5th digital ethnography reading session (Murray 2008)
By Will Balmford Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne The November session of the Digital Ethnography Reading Group will take place on Wed, 11 November, from…
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Who’s the Real Pirate?
One of the most controversial attractions to have entered and taken root in Atlanta is the BODIES Exhibition. A science based exhibit, the museum of sorts has numerous…
Water roundup: new books & reports on groundwater and security
Over the weekend I mentioned a new (open access) book on Water, Society, and Technology. There are a couple of other new resources to be had, both from…
Dignity Market
Dignity Market is a place that my friends rented so that disabled people living in different collective homes in and around the city can come there to work,…
Notes on the workshop “Theorising Media and Conflict”
Figure 1. Thinking aloud about the volume Theorising Media and Conflict. Photo courtesy of Philipp Budka. Media Anthropology Network European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Department o…
Halloween and the Dead
Last weekend, a friend and I went to the Netherword Haunted House event on Halloween. We went around 6pm, in hopes of avoiding large lines, but we…
New open access book on Water, society, and technology opens with discussion of ethics
You can download the book here.
Comfort in Contact, Solace in Sharing
In New York City, a photographer named Brandon has made a career of photographing people in the streets, recording their story, and posting them together on Facebook. Started…
Ferguson: A retrospective
For the Common Reader, I wrote a long piece on the legacy of Ferguson and how the St. Louis region and its people were left behind as the town became the symbol…
Streik und Streikkultur
Der sogenannte Kita-Streik um die Bezahlung von Erziehern und Erzieherinnen warf im Frühjahr 2015 u.a. die Frage auf, ob heute noch gestreikt werden kann oder sollte. Der Beitrag…
Zukunftsträume und gegenwärtige Momentaufnahmen von Drahteseln in unserer Gesellschaft
Das Fahrrad als Alternative. Bis jetzt wird das Bild vieler Städte von Autos geprägt. Doch es gibt Ansätze, auch gerade hier in Leipzig, die den Zukunftstraum von einer…
New book – Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice
Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice Sarah Pink – RMIT University Heather Horst – RMIT University John Postill – RMIT University Larissa Hjorth – RMIT University Tani…
Closed fists of Ebola
I did long term anthropological fieldwork amongst the polio-disabled communities of Freetown between 2008 and 2012. The research fed into my doctoral dissertation: „Where parallel worlds meet: civil…
Urban Space, Virtual Space, and the Media In Egypt
What is “the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring” and, particularly, what is the relationship between its physical and virtual locations? That’s the question…
“We cannot give up hope” – A conversation with Gish Amit on his book #Palestine
Gish Amit is a historian who has been involved in non formal education for twenty years. He taught cinema and literature at the Arab Democratic School in Jaffa,…
My new book is coming soon….
Before January 2016, my new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, will be published by Cornell University Press. You can sign up on…
What Halloween Masks
A very thoughtful consideration of Halloween from the eyes of little children. Perhaps because I have spent the past two days at grief workshops, this article made me…
Unequal opportunity and limited futures
My latest for the Brooklyn Quarterly is on opportunity hoarding, inherited wealth, and what it means for the future of our kids: The gulf separating the current generation…
Grijs gebied: identiteitsvorming onder Nederlandse meisjes met een islamitische vader
Culturele verdeeldheid in één persoon door Christel de Bruijn Je bent 16 jaar en al je vriendinnetjes willen op zaterdagavond de stad in om te dansen en te…
New Book! Plastic Water: The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water
jeremy schmidt: An interesting new title perhaps worth checking into. Originally posted on Discard Studies: Gay Hawkins, Emily Potter and Kane Race’s new book, Plastic Water: The Social and…
Religion and economy
(Delivered on October 22nd in the Economics Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin as the Hermann Otto Hirschfeld lecture for 2015. With profound thanks to Prof. Rolf Schieder for his…
The Human Condition in the Anthropocene: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Tanner Lectures
Two lectures, plus a round table:
“Revolutionary Egypt” Book Launch
If you are going to be in London next month–Nov. 17, to be precise–you might want to drop in on a panel at the London Middle East Institute…