Is Lapis Lazuli Fuelling Conflict in Afghanistan?
by Magnus Marsden **Republished from Hurst.** A recent Global Witness report has brought much-needed attention to the plight of Afghanistan’s lapis lazuli and tourmaline mines, located in the…
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NYE MASSIVE OPPSIGELSER INKLUDERER OGSÅ AKEDEMIKERE SOM ALDRI HAR HATT NOE Å GJØRE MED GÜLEN
I mitt forrige blogginnlegg for bare noen dager siden skrev jeg hvor mange som totalt sett var avsatt og fengslet i forbindelse med utrenskningen av Gülen-tilhengere etter kuppforsøket…
Islam Karimov is dead
As I noted in an earlier post — which you should read if you’re interested in Uzbekistan — I have been studying Uzbekistan extensively for over a decade.…
A wall against open minds
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about Trump’s trip to Mexico and his horrifying immigration speech: The proposed Mexican wall is fantastical. It is as fantastical as…
How immigrants to America become “white”
For De Correspondent, I wrote on the white supremacist movement surrounding the Trump campaign, and the complicated history of “whiteness” in America. An excerpt on Polish-Americans: Here…
Really Really Getting Up to Speed for Tomorrow, Fall
This week the Mathers Museum of World Cultures has been part of a larger Indiana University effort to get the word out about an interlocking set of events…
Get Oriented to Themester 2016: Beauty
Reviewing the Mathers Museum of World Cultures events and exhibitions pages is probably the only way to get a full sense of all that we are doing for…
Charlie Rose vs. George Lucas
Charlie Rose recently interviewed George Lucas. And at the 16 minute mark, we see these two great men gently cross swords. It’s a really good talking point for those…
GULLKLOKKE OG FRYKT: UTRENSKNING AV GÜLEN-BEVEGELSEN I SVARTEHAVSREGIONEN
Det er nå en og en halv måned siden kuppforsøket i Tyrkia. Tre måneders unntakstilstand begynte 20. juli. Vi hører fremdeles om fengslinger, stenging av universiteter og masseoppsigelser…
Uzbekistan’s president may be dying. Here is all my research on Uzbekistan.
I’ve been studying Uzbekistan for over a decade. As both an MA and a PhD student, I studied the country extensively, and was the first scholar to study…
Creating and debating Harari identity over the internet
This is the tenth (10th) set of notes under the theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and S. Tenhunen (eds.)…
Improving Access to Scholarship: Material Vernaculars as Milestone and Experiment
First the take away, then the story. While produced in very nice and reasonably priced hardback, paperback, and ebook editions, works in the new Material Vernaculars series are…
What exactly are Anthropology MAs doing with their anthropology?
This post was authored by AAA summer intern Chrislyn Laurore, a recent graduate of the anthropology program at Mount Holyoke College. It took all of thirty minutes into my Intro to…
comics on culture on Charlie Rose
Yesterday, the Charlie Rose Show repeated interviews with comics Billy Eichner, Amy Pohler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Seth Meyers. A couple of comments jumped out.…
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…
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…