Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read
Kristen Ghodsee’s new book, From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press (in 2016). The discipline of…
Tag: ACADEMIA
The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production
In this column for a series on academic freedom at sage social science space I looked at the financialisation of the academic book publishing industry and asked questions about changes…
The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production
In this column for a series on academic freedom at sage social science space I looked at the financialisation of the academic book publishing industry and asked questions about changes…
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used to be’ runs parallel…
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at a New York-based university. It was, expectedly, a…
On the responsibilities of panelists
So you can tell what’s coming here. The short version is: should panelists provide for a good show (topical, interesting, cutting edge, the presentation of new research, ideas,…
Inside-out Jokes & Scientific Pantomimesis: Questioning Interpretations of the Inhuman
In a fit of ambition, I attended or spoke at five academic conferences in the humanities and social sciences during the spring 2016 semester. Discipline specificity and conference…
Virtual Roundtable: Julie Billaud’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I started engaging with the notion of political agency in my earlier work…
Virtual Rountable: Latif Tas’ response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? First of all, I think you need to change the wording of the…
Virtual Rountable – Paul Anderson’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? Michel de Certeau argued that agency comes in different shapes and sizes, according…
Virtual roundtable: Deniz Gökalp’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I do not think that political agency is no longer relevant to understanding…
Virtual Roundtable: Antonio De Lauri’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To which extent does the notion of political agency is helpful to understand political change? To some extent, the notion of political agency has been used in…
Virtual Roundtable: Luigi Achilli’s Response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? “Political agency?! What is political agency?” When I first spoke about “political agency”…
REDUX: Publishing for PhD students #Anthroadvice
Playing a bit part in organising a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students at the next annual conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies, I…
Where are the ladies, Didier Fassin? #EASA2016 Keynote
It’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of the University of Milan & Bicacca. Fortunately the…
Ivory Tower #Slow
From the poetic notes written this morning for today’s opening lecture – I communicated this but not as ‘poetically’: A PhD today is an anachronism. It is hard…
Is #Slow Academia Conservative?
In this post, Heather Mendick argues that some calls for slowing down scholarship mask a conservative politics. Last July I blogged about how, despite my love for online communication,…
Let’s take it SLOW! The #slow university? REDUX
This Allegra week we remain in retreat spirits, and will consequently revisit some more ‘Jewel’s of Allie’s Archive’. And what more appropriate theme for doing so than SLOW. We…
The #slow professor (book excerpt)
The Slow Professor originated in telephone conversations about coping with our academic jobs. Not reading an email sent by the department chair at 10:45 p.m. until the next…
When Worlds Collide: A tale of parenting and an optimistic undergraduate
I am pleased to welcome guest blogger Jess Thompson to anthropod. In this post Jess shares her experiences of being a parent and university student, adding to our…
Doing the squiggly writing – a guest blog post
I am delighted to welcome guest blogger Charlotte Weston, who agreed to write this piece following my earlier post on Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I. These posts…
The hidden story of how metrics are being used in courtrooms and newsrooms to make more decisions
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: The next author for the Co-designing with machines edition is Angèle Christin (@angelechristin), sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Data & Soci…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part I
Recently I started a new research project looking at the social impacts of three Sistema-inspired orchestral music education programmes operating in low decile schools in the Wellington region,…
Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim?
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been dead for decades during a ceremony (read about…