Affective Infrastructures
My paper on affective infrastructure has just come out in the latest issue of Public Culture. http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_82/363.abstract The paper builds on the work on …
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Method and Politics in the Dee Estuary
I am leading a research group at the moment called SLOM:Lab (Social life of Methods Lab). This is a blog post I wrote for the SLOM:Lab.org website last …
The Artisanal Economies, Entry # 1: the Sofi interview
Yesterday, walking to see friends in Boston’s South End, I stumbled across Olives and Grace I am working on a project called The Artisanal Economies. So I had…
Join us to celebrate 50 years of Anthropology at VUW (May 10-12)
Come join our celebration! You’ll get to hear Dame Joan Metge, Dame Prof Anne Salmond, Prof Michael Jackson, and a host of other anthropologists. All welcome. vicanthropology This…
New Brain-Imaging Scans for Patients in Vegetative States
The other day I read a headline regarding a woman waking up from a vegetative state after seven years. After reading many articles about the Terri Schiavo case,…
SOMAA Research Roundup
Roundup of medical anthropology research in Aotearoa New Zealand. SOMAA Welcome to our first SOMAA research roundup. Here you’ll find brief summaries and links to recent publications by SOMAA members…
Spring (northern hemisphere) Anthropocene books out now or soon…
A few recently released or soon to be released titles (not counting my own) on various aspects of the Anthropocene. Clive Hamilton’s Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, Part VIII
My latest articles and interviews, on Trump, Russia, North Korea, Syria, and more: Globe and Mail: Trump craves praise. We praise him for bombings. What could possibly go wrong? (4/13/17)…
Australian gas: between a fracked rock and a socially hard place
Kim de Rijke, The University of Queensland Australia´s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s response to the looming east coast gas shortage has been to secure a promise from gas…
ER ERDOGAN NASJONALISTISK NOK TIL Å VINNE FOLKEAVSTEMNINGEN?
Det er en underlig, og bekymringsverdig, kontekst for den kommende folkeavstemningen i Tyrkia. 16. april skal folket bestemme om Tyrkia skal beholde dagens konstitusjon eller endre betydelige deler…
Maternal Deaths in the U.S.
Photo Credit: Elisa Talentino, New York Times When most American couples get pregnant their attentions immediately turn to the bundle of joy they are about to bring into…
‘This House Is Occupied’: Demolition Politics in the Belgian ‘spookstad’ of Doel
Last week I visited the small ghost town (“spookstad” in Dutch) of Doel in northwest Belgium. Doel has been at the center of an international controversy for the…
Mobiliteitsproblemen in een gated community
Pakuwon City (alle foto’s in dit stuk zijn gemaakt door Freek Colombijn) Door Freek Colombijn Normaal zoek ik voor veldwerk in Indonesië een verblijfplaats in een kampon…
Aesthetics or Ethnography? Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
Photography by Omar, one of Termeer’s respondents By Matthias Teeuwen When one thinks of a Muslim artist in the Netherlands one naturally thinks of someone who, with his…
Media practices and social movements reading list
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…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy, part VII
Articles and interviews from the last week: Globe and Mail: At long last, a forum where Trump cannot escape the truth (3/21/17) World Policy Journal: From Andijon to Bowling Green:…
Tales of becoming a public anthropologist
Thoughtful piece on becoming a public anthropologist in Aotearoa New Zealand by my colleague Catherine Trundle vicanthropology Academics are increasingly called upon to apply their skills and knowled…
Squatting and Concepts of Property Ownership in the Netherlands
Yesterday, I spent the afternoon in Rotterdam with a friend, local, and part-time Detroiter, and I learned a lot about housing policy and the long, complex history of…
Jazz Funerals
New Orleans is well known for its spectacle and pageantry of civic ritual, represented in festivals like Mardi Gras. The spectacle display is also seen in their funeral…
Vad har reformationen med antropologi att göra? Reflektioner kring antropologi, kristendom och ett sidoaltare.
av Kristina Helgesson Kjellin I Skärholmens kyrkorum finns det ett sidoaltare, eller ett Mariaaltare, något som inte är vanligt i en protestantisk tradition, men som är desto vanligare…
Fornello: Connecting to Culture at the Roots
This post was authored by Theresa Felicetti, the Project Coordinator at the John Brown Heritage Foundation and a two time participant in the Fornello project. I come from…
My new book! Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity
I am very pleased to announce that my new book is out. Technically, Amazon and other outlets might not ship it until April 4th, but I saw it…
Notes on the counter-revolution
The period since 1945 saw a revolution in world society which, by the 1990s, had turned into widespread popular emancipation from the repressive state controls installed during the…