The Story of our Fashion Fast!
by Rebecca Prentice, Hannah Amey, Maeve Devers, Rifka Fehr, Olive Howland Milne, Alfred Lewis, Phoebe Marsh, Joana Pereira and Amelia Yates As eight first-year anthropology students and one lecturer a…
Tag: human rights
Competence for Citizenship by Gitte Beckmann
White ants are a delicacy in the subregion Acholi in northern Uganda. Since fresh ones are available only once a year when they become flying roamers, one 100-kg…
The R-word and the G-word: On counting and accountability in the case of the Rohingya
Given the sensitivity of this issue, this article was previously published anonymously on the blog operated by the former AAA Committee for Human Rights. The author is currently writing…
The Gringo Policies and Addictions That Drove Jakelin Caal From Raxruha
Liza Grandia, Ph.D. (cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at University of California-Davis) is the author of Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among t…
Reflections on Anthropology and Human Rights
Members of the AAA’s Members’ Programmatic, Advisory, and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC) reflect on the relationship between anthropology and human rights in honor of Human Rights Day and the…
A Relationship with Fashion: Thoughts from an Anthropology Student
by Silvia Irina Berástegui I arrived in Brighton 5 years ago with the dream of finding a good job and starting an autonomous life of my own. During…
Work injury compensation still missing in Bangladesh’s labour standards
by Rebecca Prentice **Republished from The Conversation.** In the five years since the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh – in which more than 1,134…
Becoming Human: Malala Yousafzai and the Politics of Representation
by Carlo Ceglia Malala. It is enough to say her first name. How did this 21-year-old Pakistani girl – the youngest, as well as the only female Pakistani,…
“The Hope Is in Organizing:” An Interview with Iconic Farmworker Activist Dolores Huerta
Post author Andre Fernando Biehl is a junior at Princeton High School in Princeton, NJ. As part of an independent social science project, he has been working with…
Survivors of sexual violence need #supportnotsuspicion
by Hannah Rose Last Thursday night, the feminist direct action group Sisters Uncut delivered 30,000 sheets of paper marked ‘confidential’ to the door of the Crown Prosecution Service,…
Five Things You Should Know About the “Migrant Caravan”
We are anthropologists who work with migrants and refugees, many of whom are fleeing for their lives. And we want to set the record straight. We conduct research…
Want Fame and Glory? Award Deadline Reminders!
SAFN has two glorious awards that are given annually to students engaged in various aspects of food and nutrition related research. The deadline for both is coming up…
Book Review: Patriots, Traitors and Empires—The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans
Review of: Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom, by Stephen Gowans. Published by Baraka Books, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 6 x 9 inches. 280…
Human rights: Why debating their universality is unhelpful
By Koen Donatz Human rights have become a hotly debated topic in both the academic and the political world, one of the main points of contention being whether…
Ep. #7 The knowledge we value: Dipesh Chakrabarty talks the contentious politics of knowledge production
“Doing history ideally is like doing anthropology of people who are gone, except that you don’t have native informants, you only have these written fragmentary sources. But the…
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets” #AnthroState
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era. As with the Hillbrow…
Human Rights in an Age of Immorality and Unreason
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Advice From the Frontlines: DC-Based Human Rights Defenders
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR), now represented on the Members’ Programmatic, Advisory,…
Language, Human Rights, and Social Justice
This post is part of a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’ Programmatic,…
The UN Declaration of Human Rights and the 2017 US Tax Bill: Reflecting on the Anthropological Response
This post is the first in a series celebrating Human Rights Day authored by members of the former AAA Committee for Human Rights, now represented on the Members’…
#review: anthropology and law
The task of reviewing Mark Goodale’s Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction was weird, in a fractal way. The book itself, the object of my review, is, in…
2017 Thomas Marchione Award Winner!
We are very happy to announce the 2017 winner of the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award. This annual prize is awarded to a student whose work continues and…
SAFN Award Deadlines Extended!
SAFN is pleased to announce that we are extending the deadlines for both the Christine Wilson Award and the Thomas Marchione Award to July 28, 2017. Thomas Marchione…
New Deadline: Thomas Marchione Award!
Opportunity for the Recognition of Outstanding Student Research by applying for the Thomas Marchione Award Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award…