Trump and Anthropology
“We are the new Indians…there are people today who want to discover us again, who want to conquer, enslave, and colonize us, and who want to use us…
Tag: Donald Trump
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 10: Sameena Mulla on AAA2016
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
Marc Edelman: The nastiest candidate won: Now what?
In the end it was filmmaker Michael Moore who got it right. It wasn’t Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, with his sophisticated polling models, or Nobel Prize winning economist…
Anthropology after November 8th: On race, denial, and the work ahead
For some people, the election that just took place might seem like just another choice between the lesser of two evils. One more election that we all learn…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
Will Trump Lead the World to Catastrophe?
By Keith Hart You will learn more about Trump in coming months. He isn’t the Mussolini (but with frightening power) that he threatened to be in trying to…
After*
(Tony Webster, cc by 2.0) I switch the radio on and dial through the stations. Morning news on CBC, the francophone station, and then — the station with the tones. The…
Post-Election Reds and Blues: Public Anthropology, Millennials, and the Future
It’s a solemn time, even as the sun shines, and even as I sit at my desk here in Toronto, somewhat shielded from the results of the 2016…
An Open Letter to My Grandchildren
Dear Dean and Mona, At four years old and ten months old, you are both too young to understand why the grown-ups around you keep talking about…
An Open Letter to My Children
Dear Nathaniel and Hannah, I am sorry that my generation has failed you. We have bequeathed you a world that has too many problems, too much fear, and too much…
US presidential elections: nothing to celebrate
I do sincerely hope that we won’t wake up tomorrow morning with the terrible news of a Trump presidency. Having said that, the world is already an awful…
6 Documentaries for the 2016 US Presidential Election
This is an idiosyncratic selection of what I consider to be some of the most important reports and documentaries released during the 2016 US presidential election campaign, with…
Neoliberalism, Brexit, and Higher Education
Is Brexit bad for UK universities? This appears to be the question at the centre of an article from the Times Higher Education titled “UK researchers face uncertainty…
Unusual Politics as Usual?
What Trump’s smash-it-all message tells us about presidential campaigns. Before we join the refrain that the candidacy of Donald J. Trump in this presidential election is unprecedented, we…
Donald Trump and Empire: An Assessment
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations of the world while its own…
Lesley Gill and Norbert Ross: What’s Class Got to Do with It?
Unsettled by Donald Trump’s bigotry and xenophobia, liberal pundits have struggled to understand his improbable anointment as the nominee of the Republican party. Many have sought answers in…
Cosmopolitan Imperialism: Obama Does Anthropology in Laos?
“Obama, the cerebral son of an anthropologist”—this is how the Associated Press touted soon to be ex-president Barack Obama on his visit to Laos this week. The AP…
comics on culture on Charlie Rose
Yesterday, the Charlie Rose Show repeated interviews with comics Billy Eichner, Amy Pohler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Seth Meyers. A couple of comments jumped out.…
Immigration and Capital
Immigration, rightly or wrongly, has been marched to the frontline of current political struggles in Europe and North America. Whether exaggerated or accurate, the role of immigration is…
Who will be our ethnographic hero?
There is now only one path to the White House for Donald Trump. There has to be a Brexit-type surprise in November. This is the hope of the…
It’s Never “Just a Symbol”
Symbolic anthropologists, take note. What’s in a symbol? Everything, when it comes to politics. Especially, election-year politics. And especially when a major political candidate claims ign…
The World Changed Overnight
The European Union is now to be written as a postscript. Thanks to British voters, who were given an extremely rare chance to have a say on one…