By Monica Patrice Barra, The Graduate Center, City University of New York § Losing a football field an hour “Historical and projected coastal Louisiana land changes: 1978-2050” (www.lacoas…
This is the thirty-second post in the freedom technologists series Postill, J. in press 2016. Review of Karatzogianni, A. (2015) Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014. Palgrave Macmillan…
I was thrilled to have a piece published by The Mighty last week. My aim was to reach as many parents as possible with a few key strategies…
präsentiert im Doppelpack: Der Kapitän segelt nach Amazon (55 Minuten) Feature von SEROTONIN Das ist doch heutzutage ganz einfach, wenn man ein Buch veröffentlichen möchte. Wenn es…
By Vivian Mac Gillavry Photo: A. Martineau During the first year of my Bachelor study in anthropology, we were told that the best field research should take at…
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
For The Globe and Mail, I wrote about the decline of the Midwest, and the attempts of politicians to court Midwestern voters: Missouri is a purple state – purple,…
St. Patrick’s Day is upon us once more. How are you going to celebrate yours? 17th March is a set date in the religious, secular and Diaspora calendars.…
This post was originally published for my business, Culture and can be found here Having spent the last 16 years working with a cornucopia of legacy brand and marketing…
For the Guardian, I wrote about the St. Louis Trump rally, and how easily a line of polite and friendly Trump fans transformed into a violent mob hurling…
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission § Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m…
I’ve been a bit slow about updating this website, apologies readers. Here is an article I wrote for the Globe and Mail a week ago about racism in the…
By Micha Rahder, Louisiana State University § Let me start with a confession: I never wanted to work on climate change. Laguna del Tigre National Park, Guatemala. Photo…
“We Are All Anthropologists Now” aired on BBC Radio 4 in February of this year as part of a series that explores anthropology in…
Book review by Paul Duguid, Jan 3, 2007 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner Chicago: University…
As a sociologist of work, my main research focuses on workplace experiences and labor/management relations in media industries. This includes service workers and engineers in the music industry…
I had a chance to interview Noemi Charlotte Thieves on January 10. We were at a going-away party in Brooklyn and fell into conversation. The conversation was SO INTERESTING…
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute a piece to Somatosphere’s series, The Ethnographic Case, edited by Drs. Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski. I love that site,…
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…
I can’t remember the last movie I watched in an actual movie theater. Some of that is because I find the dramatic TV serial so much more powerful…
Yesterday I tweeted about Trump’s relationship with the mass media. The tweets got a lot of attention, so I’m archiving them here. Trump captivates those sick of condescending,…
Several new titles on the Anthropocene worth checking out (plus the one I mentioned earlier this week). Here they are: The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the…
I was asked by a friend working at my university’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion to deliver a talk for the school’s annual event. I (wisely) settled on…
Petition diversifying Philosophy By Georgette Veerhuis A month ago on Thursday 21 January 2016 I attended the symposium Diversify Philosophy at the VU. It sounded mysterious. Why does…