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.…
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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…
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…
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…