Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women’s Group – review
In Speak Out!, Milo Miller curates a selection of writings by one of the first and most important Black radical organisations of the 1970s, the Brixton Black Women’s Group.…
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Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution – review
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Amin Ghaziani charts the transformation of LGBTQ+ nightlife in recent decades amid venue closures and gentrification, focusing on London. Through a blend of personal anec…
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth – review
The Culture Trap by Derron Wallace compares the academic experiences of second-generation Black Caribbean youth in New York City and London, arguing that “ethnic expectations” shape studen…
An Interest in the Backside of Things
All our lives society has been represented to us as a hierarchy or pyramid in which the rich are located at the top, the middle class sits underneath…
How to buy tickets for Laura’s London History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class
If you’re not an insider in ticket-buying circles, how to do it may not be obvious. Eventbrite is the name of an easy-to-use service that takes care of…
Water #Failures and Social Housing
Public and media discourses about housing estates are replete with highly problematic narratives of failure, riddled with classed and racialised tropes that cast estates, and especially modernist high…
Gefährliche Gerüchte und „fake news“. Die Pest in London im Jahr 1665
Das Stadtbild ist völlig verändert, Vergnügungsstätten sind geschlossen, die Strassen wie ausgestorben. Menschen kaufen Vorräte, backen Brot und hadern mit rigiden Ausgangssperren. In Daniel Defoes „P…
Hvordan sikre et mangfoldig og inkluderende boligmarked?
av Mari Løken, Berit Nordahl og Gro Sandkjær Hanssen Å øke boligproduksjonen er et mål for både Oslos politikere og utbyggeraktører. Dette kan blant annet gjøres gjennom en…
Walls of Expression and Dark Murals Tourism
Notes on the Battle of Cable Street mural—a colorful depiction of the day anti-fascists faced down by Oswald Mosely’s Blackshirts in London’s East End. The west wall of…
Digital Anthropology in Practice
Jennifer Fu and Gemma Tortella-Procter, MSc. Digital Anthropology at UCL “What exactly constitutes ‘digital anthropology’?” While the practical projects we worked on may not provide a comprehensive an…
Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths Exhibition organised by the Goldsmith’sDepartment of Anthropology Venue: Weston Atrium, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths Private View: 24th May, 17.30 Dates: …
Don’t panic: the smart city is here!
Ding Wang, in her own words, ‘has a special interest in pursuing degrees whose names consist of two random words’ (specifically Tourism Management, Design Ethnography, and now Dig…
Less public knowledge, more private meaning (lessons for politicians and brands)
This is a part of a map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood). Wood says that he created a map to show his relationship with the city over…
Field Notes: This data collection is interfering with my dancing.
The following is a selection of some of the more entertaining notes from my first official field research night. (The last post was a preliminary getting-a-feel-for-things outing.) I…