Colonizing Mars or Colonizing the Earth? A Reflection on Landscape and SpaceX in Texas
By Robert Kopack, University of South Carolina § I was startled awake by a faint voice announcing something across the humid, coastal air. Maybe it was a shift…
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Perimeter Protection: The Resiliency of Plantation Infrastructures in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
In the Time of the Dinosaurs: Paleontological Affect
By Daniel Allen Solomon § In Timefulness (2018), geologist Marcia Bjornerud argues that one of the key problems of the contemporary historical moment, the so-called Anthropocene, is “time…
Emerging from Lockdown: “Moral pioneering” in Everyday Practices for Women in Europe and North America (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Sydney Howe As Europe and North America begin to ease lockdown restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, this essay looks broadly at…
Exceptional Geologies as Models for Life in Oklahoma’s “Fracking-Scenes”
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
What Does Toilet Paper Teach Us about Our Defecation Habits? by Bicram Rijal
Illustration by Bicram Rijal An Australian photographer embarks on a jungle expedition in search of a “critically endangered species.” With a Canon camera on his shoulder and a…
Reflecting on SARS, 17 years and two flu-like epidemics later by Katherine A. Mason
On April 12, 2003, I was evacuated from my post teaching English at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. I packed my belongings into two suitcases and a duffle…
Pollution Does Not “Go Away”: Mylar Balloons and Air Quality in California’s Pristine Wastelands
By Julia Sizek, University of California at Berkeley § Joshua Tree National Park regularly ranks as the National Park with the second-worst air quality, but its pollution is…
Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska
By William Voinot-Baron, University of Wisconsin at Madison § For several weeks after midsummer arrives along the lower Kuskokwim River, even as the days begin to shorten, the…
A Plantation inside the Cow: Capitalist Indigestions and the Rumen Microbial Universe
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Patient Zero and the Making of a Myth: History as an Archaeology of the Present by Ketil Slagstad
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic Richard A. McKay University of Chicago Press, 2017, 400 pages “An innocent he was not. He eventually told…
The Milk of Human Kindness by Penny Van Esterik
Sour Milk At the World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings in late May, 2018, the US delegation tried to water-down or dump a very mild resolution to confirm and…
Sharon Batt’s Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement by Grazia De Michele
Health Advocacy Inc. How Pharmaceutical Funding Changed the Breast Cancer Movement Sharon Batt UBC Press, 2017, 383 pages After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988, Sharon…
Pacific salmon declines and the thread-bare promises of modernity
By Neil Nunn, University of Toronto§ At every turn in my research examining the politics of mine-waste, salmon have spoken to me. They speak through a groundswell of…
Recovery Workers, Latinx Foodways, and Small-Business Development in New Orleans
Blog Editor’s note: This is the first installment in FoodAnthropology’s new series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome contributions from researchers in this area. More details…
Latinx Foodways in North America: A Blog Series
Sarah Fouts, series editor Postdoctoral Fellow Latin American and Latino Studies Program Lehigh University From threats of “taco trucks on every corner” and immigration raids in restaurants to…
The Anthropology of Humor – Responding to Everyday Racist Comments and Jokes
In the face of so much bigotry flying around on social media and in our daily lives, it’s good practice to remind ourselves of the best practices out…
Innovative Like Me: Best Practices for Writing Unbiased Job Ads
Below is a post @anthrolens blogger @JennLong3 wrote on LinkedIn. In this post, I write about diversity and bias in Canadian job ads. ————————————————————–…
Solutionism – The Role of Technology in Solving SocioTechnical Problems
It all began, over a year ago (June 2016), with what author Ethan Zuckerman described as hate-linking. Through this practice, Zuckerman stumbled upon and read an article by…
The Relationship between Social Justice & Anthropology
2017 on a whole has been a deadly year. This post was spurred by the terrorist attacks that we’ve seen in Western media but on a whole, many…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
Indigenous fire management
Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized and incorporated by non-Indigenous governments, businesses, and others into their own projects. While these engagements may often take th…