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Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne PhD Community Writing Group 2 25 May 2016 Convener: Jolynna Sinanan This month, John Postill will lead the writing group…
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Beyoncé’s Anthropology of Labour
by Rebecca Prentice Last Sunday, the headline screamed: “Exposed: Sweatshop ‘Slaves’ Earning Just 44p an Hour Making ‘Empowering’ Beyoncé Clobber.” British tabloid newspaper The Sun claimed that Beyon…
Wofford College Commencement Address 2016
** On May 15, 2016, I had the honor of delivering the Commencement Address at Wofford College, the college I attended for my undergraduate degree. Here is the…
Under Surveillance: Islamophobia and Muslim Student Associations
In 2012, the Associated Press released a news report titled “NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast.” In the article, we learn that the New York City police…
Almost no one can afford to retire
For the Chronicle of Higher Education, I wrote about the retirement crisis in academia, but it applies to US workers generally: America’s contingent faculty are not alone in…
Creator brands: Brands that make culture
At their most powerful, brands actually make culture. Creator brands, let’s call them. Nike changed the way we thought about exercise, fitness, bodies and diet in the 1970s…
Taking up Space
Nine years ago when I started my doctoral studies not only was I in a fertile intellectual endeavour undertaking fieldwork, reading theory, stretching my brain and writing,…
All Hail the Entrepreneur!
by Thomas Chambers In an article in last week’s Guardian, Stuart Heritage argues that “without The Apprentice, Donald Trump would still be a failed boardgame salesman”. Heritage accuses the show…
Trying to make a meaningful connection: Keith Hart’s anthropology
Transcription of an interview with Federico Neiburg and Fernando Rabossi held at the National Museum (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), on May 23rd, 2011. It will…
35. Los tecnólogos de la libertad y el futuro de la justicia global
Dr John Postill Estado del poder 2016 ver PDF Original English version: Postill, J. 2016. Freedom technologists and the future of global justice. In State of Power 2016.…
David Novak on “The Dubbing of a New Era: Audiocassettes, Open Access and the Dissonances of Digital Democracy”
Brian Dettmer, Skull 11 (80’s metal), 2007 I am excited for Dave Novak‘s upcoming talk May 26th at UC Davis. I will serve as the discussant for…
Everyone is the establishment
For Quartz, I wrote about how the phrase “anti-establishment” has lost all meaning: The 2016 election is unprecedented on a number of levels. The two candidates with the…
The Violence of Capital
by Andrew Sanchez Since 2006 I have conducted research in Jamshedpur, the industrial company town of the Tata Corporation in eastern India. My work interrogates the systemic relationship…
Racial Disproportionality in the King County Juvenile Justice System
“He’s been shot, you have to go to him. Tell him mom is on the way!” is all I heard as I answered a phone call from my…
Von der Saat bis zur Ernte im Stadtgarten H17 – eine Gärtnergemeinschaft im Aufbruch
Gemeinschaftliches Gärtnern, auch bekannt unter dem Namen Urban Gardening, ist ein Phänomen, das sich seit ein paar Jahren durch die Städte Deutschlands zieht. Vor allem bei immer mehr…
Ethnologische Spargelfeldforschung
Spargel ist beliebtes Saisongemüse, viele kaufen ihn ‚direkt beim Erzeuger‘ auf dem Markt. Doch wer baut Spargel an? Wem gehört ein Spargelhof? Iga und Paula sprechen mit Arbeiterinnen…
Wandernde Esskultur: Auf den Spuren der Ingwerwurzel
Sauerkraut und Grünkohl bestimmen schon lange nicht mehr unseren Esstisch. Über die Welt verbreiten sich nämlich nicht nur Menschen, Mode und Musik, sondern auch kulinarische Kulturgüter, sodass sich…
Funk und ‚Befriedung‘ einer Favela
Um die Weltmeisterschaft in Brasilien gab es viel Aufsehen, vor allem auch außerhalb der Fußballstadien. In der Stadt Rio de Janeiro spüren Menschen bis heute Auswirkungen des Sportereignisses.…
Latour’s new book assembles big names to “Reset Modernity!”
MIT Press has its new site live for Bruno Latour’s new book Reset Modernity! The book has many leading thinkers making contributions; description below for what looks like…
Big Business & Ideology Swapping
by Dinah Rajak For a discipline so interested in kinship, anthropologists have shown relatively little interest in ideological lineages among elites. Although anthropology is, quite rightly, co…
This is what we do to dreamers
Let’s say you are starting a startup and today you are standing in front of a venture capitalist. With impatience in his voice, the VC says, “Tell me again…
Why Trump won
Since the fall of 2015, I’ve been predicting that Trump would win not only the GOP nomination but the general election. This claim was dismissed as paranoid and…
Dark Value (repriced!)
I’ve changed the price of Dark Value from $7.77 to $2.99. (It took a long time and my sticker gun is smoking.) I do so on advice of…
Corruption: Formal and Informal
by Paul Gilbert **Originally posted at Sociology Lens.** In a 2014 review article for Sociology Compass, David Jancsics outlined a ‘minimal consensus’ on what constitutes corruption, drawn from his su…