What articles from AAA would you like to see opened on Race and Racism?
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
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The politics of Nature in the Anthropocene
jeremy schmidt: Worth a read for sure. Originally posted on Resource politics: by Kathleen McAfee, San Francisco State University Over the past 40-some years, Nature has entered global…
When We Assess Democracy In Egypt, Whose “Democracy” Are We Measuring?
“Bread, freedom, social justice!” What’s your definition of democracy? Yesterday, after a lecture on ethnographic fieldwork, a student came up to me to discuss the anthropological c…
Saying Nice Things About Detroit
UPDATE: Please read Andre Ventura’s response to this post for more information about the signs Last week a friend took me on a drive down 8 Mile Road, which…
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media: Call for Papers
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Mona Abdel-Fadil Submission …
The invention of nature: new book from Andrea Wulf on Alexander von Humboldt
This looks like a fabulous new biography, and it’s already getting rave reviews. Here is a description, and hopefully a video…vimeo is always fussy about this stuff. “The…
Seeds of a good Anthropocene website/blog launched
There is a growing rift over what the Anthropocene entails. Will is be a catastrophe or does it present opportunities? One new website looking for the seeds of…
LSE has digitized Fabian society archives from 1884-2000
Some really interesting historical tracts from the Fabian society on all sorts of topics–poverty, property, labour and so on–are now available in digital format here.
What’s The Hadith On Facebook?
Just after dawn has broken, the musical voice of the muezzin fills the silence, calling the faithful to prayer: “al-salaatu khayrun min al-nawm.” (prayer is better than sleep) Except (perh…
When did the Anthropocene begin? A series of essays offering socialist takes
From the editor of the journal Climate and Capitalism, this piece is an interesting read. It is itself one of a series of essays being posted here by…
Some interviews
I was interviewed about a variety of subjects recently, ranging from Ferguson to ethics in journalism to state oppression and activism in Central Asia to my new book.…
Donald Trump is a fireship
The question in yesterday’s post was: Why has Donald Trump survived our discovery of his flaws and deficiencies? Normally, a new candidate has his or her moment in…
Woordwaarde. De keuze van woorden en de beeldvorming over moslims in Nederland
Door: Aalt Smienk Waarom lezen en horen we in media vaak ‘moslimterrorisme’ en minder vaak islamterrorisme’ of ‘terroristische moslims’. En wat betekent deze keuze van de zendende partijen…
Emerging Expulsion Logics: Where Does it Leave Democracy?
Source: Emerging Expulsion Logics: Where Does it Leave Democracy?
Donald Trump defies the Dorian Gray effect. Why?
I found this wonderful image at the train station in my hometown in Connecticut. Scratched into an ad on the platform, someone left us a “Dorian Gray” treatment…
Curated Ruins and Un-Memorials: The Afterlife of Detroit’s Michigan Theater
I came across Gabriel Moshenska’s Curated Ruins and the Endurance of Conflict Heritage (2015) via Twitter last week, which happily coincided with my first visit to Detroit’s former Michiga…
New book from Ken Conca – An Unfinished Foundation: the UN and Global Environmental Governance
Now available from Oxford University Press, I like the play on UN-Finished. An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance Why is the United Nations not…
Relaunch of STUAnthroBlog
After a lengthy hiatus, I am happy to report that STUAnthroBlog is set to relaunch for the 2015-16 academic year. The reasons for its temporary demise were multiple,…
Wat is antropologie eigenlijk?
De auteur tijdens een presentatie Door Mariska van Zanten Toen ik een paar jaar geleden informatie in handen kreeg over de studie Sociale en Culturele Antropologie…
Less public knowledge, more private meaning (lessons for politicians and brands)
This is a part of a map of London drawn by Fuller (aka Gareth Wood). Wood says that he created a map to show his relationship with the city over…
Cultural Leaders and Laggards, the problem with beer ads
I love this ad. How quickly bashful behavior gives way to full-on performance. And how this disappears (when the woman enters the store). And then reappears (when it occurs to our…
Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene
Re-blogged from: Brian Holmes on Capital Circulation in the Anthropocene