ResonanceCast #2: Incitement and Coups
Podcast with Jastinder Kaur and Daniel White, moderated by Ian M. Cook Allegra Lab · ResonanceCast 2: Incitement And Coups …
#Afterlives: Introduction
Afterlives are proliferating. Whether it is empire or destruction, Ebola or punk, revolution or waste – there seems to exist hardly anything …
White Fans, Liberal Ideologies, and the Erasure of Black Stories in Gaming
Last month, the highly anticipated video game Mortal Kombat 11 (MK11) was released to an excited yet wary fighting game community. Game …
How “Fake News” Lost Its Meaning
Collins Dictionary named “fake news” its 2017 word of the year, an easy choice given the word’s “unprecedented usage increase” of 365 …
Book Review: Fragile Conviction: Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan by Mathijs Pelkmans
In Fragile Conviction: Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan, Mathijs Pelkmans offers an ethnography of everyday life in a former mining town …
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Trump Echoes Bush in Middle East Visit
President Introduces New Term into Counterterrorism Lexicon President Trump embarked on his first international trip since moving into the White House after …
Scholars shouldn’t read the New York Times
If Noam Chomsky had done nothing else, he would have given us one of the strongest critique of the New York Times as …
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 6: Lee D. Baker on Ta-Nehisi Coates
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize …
Polina Manolova: Brexit and the production of “illegal” EU migrants
Bulgarians on their way to the “West” EU immigration was the primary source of contention in the debates surrounding the recent referendum …
#Review: The Politics of Humanitarianism: Power, Ideology and Aid
Humanitarianism is a chimera, arguably an infection, but certainly an ethos and organising principle of our age that intersects with transformative moral-political …
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 1: David vs. Goliath
Last November anthropologists attending the AAA business meeting in Denver voted by an astounding 1040-136 to endorse the resolution to boycott Israeli …
An Anniversary as a Laboratory #HumanRights
This Allegra week we focus on a theme that we have addressed numerous times earlier: human rights. This repeated attention is not …
乌镇时代 | Wuzhen Times
The first World Internet Conference was held November 19-21, in the scenic water village of Wuzhen (proudly endorsed by 7,000 years of …