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Focaal Web Editor , December 11th, 2017
As we sit here in Barcelona, a historic center of anarchism and left resistance, the questions debated in the most recent Focaal special section “Exploring the urban commons” confront us….
Eeva Berglund , September 20th, 2017
Researching with social movements (environmental activism, makerspaces) brings ethnography’s nuanced, embodied and collective sense-making to the fore. I also argue that anthropological research…
guestauth0r , September 18th, 2017
Newman’s activists press for environmental change imbedded with critiques of capitalism and industrialization, racial injustice, and its global implications. This view distorts the complexity of histo…
Max Liboiron , September 1st, 2017
Colonialism in Canada is an ongoing structure whereby settler society and government assert sovereignty over lands already occupied by Indigenous peoples.
guestauth0r , August 21st, 2017
When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division…
Deborah Jones , July 6th, 2017
The color white embodied exclusionary middle-class aspirations to moral governance and virtuous citizenship. Romania’s “White Revolution” (January–February 2017), the most recent episode of East Eur…
John Postill , June 23rd, 2017
Invited lecture to the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre on Social Movement Studies, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Fl…
Max Liboiron , June 19th, 2017
A reading list of the David and Goliath story of communities versus industries, governments, and polluting infrastructures.
Max Liboiron , May 1st, 2017
Held on Tuesday, August 29, this event will explore possibilities for data justice through a framework of environmental justice.
John Postill , March 29th, 2017
A preliminary, abridged reading list on the topic of media practices and social movements in preparation for the Summer School on Media in Political Participation and Mobilization, Centre…
guestauth0r , February 27th, 2017
The forces arrayed against Donald Trump’s presidency in the US could soon encompass most of the world once Trump’s climate change threats meet resistance.
guestauth0r , December 22nd, 2016
Stopping the pipeline in one spot, after all, won’t stop oil altogether. Climate change, however, is a threat most of all to Indigenous peoples around the world.
Max Liboiron , December 15th, 2016
Some of Trumps efforts are literally to support and intensify environmental pollution, and some are efforts to make certain people disposable. But people are fighting back. A lot…
John Postill , October 23rd, 2016
By Veronica Barassi via EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list We will be launching our next e-seminar on Tuesday 25 October 2016 at 00:00 GMT. If you are…
John Postill , October 23rd, 2016
Proposal to the special issue of Media, Culture and Society on “Media, political cultures and social movements”, Veronica Barassi, Alice Mattoni and Anastasia Kavada (eds.). John Postill (RMIT)…
Max Liboiron , October 20th, 2016
Deferring to molecules rather than social movements when it comes to contamination is a case of power relations.
Focaal Web Editor , October 6th, 2016
The rightful share and the lion’s share Brazil is at a critical juncture. Improvements in social welfare that have been achieved over the past two decades threaten to…
guestauth0r , June 6th, 2016
By Alex V. Barnard “Seeing all the waste exposes very clearly the priorities in our society, that making a profit is more important than feeding people, than preserving the…
guestauth0r , May 2nd, 2016
Portable toilets and urine on colonial era statues are reconciliations ruins, the things leftover that heritage helps to frame but yet cannot fully explain. As matter that remains…
Kerim , April 29th, 2016
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…
Focaal Web Editor , March 15th, 2016
This post is the introduction to a series on the Latin American pink tide, moderated and edited by Massimiliano Mollona (Goldsmiths, University of London). The twenty-first century opened…
Deborah Jones , March 4th, 2016
Road M15 near Reni, Ukraine in October, 2013. Photo courtesy Simon Schlegel When protests erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013, I was conducting fieldwork in southern Bessarabia,…
Heidi K. Lam , December 16th, 2015
What imagery has come to define political life in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe? In the summer of 2012, a few hundred protesters gathering weekly in front…
“Anthropology for peace”
Anne Kelsey , April 11th, 2016
In the Communications Unit at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) where I work, there are posters from an old engagement campaign that read “_____ for peace.” The…
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