Protest Matters! #AAA2017 Installation and Virtual Museum
Protest Matters! is an interactive temporary museum of protest objects that will run in conjunction with the AAA meetings in Washington DC next month. The project invites academics,…
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A Defense of the Charlottesville Counter-Protesters
Not all forms of violence are created equal. On August 12, violence unfolded at a white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Trump’s immediate reaction…
From supporting migrants to protesting for change
By Lysanne Vrooman Almost half a year ago, on the 25th of March 2017, it was the sixtieth anniversary of the treaty of Rome.…
Why Deportation to Afghanistan is Wrong
Since the first week of August, hundreds of young Afghan asylum seekers have been holding a sit-down protest against deportation in central Stockholm. The protest is staged on…
Protest & Politics: Sounds from Budapest and Beyond
Do you remember your last protest? I do, because I spent the protest alone with my headphones on clutching a sound recorder. I was trying to avoid both…
Pride in Resistance
In the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Pride marches and parades are taking place against a backdrop where taking to the streets has been resignified as a potent,…
The Unwelcomed Guest
Fibonacci Blue, CC BY 2.0 Early in April the faculty at Indiana University had a heated email discussion about Charles Murray’s visit to our campus. The co-author of…
Shifting realities – #IstandwithCEU
Solidarity during the protest in support of CEU and academic freedom on 2 April 2017. (Photo courtesy of Index.hu) By Georgette Veerhuis A few weeks ago I was…
Kendzior: In Defense of Complaining
This was meant to be a book review. Instead, it’s an essay about the power—and importance—of complaining.[1] The book under consideration here is Sarah Kendzior’s The View from…
D+A #2: What Makes a Protest Successful and How do I get involved?
Today’s D+A minisode follows on the heels of last week’s powerful conversation with Jara Connell on protesting and people-powered forms of resistance. In this minisode Jara offers us…
Protesting the Powers that Be and Being the Power that Protests w/ Jara Connell
What does mass-protesting accomplish? Does no arrests equate success? Why is protesting disruptive? And more! In this action packed episode of This Anthropological Life, Aneil, Adam, and…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 12: Kevin G. Karpiak on the critical potential of an anthropology of police
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, Week 5: Meg Stalcup and Charles Hahn on Technology, Surveillance, and Security
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
#EverythingMustFall: The Use of Social Media and Violent Protests in the Current Wave of Student Riots in South Africa
Figure 1. Rhodes must fall. Photo by Desmond Bowles, April 2016 (CC BY SA 4.0). The past year has seen violent protests at most South African universities, where…
Virtual roundtable: Deniz Gökalp’s response #PoliticalAgency
1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I do not think that political agency is no longer relevant to understanding…
Why I’m Voting for the Boycott Part 3: It’s in the Resolution
This is the third post in a three-post series of personal reflections on the AAA boycott vote. The first post discussed my own childhood Zionist education, while the…
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…
Million Mask Marching #Performance
People have been trickling into the top of Trafalgar Square since noon. By five darkness has launched its steady discolouration of the world and there must be over…
24. Freedom technologists: a short reading list
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists This is the twenty-fourth post in the freedom technologists series. …
23. Freedom technologists bibliography
Freedom Technologists: Digital Activism and Political Change in the 21st Century (working title), Chapter 2, Freedom Technologists Annotated bibliography (see Doc version here) In this working biblio…
Shoes, walking and reflections on subtle conflicts within social movements #Fieldnotes
In my research, I have found myself walking constantly, primarily because the city where my field site is set breathes with mobilizations these days. Choice of shoes has…
Mitch Henriquez: Death by cop in the epicenter of global justice – and the virtues of (hashtag) activism
The Editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Paul Mutsaers with the latest entry in our ongoing Forum, #Ferguson and Elsewhere He had come to the Netherlands…
Pepper water and protests in Haiti
By Scott Freeman Tear gas is not uncommon in Port au Prince. Over the past decade, whether it has been protests over food shortages, controlling political demonstrations, or…
Manissa Maharawal: Shut it down: Notes on the #blacklivesmatter protests – Part 2
Part 2. Breaking windows and broken windows policing: “Do we have the same level of outrage when a young black person gets killed as we do when a…