27. Freedom technologists and the future of global justice
This is the twenty-seventh post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists via State of Power 2016 18 January 2016 In the wake…
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The jacket
I’m trying a new strategy at work to raise my oomph and improve my legit appeal. I’m no slouch when it comes to sparring about ideas, concepts and…
The mediated modernities of Tuareg smith women
Occasionally I will be posting on this blog some notes under the broad theme of media and change in preparation for the volume Postill, J., E. Ardevol and…
„Seh ich so aus als hätt ich Gnade? – Innenansichten eines Dominastudios“
geräuschkulisse *feature „Seh ich so aus als hätt ich Gnade? – Innenansichten eines Dominastudios“ Feature von Irmgard Maenner und Susann Sitzler 25.01.2016 21.00 tipi, westwerk  …
Notes on the 6th digital ethnography reading session (Pink, Horst, Postill et al 2016)
By Allister Hill PhD student Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne On Tuesday 15 December we wrapped up the last of the Digital Ethnography Reading Sessions…
‘Silence is golden/but my eyes still see’: Award winning documentary ‘The Silence of the Flies’
In December 2015 the School of Anthropology and Conservation was privileged to welcome alumnus Gonzalo Chacon for a screening and discussion of the award winning documentary ‘The Silence…
New Book! Kathryn Furlong: Leaky Governance: Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Material below copied from book site at UBC Press here. Municipalities face important water supply challenges. These are widely attributed to local government politicization. Neoliberal reforms have …
Opportunity Awaits! Apply for the AAA 2016 Summer Internship Program!
Do you have an interest in marine archaeology or African art? Maybe you just want a productive way to spend your summer getting hands-on experience working in anthropology…
Tim Ingold’s One World Anthropology
synthetic zero ” As philosophical fashions lurch from one extreme to the other — from the hyper-relativism of the cultural construction industry to the ever-multiplying essentialisms of the…
CFP: Digital Environmentalisms
Antonia Walford and I have a panel at this year’s Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Durham exploring the idea of Digital Enviromentalisms. Deadline for paper proposals is…
Refugees on the other side
Recently there has been a lot of talk in Europe about refugees, sometimes designated as ”migrants”, always pronounced with a moralising overtone in order to emphasise that the…
The ‘Maya Temples’ of Highland Park
The excellent Telling the Stories of Detroit’s Parks blog recently posted a piece about a Modernist adventure playground in Highland Park, a city within the city of Detroit. It…
African Youth and Social Innovation
The light peering through the door from the adjacent room was dim. It was hard for me to read the notes I was trying to take. But I…
Top 10 of 2015
In 2015 I wrote on a wide variety of issues for a wide variety of outlets. I switched mostly to features from op-ed, since my op-eds on exploitation,…
Use All Five interviews Grant McCracken
This is an interview that Zsa Zsa (left) and I did recently with Ryan Ernst at Use All Five. Thanks, Ryan.
Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers: a collection
Territory and Justice: a research network Foreword by Cara Nine Papers delivered by participants at the ?Themes on Territory, Justice, and Rivers? Workshop (4-5 June 2015, UCC) Paulina…
Dustin Garrick on Water Security
From the recent conference in Oxford:
Best of 2015: AnthroSource
Here are the 10 most-downloaded articles from AnthroSource, AAA’s digital database for content from our publications. AAA members get free, unlimited access to AnthroSource. Just login with your…
Best of 2015: Anthropology News
Here are the top ten most-read Anthropology News articles of 2015! 1. Indian Mascots: Naturalized Racism and Anthropology Bernard C. Perley 2. Mentoring the Next Generation of Practicing…
Fifty mosques in Tower Hamlets: Religion, modernity, and postmodernity
Tower Hamlets, one of the most ethnically diverse zones in Europe. Source: Wikipedia By Sean Carey According to nineteenth century anthropologists, religion would disappear with modernity, supplanted …
Joanna Zylinska: minimal ethics for the Anthropocene
An interesting new book on Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene from Open Humanities Press here. A related talk below by the author, Joanna Zylinksa: