Flight 1095
Coming home from Phoenix on Friday, I found myself sharing the plane with Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer, and Bret Stephens. Bryant and Bayer are SNL players. Stephens (below) is Foreign…
Tag: politics
Lifting the Emotional Embargo With Cuba
The June heat was so intense, the air so still, that the open balcony doors offered little relief. Anthropologist Ruth Behar felt her clothes sticking as she looked…
What’s Fueling “The Bern?” The Secret Every Marketer Should Know
Yet another view into the world of a “professional” narcissistic anthropologist at work. Posted this morning on the company site / linkedin. On a side note, I was…
33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice
Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘…
Trump’s Tactics and Republican Speechlessness
The most astounding thing about the rise of Donald Trump is not his willingness to use racist hatred as a central theme in his presidential campaign—it’s the unwillingness…
Scholarly meetings with a “Disclaimer and Waiver”
I’m guessing that most anthropologists don’t read the Disclaimer and Waiver to which you must consent when you register for conferences through the American Anthropological Association. It…
Exploring Boundaries: From Access to Female Sexworkers to the Question of Research
When designing a research project, a researcher’s initial plans are often interrupted by what data we actually can access. Whether negotiating political structures, cultural taboos, necessary permissi…
New Earth Politics: new book out soon on politics in the #Anthropocene
Details from MIT Press Here New Earth Politics Essays from the Anthropocene Edited by Simon Nicholson and Sikina Jinnah Overview Humanity’s collective impact on the Earth is …
REDUX: Scenes of #Gentrification
Scene One: London Soho and Bloomsbury I used to love London for its Indian and Thai vegan restaurants, vibrant queer cafes, independent bookstores, second hand antiquaries, esoteric health…
Happy #WorldAnthropologyDay! Celebrate with these great episodes! #WorldAnthroDay
Happy World Anthropology Day! To celebrate #WorldAnthropologyDay we here at TaL have curated some of our favorite past episodes covering how we approach anthropology and where we see…
Elections in Uganda 2016: Rumours and the Terror of the Unknown, by Henni Alava and Cecilie Lanken Verma
Two parallel realities appear to exist in pre-election Uganda, especially when seen from the northern region of Acholiland ten years after it was declared ‘post-conflict’. In one, everything…
The power of language: discourses and efficacious fussiness in the Ugandan elections, by Anna Baral
On February 15, 2016, three days before Ugandan general elections, the four-times presidential candidate (and never a winner) Kizza Besigye was stopped by anti-riot and military police with…
A View From the Train Tracks
In September 2015, the disturbing image of a drowned Syrian toddler named Aylan Kurdi, whose body had washed ashore on a beach in Turkey, triggered an international outcry…
Making Love—and Nations
Staunchly opposed to marriages outside his nation, John Ross, the principal chief of the Cherokee from the late 1820s until his death in 1866, helped introduce restrictive laws…
CFP: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water
I’ve copied below the CFP for a special issue, see original here. Special Issue CFP: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water Overview [Feb 3, 2016] Decolonization: Indigeneity,…
They flirt, they share porn and they gossip
The last four months of 2015 were tough. I was locking myself in a claustrophobic student carrel every day, spending 9 hours staring at a computer screen but…
Laughter is Social Glue
“Humor Versus Color” by Mita Roy ~ This cartoon was created in the spirit of generativity similar to the Raagmala paintings of India, in which visual art was…
The mediated modernities of Tuareg smith women
Occasionally I will be posting on this blog some notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and…
In Memoriam, Sidney Mintz, 1922-2015
Professor Sidney Wilfred Mintz, affectionately known as “Sid,” passed away on December 26, 2015. In a first and now widely-shared post, Elizabeth Dunn succinctly conveyed the thoughts of…
Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this feature entails are collaborations – events, even research ventures…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
In defence of our universal double standards
The two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief, identity, and double standards.…
Gun Control Podcast – Bring Sanity to Gun Violence
Update 14 June 2017: Re-releasing this Gun Control Podcast from 2015 as the stories break on Alexandria and the San Francisco UPS. I support gun control and a…
Gun Control Podcast – Bringing Sanity to Gun Violence
This gun control podcast was recorded October 2015 for a Natalia Reagan project which was to be titled “Science for Social Change.” At the time, the gun control…