Canberra’s loss is Mānoa’s gain as the ANU walks away from decades of excellence
I do not normally write about my duties as a professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa on this blog, since the blog isn’t associated with UHM…
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Domestic Policy: The Resolutions Will Not Be Televised
This is the fifth post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Given that we as a discipline seem to feel empowered to develop a foreign…
What is arXiv and how can we get one?
After ckelty’s post on the SSRN/Elsevier merger fellow mind, Ryan Anderson, gave me a shout out in Twitter, ArXiv for social science research anyone? @savageminds @culanth @haujournal @jmtromble…
On Decolonising Anthropology
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Zodwa Radebe Decolonisation can be understood as the process that decolonises what was colonised; not what…
What would your university look like if you could just say, “no?”
This is the Fourth post in a sequence called Strange Rumblings in the Meritocracy. Sometime towards the end of graduate school, I got it into my head that…
It’s the Data, Stupid: What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means
On Tuesday May 17, 2016, SSRN announced that it was being acquired by Elsevier. SSRN, the Social Sciences Research Network, is a widely used repository of scholarly articles…
Suggestions for Summer Reading: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle to Write
For the past couple of years I’ve been addicted to a series of books by the Norwegian writer, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Presented as fiction, these explore in minute…
Are Palestinian Scholars Our Colleagues? Boycott and the Material Limits of Friendship
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions publishes this powerful reflection by Alireza Doostdar on how opposition to the boycott rests on an unquestioned assumption that Israel…
Grad school has always sucked: “I am sorry to be so discouraging, but the truth requires it”
This is the start of a new series in the history of anthropology where I will document the way that grad school in anthropology has always sucked, there…
Building the Great Firewall of Cameron
Deemed the “Great firewall of Cameron”, UK Prime Minister has since 2013 aggressively pursued web censorship in the UK. Without transparent and democratic processes enacted, the government has…
Healing “the Break”: A DiaspoRican Project of Return
By: Melissa Rosario Decolonization has always been a fraught term for me. As a third generation Puerto Rican from the burbs of NYC who has studied anthropology and…
Violating the Right to Education for Palestinians: A Case for Boycotting Israeli Academic Institutions
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents anthropologists of education Thea Abu El-Haj and Fida Adely. The authors discuss the extreme violations of Palestinian youths&…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part II
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Decolonizing Anthropology: A Conversation with Faye V. Harrison, Part I
On March 3, 2016, three anthropologists at the University of Colorado–Carole McGranahan, Kaifa Roland, and Bianca C. Williams–sat down with Faye V. Harrison, distinguished professor of Afr…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 3: It’s in the Resolution
This is the third post in a three-post series of personal reflections on the AAA boycott vote. The first post discussed my own childhood Zionist education, while the…
A Moment of Truth: On the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this timely and poignant essay by Mick Taussig, calling us to a moment of truth in the discipline. Addressing…
Academia: It’s like Game of Thrones, except there’s no throne
I’m giving season 6 of Game of Thrones as pass because, frankly, I don’t enjoy watching people be cruel to each other the way I used to. And yet in…
J’Accuse: How Not to Have a Political Debate about BDS
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions presents this essay by Lisa Rofel and Daniel Segal on the debasement of the political debate about the boycott by…
Why I have voted in support of BDS: Ghassan Hage
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to present Ghassan Hage‘s eloquent essay on the urgency of voting for boycott in a desperate situation of…
Decolonizing Anthropology
Decolonizing Anthropology is a new series on Savage Minds edited by Carole McGranahan and Uzma Z. Rizvi. Welcome. Just about 25 years ago Faye Harrison poignantly asked if “an…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 2: SQUIRREL!
This is the second of a series of posts I am writing on the topic of the AAA boycott vote. You can read the previous post here. Last…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 1: David vs. Goliath
Last November anthropologists attending the AAA business meeting in Denver voted by an astounding 1040-136 to endorse the resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, but this was just…
Tools We Use: Aeon Timeline 2
There are a lot of things in life that can be solved with a good timeline. While most people tend to think of them as a specialized way…
Israeli Anthropologists Support the Boycott
Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions is pleased to share this letter we received from 22 Israeli anthropologists endorsing the boycott. As anthropologists critical of state…