Talk delivered at EGA (Entheogenesis Australis) 2014, RMIT, Melbourne. Abstract: Images saturate our consciousness today. With the advent of photography, television, the personal computer and the Inte…
Table of contents with abstracts, etc. is here. Introduction Anna M. Michalak, Christopher B. Field Daedalus Summer 2015, Vol. 144, No. 3: 5–6. Abstract | PDF (63 KB)…
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative subu…
Gratiot Avenue is one of Detroit’s 5 original main avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Jefferson, and Grand River) that branch out from downtown like the spokes of a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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:…
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…
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…
Some interesting looking papers in the latest issue of Geographical Research on the Anthropocene, the full table of contents is here.
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…
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,…
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.)…
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…