The Haunting of Man: George Floyd and the Struggle for Breath
George Floyd, an African American man, was murdered by a white police officer on May 25, 2020, after being suspected of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. This incident…
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Dehumanization, 9/11, and anthropology
Cover of the North County Times, 9/12/01. Photo: Ryan Anderson. There are a few different things that brought me to anthropology. One of them was 9/11. More specifically,…
A Demagogue’s Words Matter
Trump’s immigration metaphors set a divisive tone from the top. Trump wields demagogic rhetoric like a marketing tool, ramping up prejudicial appeals in the closing days of the…
Dehumanisation and Contested Spaces: Rethinking #Displacement from Refugees to Homelessness
Dehumanisation is at the core of displacement: it requires that a group of people—because of race, class, migration status, or other factors—have lesser access to the resources, the…