Tag: Reflexivity
Chelsea Horton , November 20th, 2020
How an artistic method can challenge and enrich our understandings of vision and knowledge. Imagine […] an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but…
standplaatswereld , November 12th, 2020
In this episode, Puck de Boer talks with Aleeha Ali, who studied sociology in Pakistan, did a research master’s in anthropology in the UK and is currently a…
Alexandra Frankel , April 8th, 2019
The radicalism of the 1960s transformed anthropology. But ours was not the racist, exoticizing, colonial project it was imagined to be. The 1960s—Vietnam and resistance to the war;…
standplaatswereld , September 12th, 2018
by Suzanne Jansen A finished thesis is a tailor-made product: it has that perfect mixture of scientific knowledge embedded in lively ethnographic tales of the field. In my…
Alexandra Frankel , September 5th, 2018
1969—Stonewall, British troops sent to Northern Ireland, Equal Employment Opportunity, Biafra, Woodstock, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black congresswoman, the Apollo 11 moon landing, combat dea…
Emma Louise Backe , June 26th, 2018
Anthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate power dynamics. These are the very theore…
The Familiar Strange , May 23rd, 2018
We need to acknowledge the role we all play in silencing research. Consider the times we have dismissed a colleague’s idea because it ‘isn’t worth it’, or immediately…
The Familiar Strange , February 21st, 2018
Comparing my own experiences of death to those of the Tiwi culture that I learned of in my anthropology studies, the void that I felt in the months…
Julia Brown , February 7th, 2018
As I now write up my data, I’m representing people that I can no longer consult. I can only draw on the words they gave me and the…
Alexandra Frankel , December 15th, 2017
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and the antsy, itchy, compulsion to raise…
Alexandra Frankel , November 17th, 2017
Partnering with business for sustainability. Although the US federal government under the Trump administration is working to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency and withdraw from the Paris…
The Familiar Strange , October 18th, 2017
Author: Nonie Tuxen, PhD candidate in the Sociology of Education at the ANU. Nonie’s research explores youth engagement with international education and how class status is correspondingly (re)produce…
Eli Thorkelson , September 9th, 2017
A few years ago there was a special issue of LATISS about a noteworthy initiative at the University of Illinois, the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), which…
Nick Mizer , September 8th, 2017
BY STEVEN DASHIELL Graduate school has in many ways blessed me with what I call a researcher’s eye, or the ability to view the world in an ethnographic…
amysantee , February 24th, 2017
Thinking in terms of a business and design context, what is a researcher? There is no one path, no one exact job description, no one single approach or…
smulla16 , February 15th, 2017
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Robert Lemelson , May 5th, 2016
We are announcing the first piece in a new series that we will be promoting on the Psycho Cultural Cinema blog on “Visual Ethnographic Marginalia” which are multimedia…
Alison Hanson , December 24th, 2015
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political issues with a new…
Alex K. Gearin , January 12th, 2015
Despite Hiedegger’s revolutionary claim that it is not possible to escape existence and find a view of the world from nowhere,we continue to divide anthropology into neat subfields— defined typi…
Arshinta , March 20th, 2014
“Daddy, you cannot die now, because now I have finally become successful, I can buy a car, I can build a house, I can finally prove myself to…
Institutionalizing Critical University Studies
Eli Thorkelson , June 9th, 2017
One thing I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while is the slow institutionalization of a subfield of “Critical University Studies” (call it CUS). For those who…
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