Tag: narratives
| , April 6th, 2020
https://brill.com/view/title/38668 Interview by Dilara Inam Dilara Inam: As you say you blur many taken-for-granted distinctions between spontaneous and rehearsed or quotidian and unconventional ways…
Brian McKenna , July 11th, 2019
Poisoned Water, Racism and the Specter of Neoliberal Fascism “Flint still doesn’t have clean water.”[1] Michelle Wolf, White House Correspondents Dinner, April 28, 2018 “Neoliberal fascism, as a…
Akil Fletcher , May 30th, 2019
Last month, the highly anticipated video game Mortal Kombat 11 (MK11) was released to an excited yet wary fighting game community. Game studio NetherRealm’s newest incarnation received praise…
Alexandra Frankel , November 9th, 2018
In a climate of pervasive narratives of wealth creation and success, how can anthropology hold corporate and tech sectors to account? In March 2014, Business Insider published the…
Eva-Marie Dubuisson , October 11th, 2017
The workshop “The Future of Central Asian Studies” was organized by Judith Beyer and Madeleine Reeves at the University of Konstanz and held on the 11-13th of September…
aaaguestcontributor , August 11th, 2016
This is the fifth post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching…
Andrea Pia , May 2nd, 2016
The theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and Rights network and builds on its…
Focaal Web Editor , August 12th, 2015
According to Richard Seymour (2015), current European austerity politics ought to be regarded not as a temporary period of economic rationalization during crisis but rather as a shift…
Nicole McMurray , July 6th, 2015
Nearly half the population of Sierra Leone is under the age of 18 years and the impact of the Ebola crisis on their lives now and on their…
IC_UGC , April 29th, 2015
Taking the two West African countries of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau as examples, the paper analyses how discourses of suffering can contribute to the emergence and development of a…
→Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast/West Africa (IC_UGC)
Grant , April 21st, 2015
I am a long standing fan of Orphan Black but this season they lost me. I tuned in for the opening episode of the new season, and it…