Tag: concepts
Gabriela Vargas-Cetina , December 15th, 2019
Como cada año, este diciembre mis estudiantes del curso Teoría Social Post-estructural presentaron su examen final en la forma de un performance en el que tenían que actuar…
Maximilian C. Forte , March 13th, 2019
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has totally evaporated. What Trump promised…
Maximilian C. Forte , March 1st, 2018
Where does “progress” come from? What does “progressivism” mean? Which cultural tradition and ideological discourse makes “progressive” movements or parties thinkable? Why is it always important to be…
Maximilian C. Forte , January 4th, 2018
To the extent that “white privilege” continues to exist in the US, is it the highest form of privilege? How might a focus on domestic race relations misdirect us from an…
Maximilian Forte , July 31st, 2016
Against the Labouring Classes: Identity Politics in the New Victorian Age The New Victorianism serves to not only divert politics into issues of morality and identity, it works…
Maximilian Forte , July 31st, 2016
Social Imperialism? New Victorianism’s Domestic Moral Code and the Political Economy of Identity Politics “The nation-state in its imperialist guise was the inescapable context within which all polit…
Maximilian Forte , July 27th, 2016
Victorian Parallels in the New Imperialism “The New Imperialism” is not a very efficient conceptual phrase since it requires a lot of labour to clarify what one means…
Maximilian Forte , July 27th, 2016
“A man…lives not only in the spot which he personally occupies, but in every spot to which he may extend his action, or to which he may conceive…
Maximilian Forte , March 22nd, 2016
Originally published as: “Nativistic Movements” By Ralph Linton and A. Irving Hallowell American Anthropologist, 45(2), 1943, pp. 230-240 NATIVISTIC MOVEMENTS By RALPH LINTON ——…
Maximilian Forte , December 1st, 2015
This and previous issues have been archived on a dedicated site—please see: ENCIRCLING EMPIRE. For frequent updates, please “like” our Facebook page and/or follow on Twitter. Over the…
philbu , May 28th, 2015
This map visualizes the concept of “post-colonial technoscience” discussed by Smith, L. C. 2010. Locating post-colonial technoscience: through the lens of indigenous video. History and Technology: An …
Gabriele , November 5th, 2014
What the notebook adds to this strategy of alliance with the fetishism of commodities, however, is that the very instrument of research is a fetish. In English we…
philbu , September 30th, 2014
Budka, P. 2014. Review of Hess, S., Moser, J. & M. Schwertl (eds.). Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2013; 332 pp. Anthropos, 109.2014/2: 694-…