An unaired interview on Trump, authoritarianism and kleptocracy
A few weeks ago, a news outlet sent me some interview questions, which I answered too late for the interviewer to use and therefore they didn’t get printed.…
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Supporting Students Impacted by Proposed Immigration Policy Changes
This post was authored by Susan Bibler Coutin, with Anita Casavantes Bradford and Laura E. Enriquez. As an anthropologist who writes about immigration issues, many of my conversations…
Feldforschung in anarchistischen Projekten
Die eigene Abschlussarbeit führt viele Studierende der Ethnologie in ihre erste, selbstorganisierte Feldforschung. Wie fühlt es sich an, allein in einem zunächst unbekannten sozialen Umfeld unterwegs …
What Did Hosni Mubarak Mean By “Democracy”
That democracy means different things to different people is a truism so obvious as to be banal. But the intercultural problem that raises remains perpetually interesting: what do…
Phenomenology of the Virtual and the Real
A long over-due crosspost from gnovis! Way back in 2011 I embarked on a project exploring the colloquial distinction between “the Internet” and “the real” — as in,…
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…
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…