Who Is Ecotourism’s Winner – Nature, Culture or Capital?
by Sara Loh ‘Capitalism thrives on crisis. This is its engine of innovation and creativity’ – Sian Sullivan For neoliberal conservationists around the world, the environmental crisis has…
Tag: Ethics
The Ethical Battle Over Ancient DNA
A new controversy has arisen over recent scientific analyses conducted on ancient Native American remains that were uncovered in the 1890s at Pueblo Bonito, an archaeological site located…
Locking Up Families Is Inhumane—and Unconstitutional
Existing family detention centers can hold more than 2,000 mothers and children. In the current anti-immigration climate, the number of families detained will likely increase exponentially. E…
The Key to Survival, In Space
It takes more than rockets to go into space. Becoming a multiplanetary species and not just visiting but living in space, on the moon, and building settlements on…
Social learning in the Anthropocene: novel challenges, shadow networks, and ethical practices
My most recent article is now out at the Journal of Environmental Management. At least for a time, it is free to download by clicking here. The ideas…
On Not Being Seen
Visibility in the field can be fraught with methodological and ethical dilemmas. “Go ahead inside. I need to get a few things from the trunk,” I told Destiny…
Artificially Intelligent, Genuinely a Person
It’s difficult to overstate our society’s fascination with Artificial Intelligence (AI). From the millions of people who tuned in every week for the new HBO show WestWorld to…
Big Data, Ethical Futures
Social media and digital networks research is human subjects research. Why not make it more ethical? As more and more disciplines crisscross and work together to study the…
Sadiq al-Azm (1934-2016)
The loss of a true intellectual. May he rest in peace as the world he loved continues to spiral in conflict.
Sadiq al-Azm (1934-2016)
The loss of a true intellectual. May he rest in peace as the world he loved continues to spiral in conflict.
From Facebook to ‘fakebook’ – who controls the information on social media?
A young Chinese factory worker reading on his smartphone. Mark Zuckerberg finally said that Facebook plans to have a more effective control of misinformation, which is a sharp reversal…
#LondonVegans: Deliberating, sensing and practicing vegans in a non-vegan city
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology Msc Student Why would somebody forgo juicy steaks, delicate smoked salmon, velvety goat cheese, and the many seemingly delicious foods people eat? Why…
A reader’s guide to the anthropology of ethics and morality – Part II by Webb Keane
Editor’s note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology of ethics and morality. This i…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 5: Meg Stalcup and Charles Hahn on Technology, Surveillance, and Security
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…
A reader’s guide to the anthropology of ethics and morality – Part I by C. Jason Throop
Editors note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology of ethics and morality. This is…
Top of the Heap: Paul Rabinow by Hannah Gibson
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Paul M. Rabinow, who is a Professor of medical and sociocultural anthropology at the University…
Decolonization as Care
This entry is part 15 of 15 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By Uzma Z. Rizvi What happens to our praxis once we start from a place of…
Fear of Foodways? On Trigger Warnings, Horses, and a Dropped Class
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few years ago I received an angry email from a student, informing me that she was dropping my “Food and Culture”…
On the responsibilities of panelists
So you can tell what’s coming here. The short version is: should panelists provide for a good show (topical, interesting, cutting edge, the presentation of new research, ideas,…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
This is your brain on Li-Lo: Ayahuasca in the Twenty-First Century
The genie is out of the bottle, tweeting about the next shamanic bodywork leadership seminar, and the bottle; well, check and see if it isn’t in the back…
The Problem With Heritage
Last week, a variety of news outlets covered the International Criminal Court’s successful prosecution of Islamic extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi for destroying nine historic mausoleums in 2012 at…