on a recent workshop
Three days ago, June 10, I had the pleasure to welcome 12 presenters and one guest to the workshop I organized at CEU under the title “Race in/outside…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Policy and everyday perspectives on informality and spatial confinement…
Excited to announce the RC21 session I’m organizing with Silvia at the 18th ISA World Congress this July. The session looks at informal everyday and policy dynamics in…
Making! The Other Story: Robot#10, Twins Separated at Birth, and Hacker Mama
Silvia Lindtner Amelia Guimarin Editor’s Note: Silvia Lindtner (@yunnia) and Amelia Guimarin (@femhacktweets) round out the March-April theme on makers, hackers, and engineers with this post tha…
Engineering obsolescence
Marisa Cohn Editor’s Note: Marisa Leavitt Cohn writes to us from Stockholm, where she is a postdoctoral scholar studying the politics of software systems and computing work practices. In…
Ethnography as Diaspora
Lilly U. Nguyen Editor’s Note: Lilly U. Nguyen (@deuxlits) tells us how in her own work on the ethnography of software in Vietnam, she both studies and embodies “diaspora” –…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
For a reflexive sociology of "nomadness"
When back in the early 1990s Loic Wacquant and Pierre Bourdieu chatted about the nature of Sociology, they digged out – and discussed at lenght – probably the…
Measurements: The Qualitative Work of Quantitative Work
Katie Pine Max Liboiron Editor’s Note: Katie Pine and Max Liboiron continue this week’s theme of makers, hackers, and engineers with a post about the politics and performativity…