Times of Security: Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future
The editors of Anthropoliteia present to you the latest in our occasion series Interrogations, in which authors of recent volumes of interest to our readers discuss their work.…
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In the Journals – May 2016
Summer is here and that means that most of us will no doubt be undertaking fieldwork of some sort. But fear not, as we here at In the…
CFP: Special Issue on “Ethnographies of Security”
See below a CFP for a special issue of the journal Qualitative Sociology on “Ethnographies of Security,” to be guest edited by Anthropoliteia contributor Rebecca Hanson The policies…
In the Journals – March 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly recap of recent publications regarding security, law, crime, and governance. The upcoming April edition of Security Dialogue features a fantastic…
New Developments in Drone Proliferation: How Africa was Deployed to Rescue Drones, by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
Debates on global drone proliferation tend to assume that adoption and adaptation of drones follow a universal logic and that the drone industry is a singular thing, geographically…
In the Journals – November 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a look at recent publications in the world of security, law, crime, and governance. November has brought forth a number of engaging and…
Water roundup: new books & reports on groundwater and security
Over the weekend I mentioned a new (open access) book on Water, Society, and Technology. There are a couple of other new resources to be had, both from…
The Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance
[This invited post was written by Daniel O’Maley, who recently graduated with a PhD in cultural anthropology from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the global Internet freedom movement…
Water security in the Anthropocene: planetary hydrology, global finance, and the new development nexus
A bit of self-promotion for an upcoming talk at the University of East Anglia if you happen to be in the UK in late October.
In the Journals – August 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a round-up of recent journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. After a brief hiatus over the summer, we’re…
Caribbean military encounters
How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left lasting legacies… The Caribbean Studies Ass…
DragNet: April 20 – May 3, 2015
“I think you have to have a shared collective memory of the past to recognize another human being,” writes Lawrence Jackson. His post, On Becoming More Human, examines…
Anthropology and the Police
According to Dr Jennie Simpson, an anthropologist of policing in North America, one question to ask in the quest for cultural change within our local police force is,…