A Nation Rising: Review Essay
Over at Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (an open-access journal), our sister-scholar Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer has a new review essay published. Itʻs about A Nation Rising (Noelani …
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Corporate Mortality and the Culture of Failure
Sizes of some 30,000 companies traded publicly on US markets from 1950-2009, measured by their sales (controlling for inflation and GDP growth). The relatively rapid growth of smaller…
bridging the “language gap”
An invited forum on the so-called “language gap”has just appeared in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology . My piece is titled “‘Wordism’: Is There a Teacher in the House?”…
A Ritual of Power
The recent #Caribbeanfutureforum silenced a large volume of voices. Here’s how and why Power has many definitions. One way anthropologists talk about power is the “power matrix,…
Sex and temperament: Mead, Bateson and Fortune, New Guinea, 1933.
It was the most complicated of things, a love triangle involving young professionals who were meant to collaborate, and who did, but whose contrasting personalities and diverging agendas immediately…
A Collaborative Blog about Multispecies Engagements …
The idea of setting up a blog dedicated to multispecies engagements emerged in the course of conversations at an ESRC-funded Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) workshop, and…
20 Jahre Radio Blau! – Wir feiern mit!
Unbekannte Klangwelten – DIY Selbstbau-Workshop Kontaktmikrofone FREITAG, 22.05.2015/ 14-17 UHR/ ORT: HAL ATELIERHAUS, HILDEGARDSTRASSE 49/ Wolltest du schon immer einmal Eis schmelzen hören und in u…
More on the Andijon massacre
I have an op-ed about the Andijon massacre in the New York Times: On May 13, 2005, military forces dispatched by the government of Uzbekistan fired on a massive…
Jilted…
In Zasulauks neighborhood In Lady Baiba’s living room a flimsy photo hangs on the wall of a large companion on Candera street. She never misses the chance to…
Motherly Advice from an 82 Year-old Beer Lover
The original post for this article can be found here: http://www.letsgraba.beer/post/118477180588/motherly-advice-from-an-82-year-old-beer-lover, a Tumblr page dedicated to the love of beer. I have …
The payday loan crisis
My latest article for the Guardian is on the explosion of payday lending, which is a huge problem in Missouri and in the U.S. in general: I am…
The 2015 British election and the UK’s creeping constitutional crisis
In the late 90s I met the US ambassador in Paris. He asked what Tony Blair was going to do with the pound/euro issue. I said the question…
The Andijon Massacre: Ten years later
May 13, 2015 will mark the ten-year anniversary of the Andijon massacre: the day military troops in Uzbekistan shot and killed over 700 Uzbek citizens gathered at a…
Call For Papers: Ten years after – The Muhammad Cartoons
In September I will be one of the keynote speakers at a conference in Aalborg, Denmark on the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy. We’re looking for people to join us.…
From a. to A.
Introduction I would love telling tales from the city where the city served as a powerful stage for the different characters like in James Joyce’s ”Dubliners”. The city…
My new book – The View From Flyover Country
Big news! I’ve collected the best of my essays from my time at Al Jazeera into an ebook, available as a Kindle download for $5.00. If you would…
Public anthropology
In recent weeks Savageminds drew attention to the need for anthropology to be more engaging and public, with posts by Erin Taylor and Alex Golub. Taylor called on…
“From Arab Spring to Arab Winter”: Special Journal Issue
Why didn’t the 2011 uprisings lead to democratization? That’s the question posed by articles in a special issue of the journal Democratization. Photo Credit: tolkien1914 via Compfight cc…
Whatever Happened to Democratization in Egypt?
“Pathways of Post-Uprising States” according to Ray Hinnebusch’s article in the most recent issue of the journal Democratization. Democratization theory–a continually developin…
BRAND WITCHCRAFT: How brand partnerships can be toxic
A successful brand becomes part of the consumer’s culture and values, behaviour, attitudes and social identity. I recently spoke to the CMO of a well known global digital…
Narrative captivity: Losing Orphan Black for want of a half-fan
I am a long standing fan of Orphan Black but this season they lost me. I tuned in for the opening episode of the new season, and it…
American Music. Listening with numbers
Thanks to Thomas Ball, I am looking at a wonderful article that uses big data to examine American music over 50 years. Here are a couple of excerpts.…
Metaphors of Power
the idea of upward anthropology depends on a spatialized metaphor for power. Power increases as you move up the scale and decreases as you move down. It’s a…