The case for a people’s smart sanctions campaign against Trump’s America
The forces arrayed against Donald Trump’s presidency in the US could soon encompass most of the world once Trump’s climate change threats meet resistance.
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‘Volunteer Humanitarianism’ in the Jungle of Calais
by Elisa Sandri This article is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni, PhD researcher, and to his family, whom I never met but I hope they’ll find…
On Not Being Seen
Visibility in the field can be fraught with methodological and ethical dilemmas. “Go ahead inside. I need to get a few things from the trunk,” I told Destiny…
A Nuclear Advocacy Dilemma
Advocacy anthropology does not always mean aligning oneself with an underdog. Nicolas Raymond/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Since the establishment of our discipline, anthropologists have fretted over the questi…
Writing and Research in a Conflict Zone
For the activist-scholar research can mean navigating between different audiences, modes, and ethics of representation. When the Kony 2012 video went viral, it sparked numerous conversations about Wes…
Introduction to “Ethnographer as Activist”
Grappling with Ethnography and Advocacy in the Field What follows is a transcribed conversation between the authors. It has been edited for length and clarity. iStock Haley Bryant:…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 16: Victor Kumar on James Baldwin, Margaret Mead and Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Race
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
Opinion on an Op-Ed: Academic Underperformers Must be Called Out by Gerald Walton
A very interesting article came out in University Affairs for their February (2017) issue – An opinion piece which will surely provoke opinions. In it, Walton advocates for…
Undergraduate Futures
On how anthropology might create a safer world for human difference. In writing a piece on the topic of Futures as current senior undergraduates in anthropology we…
Victory at Standing Rock reflects a failure of US energy and climate policy
Stopping the pipeline in one spot, after all, won’t stop oil altogether. Climate change, however, is a threat most of all to Indigenous peoples around the world.
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
Add it to the dictionary! Changing language, changing culture
This short article about Merriam-Webster’s addition of ‘genderqueer’ to their dictionary is really useful for thinking about how language changes over time to describe our changing cultural worlds.…
We’re in Crisis! Time to Slow Down: Discernment in a Trumpian Age
(This occasional post comes from Edgar Rivera Colón, Ph.D. Dr. Rivera Colón is a medical anthropologist and teaches at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program. Dr. Rivera Colón is also Assist…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 11: Jaime Alves “On the right and duty to change the world”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
#LondonVegans: Deliberating, sensing and practicing vegans in a non-vegan city
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology Msc Student Why would somebody forgo juicy steaks, delicate smoked salmon, velvety goat cheese, and the many seemingly delicious foods people eat? Why…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 10: Sameena Mulla on AAA2016
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
In Trump’s America, 72% of the population is disposable
What does that mean? As an affront to order, it means we are pollution. It means we must be aggressively ignored, ordered, or erased. We know this. This…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 9: Dana Ain-Davis On Taylor’s “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
Climate Change Resource for the Classroom
Leonardo Di Caprio has given open access to his environmental documentary on climate change. Entitled Before the Flood, Di Caprio wants to engender a sense of urgency regarding climate chang…