Are Urban Explorers Heritage Activists?: The ‘Eternal Drabness’ of DeHoCo
“[Urban exploration] is a community of people who by their inherent nature break rules and expectations. Expecting them to then follow the rules of a community is patently…
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Cleaning Up Cairo
One of the things I teach my students about power in my Peoples of the World class at Miami University is that power rests in the ways that…
Welcome to the Authoritarian Kleptocracy
We are running out of time. My interviews and articles about what awaits, written since Election Day: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss (11/9/16) — Globe and Mail…
7 December: VU Amsterdam Ethnographic Film Day
What is the value of film as medium for ethnographic fieldwork? With which dilemmas are film-making anthropologists confronted? What is the relationship between visual methods and other methods?…
Creating Participatory Democracy (Or Trying, Anyway)
In hindsight, the biggest problem with the extraordinary protests in Tahrir Square was the lack of a coherent plan for creating democracy once Mubarak stepped down. I hear that…
REZEKI: Gold and Stone Mining in Aceh
“REZEKI: Gold and Stone Mining in Aceh” was produced jointly by SEATIDE and the University of Milano-Bicocca. The 52-minute film is based on Giacomo Tabacco’s and Silvia Vignato’s…
Over rankings en aanvangssalarissen: antropologie in het nieuws
Door Freek Colombijn Ruim een week geleden vertelde ik op een voorlichtingsdag dat de opleiding culturele antropologie en ontwikkelingssociologie aan de VU al jarenlang door de Keuzegids Ho…
#AAA2016 Melanesia Interest Group Business Meeting
Those of you attending this year’s annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association are warmly invited to attend the annual Business Meeting of the Melanesia Interest Group, which…
Bibliography of the Egyptian Revolution Updated
The Bibliography resource on the Egyptian uprisings has been updated. The bibliography now includes over 875 references. Updates include articles from such journals as Digest of Middle East Studies, …
What Now?
chartwell west I’m not a liberal. I’m not a safe space, social crusader. I’m not a sore loser who can’t get over the fact that Hillary Clinton wasn’t…
Jemen, een vergeten oorlog – #watkanikdoen?
Vijf jaar na de revolutie in Jemen: het land is in crisis, voedsel op rantsoen, prijzen stijgen de pan uit, mensen ontvluchten dood en verderf, en vredesinitiatieven stagneren.…
A Plea for Post-Election Empathy From The Intellectuals
Here are links to two brilliant articles addressing the change we are seeing in our country – exemplified by our current presidential election. Cracked: How half of America…
Teaching Anthropology Through Student Writing Projects on Wikipedia: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by Carwil…
A Pitch Session for Ethnographic Filmmakers: Developing Your Story, Integrating Your Research, Finding Funding and Distribution: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by Alice…
Ankara’s Long Arm: Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
By Matthias Teeuwen Last Thursday Professor Thijl Sunier gave a lecture on the backlash in the Netherlands of the coup attempt in Turkey in July. The room was…
Teaching AAA 2016: Multimodality, Accidenticality and the Possible Futures of Anthropological Research
This is the seventh post in our blog series designed to help you link your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery. The series offers relevant teaching resources…
Morgenbladet og Gülenister
I Morgenbladet Nr. 43./4.-10. november 2016 fortelles historien om «juks, vold og forfalskning» ved Drammen montessoriskole. Jeg skrev i mitt blogginnlegg Gülens mystiske makt at «Mangfoldhuset og lik…
“The Arab Spring: Five Years After”
Third World Quarterly has a special collection of articles on “The Arab Spring: Five Years After.” The collection of six papers is edited by Richard Falk, of Princeton,…
Anthropology and Environment Society at the 2016 AAA Meeting
Anthropology and Environment Society Panels and Events at AAA 2016 INVITED SESSIONS Friday, November 18, 2016 10:15 – 12:00 pm UNCOMMON TERRITORIES OF THE ‘COMMON GOOD’ (Oral session…
Methods for Conducting Community Based Participatory Action Research in Schools and Communities: AAA 2016 Workshop Highlight
We asked Annual Meeting workshop organizers to give our blog readers a sneak peek at the events they have planned for AAA 2016. This post was submitted by…
The election and the threat of white supremacist violence
If you’re going to read anything I write about the election this week, make it this piece for De Correspondent — on white supremacist mobs, political violence, and…
Conspiracies and machinations: what’s going on with the FBI?
For about a year, I have been arguing that Trump is trying to pull fringe movements to the center and mainstream extremism — and has succeeded thanks to the…