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.…
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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…
Dark Value, a new book published today
I wrote this brief book in 2015 and promptly put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Then a couple of days ago (May 3, 2016), Virginia Postrel posted…
Marshall Sahlins on Hocart’s cosmic polity
Lecture from last Friday at SOAS in London; it starts around 30 minutes in to follow Hocart’s lead to comment on cosmology, governmentality, and anthropology.
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
by Ines Hasselberg **Originally posted at University of Oxford website** The UK Borders Act 2007 allows for foreign-nationals sentenced to 12 months or more of imprisonment to be…
The geography of inequality
For Quartz, I wrote about the geography of the unequal economic recovery in the US. Coastal cities with thriving economies have become unaffordable for the average worker; heartland…
Notes on the 9th digital ethnography reading (Boellstorff et al 2012)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group On Wednesday 13 April 2016, we spent…
Notes on the 8th digital ethnography reading (O’Dell & Willim 2013)
By Nicholas Hansen MA student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts under Digital ethnography reading group Wednesday 09 March (12-1:30 @ B009-04-032)…
Actually Existing Silk Roads
by Magnus Marsden **Originally posted at Hurstpublishers.com.** ‘Our country is at the heart of Asia’, Zia, an Afghan trader in his mid-50s who works in St Petersburg’s Apraksin…
Elizabeth Povinelli: New Book on Geontopower
Elizabeth Povinelli has a new book forthcoming with Duke, details here. The write up on the book is below, followed by a recent presentation on “Toxic Sovereignties in…
Make Ethnography Better
Ethnography has grown in the last couple of decades from a moody, friendless method in the social sciences to the bell of the business ball. But clearly it has…