CFP: Media, culture and change across the Pacific
by Raul Castro, via the EASA Media Anthropology Network mailing list Call for Papers Media, culture and change across the Pacific: perspectives from Asia, Oceania and the Americas…
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Terms of Reference: Individual or team to conduct assessment of Ebola contact tracing mHealth application
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone developed a study evaluating the use of mobile…
A rerun of a nightmare
My latest for Politico is on the nightmare of tension that is life these days in St. Louis: St. Louis is in a rerun of a nightmare. Protesters are…
Visiting position: ethics in the Anthropocene
See for posting here: VU University Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam is one of the leading institutions for higher education in Europe and aims to be inspiring, innovative, and…
Altstadt in Gori
Zusammen mit einer armenischen Kollegin laufe ich durch “Old Gori“. Gori ist eine Kleinstadt in Georgien mit ca. 45.000 Einwohnern, eine Stunde von der Hauptstadt Tbilisi entfernt. Sie…
Native Land
jeremy schmidt: A very good, and needed project. Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life: Native Land is a project that maps indigenous…
Love And Fear in Egypt
Autocratic and democratic regimes are pretty much the same, says Joseph Massad in an article in the journal Public Culture. The chief difference is whether they seek to…
Ferguson, one year later
For the New York Daily News, I covered what Ferguson is like on the ground one year after the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. I…
Knitting for black power
For the Guardian I profiled the Yarn Mission, a group of black St. Louis women fighting racism through knitting. Yes, knitting: In a coffeehouse on the south side…
Lincoln Street Art Park: ‘Teaching Reuse Through Art’
I visited the Lincoln Street Art Park south of New Center in Detroit a few times in the last week (as I researched it, I kept realizing I must’ve…
New book – Ecological economics for the Anthropocene: an emerging paradigm
Just out from Columbia University Press: Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene: An Emerging Paradigm Edited by Peter G. Brown and Peter Timmerman Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides…
Did Social Media Cause The Egyptian Revolution?
I was recently asked (by otherwise sensible people), “Dr. Peterson, how would you assess the predominant media narrative that the ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions—nicknamed ‘Facebook …
Central Asia’s stand against corruption
My latest for Foreign Policy is on how Central Asians are using the internet to document and battle a familiar scourge — corruption, particularly that of the police:…
Covering Ferguson
I have covered Ferguson since August 9, 2014, tweeting about a then unidentified teenager being killed by police within hours of the tragedy occurring. Below are the articles…
Bagrati revisited
Kathedrale Bagrati in Kutaisi (2004) Es war eine Rückkehr. 2004 war ich das erste Mal in Georgien. Damals brachte mich mein Kollege Lavrenti Janiashvili nach Kutaisi und dort…
Special Issue on Geographies in the Anthropocene from Geographical Research
Some interesting looking papers in the latest issue of Geographical Research on the Anthropocene, the full table of contents is here.
Zomerstop
Zoals ieder jaar neemt de redactie van standplaatswereld een paar weken vakantie. Ook het afgelopen academisch jaar werd het wereldnieuws op standplaatswereld belicht vanuit een antropologisch perspec…
Ferguson fight
Last night I attended a community meeting in Ferguson featuring controversial Mayor Knowles, unaware that it would devolve into a full-fledged fight: A packed community meeting in Ferguson,…
Mobiles and protest: four areas in need of further theorisation
Extract from Monterde, A. and J. Postill 2014. Mobile ensembles: The uses of mobile phones for social protest by Spain’s indignados. In G. Goggin and L. Hjorth (eds.)…
Wahrheitsliebe im Bewerbungsverfahren: Wie genau nehmen Sie’s mit der Ehrlichkeit?
Von Dr. Katrin Roppel Ehrlichkeit. Ein Wert, der vielen Menschen wichtig ist. Die Wertekommission ermittelte im Jahr 2013, dass Glaubwürdigkeit, Zuverlässigkeit und Ehrlichkeit für Führungskräfte uner…
Von der Atlantikküste Nicaraguas – drei Geschichten fernab der Revolution
Nicaragua – das kleine Land in Zentralamerika, war in Deutschland in den 1980er Jahren jedem ein Begriff, in Ost und West. 1979 erlebte das Land eine Revolution, angeführt…
Second session of digital ethnography reading group
by Will Balmford Research assistant Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) School of Media and Communication RMIT University Melbourne, Australia After a successful first session of the Digital Et…
“No faggot, just nuts”
by Pál Nyíri Around ten years ago I took some Chinese friends to the former royal castle in Gödöllö, near Budapest. We came upon a photo studio where…
Introducing AnthroSource 2.0
In honor of the launch of AnthroSource 2.0, AAA and Wiley Online Library are offering you a sneak peek at the 100 most downloaded articles of 2014. Take…