Integration by Clara Devlieger
In one of several letters he wrote to me during my fieldwork, Serge addressed what he considered to be the problems of integration for disabled people in the…
Tag: politics
Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
A Twitter essay by Mary Annaïse Heglar: Sorry, Y’all, but Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
Web Roundup: Who Counts? Who’s Counting? by Paula Martin
In March 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that the Justice department intended to include a new citizenship question on the 2020 US Census. This past November, a…
The counter-revolution in Venezuela, by Saleh Mamon
https://salehmamon.com/2019/02/04/the-counter-revolution-in-venezuela/ The counter-revolution in Venezuela Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) The United States is putting in place its long planned intervention f…
“We wunt be druv”- Intolerance of Tyranny at Lewes Bonfire
by Melissa Geere Lewes, a small town just ten minutes from the University of Sussex, makes headlines every November for its famous Bonfire celebrations. In 2018, the headlines were not…
Luisa Steur: A Women’s Wall against the fascist menace in Kerala? Some less-comfortable observations
On New Year’s Day, the world was treated to the spectacle of a 640-kilometer-long “Women’s Wall” in Kerala (South India). This human chain of more than five million…
The Pussyhat’s Identity Crisis
January 2019 marks the second anniversary of the Women’s March—a protest that arose in response to then U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “locker room talk” and to the…
The Internet & Democracy: Have We Learned Anything?
In the first wake of the Egyptian uprisings, and their framing as a “Facebook” revolution or Twitter revolution or “social media revolution” there was a lot of Utopian discours…
Role-playing urgency: bridging climate change knowledge and action?
Image: Adam Fleischmann “What does it mean to know climate change?” ask Henderson and Long in a 2015 piece for this site’s Anthropologies #21. Researchers on science education,…
Agnieszka Pasieka: Who is afraid of fascists? The Polish independence march and the rise of the (far?) right
“Polish leaders marched with the far right” was perhaps the most common description of the massive demonstration that took place in Warsaw on National Independence Day, 11 November.…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
John Postill on his new book, The Rise of Nerd Politics
Interview by Angela VandenBroek https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo27407562.html Angela VandenBroek: The Rise of Nerd Politics is a captivating description and analysis o…
Burroughs cartoon From Paris Review by Nathan Gelgud, adapted from Miles and Burroughs Esquire baboon Manifest.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/07/05/unconventional-part-4-william-s-burroughs-in-chicago/
Yemen
There is near silence about the war on Yemen led by KSA and UAE and supported by US, UK and France indicating the success of public relations bought…
Victor Albert: Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement is an assertive social work organization
On 21 October, Jair Bolsonaro, the now president-elect of Brazil, made an announcement via his smartphone that was transmitted to crowds of supporters gathered in São Paulo: “Criminals…
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
Melinda Cooper’s Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism by Ilana Gershon
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism Melinda Cooper MIT Press, 2017, 416 pages. Neoliberal policy in the United States sometimes seems internally contradictory….
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 2)
The second part of this interview with Nicholas De Genova moves into an analysis of the so-called refugee crisis since 2015 and possibilities for militant academic research that…
Musings from the murky middle ground of climate science and action
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg) “There are many reasons why people in our field work remotely,” one data analytics coordinator tells me. We are talking …
Cemile Gizem Dinçer and Eda Sevinin: Migration, activist research, and the politics of location: An interview with Nicholas De Genova (part 1)
In Turkey, especially after the Syrians’ arrival following 2011, the field of migration studies has more or less confined itself to mainstream discussions such as integration, social cohesion,…
Becoming Human: Malala Yousafzai and the Politics of Representation
by Carlo Ceglia Malala. It is enough to say her first name. How did this 21-year-old Pakistani girl – the youngest, as well as the only female Pakistani,…
Flávio Eiró: On Bolsonaro: Brazilian democracy at risk
Picture a street handcraft market in a touristic village called Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco, Northeast Region of Brazil. A few days before the second round of the…
Antonio Delgado will get the job done for NY-19
As you may have heard, mid-term elections are November 6 in the United States. My district is New York 19, which anthropologist Greg Laden sees as one of…
1.5ºC: The Future and Present of Anthropology in an Era of Climate Change
Image: Trent Schindler, NASA/Goddard/UMBC (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate-sim-center.html) Anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Adam Fleischmann Early Saturday morning, October 6,…