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…
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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…
Falling in: how ethnography happened to me and what I’ve learned from it
Austin Toombs Editor’s Note: Austin Toombs (@altoombs) brings a background in computer science and a critical sensibility to his ethnographic research on maker cultures. He explores the formati…
Studying Up: The Ethnography of Technologists
Nick Seaver Editor’s Note: Nick Seaver (@npseaver) kicks off the March-April special edition of Ethnography Matters, which will feature a number of researchers at the Intel Science and Technolog…
March-April 2014: Studying Hackers, Makers, and Engineers
This month’s theme – ethnographies of hackers, makers, and engineers – is edited by Morgan G. Ames, who made the transition from being a hacker to studying them…
Tell Me More danah boyd: an interview with the author of “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”
danah boyd (@zephoria) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and a Fellow at Harvard’s…
The importance of Stuart Hall
Only a small sign of his importance, actually. The very rare occasions in which I buy a newspaper occur when I am in Italy. I usually buy a…
The importance of Stuart Hall
Only a small sign of his importance, actually. The very rare occasions in which I buy a newspaper occur when I am in Italy. I usually buy a…
The importance of Stuart Hall
Only a small sign of his importance, actually. The very rare occasions in which I buy a newspaper occur when I am in Italy. I usually buy a…
The importance of Stuart Hall
Only a small sign of his importance, actually. The very rare occasions in which I buy a newspaper occur when I am in Italy. I usually buy a…
Introduction to Anthropology – 2014 – Entangling the Biological
Update: See the 2015 Introduction to Anthropology for more thoughts on this course and how the 2014 books worked. For spring 2014, another round of Introduction to Anthropology–another…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates
It was a great honor and privilege to be invited to deliver the Cultural Anthropology overview for the Five Fields Update sponsored by the Society for Anthropology in…
Anthropology and the State during Globalization
What’s happening with the anthropology of the state? It seemed that in the 1990s, anthropology was breaking from the ethnographic trilogy of one fieldworker, one village, one year,…
Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology: Book Update
Book orders are due for my anthropology course titled “Peoples and Cultures of Latin America.” I checked back to the May 2013 Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United…
Black Europe Summer School – my experience
I am a white, adult, Western middle-class man. These identifications mark constitutive features shaping my social and political life – in other words, my subjectivity. They are the…
Black Europe Summer School – my experience
I am a white, adult, Western middle-class man. These identifications mark constitutive features shaping my social and political life – in other words, my subjectivity. They are the…
Black Europe Summer School – my experience
I am a white, adult, Western middle-class man. These identifications mark constitutive features shaping my social and political life – in other words, my subjectivity. They are the…
Black Europe Summer School – my experience
I am a white, adult, Western middle-class man. These identifications mark constitutive features shaping my social and political life – in other words, my subjectivity. They are the…
AAA 2013 Annual Meetings Chicago – Reader Guide #aaa2013
The 2013 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association are November 20-24 in Chicago. Whether you are going or are just interested in anthropology, take a look at…
A new analytical tool for looking at urban governance
I have not clearly understood yet what the difference is between self-promotion and the promotion of your own ideas and beleifs. There are a couple fixed boundary lines,…