Strange Work in Familiar Places: Inside Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Border Hotels
The new appreciation of previously dismissed types of work may be short lived, and their ongoing fight for a living wage is certainly not won. However, this crisis…
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Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Cain and Able: A Reflection on Coronavirus
The story of Cain and Able from the Christian Holy Bible is common knowledge but to recap. Cain and Able both offer sacrifices to God: Cain offering produce…
AI written blog goes viral, almost nobody notices
Liam Porr (via waxy.org): Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3. I would write the title and introduction, add a photo, and…
Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips
In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic in…
Blurred lines and dead chooks in fieldwork
My own fieldwork experience, like many others, demonstrates a blurring in what is ‘professional’ and ‘personal’, what is ‘leisure’ and ‘work’, whether you are researcher, student, or known…
A New Way of Connecting: SAR Virtual Happy Hours
The SAR President’s Circle is a group of philanthropic individuals who give generously to support SAR’s mission and programs, helping to fo…
Processing a Pandemic: A Conversation with Alan Swedlund
To understand pandemics you have to know what’s going on in the small places because a pandemic is not uniform around the country or unifo…
In the Vault: Coil and Sifter Basket, Pootsaya
Story by IARC curator of education Felicia Garcia With my basket I decided to send out a message. The coil is to represent a tight foundat…
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Richard H. Robbins: The Economy After Covid-19
Richard H. Robbins, SUNY Plattsburgh One feature of both the economic recession of 2007/2008 and the present Covid-19-induced economic collapse is increased central bank bouts of quantitative easi…
Labor-based Grading
Sandie Friedman at Inside Higher-Ed on Asao Inoue’s “Labor-Based Grading System”: Any rubric that evaluates students’ language according to a single standard — which is invariably a white,…
Mentors and Friends: SAR’s 2019–2020 Resident Scholars
Every year SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars, who spend nine months studying, writing, and participating in the intellectual l…
Brotgelehrte.de – Transparenz
Bild von Наталья Коллегова auf Pixabay Als ich den Blog “Brotgelehrte” 2012 startete, war meine ursprüngliche Idee, das Buch „Berufe für Historiker“ (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2010) mit ak…
Don Nonini: Black Enslavement and Agro-industrial Capital
Don Nonini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Insa Koch’s recent (2020) FOCAAL blog, “The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain,” reminds us that enslavement and…
Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León
Approximately 3,200 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died crossing the Sonoran Desert between the mid-1990s and 2019. These t…
In the Vault: Miniature Basket Illustrates the Big Impact of Tiny Things
Carol Emarthle-Douglas (Northern Arapaho/Seminole), Round Dance, 2016, rattan round reed, raffia, dyes, silk, and glass, SAR.2017-6-1AB. Ph…
Enikő Vincze: Post-covid “Economic recovery” in Romania: forget labor, save capital, and support militarization?
Enikő Vincze, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoc On May 28th the liberal Romanian government published the last data on the employment situation. This is therefore a good time to review…
Exclusive Video Interview with Leah Mata Fragua: Everyone and Everything Is a Teacher
Chumash dance dress, 2017. Collaboration between Leah Mata Fragua and Cara Romero. Photo courtesy of the artists. Story written by SAR edi…
IARC Native Artist Fellow Ian Kuali’i Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine
Freehand, ephemeral cut-paper banner hung under the Dubin Studio portal, Ian Kuali’i. Story written by SAR editorial staff. Paper. …
Insa Koch: The Making of Modern Slavery in Austerity Britain
Insa Koch, London School of Economics States’ claims that they are relieving human suffering have become a central element of their ongoing liberal legitimation amid their production of…
Upcoming Pilot Research
As of today I have submitted all of the required paperwork (IACUC, Occupational Health, Special Use Permit Application) . I will be collecting data on behavior and the…
Mao Mollona: Fully Exterminated Communism, or Anthropology in the Time of Cholera
Mao Mollona, Goldsmiths College, London One thing is sure. If just briefly, the pandemic struck at the heart of capitalism. It paralysed the economy, broke the bureaucratic machine…
Blokes and their casual racism
Being of South-East Asian background growing up in Australia, these types of comments are not something unfamiliar to me. I have grappled with race and culture many times…