Jason Moore: Capitalism and the Web of Life
Jason Moore speaking on his new book from Verso. There is also an interesting review of the book here at New Inquiry. A short description from Verso: “Finance.…
Tag: capitalism
The jacket
I’m trying a new strategy at work to raise my oomph and improve my legit appeal. I’m no slouch when it comes to sparring about ideas, concepts and…
Joe Trapido: Epochs and continents: Potlatch, articulation, and violence in the Congo
This post is part of the Modes of Production feature moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling and Joe Trapido. From the sixteenth century onward, European trading networks grew…
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
Money Trees
We all know money grows on trees so why should we change… So lets pretend the Paris agreement went much further than it ever could in the quest…
How does an Anthropologist add value in the workplace?
At work I’m not employed as an anthropologist. Not directly anyway; my skills in research and higher education certainly helped…
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” by Timothy Morton
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Princeton University Press, 2015, 352 pages Yeah. What…
An open letter to Prime Minister Turnbull: What would research and work look like if I was in charge?
Dear Mr Turnbull, If I was in charge of research I would always include children on the research team. Instead of talking about fresh perspectives, I would build…
NEW! — Samuel W. Rose: Marxism and mode of production in the anthropology of native North America
This contribution elaborates on the relevance of the concept of mode of production in understanding contemporary North American indigenous populations. While examination of Native American peoples pla…
Rachel Smith: The “hidden abodes” of temporary migration programs
Organizations such as the World Bank have repeated what has been called the “migration development mantra.” In this, remittances appear as a panacea—or “wonder drug” (Green 2015)—for economic…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
The Sociological Imagination
How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination… Speaking with some graduate sociology students last week the question was asked, why doesn’t the…
Military Capitalism
Security for US Capitalists: The State Department and its Global Partners Very much in line in with the idea of “connected capitalism,” the US State Department created the…
Connected Capitalism?
“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist—McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15. And the hidden fist that…
September 19th: International “Talk like a Pirate Day” – Who Knew?
Our calendars are full of special weeks and days to memorialise, commemorate and bring attention to the plight of people with special needs, those underserved, forgotten, marginalised and…
How Did Anthropology Begin?
In fall 2015, I adopted the new Robert Welsch and Luis Vivanco textbook Cultural Anthropology (see previous discussion of Hartwick Anthropology Courses). It’s now time for the first…
#Crisis in focus
This week we are featuring a series of posts curated by Dimitra Kofta on a very current theme: CRISES. Etymologically deriving from the Greek infinitive κρίνειν (krinin), crisis…
Change jobs, return to research or enrol in further higher ed?
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and you wonder whether these match up…
The Price of Freedom
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…
The Price of Freedom
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…
The Price of Freedom
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…