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Maximilian C. Forte , May 17th, 2021
Nobody (as far as I know) has commented on how hard this year of lockdowns has been on university professors. That’s good: nobody should. Many millions of workers…
anthropologies , March 15th, 2021
Hace un par de meses me llamaron la atención una serie de documentales del Discovery Channel, sobre cómo todas las dictaduras más férreas de la historia seguían un…
Maximilian C. Forte , April 29th, 2020
Part 3 of 5 of the COVID-19 Series. Indispensable. Here was the so-called “indispensable nation,” the self-appointed saviour of the world, with generations of its leaders and thinkers…
Maximilian C. Forte , January 6th, 2020
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And…
Florian Jung , December 27th, 2019
Medien und Politik im Westen haben die Demonstrationen in Hongkong von Anfang an kritisch begleitet. Die jeweiligen Standpunkte und Aktivitäten werden auch in China aufmerksam verfolgt und rufen…
Markus Wild , November 27th, 2019
Seit die Schwedische Akademie im Oktober 2019 verkündet hat, Peter Hanke den Nobelpreis zu verleihen, reisst Kritik an dieser Entscheidung nicht ab. Verdient Handke den Literaturnobelpreis? Verharmlos…
Maximilian C. Forte , September 29th, 2019
Following a week at the UN and ensuing climate change “protests” (state-sanctioned, party-approved, media-praised, university-endorsed, “protests”), in which we were yet agai…
Maximilian C. Forte , May 6th, 2019
What might world history have looked like if there had never been a United States, or if it ceased to exist before the 20th-century? Is “America” an “exceptional”…
Maximilian C. Forte , April 14th, 2019
In the avalanche of news reports that have washed over the globe since the abduction of Julian Assange, this conversation struck me as containing numerous points of importance….
Eva Bartlett , April 1st, 2019
Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In Gaza, for more of her work,…
Alexandra Frankel , December 17th, 2018
As the year winds down, Anthropology News rounds up our most popular articles of 2018. From critical reflections on the discipline and experiences of it, to grappling with…
Adam Hodges , June 6th, 2018
Collins Dictionary named “fake news” its 2017 word of the year, an easy choice given the word’s “unprecedented usage increase” of 365 percent over the previous year. Collins…
Adam Hodges , April 9th, 2018
Intertextuality and the propagation of disinformation Propaganda typically refers to manipulative techniques and misleading messages used to gain public acquiescence for a political cause, especially …
Lisa Krauss , July 13th, 2017
Eine Reihe von guten Taten beschäftigt derzeit die chinesische Netzgemeinde. Ausgelöst wurde die Diskussion von einer Reihe Fotos, die besonders vorbildliches Verhalten chinesischer Bürger in der U-Ba…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , August 16th, 2015
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , August 16th, 2015
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds/Blogs , August 16th, 2015
Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption There’s a cultural meme circulating locally about the upcoming election. It’s on the radio and TV, in newspapers, and th…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , July 26th, 2015
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds , July 26th, 2015
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…
Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds/Blogs , July 26th, 2015
What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common? Recently, the BBC ran a two-part documentary in the UK on how slave owners…
MPeterson , June 18th, 2015
When people keep getting warnings but nothing ever happens… they just start ignoring them. One of the interesting things about living as an expatriate in Egypt and India…
Maximilian Forte , October 11th, 2014
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Maximilian Forte , October 2nd, 2014
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Maximilian Forte , September 30th, 2014
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…