#Review: Whose Life Is Worth More?
During the Second World War, the British government, with the invaluable assistance of Alan Turing, deciphered Enigma (the Nazi code war machine) …
Ep. #32 ‘Hula Hoops not Bicycles’: Genevieve Bell talks Anthropology, Technology & Building the Future
“We were bringing the voices of people that didn’t get inside the building, inside the building and making them count. And I …
Ethical dilemmas, anthropological practice, and principles #HauTalk
Hautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary boundaries—into spaces …
Personalizing Access, Personalizing Praxis #hautalk
Anthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate power dynamics. …
Commentary on “The New Political Economy of Higher Education”
A brief commentary on: “The New Political Economy of Higher Education”, Special Issue of the journal Higher Education, Editors: Johannes Angermuller, Jens …
Briot and Soulié, “History of administrative and service workers at the University of Vincennes”
Continuing our coverage of research on university staff, the French sociologists Guy Briot and Charles Soulié have recently examined the politics of …
Working-class in academe
When the Minnesota Review changed editors a few years ago, the old back issues disappeared from their website. Fortunately, one of my favorite essays, …
Affiliation in an age of precarity
If you submit an article to a journal, they always ask you to list your “affiliation.” Typically this means name, academic department, …