Tag: privilege
standplaatswereld , April 18th, 2022
By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up…
David Berliner , April 23rd, 2021
Disclaimer: Over the last few days, I have had a writing episode. Nothing had come out of my brain for months. I was teaching online and worrying about…
The Familiar Strange , May 17th, 2020
This week we bring you another from home Zoom panel! This week we are joined by Senior lecturer Dr Yasmine Musharbash. Dr Musharbash is currently based in the…
María Florencia Blanco Esmoris , May 13th, 2020
The house and the body are the protagonists of isolation. In Argentina, staying at home is experienced as an unequal privilege. The coronavirus put on the table such…
The Familiar Strange , March 29th, 2020
The situation in which we now find ourselves in the privileged postcolonial West is a new one in the postwar period, but one that is more known to…
Rose Deller , June 3rd, 2019
In Posh Boys: How the English Public Schools Ruin Britain, Robert Verkaik explores the role that public schooling plays in reproducing inequality in Britain, showing how public schools enable wealthy…
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Rose Deller , January 28th, 2019
In The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison offer a unique and encapsulating analysis of class inequality at the top end…
→Sociology and Anthropology book reviews – LSE Review of Books
Rose Deller , January 28th, 2019
In The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged, Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison offer a unique and encapsulating analysis of class inequality at the top end…
→Sociology and Anthropology book reviews – LSE Review of Books
Carie Little Hersh , June 30th, 2017
Are you a heterosexual? Feeling discriminated against by a persecuted minority? Why can’t we celebrate what makes us common and powerful? Just because we’re not unique, it doesn’t…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , March 15th, 2015
The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on a road to destruction Whether it’s…
amysantee , February 7th, 2015
Presenting another installment of a collection of most-highly-recommended articles and websites that shaped my thinking throughout the past few weeks on the following topics: design, research, busines…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , January 18th, 2015
According to anthropologist Barbara King, one alternative to the 2014 Merriam-Webster Dictionary word of the year “culture” is “privilege.” For the political anthropologist, Pr…
Fran Barone , December 12th, 2012
Since my last blog post got picked up by Ryan at Savage Minds, related discussions on the subjects of academia, anthropology and disciplinary discontent have been taking place…