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DERC seminar: Social media and West Papua by Usman Hamid
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne Wed 21 October 2015, 3-4:30pm City campus, Building 13, Room 7, Level 4 Map: http://bit.ly/1PAT2vP Website: http://www.digital-eth…
Bayira, an ancient Ethiopian skeletal, provides the earliest African genome
John Arthur, Kathryn Arthur and Matthew Curtis in Ethiopia In 2012, an archaeological team funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Kathryn and John Arthur (both…
The rise of suburban homelessness
For the Guardian, I profiled a woman who went from living in a suburban house and making $60,000 per year to living in a homeless shelter in downtown…
114th AAA Annual Meeting Volunteers
Open Call for Volunteers Never been to an Annual Meeting? Nervous about meeting people? Volunteering is a great way to network and get a better understanding of the…
Running Dry: Water, People, and the Planet in Marathwada, India
This is a very interesting series on water problems in Marathwada, India. Well worth the read, and certainly important for understands the broader interconnections and logics affecting people…
Who is the next Frank Sinatra?
I spent the last couple of days in Palm Springs. (I was giving a talk to NBC.) I gave myself a day to wander around. Palm Springs does…
Polanyi: prophete de la fin de l’economie liberale (2008)
http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/304 Résumés Français English Interest in the work of Karl Polanyi has increased with the coming of neoliberal globalization and it may still increase g…
Special issue on Contesting Consecrated Scientific Narratives in the Anthropocene
Some really interesting articles in the latest issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Apologies for the formatting, and thanks to Christiana Peppard…
Remove Killers from Memory and the Human Community
Last week Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin asked us not to name the man responsible for the killings at the community college in Oregon. And the debate begins.…
As Usual, The Devil’s in the Details; or, Why Ethnography Matters for Everything
A new study reports that pre-kindergarten programs in Tennessee fail to achieve any long-term gains. Republican lawmakers are already seizing on the news as evidence that pre-K programs…
Al-Ameriya bedreigt? Oorlog en de vernietiging van cultureel erfgoed in Jemen.
Door Marina de Regt. Zondagochtend werd de film Qudad: Reinventing a Tradition vertoond op het Ambacht in Beeld festival in Amsterdam. De film gaat over de restauratie van…
Fourth session of the digital ethnography reading group (Gehl 2014)
By Will Balmford Hello, Here is the next reading for the digital ethnography reading group, RMIT Melbourne. Kindly sourced by Ekaterina Tokareva: Robert W Gehl, (2014). Power/freedom on…
Water security in the Anthropocene: planetary hydrology, global finance, and the new development nexus
A bit of self-promotion for an upcoming talk at the University of East Anglia if you happen to be in the UK in late October.
Religious violence in South(East) Asia
The majority Buddhist and Hindu societies of South(East) Asia are not traditionally associated with conflict and intolerance. Yet recent years have seen a surge in international reports of…
Freedom House report on Uzbekistan
My annual report on human rights violations in Uzbekistan was published by Freedom House’s “Nations in Transit” section. The report highlights top-level and low-level corruption as well as…
Jewish and Palestinian activists fighting for black liberation
I wrote an assigned feature article on the Jewish and Palestinian activists who have been involved in the Ferguson movement and more generally in the struggle for black…
Syrians in St. Louis
For the Guardian, I wrote about the movement to resettle tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in St Louis: “Syria, Syria, you’re not alone! Call St Louis your…
New book: Love in the Anthropocene from Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam
OR Book Going Rouge This looks like a really innovative title from Dale Jamieson and Bonnie Nadzam. Love in the Anthropocene An audacious collaboration between an award-winning novelist…
Europa kan vluchtelingen goed gebruiken
door Erik van Ommering Europa kan gemakkelijk oorlogsvluchtelingen opvangen. Niet piepen dus, maar gewoon: welkom zeggen, vindt promovendus Erik van Ommering. Het groeiende aantal vluchtelingen dat N…
Mahmoud Mamdani – Settler colonialism: then and now
Mahmoud Mamdani’s new article Settler Colonialism: then and now, is now out in Critical Inquiry, which builds on talks like this one at Princeton (which I could not…