Anthropology Beyond the Tap: From Flint, Michigan to California’s Central Valley
By Alexa Becerra-Almendarez, Emily Wolff, and Lemual Wheatley § Imagine you are thirsty. You go to the sink to pour yourself a glass of water, but you stop abruptly;…
By Alexa Becerra-Almendarez, Emily Wolff, and Lemual Wheatley § Imagine you are thirsty. You go to the sink to pour yourself a glass of water, but you stop abruptly;…
By Alfred Lopez, Yeng Vang, and Chong Vang, California State University, Fresno § We hurriedly walked through a middle-class Fresno, California neighborhood. The City of Fresno and Fresno County are…
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
Originally a podcast…
Angela Storey, University of Arizona § Milk crates are a common sight when walking the narrow paths of informal settlements in Khayelitsha, a Cape Town suburb where more…
I’ve copied below the CFP for a special issue, see original here. Special Issue CFP: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water Overview [Feb 3, 2016] Decolonization: Indigeneity,…
Gregory V. Button Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has…
In the weeks leading up to the publication of Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture by Robert J. Muckle and Laura Tubelle…
This is a very interesting piece from citylab, worth checking into if you find previous ways of thinking about human-water (and city!) relationships intriguing.
Over the weekend I mentioned a new (open access) book on Water, Society, and Technology. There are a couple of other new resources to be had, both from…
This is a very interesting series on water problems in Marathwada, India. Well worth the read, and certainly important for understands the broader interconnections and logics affecting people…
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.
This entry is part 8 of 8 in the Anthropologies #21 series. The next piece in the anthropologies climate change series comes from Michael Agar. His bio is…
It’s been a very busy week, and I imagine everyone has been reading a lot about Charleston, SCOTUS, the ISIS attacks, and Greece. This web roundup isn’t going…
Germans need to flush their toilets more often, says Hans-Jürgen Leist, a scientist at the Ecolog Institute in Hanover, as quoted in a Wall Street Journal article. In…