The Orlando massacre
My heart goes out to the victims of the Orlando shooting. I hope people in the area continue to donate blood and that people nationwide give money and…
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Big Pharma, IP & Medicine for the Poor
by Gemma Harvey When pharmaceutical giant GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) recently announced that it will not be filing for patent protection for new medications in Least Developed and Low Income…
Basketmaker Viki Graber on The Weekly Special
Last year, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures presented the exhibition Willow Work: Viki Graber, Basketmaker to great success. Happily we are staying connected with Viki in many…
June Events and Exhibitions, Including Arts in the Park at McCormick’s Creek
Check out some MMWC events and exhibitions this month. In particular, this Saturday (June 11, 2016) a great group of artists will join the Traditional Arts Indiana team…
Teaching AAA 2016: Indexes and Icons
TEACHING THE 2016 AAA ANNUAL MEETING THEME: EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY Have you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme, Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog…
Trump’s VP pick
For the Globe and Mail, I wrote about how, if elected, Trump will outsource the day-to-day work of the presidency to the VP — most likely to be…
On book reviews and back covers
I spend ages reading and summarising Bourdieu’s mammoth On the State (2014 [2012]) for a journal review – I was even congratulated by a stranger on a Melbourne…
The Perils of Adulthood Part 1: Making New Friends
The other day I was in my car listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts , This American Life. The theme was related to the…
Songs for Freedom, Not for Free
by Sandy Bonnington It has been a busy and exciting couple of months for hip-hop lovers, with the Tidal-exclusive release of Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Drake’s Views for the…
Amitav Ghosh – The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
This new title from Amitav Ghosh, one the world’s finest literary minds looks very interesting. More at U Chicago Press here. I’ve put a series of four lectures…
Notes on the 10th digital ethnography reading (Wacquant 2004)
Wacquant, L. J. D. (2004). Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Notes by Edgar Gomez Digital Ethnography Research Centre…
How Karl Marx Ruined My Dinner Party
At dinner one night, I made two fatal social errors in rapid succession. First, during casual conversation with two good friends, I began talking about American culture. Not…
World Atlas: Story telling & world building made easier
“Everyone is talking about story telling, right? This is is what it looks like!” Sunday, we had the extended family over for Memorial Day festivities. I called the older…
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). Source: Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece
In the Sand: Water, Land, and Infrastructure in Informality
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
Election Coverage
Since March, I’ve been covering the 2016 presidential election for a variety of outlets. The highlights: How state politicians are quietly working to steal the US presidential election…
geräuschkulisse am Montag, 30.5.
… im TIPI – Westwerk, Karl-Heine-Str. 93, 1. OG Wie kann das Ungedachte gedacht werden? Wie stellt man sich etwas radikal Neues vor, das es noch nicht gibt?…
Review of The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Evens & Handelman 2006)
The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology. T.M.S. Evens & Don Handelman (eds). 2006. Oxford/New York: Berghahn. x + 334 pp. JOHN POSTILL Ethnos: Journal of…
Don’t hate the dual-screen
We’ve all done it – the knee-jerk judgement passed on the person starting intensely at their phone at dinner, at a movie, among friends. And certainly, it is…
The real Ferguson effect: the monetization of murder
For Quartz, I wrote about how Americans who kill young black men not only often go unpunished — their murder is financially rewarded: “The Ferguson Effect” is a…