They don’t care about us
As Milwaukee burns and Baton Rouge floods, I wrote about the abandonment of the heartland for Quartz: They come for the chaos. They don’t stay for the banal…
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Infrastructure – Peripheral Visions and Bodies that Matter: A Commentary
*A commentary on Part II of our Engagement thematic series, The Nature of Infrastructure. By Bettina Stoetzer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology § In the past few years, the…
Notes on the 13th digital ethnography reading (Takhteyev 2012)
Takhteyev, Y. (2012). Coding Places: Software practice in a South American city. MIT Press. Notes by Tresa LeClerc Non/fiction Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melb…
Trump and Putin: A Bad Bromance
For Quartz, I looked over years of Russian-language coverage of Trump, which long preceded his campaign, and reflected on their relationship and their collaborative white supremacist bases: While…
Trump’s foreign policy is actually a domestic attack
From my latest for the Globe and Mail: He had no intention of making an actual foreign policy speech. Instead, he made a domestic policy speech aimed at…
Teaching Decolonizing Methodologies
This essay first appeared on the website Savage Minds. For about a decade I have been teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology at Columbia University called “Decolonizing Methodology”…
More on Poland, Russia and the US
The Polish news outlet Onet did another interview with me on the US election and its potential ramifications for Poland and other Eastern European states. You can read…
Grassroots Necro-tourism in Napoli
Guest contributor Markus Bell is a lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @mpsbell. Italy is in trouble. Big trouble. The…
CFP: Media & Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public…
ERDOĞAN HAR GÜLEN UNDER HUDEN!
I desember 2013 ble det klart for alle at Erdoğan var i åpen konflikt med predikanten Fetullah Gülen. Tidligere hadde disse to og deres organisasjoner AK partiet og…
GÜLEN SIN MYSTISKE MAKT
I kjølvannet av kuppforsøket har det i den norske offentligheten vært mest oppmerksomhet om problematiske sider ved de tyrkiske myndighetenes respons, og hvordan kuppet kanskje var rigget av…
HVEM STOD BAK KUPPFORSØKET I TYRKIA?
Tidenes største folkemøte i Tyrkia ble arrangert sist søndag (7. august 2016). 5 millioner mennesker var til stede på den statsorganiserte massemønstringer i Istanbul for å markere demokrati…
Teaching AAA 2016: Narratives, Evidence, and Uncertainty
This is the fifth 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…
On Clinton Derangement Syndrome
In which I try to explain to a European audience this unique pathology affecting Americans: The answer is often axiomatic. People hate Hillary Clinton because people hate Hillary…
Assassination
Another horrifying day in the US election. My latest on Trump’s assassination threats for Globe and Mail: “By the way, and if she gets the pick – if…
AAA Intern Update: National Museum of African Art
This post was submitted by one of AAA’s 2016 summer interns, Chrislyn Laurore, an anthropology student at Mount Holyoke College. By now, many of us who have taken…
If Trump loses, who follows?
My latest for Quartz is a sequel of sorts to my Foreign Policy piece (see below) on the repercussions of a Trump loss, and how his campaign has…
An Update From Our Interns: NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch
This post comes from one of AAA’s 2016 summer interns, Kory Cooper, an anthropology student at Missouri State University. I can’t imagine a better place to work than…
Ethics in the Anthropocene: new paper in The Anthropocene Review
Together with Peter Brown and Chris Orr (both at McGill), I’ve co-authored a new article now available at The Anthropocene Review in advance of print. If you’d like…
Burning incense | 烧香
One month ago I happened to drop by Basement6 right on time for the opening of a solo exhibition by Shangainese artist 许聪 Xu Cong called Technological Spectacle…
The Intrinsic Economy (why the Republicans must lose in the long term)
The shouting! The hyperbole! The balloons! Thank God the political conventions are finally over. Cleveland, Philadelphia, and television can finally get back to normal. But the ideological turbines…
Islam, devotional genres and electronic mediation in Mauritius
Here comes the ninth (9th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Lots of new articles on the election apocalypse
I’ve been a little lazy about updating this website, which I use mostly to let readers know what I’ve written recently. Lately I’ve written a lot! Here’s everything…
Wake up, Freak Out – Then Get Over It
A short animated clip that, if doesn’t embed properly below, is available here.