Quantum Arms Race
A lot has been said and written about the impending unleashing of quantum technology in the world. Whereas many sing paeans to the potential of the technology to…
Tag: politics
The Travesties of India’s Tribal Boarding Schools
[no-caption] Biswaranjan Rout/AP Photo The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, is the world’s largest boarding school. KISS is a private school that…
Race, Place, and Latinx Political Choices
How can there be talk of a singular Latinx vote without recognizing the differentiated racial experiences among Latinxs? During the 2020 primary elections, a New York Times headline,…
Spelling a Nation’s Name
Ruined buildings serve as reminders of the lives lost and displaced by the Kosovo War more than two decades ago. Erina Baci I’ve been rewriting a grant application…
SAR Press Top Reads: Politics and Power
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division
I endorse the Biden-Harris ticket for the United States presidency. I believe this is more than a personal preference–it is informed by anthropology. In short: Anthropology endorses Biden-Harris…
“Imperialist Goats” & Tanzania’s Oct. 28 Elections
If you look at one of those world maps that show where Covid-19 cases are currently spiking, you will notice that the United Republic of Tanzania is usually…
The Casual Menace of a Trump Rally
After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, supporters of president-elect Donald Trump packed the Giant Center (shown here) for a victory rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Anand Pandian Thin…
#Book Symposium: Tasting Qualities
How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one of the many beverages with roots in colonialism.…
#BookSymposium: Tasting Qualities
As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in the world of British tea drinkers. On June…
Mourning while fighting for justice: The first months of the NOI DENUNCEREMO association, Bergamo, Italy by Chiara Alfieri
This post was co-authored by members of CoMeSCov program who contributed to the development of research questions, data collection tools and data analysis: Firmin Kra, Francesca Mininel, Fleur…
Book Review: Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith
In Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism, Mareile Pfannebecker and J.A. Smith address the problems in the prevailing discourse on work and outline…
What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying
President Trump frequently uses language that White power extremists understand as expressing support for their views. Angus Greig Donald Trump’s path to the U.S. presidency in 2016 was…
Janne Heederik: The Voluntarisation of Welfare in Manchester: A Blessing and a Burden
As a result of welfare reform and continuing budget cuts, social service agencies in the UK have struggled to make ends meet and match the still-growing demand on…
Talking about Elections in Northern Kenya
An anthropologist recalls a conversation with three older women as they reflected on their experiences of electoral politics past and present. “What politics have people of nowadays seen;…
Neuroanthropology 2020-09-05 03:49:06
“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out what they think is…
Why White Kids Need Hamilton More Than Ever
[no-caption] Travis Wise/Flickr Every morning when my son opens the dishwasher for his morning chores, his daily tribute to the Broadway musical Hamilton begins in song: “How does…
The Militarisation of the COVID-19 Response in South Africa (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (4 Less Words) Susan Levine, Lenore Manderson The imponderabilia of our COVID times As medical anthropologists well versed in the social grammar of infectious…
Ep #61 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland on Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in the Mekong Region
The Familiar Strange · #60 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland On Anti-Trafficking Initiatives In The Mekong Region A content warning before we get into this week’s interview. Today’s topic…
Why Capitalizing “Black” Matters
An intergenerational photo of a Black family in Texas captures the enduring legacy of both community and family. Thomas Barwick/Getty Images In the last few weeks, major media…
Double Injustice: Media Racism
Back in 2003 Imogen Bunting, whose birthday it would have been today, wrote this on the film INJUSTICE by Tariq and Ken. To date the film still has…
Education Philosophy and Theory special journal issue on Innovating Institutions
Please read the intro (free access) and follow up the rest (you know how): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1757395 Whole issue: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/52/11?…
#Review: Meat Planet
If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which bioreactors replace, or at least exist alongside, industrial…
Do this. [Ban Cars – NYT].
I think something like this needs to be done for most cities. I mean, not just prepare an article like this, but implement versions of it. Would be…