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.
Tag: activism
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…
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…
Hallowe’en & Racism
LSPIRG’s (Wilfred Laurier University) I am Not a Costume campaign Boo! Hallowe’en is a rich holiday for anthropologists to dig into for how it brings together many different…
Hallowe’en & Racism
LSPIRG’s (Wilfred Laurier University) I am Not a Costume campaign Boo! Hallowe’en is a rich holiday for anthropologists to dig into for how it brings together many different…
How toxic flame retardant chemicals become-and stay-ubiquitous in our homes and bodies
A new report highlights the failure of Canadian federal regulations to keep harmful flame retardant chemicals out of homes and consumer products. In fact, it argues that current…
Public e-seminar on media practices and the radical imagination
By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are…
On Solidarity and Molecules (#MakeMuskratRight)
Deferring to molecules rather than social movements when it comes to contamination is a case of power relations.
Spain’s current political impasse
Yesterday, 12 October 2016, I took part in a seminar titled “Resolving Spain’s political deadlock” held at my home institution, RMIT University, in Melbourne. I presented alongside Marta…
Acknowledging Indigenous Territory at Universities
Every year in recent memory, the opening of the annual Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) conference begins with an acknowledgement that the meetings are taking place on Indigenous territory.…
Concrete and Livability in Occupied Palestine
By Kali Rubaii, University of California, Santa Cruz § Portland Cement extracts the enduring time of rocks and mobilizes it to build quickly. Through heat, rock[1] is bound with…
North Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Spark Historic Declaration
Native Americans from many different tribes have unified behind the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest in North Dakota against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The controversial…