Overheard and misunderstood: calling in as social media practice
In the days leading up to the 2018 AAA annual conference, Allegra Laboratory published an open call on Twitter for “a post on the…
Read MoreIn the days leading up to the 2018 AAA annual conference, Allegra Laboratory published an open call on Twitter for “a post on the…
Read MoreThis meeting was, for me, overshadowed – and somehow defined – by the #CaliforniaWoodfire smoke. I was flying in from smoggy, post-Diwali Delhi or…
Read MoreAs social scientists our work often directly grows out of our personal journeys—journeys that are physical, emotional, intellectual and political. However, this is rarely…
Read MoreI spent much of my fieldwork at a department of the UK Government grappling with a confusing dynamic between civil servants I worked with,…
Read MoreOn June 11th 2018, David Graeber published an apology about the amount of time it took him to understand the extent of what was…
Read MoreAllies, friends, colleagues, It’s this time of the year again… and we’ve had to make essential maintenance on the website. As the repairs were…
Read MoreNumerous are by now the accounts that label international academia as ‘neoliberal’, that is, a system which, these days, almost functions like a firm…
Read MoreMatan Kaminer is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan and a member of the Israeli Anthropological Association and of Academia for Equality,…
Read MoreAs an established blog with personal and institutional contacts to many of those involved in the recent upheaval at HAU and the Society of…
Read MoreHautalk is an opportunity to reinvigorate and remake our disciplinary identities. But how can we move this discussion beyond disciplinary boundaries—into spaces where we…
Read MoreAnthropology trained us to identify systems of oppression, those “invisibilized” dimensions of culture that reek of prejudice, privilege, and disproportionate power dynamics. These are…
Read MoreThe surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…
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