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Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio's most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in American Ethnologist, City and Society, and the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and in public outlets including El País and O Estado de São Paulo. In addition to all of her activities, Erika is the President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Today, on Speaking Out of Place, we are honored to talk with Munira Khayyat, a Lebanese anthropologist whose book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon examines what she calls “resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare.”  Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.We appreciate greatly that she was able to join us now, during the massive and deadly new war Israel is waging on Lebanon. Munira shows how this devastation is a continuation of wars Israel has waged against Lebanon for decades, but also how both the Lebanese people and the Lebanese landscape are resisting death and persisting in life.  This episode is especially useful to those wanting to know more about Lebanon, as Professor Khayyat gives us an informative account of the intertwined histories of Lebanon, Palestine, and the State of Israel.Munira Khayyat is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon's southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.Khayyat is currently working on a second book that fleshes out the complex heart of empire in Saudi Arabia. Heart of Black Gold draws on a personal archive meticulously created by her maternal grandfather, who was among the first Arabian employees of ARAMCO, the Arab American Oil Company. How has oil — its extractive, shiny infrastructures, camps, big men, politics and corporations, its global ecologies — shaped lived environments? Insisting on a feminist and multidisciplinary rearranging of the archive, the book inhabits history-in-the-making as it unfolds in domestic scenes, lived quarters, the affective terrains of oil.Khayyat's research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Rachel Carson Center. Her writing has appeared in American Ethnologist, Public Culture, JMEWS, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology News, HAU, and a number of edited volumes. Khayyat was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2018-2019). Before joining NYUAD, she taught at the American University in Cairo (2013-2023) and the American University of Beirut (2011-2013). She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2013), an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University (1998) and a BA in history (1997) from the American University of Beirut.

Cheeraz Gormon is a writer, storyteller, and public speaker who creates poetry, essays, photography, film, music, and advertising.As a poet, Cheeraz has opened for Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Dennis Kimbro, and MacArthur Fellow Dr. Deborah Willis and toured with HBO for The Unchained Memories Tour. She is a two-time TEDxGatewayArch presenter, and her poetry has been featured in Ebony Magazine, Huffington Post, the American Ethnologist, and featured on albums with the Midwest Avengers and world-renowned DJ and producer Osunlade. Her first poetry collection, "In The Midst of Loving," was released in 2015. In 2018, Cheeraz starred in The Black Repertory Theaters' gala production of The Gospel at Colonus as the Evangelist Antigone. She returned to the stage in May of 2022 for the revival of "Rivers of Women" by the late poet Shirley Bradley LeFlore. In June 2022, she joined the Ashleylaine Dance Company for "Unseen," their season-closing performance.In 2016, Cheeraz was selected as an apexart International Arts Fellow; in 2018, she was named St. Louis Visionary Award, Outstanding Working Artist, and in 2019, she was awarded the prestigious St. Louis Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellow in literary arts.In tandem with her work as an artist, Cheeraz is a community health worker and works with local organizations to provide spiritual and social care to people impacted by violent crime. Following the tragic loss of her brother, John Gormon, Jr., Cheeraz founded Sibling Support Network, an organization dedicated to assisting people who have lost siblings to violent crime. For this work, she was featured in TIME Magazine's 2018 "Guns in America" issue.Most recently, she was a part of the ensemble cast of the sold-out stage performances of The Color Purple with the Hawthorne Players and performed before a packed audience at the Saint Louis Art Museum as part of The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century exhibition inside of multimedia artist Gary Simmons, Garage Lab installation. As a self-professed ad geek, she still finds time to consult and freelance as a creative director, mentorship advocate, and advisor in the advertising industry. 

Monika Halkort in conversation with Munira KhayyatA LANDSCAPE OF WAR What worlds take root in war? This talk takes us to the southern border of Lebanon where resistant ecologies thrive amid perennial gusts of war. In frontline villages armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings and scattered landmines have become the conditions within which everyday life is waged. Here, multi-species partnerships such as tobacco-farming and goat-herding carry life through seasons of destruction. Neither green-tinged utopia nor total devastation, these survival collectives make life possible within an insistently deadly region. Sourcing an anthropology of war from where it is lived decolonizes distant theories of war and brings to light creative practices forged in the midst of ongoing devastation. Like other unlivable worlds of the Anthropocene, war is a place where life must go on. Munira Khayyat teaches anthropology at New York University Abu Dhabi. She is the author of A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022). Her writing has appeared in American Ethnologist, Public Culture, JMEWS, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology News, HAU and a number of edited volumes. Khayyat was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2018-19). Before joining NYUAD, she taught at the American University in Cairo (2013-23) and the American University of Beirut (2011-13). She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. Monika Halkort is a researcher and lecturer at the School for Transformation at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her research focuses on the political and moral ecology of techno-scientific infrastructures and their historical entanglements with colonial knowledge regimes. Next to her academic work, she is a regular contributor to the Ö1 programs Radiokolleg and Diagonal.

#witchcraft #minorities #queer The relation between the practice of magic, witchcraft, Paganism, shamanism and minorities in society (e.g. LGBTQ, people with disabilities). Clarifications on the differences found in Paganism, Ceremonial Magic, Western Esotericism and Re-constructivists of pre-Christian traditions. CONNECT & SUPPORT

#lgbtq #queer #disabled Paganism, Wicca, Shamanism, Magic and Esotericism in relation to the Queer community and the differently-abled people. Are these minorities more advantaged as witches in magick and occult esoteric workings? DISCLAIMER: I do not mean to say that in all magic-practising traditions there is a prevalence of marginalised individuals but just that this appears to be the case in Pagan, Neopagan and eclectic Wiccan communities in Italy. 'Magic' is here used to refer to the one practised by the aforementioned groups. CONNECT & SUPPORT

On this episode, the gang discusses some mortuary rituals and practices from around the world. They discuss the Towers of Silence from India and Pre-Islamic Iran, and the Wari people out of the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil. Don't eat before you listen to this episode of Under the Pendulum.    Find us anywhere you listen to your pods! Please like, subscribe and give us a 5 start review if you like the show.    Sources:  https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/26/death-city-lack-vultures-threatens-mumbai-towers-of-silence SHOKOOHY, M. (2007). The Zoroastrian Towers of Silence in the Ex-Portuguese Colony of Diu. Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 21, 61–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24049363 Conklin, B. A. (1995). “Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom”: Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. American Ethnologist, 22(1), 75–101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/646047

.player4498 .plyr__controls, .player4498 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: px; overflow: hidden; } .player4498{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4498 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4498 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element. In this episode, Tanya Matthan speaks with Dr. Caroline Schuster about her research on themes of finance, gender, and development in Paraguay. Dr. Schuster elaborates on the surprising intersections between speculative fiction, feminist anthropology, and graphic novels. In particular, we discuss the inspiration for her forthcoming collaborative graphic ethnography on weather insurance and the challenges and possibilities of building a more accessible and engaged economic anthropology through the medium of comics. GUEST BIO Dr. Caroline Schuster is Associate Professor at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology; as well as Co-Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies at the Australian National University. Dr. Schuster's research interests include value, credit and debt, development policy and NGOs, finance and climate change, gender and kinship with a regional focus on Latin America. Her first book, Social Collateral: women and microfinance in Paraguay's smuggling economy (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic account of microcredit and collective indebtedness in Paraguay's triple-frontier with Argentina and Brazil. Her forthcoming book is a graphic novel titled Forecasts: A story of weather and finance at the edge of disaster, along with the illustrators Enrique Bernardou and David Bueno. Her work has been published in a number of journals, including Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Development and Change, to name a few.

« How newness enters the world » : hétérolinguisme, traduction et pratiques inclusives Le pouvoir novateur de la littérature semble parfois illimité. Mais des contraintes formelles, stylistiques et langagières continuent de régimenter les pratiques littéraires, d'en assurer la légitimité. L'injonction de se conformer aux pratiques des grands centres littéraires influe, comme le pense Pascale Casanova, sur notre conception de ce qui est universel. Comment, dans un tel climat, faire advenir du nouveau dans le monde? C'est la question que nous nous sommes posée en compagnie de Catherine Leclerc, professeure au Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création de l'Université McGill.Nous tentons, dans cet épisode, d'identifier certaines brèches, pour la plupart idéologiques, par lesquelles les « petites littératures » se démarquent, créent leur propre légitimité et font valoir leur nouveauté. La littérature acadienne, l'écriture inclusive et la traduction occupent le centre de notre réflexion. Notre invitée nous mène à nous interroger sur les modèles de l'espace littéraire (Pascale Casanova, 1999 ; Itamar Even-Zohar, 2000), les marges, la question de l'originalité, la traduction comme facteur d'innovation, le rôle politique de la mise en valeur des littératures de l'exiguïté (François Paré, 1992) et l'autonomisation de ces dernières, notamment.Les frontières, en somme, sont-elles aussi étanches qu'on pourrait le croire? Quelle place la littérature contemporaine réserve-t-elle à l'innovation? Comment les littératures des minorités linguistiques parviennent-elles à obtenir de la reconnaissance? L'anecdote de Leonard Cohen sur laquelle s'ouvre l'épisode est tirée du mémoire de maîtrise d'Ariane Brun del Re (Portraits de villes littéraires : Moncton et Ottawa) et provient du roman Petites difficultés d'existence de France Daigle. Références et ouvrages cités par Catherine LeclercBakhtine, Mikhaïl, Esthétique et histoire du roman, coll. « Tel », Paris, Gallimard, 1987.Bhabha, Homi K., The Location of Culture, Londres, Routledge, 2004 [1994]. Brun del Re, Ariane, Portraits de villes littéraires : Moncton et Ottawa, mémoire de maîtrise, Université McGill, 2012, p. 40.Casanova, Pascale, La république mondiale des lettres, Paris, Seuil, 2008 [1999].Daigle, France, Pas pire, Moncton, Éditions d'Acadie, 1998. Daigle, France, Petites difficultés d'existence, Montréal, Boréal, 2002. Desbiens, Patrice, L'homme invisible / The Invisible Man, Sudbury, Prise de Parole, 2005 [1981]. Even-Zohar, Itamar, « The position of translated literature within the literary polysystem », dans Lawrence Venuti (dir.), The Translation Studies Reader, Londres et New York, Routledge, 2000, p. 192-197.Leblanc, Georgette, Alma, Moncton, Éditions Perce-neige, 2006.Paré, François, Les littératures de l'exiguïté, Hearst, Le Nordir, 1992.Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (trad. Arianne Des Rochers), Noopiming, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, 2021.Sommer, Doris, « Slaps and Embraces : A Rhetoric of Particularism » dans Ileana Rodríguez (dir.), The Latin American Subaltern Studies Reader, Durham, Duke University Press, 2001, p. 175-190.Woolard, Kathryn A., « Language Variation and Cultural Hegemony: Toward an Integration of Sociolinguistic and Social Theory », American Ethnologist, vol. 12, no. 4, 1985, p. 738-748.Guides d'écriture inclusive Agin-Blais, Maude, Giroux, Alexia, Guinamand, Sophie, Merlet, Émeline, Parenteau-L, Carolanne et Rinfret-Viger, Sabrina. Guide d'écriture inclusive. Revue FéminÉtudes, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, 2020. https://iref.uqam.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2022/05/Guide_ecriture_inclusive_feminetudes_2020.pdf Guilbaut Fitzbay, Magali (dir.), Apprendre à nous écrire : guide et politique d'écriture inclusive, Club Sexu et Les 3 sex*, Montréal, 96 p. https://clubsexu.com/produit/apprendre-a-nous-ecrire/*Ce guide est payant et présentement en rupture de stock. Animation et conception de l'épisode : Marjorie Benny, Salomé Landry Orvoine et Mathilde Vallières

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/israel-studies

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is something of a gap between this description and the reality of everyday life. In this gap resides a hidden reality—Palestinians who work, study, and live as an unseen minority, to some degree denied full benefits of equal urban citizenship. Much of the discourse concerning this descriptive gap focuses on attempts to preserve or contextualise the claim to social liberalism from the Israeli Jewish perspective. A new book by the anthropologist Andreas Hackl, takes a different point of view. The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv (Indiana UP, 2022) focuses on what he terms the “immersive invisibility” of Israel's minority Palestinian population: the challenges they face, the strategies they deploy, and ultimately the consequences of acts of personal and collective self-censorship that define and circumscribe their everyday life and presence in Tel Aviv. The Invisible Palestinians documents the experiences of a diverse Palestinian population in the Jewish Israeli city: residents and commuters, professionals and day laborers, activists, artists, students. Differences of education, economic wherewithal, and social class aside, all share one central experience: circumscribed citizenship of the Jewish metropolis. Andreas Hackl is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as World Development, American Ethnologist, and Social Anthropology. He has worked as a consultant with the International Labour Organization and as a newspaper correspondent based in Jerusalem. Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This discussion is with Adrienne Cohen, an Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Colorado State University. She has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea, West Africa on urban dance and political change, and in the United States among migrant artists from Guinea. Cohen is the author of Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea (University of Chicago Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, African Studies Review, and Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute. 

Panel discussion on researching no human animals in South Asia Muhammad Kavesh is a Faculty of Arts and Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow at the Australian National University. He is the author of “Animal Enthusiasms: Life Beyond Cage and Leash in Rural Pakistan” and co-editor of a special journal issue, “Sense Making in a More-than-Human World." Naisargi N. Davé is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Queer Activism in India and of the forthcoming, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. Radhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018 and Penguin India in 2019, as well as articles published in American Ethnologist, Comparative Study of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Cultural Anthropology, and HAU: The Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Ambika Aiyadurai is Assistant Professor (Anthropology) at the Indian Institute of Technology – Gandhinagar. She is an anthropologist of wildlife conservation with a special interest in human-animal relations and community-based conservation projects. Her ongoing and long-term research aims to understand how local and global forces shape human-animal relations. She completed her PhD thesis in Anthropology at the National University of Singapore in 2016. She is trained in both natural and social sciences with masters' degrees in Wildlife Sciences from Wildlife Institute of India (Dehradun) and Anthropology, Environment and Development from University College London (UK) funded by Ford Foundation's International Fellowship Program. In 2017, she was awarded the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC) Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship to examine community-based wildlife projects. Her monograph, Tigers are our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India was published by Oxford University Press (UK). 2021.

In this episode, Kelly catches up with Jong Bum Kwon and Carrie M. Lane about their landmark 2016 volume, Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and its Absence. Pulling together disparate threads of an emergent anthropological interest in unemployment, Kwon, Lane, and their contributors helped define a critical subfield in the wake of the global financial crisis. Revisiting the volume from the perspective of 2021 reveals a remarkably prescient book with questions and theoretical interventions that have only become more illuminative with time. Jong Bum Kwon is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Webster University. His scholarship has appeared in various journals, including American Ethnologist and Critique of Anthropology, and he is the co-editor of Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and its Absence (Cornell University Press).         Carrie M. Lane is Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Her scholarship has appeared in various journals, including American Ethnologist and the Anthropology of Work Review. She is the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment (Cornell University Press) and the co-editor of Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and its Absence (Cornell University Press).

In this episode, Kelly chats with Ilana Gershon about unemployment and the post-pandemic workplace in the United States' knowledge economy. Nearly five years after the publication of Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today, Gershon revisits the genesis of that project, reflects on the endurance of the neoliberal conception of the self, and shares that her post-pandemic project points toward a rethinking of the American social contract. Ilana Gershon is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her research on neoliberalism and new media has been published in the discipline's leading journals, including Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and American Ethnologist. She is also the author of the three monographs, including most recently, Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today (2017).

For this episode, Joe sits down with Susanna Trnka from the Anthropology department at the University of Auckland. Susanna is an associate professor in the anthropology department at the University of Auckland. Susanna received her PhD from Princeton before moving to Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2003. Her research has been undertaken in Fiji, the Czech Republic, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Susanna is the author of three books: ‘State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji', ‘One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility and the Politics of Global Health,' and her 2020 book ‘Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic.' She is the co-author of ‘Young Women of Prague' with Alena Heltlinger and has edited five other books. Her many articles and chapters cover topics such as embodiment, state-citizen relations, subjectivity, responsibility, states of emergencies, Covid-19 responses, and the politics of medicine. Joe begins by discussing Susanna's upcoming role as editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist and her plans for the journal. They then talk about Susanna's book ‘Traversing' and how anthropologists might think about the idea of lifeworlds and conclude with a discussion regarding Susanna's work on the current pandemic in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Head over to our Website for a full list of links and citations!

In this speaker event, Lori Allen will present on her latest book, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine, in conversation with Toufic Haddad. Based on archival and ethnographic research, this book examines a history of international investigative commissions in Palestine as liberal performances and enactments of international law. A History of False Hope offers new perspectives on Palestinian political history, and a novel methodology bringing anthropology to the archives and the history of international law. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Lori Allen is Reader in Anthropology at SOAS University of London. Her work has focused on Palestinian society, politics, and history. She is the author of two books, A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (2020) and The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine (2013), published by Stanford University Press. Her articles have been published in academic and news journals, including American Ethnologist, Contemporary Studies in Society and History, MERIP, Al-Jazeera, and Sada. Lori's most recent contributions include "This Time May Be Different: on the UN commission of inquiry investigating violations in the occupied Palestinian territory" and "The ICC in Palestine: Reasons to Withhold Hope." ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional resources: Watch the video: https://bit.ly/3qON0iF

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Sarah Kendzior, the author of "Hiding in Plain Sight", to discuss the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American dema­gogue possible. Sarah Kendzior is a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. Sarah is best known for her best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, reporting on political and economic problems in the US, prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, as well as her academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. Kendzior is also the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covers corruption in the Trump administration and the rise of authoritarianism around the world. Since 2017, she has been covering the transformation of the US under the Trump administration, writing on authoritarian tactics, kleptocracy, racism and xenophobia, media, voting rights, technology, the environment, and the Russian interference case, among other topics. Sarah is an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where she focuses primarily on US politics. Sarah is also a frequent contributor to Fast Company, NBC News, and other national outlets. From 2012-2014 she was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English. Sarah Kendzior has also written for POLITICO, Quartz, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, De Correspondent, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler, Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, Slate, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Belt Magazine, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM, Opinio Juris, HRDCVR, World Politics Review, Shondaland, and The New York Times. In August 2013, Foreign Policy named her one of “the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events”. In October 2013, St. Louis Magazine profiled Sarah as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. In September 2014, The Riverfront Times named her the best online journalist in St. Louis. In June 2017, St Louis Magazine named her the best journalist in St. Louis. In addition to working as a journalist, Sarah Kendzior is a researcher and scholar. She has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis (2012) and an MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University (2006). Most of her work focuses on the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how the internet affects political mobilization, self-expression, and trust. Sarah's academic research has been published in American Ethnologist, Problems of Post-Communism, Central Asian Survey, Demokratizatsiya, Nationalities Papers, Social Analysis, and the Journal of Communication. She has worked as a program associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Sarah Kendzior is regularly interviewed by the media and has been a guest on NBC, MSNBC, NPR, CBS, Al Jazeera, CBC News, BBC World Service and other broadcast outlets, and is a recurring guest on the MSNBC show “AM Joy”. Sarah has given talks all over the world as an invited speaker at universities and at conferences on foreign policy, politics, education and technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alexis Bunten, (Aleut/Yup’ik) has served as a manager, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over 15 years. After receiving a BA in Art History at Dartmouth College, Alexis returned to Alaska, where she worked at the Sealaska Heritage Institute, and the Alaska Native Heritage Center in programming. Subsequently, Alexis earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at UCLA, and has served as the Project Ethnographer for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project, and as a Senior Researcher at the FrameWorks Institute. Alexis is an accomplished researcher, writer, media-maker, and curriculum developer. She has published widely about Indigenous and environmental issues, with articles in American Indian Quarterly, the Journal of Museum Education and American Ethnologist.Her 2015 book, “So, how long have you been Native?” Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide,” won the Alaska Library Association Award for its originality, and depth. In addition to writing, Alexis has contributed to several Indigenous-themed productions, including co-producing and writing the script for a documentary nominated for the Native American Film Awards. Alexis has developed educational material for both formal and informal learning environments including university level-courses as well as lifelong learner curriculum. Alexis is also a panelist this week on “The Indigenous Rights of Nature,” a panel discussion organized by Vision Maker Media in partnership with Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program. More about Bioneers’ Indigeneity Program can be found at bioneers.org. The Vision Maker Media panel is available on Facebook and YouTube starting Thursday, April 22. More at visionmakermedia.orgNiya DeGroat is a Diné fashion writer and multidisciplinary creative based in Flagstaff, Arizona. He is originally from Mariano Lake, New Mexico and a citizen of the Navajo Nation. He is also the former Director of Multimedia for Phoenix Fashion Week with years of fashion show production under his belt, including mentoring emerging designers and models. In May 2020, Niya obtained his master’s degree in fashion journalism from the Academy of Art University. As a journalist, he aims to present an Indigenous perspective on fashion by elevating the discussion around contemporary Native fashion. His work has been published in Indian Country Today, Academy Art U News, Fashion School Daily, and Native Max Magazine. Tiokasin and Niya will be discussing Niya’s Feb. 1, 2021 column in Indian Country Today — “Wait a minute America! ‘This is stolen land’: Joe Biden’s inauguration missed the mark by including the tone deaf American folk song”: https://bit.ly/3v5DnNxProduction Credits:Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive ProducerLiz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), ProducerTiokasin Ghosthorse, Studio Engineer and Audio Editor, WIOX 91.3 FM, Roxbury, NYMusic Selections:1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)Artist: Moana and the Moa HuntersCD: Tahi (1993)Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)(00:00:44)2. Song Title: Feels Like Summer CoverArtist: Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)CD: Summer Pack (2018)Label: Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator MusicYouTube Link: https://youtu.be/izFvp_JXaqg(00:34:15)3. Song Title: This Land is Our LandArtist: Todd SniderCD: Songs for the Daily Planet (1994)Label: MCA Records(00:57:32)

Award-winning journalist Tim Harford explains what it means when you hear that a COVID vaccine is 95% effective. Then, learn about Sentinel Island, home to the last uncontacted people on Earth; and what we can learn about our solar system’s theoretical “Planet Nine” from the newly discovered planet HD 106906 b.  Additional resources from Tim Harford: Pick up "The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ad1dQ4  Tim Harford's website: https://timharford.com/  Tim Harford on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimHarford  North Sentinel Island Is Home to the Last Uncontacted People on Earth by Reuben Westmaas Kane, S. (2016, May 15). This isolated tribe has rejected contact for centuries and remained hostile toward outsiders. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/sentinelese-uncontacted-island-tribe-photos-2016-5  Sen, S. (2009). Savage bodies, civilized pleasures: M. V. Portman and the Andamanese. American Ethnologist, 36(2), 364–379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01140.x  North Sentinel Island History. (2019). North Sentinel Island. https://northsentinelisland.com/north-sentinel-history/  McDougall, D. (2006, February 12). Survival comes first for Sentinel islanders – the world’s last “stone-age” tribe. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/12/theobserver.worldnews12  Alastair Jamieson, Fieldstadt, E., & Associated Press. (2018, November 21). American killed by isolated tribe on India’s North Sentinel Island, police say. NBC News; NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-killed-isolated-tribe-india-s-north-sentinel-island-police-n938826  Scientists discovered a solar system with its own version of the theoretical "Planet Nine" by Grant Currin Planet X. (2019, December 19). NASA Solar System Exploration. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/in-depth/ Hubble identifies strange exoplanet that behaves like the long-sought. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/eic-his121020.php  Nguyen, M. M., De Rosa, R. J., & Kalas, P. (2020). First Detection of Orbital Motion for HD 106906 b: A Wide-separation Exoplanet on a Planet Nine–like Orbit. The Astronomical Journal, 161(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abc012  Subscribe to Curiosity Daily to learn something new every day with Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer. You can also listen to our podcast as part of your Alexa Flash Briefing; Amazon smart speakers users, click/tap “enable” here: https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-com-Curiosity-Daily-from/dp/B07CP17DJY  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this extended length episode, Drs. Madson and Riccardi-Swartz take a deep dive into the ethics of representation in visual and written ethnographies, asking questions about power, privilege, and responsibility. Riccardi-Swartz, Sarah. 2020. "Fieldwork and Fallout with the Far-Right." American Ethnologist. Web. Music: Ketsa, “Dusty Hills," Creative Commons Licensing (Non-Commercial Use)

Michael HERZFELD, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS on March 6, 2018, Hong Kong.FEATURED AUTHORMichael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is also the former and founding Director (2014-18) of the Thai Studies Program, Asia Center, Harvard University; Senior Advisor on Critical Heritage Studies to the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, and Visiting Professor at Leiden University. He is also Chiang Jang Scholar and Visiting Professor at Shanghai International University, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Melbourne University. His research interests cover social theory, history of anthropology, social poetics, knowledge politics, politics of history and heritage, crypto-colonialism, artisanship, and the practice of comparison, and is ethnographically focused on Europe (especially Greece & Italy) and Southeast Asia (specifically Thailand). He is the author of eleven books (most recently Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok, 2016) and Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Institutions, and Societies, 2016), and is the producer of two films about Rome and currently working on two films about Bangkok. Herzfeld was Lewis Henry Morgan Lecturer for 2018 with a topic focusing on “subversive archaism” in Greece and Thailand; the book version will appear in 2021 as Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage (Duke University Press). A former editor of American Ethnologist, editor at large (responsible for “Polyglot Perspectives”) for Anthropological Quarterly, co-editor of the “New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations” series at Berghahn Books and of the IIAS Asian Heritages series at Amsterdam University Press, he holds honorary degrees from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), and the University of Crete, and is a past winner of the J.I. Staley Prize, the J.B. Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art, and the Rivers Memorial Medal.FURTHER READINGHerzfeld, Michael. 2004. The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value. University of Chicago Press.Herzfeld, Michael. 2016. Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok. University of Chicago Press.https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-herzfeld

This week we're doing a whole lot of hiking with The Lost City of Z! Join us for a discussion of Nina Fawcett, colonialism, the rubber trade, cannibalism, and more! Sources: Film Background: Featurette: https://youtu.be/l_hU-6psK04 Fox interview w/actors: https://youtu.be/J8_ZozoEo2Q Lauren Turner, "Sienna Miller on why her new role is not 'just a wife,' BBC 25 March 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39371863 Katie Berrington, "Sienna's Latest Role: "She Wasn't Just A Wife," Vogue UK 27 March 2017, https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sienna-miller-on-new-role-not-being-just-a-wife IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/ Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lost_city_of_z wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film) John Hemming, "Lost city of fantasy," The Spectator 1 April 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy . Nina Fawcett: Bio British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG123259 "United Kingdom: Long lost letter reveals new details of wifes search for missing explorer" Mena Report 9 Nov. 2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A469783244/EAIM?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=EAIM&xid=3babb494 "Letter reveals how missing explorer's wife turned to clairvoyant for help," Belfast Telegraph 7 November 2016 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/letter-reveals-how-missing-explorers-wife-turned-to-clairvoyant-for-help-35194673.html George K. Behlmer, "Grave Doubts: Victorian Medicine, Moral Panic, and the Signs of Death," Journal of British Studies 42:2 (April 2003): 206-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345608 Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). Lionel Gossman, "Michelet and Natural History: The Alibi of Nature," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:3 (September 2001): 283-333. David Grann, "The Lost City of Z," The New Yorker (19 September 2005), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-of-z and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Doubleday, 2009). Bruna Franchetto, "Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)" in Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America eds. Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course (University of Nebraska Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nkk2.15 Rubber: John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (NYU Press, 2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfjqp.8 Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Duke University Press, 2006). Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842-1932 (University of Arizona Press, 2013). City of Z/Kuhikugu: Douglas Preston, "An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rainforest," New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest Michael J Heckenberger, "Lost Cities of the Amazon," Scientific American 301, 4 (2009) Michael J Heckenberger et al, "Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia: Two Archaeological Examples from Brazil," Latin American Antiquity 10, 4 (1999) Anna T. Browne-Ribeiro et al, "Results from Pilot Archaeological Fieldwork at the Carrezado Site, Lower Xingu, Amazonia," Latin American Antiquity 27, 3 (2016) Cannibalism: Beth Conklin, "Consuming Images: Representations of Cannibalism on the Amazonian Frontier," Anthropological Quarterly 70, 2 (1997) Beth Conklin, "'Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom': Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society," American Ethnologist 22, 1 (1995) Shirley Lindenbaum, "Thinking About Cannibalism," Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)

This week we're talking about Steven Spielberg's Amistad! Join us for a discussion of John Quincey Adams, Lomboko, Poro, and more! Sources: Poro: Lydia Polgreen, "A Master Plan Drawn in Blood," New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/weekinreview/a-master-plan-drawn-in-blood.html Caroline Bledsoe, "The Political Uses of Sande Ideology and Symbolism," American Ethnologist 11, 3 (1984) Richard M. Fulton, "The Political Structures and Functions of Poro in Kpelle Society," American Anthropologist 74, 5 (1972) Kenneth Little, "The Political Function of the Poro, Part II," Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 36, 1 (1966) Sasha Newell, "Brands as Masks: Public Secrecy and the Counterfeit in the Cote d'Ivoire," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19, 1 (2013) Christine Whyte, "Freedom But Nothing Else: The Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Post-Slavery Sierra Leone, 1928-1956," The International Journal of African Historical Studies 48, 2 (2015) James Covey: Steve Thornton, "A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives," available at https://connecticuthistory.org/a-different-look-at-the-amistad-trial-the-teenager-who-helped-save-the-mende-captives/ Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54180/datastream/PDF/view Letter from James Covey to Lewis Tappan, December 14th 1840, available at https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A54176/datastream/PDF/view Richard Anderson, "The Diaspora of Sierra Leone's Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and "Liberation" at Freetown, 1808-1863," African Economic History 41 (2013) Charles Alan Dinsmore, "Interesting Sketches of the Amistad Captives," Yale University Library Gazette 9, 3 (1935) Film Background: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/amistad https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/amistad-1997 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/12/14/amistad-through-a-different-lens/aaf8318e-93ab-44f9-93ce-2a6d92e08191/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-11-30-1997334068-story.html John Quincey Adams: Oral Arguments for the Supreme Court: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp Louisa Catherine Adams, A Traveled First Lady: Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams eds. Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor (Harvard University Press, 2014) Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adam's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress (PublicAffairs, 2009). Lomboko: Marcus Rediker, The Amistad Rebellion: an Atlantic Oddyssey of Slavery and Freedom (New York: Penguin, 2012) Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo, "The Diaspora of Africans Liberated from Slave Ships in the Nineteenth Century," The Journal of African History 55:3 (November 2014): 347-369. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.williams.edu/10.1017/S0021853714000371 Donald Dale Jackson, "Mutiny on the Amistad: in 1839, African freemen seized as slaves, struck a daring blow for freedom," Smithsonian 28:9 (December 1997). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A20078601/AONE?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=AONE&xid=995b0aac https://archive.org/details/amistad0000gray/page/6/mode/2up?q=Lomboko

Gelek speaks with professor Carole McGranahan about what's at stake on Nov 3, Trump's incredible capacity for mendacity (05:00), why Tibetan Americans should think twice about supporting Trump (28:00), China vs the U.S. (40:00), and what's a good refugee to do going forward (43:00).Bio: Professor Carole McGranahan is an anthropologist and historian of Tibet and the Himalayas, and a professor at the University of Colorado. She conducts research, writes, lectures, and teaches. At any given time, professor McGranahan is probably working on one of the following projects: political asylum and refugee citizenship in the Tibetan diaspora (Canada, France, India, Nepal, Switzerland, and the USA); Tibet, the British empire, and the Pangdatsang family; the self-immolations in Tibet; the CIA and the Chushi Gangdrug resistance army; and, anthropology as theoretical storytelling. She lives in the mountains outside of Boulder, Colorado.carolemcgranahan.comEpisode notes:State of America heading into Nov 3 election [03:00]Do Trump's lies really break from past American presidencies? [05:00]Is Trump the logical endpoint of America as a settler colonial project? [14:00]Is a Biden administration really a true, progressive force that people think it will be? [19:00]Local state elections and voter suppression [23:00]Tibetans, Trump and Tibetan conservatism [28:00]American presidents who stood up for Tibet against China [37:00]What's so bad about China's rise to the top? [40:00]Tibetan refugees and good refugees [43:00]Final thoughts and go vote (for Biden)! [53:00]Projects in the works:Book on Pangdatsang family.Research project on political asylum and questions of citizenship in the Tibetan diaspora.“The Tibet Reader” book in collaboration with Dechen Pemba (High Peaks Pure Earth), Lama Jabb (Oxford University), Nicole Willock (Old Dominion University) and Dhondup Tashi Rekjong (Northwestern University).Reading:A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the Present,” International Journal of Communication 13, 2019, pp. 3164-3182.“An Anthropology of Lying: Trump and the Political Sociality of Moral Outrage,” American Ethnologist 44(2), 2017, pp. 243-248. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit agoodrefugee.substack.com

Hey Guys If you haven't subscribed to to membership in the Stand Up Community then here is yet another great incentive ! If you become a subscriber for as little as $5 a month you can join the growing community on the Discord App. Discord is a place to meet cool new people who are a part of our listening and learning community. There are several text chats you can join and share and stay connected. Its a great place to meet thoughtful,curious, passionate kind people like you! Subscribe now   ALSO: This Wednesday night Oct 14 at 8EST I'll be hosting Historian and best selling Author Kenneth C Davis for a q and a.  I hope you will join us. Subscribe now to join us! If you haven't gotten his new book STRONGMAN: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy yet then please do ! Now on to todays guest. Here is her bio from her website From Sarah Kendzior website I am a writer who lives in St Louis, Missouri. I am best known for my best-selling essay collection The View From Flyover Country, my reporting on political and economic problems in the US, my prescient coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. I am also the co-host of Gaslit Nation, a weekly podcast which covers corruption in the Trump administration and the rise of authoritarianism around the world. Since 2017, I’ve been covering the transformation of the US under the Trump administration, writing on authoritarian tactics, kleptocracy, racism and xenophobia, media, voting rights, technology, the environment, and the Russian interference case, among other topics. I am an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where I focus primarily on US politics. I am also a frequent contributor to Fast Company, NBC News, and other national outlets. From 2012-2014 I was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English. I have also written for POLITICO, Quartz, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, De Correspondent, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler,  Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, Slate, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Belt Magazine, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM,  Opinio Juris,  HRDCVR, World Politics Review, Shondaland, and The New York Times. In August 2013, Foreign Policy named me one of “the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events”. In October 2013, St. Louis Magazine profiled me as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. In September 2014, The Riverfront Times named me the best online journalist in St. Louis. In June 2017, St Louis Magazine named me the best journalist in St. Louis. In addition to working as a journalist, I am a researcher and scholar. I have a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis (2012) and an MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University (2006). Most of my work focuses on the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how the internet affects political mobilization, self-expression, and trust. My academic research has been published in American Ethnologist, Problems of Post-Communism, Central Asian Survey, Demokratizatsiya, Nationalities Papers, Social Analysis, and the Journal of Communication. I have worked as a program associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. I am regularly interviewed by the media and have been a guest on NBC, MSNBC, NPR, CBS, Al Jazeera, CBC News, BBC World Service and other broadcast outlets, and am a recurring guest on the MSNBC show “AM Joy”. I have given talks all over the world as an invited speaker at universities and at conferences on foreign policy, politics, education and technology. How To Vote In The 2020 Election In Every State. Everything you need to know about mail-in and early in-person voting in every state in the age of COVID-19, including the first day you can cast your ballot in the 2020 election. (FiveThirtyEight / NBC News / Wall Street Journal)* *Aggregated by What The Fuck Just Happened Today? Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page PLEASE SIGN UP FOR A PAID SUBSCRIPTION 

A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing.   These notes may contain affiliate links.        Garden soundtrack   Back after a break for the last episode in the series   Dogs and gardening   Lockdown and #BlackLivesMatter – did these change how you felt about your garden?   Privilege in the gardening world   Telling the stories of plants   Reading 05:30 Extract from 'Science and Colonial Expansion. The role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens' by Lucile H. Brockway in American Ethnologist, Journal of the American Ethnological Society, Volume 6 Issue 3, 1979, read by Sui Searle. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/ae.1979.6.3.02a00030   The book of the same name, available here: https://amzn.to/2PbSC4z   Gardening should be political – more of this in series three.   Gratitude, privilege and responsibility  – what that's meant to me in lockdown     Interview with the Ann Marie Powell 11:20    11:48 What's behind @myrealgarden?   15:22 Plants, People, Place   18:37 Living in a horticultural household, and how it effects domestic gardening   22:12 How Ann-Marie became a garden designer   23:16 Horticulture within the education system – being given the choice   25:18 Andrew talking absolute rubbish about "gardening with your ears"   27:10 Ann-Marie Powell Gardens – the vital importance of a great team   31:17 The effect of the Hampshire landscape on AMPG's design work   33:47 Is there anything the RHS needs to learn when it comes to reaching new people with shows like Chelsea?   38:56 Ann-Marie's gardens at RHS Wisley in Surrey   42:43 Pro-bono work for Greenfingers charity https://www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk/   46:03 Quickfire EITHER/OR questions!   Fatsia japonica https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/fatsia-japonica Schefflera rhododendrifolia https://www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/schefflera-rhododendrifolia Crûg Farm Nursery https://www.crug-farm.co.uk/     ***   Gratitude, privilege and responsibility vs Plants, People, Place. Pick your mantra!       Thank you to Ann-Marie for joining me on this episode. You can find Ann-Marie online here: AMPG website: https://www.ann-mariepowell.com/ Ann Marie's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ann_mariepowell/ The @myrealgarden instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/myrealgarden/   And also to Sui Searle for reading from the Lucile H. Brockway paper. You can find Sui on Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/thetemperategardener/ and here https://www.instagram.com/decolonisethegarden/   I’m ever grateful to all my listeners for your continued support and reviews, I really do appreciate them. You can support the podcast by buying its producer a virtual cup of coffee for three quid, at https://ko-fi.com/andrewtimothyOB. Proceeds will go towards equipment, software and the monthly podcast hosting fees.    A year of garden coaching If you'd like to find out more about my my 12 month online garden coaching programme, please visit the website, where you can read more details and add your name to the waiting list to be the first to hear when enrolment opens up again. https://www.gardensweedsandwords.com/garden-coaching       website: gardensweedsandwords.com email: gardensweedsandwords@gmail.com Instagram: instagram.com/AndrewTimothyOB Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewTimothyOB 

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Wykład gościnny prof. Elizabeth C. Dunn* pt. "W stronę antropologii nicości.Humanitaryzm i uchodźstwo w Republice Gruzji" wygłoszony 26.06.2015 r. w Poznaniu. Organizatorami wydarzenia było Studenckie Koło Naukowe Etnologów oraz Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej UAM w Poznaniu. W swoim wystąpieniu prof. Dunn zaprezentowała wyniki badań, jakie prowadziła od 2002 r. w Gruzji i będących podstawą przygotowanej przez nią książki pt. "Unsettled: Humanitarianism, Displacement, and the Problem of Being". Na skutek inwazji armii rosyjskiej w 2008 roku, 28 tysięcy osób z Południowej Osetii – części Republiki Gruzji która postanowiła się odłączyć – stało się ofiarami polityki czystek etnicznych. W odpowiedzi na te wydarzenia, zachodni darczyńcy przeznaczyli ponad 4,5 miliarda dolarów pomocy humanitarnej, z czego 350 milionów zostało skierowanych bezpośrednio do „uchodźców wewnętrznych”. Gdy odwiedzałam obozy, w których owi uchodźcy zostali osadzeni, bardzo często słyszałam tego rodzaju sformułowania: „nie mamy niczego. Rząd i NGOsy nic dla nas nie robią. Jesteśmy sami, opuszczeni i nie mamy nic”. Dlaczego uchodźcy otoczeni przedmiotami z pomocy humanitarnej konsekwentnie twierdzą, że nic nie mają? W niniejszym wystąpieniu pokażę jak „nicość” stanowi centralną kategorię, za pomocą której wewnętrzni uchodźcy rozumieją swoje nowe życie w obozach, swój nowy status społeczny, swą nową relację z państwem oraz instytucjami międzynarodowymi. Posługując się ontologią Alaina Badiou, zademonstruję jak – wbrew najlepszym intencjom – praktyka systemu międzynarodowej pomocy humanitarnej wygenerowała cztery rodzaje pustki, które uwięziły uchodźców wewnętrznych w obozach i długoterminowym zawieszeniu ich przedłużającego się wygnania. * Elizabeth C. Dunn - amerykańska antropolożka, autorka książki "Prywatyzując Polskę"**, obecnie wykłada geografię na Indiana University w USA. Publikowała m.in. w American Ethnologist, Slavic Review czy Antipode. ** Prywatyzując Polskę. O bobofrutach, wielkim biznesie i restrukturyzacji pracy, przeł. Przemysław Sadura, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2008 (ISBN 978-83-61006-11-4). *** Nagranie wykonał Jędrzej Lichota Podcast opublikowany 20.06.2015 r. na http://antropofon.blogspot.com/2015/06/w-strone-antropologii-nicosci-wykad.html

In this episode, Sarah Richardson speaks with Matt King, Associate Professor in Transnational Buddhism in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Sarah and Matt talk about why there is even such a thing as Buddhist studies, and why it matters to work toward decolonizing the classroom. They also discuss how his research informs his teaching, and what kinds of approaches he takes to promote inspired learning. Resources Mentioned Johan Elverskog's 2013 book, Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire Charlene E. Makley's 2003 article, “Gendered Boundaries in Motion: Space and Identity on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier” in American Ethnologist 30(4) Gregory Schopen's video lecture on The Buddha as a Businessman Article on The Tao of RZA See show notes at teachingbuddhism.net/matt-king/.

Ned Balbo is the author of The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, awarded the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. His fifth book, 3 Nights of the Perseids, was selected by Erica Dawson for the Richard Wilbur Award. A co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. Balbo was recently a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University’s MFA program in creative writing and environment. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield. Learn more at https://nedbalbo.com.G.H. Mosson is the author of Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019), as well as three prior books of poetry, Heart X-rays (PM Press, 2018, with Marcus Colasurdo), Questions of Fire (Plain  View, 2009), and Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River, 2007). His poetry and literary criticism have appeared in Measure, Tampa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, and Loch Raven Review, among other journals, and his poetry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He also edited the anthology Poems Against War: Bending Towards Justice (Wasteland Press, 2010).  He holds an MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA in English. Mr. Mosson is a father, writer, lawyer, and dreamer. He practices employee rights and disability rights law as well as general civil litigation.  He hails from NYC and lives in his second home-state of Maryland.Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Bettering American Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Her anthropological articles recently appear in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her ethnographic monographic, Pinelandia: Human Technology and American Empire, is currently a finalist for the University of California Press Atelier series for Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. Stone has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia, an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and teaches at Princeton University.Read "Dark Horse" by Ned Balbo.Read "Letter by a French Soldier, 1916, Found at Verdun" by G.H. Mosson.Read "War Catalogues" by Nomi Stone.

Ned Balbo is the author of The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems, awarded the Poets’ Prize and the Donald Justice Prize. His fifth book, 3 Nights of the Perseids, was selected by Erica Dawson for the Richard Wilbur Award. A co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. Balbo was recently a visiting faculty member in Iowa State University’s MFA program in creative writing and environment. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield. Learn more at https://nedbalbo.com.G.H. Mosson is the author of Family Snapshot as a Poem in Time (Finishing Line Press, 2019), as well as three prior books of poetry, Heart X-rays (PM Press, 2018, with Marcus Colasurdo), Questions of Fire (Plain  View, 2009), and Season of Flowers and Dust (Goose River, 2007). His poetry and literary criticism have appeared in Measure, Tampa Review, The Cincinnati Review, Smartish Pace, and Loch Raven Review, among other journals, and his poetry has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. He also edited the anthology Poems Against War: Bending Towards Justice (Wasteland Press, 2010).  He holds an MA in writing from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and a BA in English. Mr. Mosson is a father, writer, lawyer, and dreamer. He practices employee rights and disability rights law as well as general civil litigation.  He hails from NYC and lives in his second home-state of Maryland.Nomi Stone is a poet and an anthropologist, and the author of two poetry collections, Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly, 2008) and Kill Class (Tupelo, 2019). Winner of a Pushcart Prize, Stone’s poems appear recently in Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Bettering American Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Tin House, New England Review, and elsewhere. Her anthropological articles recently appear in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her ethnographic monographic, Pinelandia: Human Technology and American Empire, is currently a finalist for the University of California Press Atelier series for Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century. Kill Class is based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. Stone has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia, an MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and teaches at Princeton University.Read "Dark Horse" by Ned Balbo.Read "Letter by a French Soldier, 1916, Found at Verdun" by G.H. Mosson.Read "War Catalogues" by Nomi Stone.Recorded On: Wednesday, May 1, 2019

This podcast featuring Ian VanderMeulen, doctoral candidate in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, and TALIM resident director John Davison, was recorded February 7, 2019. According to some religious leaders and other intellectuals, Morocco is in the midst of a “recitational revival” (sahwa tajwidiyya). Though its scope and effectiveness are not yet clear, the intention is a re-emphasis on two core Islamic disciplines that relate to recitation of the Qur’an: first, tajwid, a system of rules that govern pronunciation and rhythm of the Qur’anic text in recitation performance; and the variance of those rules across seven, coherent, recitals or “readings” (qira’at) that are equally sound. Within this revival, Moroccan’s historical preference for riwayat Warsh, a lesser-practiced variant of one of the seven qira’at has become almost a point of national pride, and thus the Moroccan state has devoted many resources not only to specialist study of the qira’at, but also popularization of tajwid through mass media. Engaging fieldwork at a variety of institutions, including new and pre-existing schools and state radio, Ian maps an institutional framework of this revival and describes some of its core elements. In particular, he compares and contrasts the work going on at two institutions of qira’at study, the state-funded Ma‘had Muhammad Assadiss lil-dirasat wal-qira’at al-Qur’aniyya in Rabat, and the private Madrasat Ibn al-Qadi lil-qira’at in Sale. Taking inspiration from the growing field of “sound studies,” and grounding his fieldwork in historical research on tajwid, the qira’at, and the history of sound recording, Ian suggests that the sahwa tajwidiiyya is less a “revival” of previous practices of recitation per se, but a refashioning of such practices and their pedagogies through the application of new technologies, from modern classroom whiteboards to digital studio recording. Ian VanderMeulen is a doctoral candidate in the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. A performing musician, Ian holds bachelor’s degrees in music and religious studies from Oberlin College and an M.A. from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research in France and Morocco has been funded by NYU’s Graduate Research Initiative and the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Further Reading: Bates, Eliot. 2016. Digital Tradition: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul’s Recording Studio Culture. Oxford University Press. Benmahan, Ahmed. 2014. Al-Tajwīd al-muyassar, b-riwāyat Warsh ‘an Nāfi‘ min tarīq al-Azraq. Al-Tab‘a al-thālitha. Rabāt: al-Iydā ‘ al-Qānuni. Denny, F.M., “Tad̲j̲wīd”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Feld, Steven and D. Brenneis. 2004. “Doing anthropology in sound.” American Ethnologist, 31 (4): 461-74. Hirschkind, Charles. 2006. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics. New York: Columbia University Press. Nelson, Kristina. 2002 (1985). The Art of Reciting the Qur’an. American University of Cairo Press. Paret, R., “Ḳirāʾa”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs. Rassmussen, Anne K. 2010. Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sterne, Jonathan. ed. 2012b. The Sound Studies Reader. New York: Routledge. ______. 2003. The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. al-Timsimānī, Muhammad bin Ahmed Huhuwar. 2013. Tarājim Qurrā’ al-Maghrib al-Aqsā, khilāl al-qarnayn al-thāni ‘ashar wa al-thālith ‘ashar al-hijjrīyin. Tangier: Dar al-Hadīth al-Kattāni. al-Wafī, Ibrahīm. 1999. al-Dirāsāt al-Qur’āniyya bil-Maghrib fil-qarn al-rābi‘ ‘ashr al-hijrī. al- Dār al-Baydā’: Dār al-Thaqāfa al-Maghribiyya.

In our 14th episode, we are lucky enough to get in a room with both Niko Besnier and Ghassan Hage. In this episode, our guests cover a raft of topics befitted of their wide interests, including discussions of ‘the global’, the political economy of sport, public anthropology, activism in academia and… knowing your enemies! Niko is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and, this year and last year Research Professor in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University here in Melbourne. He has an extraordinary list of achievements to mention, including that he is the author of books such as On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation and Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics, has written prolifically on the topics of gender, sexuality and sport in the Pacific, and is editor-in-chief of the journal American Ethnologist. Ghassan is Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of four books, including White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society and, most recently, Is Racism an Environmental Threat? Conversations in Anthropology@Deakin is produced by Timothy Neale and David Boarder Giles with support from the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. http://pacific.socsci.uva.nl/besnier/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghassan_Hage

Simon starts us off (1:08) asking, how can we make anthropology matter for policy and government? "There's no reason why [anthropology] can't be scaled up. There's no reason why there shouldn't be a chief anthropologist to the government.” As Jodie argues, "unless, as a discipline, we are willing to step outside our disciplinary mores and our disciplinary boundaries and make ourselves indispensable to people who have power in government, then no, we are not going to be useful." And Simon reminds us, "we need to make what is good about anthropology its selling point, which is its ability to do long-term, intimate research." Next, Jodie (6:53) asks about digital disruptions, and their unintended consequences. Are we looking only to a future of corporate power and social atomization? Can it all be bad? "Surely some of them must be positive, in a non-hedonistic way." Patrick gives us some hope, by telling us about a use of technology that we didn't foresee: "I was actually, the other day, trying to find an app that would allow me to scan someone's body for the health of their chakras." And Julia points out that "what digital disruption might mean is that our imagination and our superstition and our beliefs in various systems like chakras could be destroyed, through relying more and more on 'digital objectivity.'” Special guest Dr. Patrick McCartney (11:52) talks about his research with yoga groups on Facebook, calling the online yoga scene "a heterotopian series of worlds within worlds," and asking, what are kind of research ethics are called for when working in an online community? Are statements made before an online community of 30,000+ people in the public domain? Or is more explicit consent required? Julia makes a stand for strong ethics around consent: "what our participants tell us, knowing that they're already participating in a study, counts... it gives them autonomy to decide what they disclose and what they don't disclose based on the fact that it's going in a research study." Patrick is a post-doctoral researcher at Kyoto University, currently studying global yoga in Japan. Have a look at his upcoming conference, Yogascapes in Japan (Nov 2-3 in Kyoto), or follow him on Twitter at @psdmccartney. Finally, Julia (15:05) asks the eternal question: what is love? And what can anthropology tell us about love, in our own cultures or around the world? "How has our culture shaped this notion of having what is described as our 'other half,' or even a 'better half' sometimes, especially if being in a partnered or even a polyamorous relationship doesn't mean co-dependence, or even romantic love?" Patrick muses, "I adopt a very kind of queer epistemology in general... when thinking about how love brings people together, I can't help thinking about that kind of pathological side of love." CITATIONS and LINKS Fisher H 2008 The Brain on Love. Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_brain_in_love/up-next What Jodie thought was Laura Nader was actually Geertz, C. (1975). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. London: Hutchinson. Hardt M 2007 About love. European Graduate School. Available at: www.youtube.com/watch? v1⁄4ioopkoppabI (accessed 27 June 2016): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioopkoppabI The Iranian movie Simon mentioned: "No Entry of Men," https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1985266/ Zigon J 2013 “On Love: remaking moral subjectivity in post-rehabilitation Russia,” in American Ethnologist, vol. 40, no. 1. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/amet.12014 This anthropology podcast is supported by the Australian Anthropological Society, the schools of Culture, History, and Language and Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, and the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, and is produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. Music by Pete Dabro: dabro1.bandcamp.com Show notes by Ian Pollock

Episode 10! Once again, one of the pod-hosts is off on their own – this time David Giles presents a conversation he recorded with Hugh Gusterson about a wide range of topics including public anthropology, the ethics of activist-inspired fieldwork, secrets, and academic precarity. Hugh Gusterson is a professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University. Previously, he taught at MIT's program on Science, Technology, and Society, and at George Mason's Cultural Studies program. His expertise is in nuclear culture, international security, and the anthropology of science. He has written two books on the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists: Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War (University of California Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). Gusterson also co-edited Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (University of California Press, 2005) and its sequel, The Insecure American (University of California Press, 2009). He is currently writing a book on the polygraph. Some further reading: Gusterson H. (1998) Nuclear rites: A weapons laboratory at the end of the Cold War: University of California Press. Gusterson H. (2007) Anthropology and militarism. Annual Review of Anthropology 36: 155-175. Gusterson H. (2017) Homework: Toward a critical ethnography of the university AES presidential address, 2017. American Ethnologist 44: 435-450.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 89th episode our returning guest is Sarah Kendzior. You first heard Sarah Kendzior on Episode 70 and Episode 80 of the podcast. Here's her biography: “I am a writer. I am best known for my critical take on the 'prestige economy,' my reporting on St. Louis, my coverage of the 2016 election, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. “My best-selling essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, was published as an ebook in 2015. An updated version of the book is being released by Macmillan Publishers in April 2018, with new material on the Trump administration — how America got here, and where we're going. Pre-order your copy today! “I am currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where I focus on U.S. politics. I also am the US correspondent for the Dutch news outlet De Correspondent. Previously I was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English, where I wrote about exploitation, particularly in higher education, the diminishing opportunities of America's youth, and gentrification. I have also covered internet privacy, political repression, and how the media shape public perception. My April 2013 article 'The wrong kind of Caucasian' is the most popular AJE op-ed of all time. “I have also written for POLITICO, Quartz, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler, NBC News, Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, Slate, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM, Opinio Juris, HRDCVR, World Politics Review and The New York Times. “In August 2013, Foreign Policy named me one of 'the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events.' In October 2013, St. Louis Magazine profiled me as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. In September 2014, The Riverfront Times named me the best online journalist in St. Louis. In June 2017, St. Louis Magazine named me the best journalist in St. Louis. “In addition to working as a journalist, I am a researcher and consultant. I have a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis and an MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University. Most of my work focuses on the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how the internet affects political mobilization, self-expression, and trust. “My research has been published in American Ethnologist, Problems of Post-Communism, Central Asian Survey, Demokratizatsiya, Nationalities Papers, Social Analysis, and the Journal of Communication. I am a program associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a research associate at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “I am frequently interviewed by the media and have been a guest on NPR, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, CBC News, BBC World Service and other broadcast outlets, and am a recurring guest on the MSNBC show 'AM Joy.' I have given talks all over the world as an invited speaker at academic conferences and forums on foreign policy, politics, education and technology. “I occasionally serve as an expert witness in asylum cases involving applicants from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.” Two programming notes before we begin: We recorded this conversation on Wednesday evening. On Thursday, Ryan Grim of The Intercept reported Sam Seder will be offered his MSNBC contributor job back and plans to accept. Also, on Thursday, Democratic Minnesota Sen. Al Franken announced he would resign in the coming weeks.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 80th episode our returning guest is Sarah Kendzior. You first heard Sarah Kendzior on Episode 70 of the podcast. Here's her biography: “I am a writer. I am best known for my critical take on the “prestige economy”, my reporting on St. Louis, my coverage of the 2016 election, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. My best-selling essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, was published in 2015. “I am currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where I focus on US politics. I also am the US correspondent for the Dutch news outlet De Correspondent. Previously I was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English, where I wrote about exploitation, particularly in higher education, the diminishing opportunities of America's youth, and gentrification. I have also covered internet privacy, political repression, and how the media shape public perception. My April 2013 article “The wrong kind of Caucasian” is the most popular AJE op-ed of all time. “I have also written for POLITICO, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Quartz, Slate, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, Opinio Juris, Alternet, HRDCVR, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler, Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, Registan.net, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM, World Politics Review and The New York Times. “In August 2013, Foreign Policy named me one of “the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events”. In October 2013, St. Louis Magazine profiled me as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. In September 2014, The Riverfront Times named me the best online journalist in St. Louis. In June 2017, St. Louis Magazine named me the best journalist in St. Louis. “In addition to working as a journalist, I am a researcher and consultant. I have a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis and an MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University. Most of my work focuses on the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how the internet affects political mobilization, self-expression, and trust. “My research has been published in American Ethnologist, Problems of Post-Communism, Central Asian Survey, Demokratizatsiya, Nationalities Papers, Social Analysis, and the Journal of Communication. I am a program associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a research associate at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “I am frequently interviewed by the media and have been a guest on NPR, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, CBC News, BBC World Service and other broadcast outlets, and am a recurring guest on the MSNBC show “AM Joy”. I have given talks all over the world as an invited speaker at academic conferences and forums on foreign policy, politics, education and technology. “I occasionally serve as an expert witness in asylum cases involving applicants from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.” If you enjoy this podcast, there are several ways to support it. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon. I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS. The official website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. Until next time.

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this, our 70th episode our guest is Sarah Kendzior. Here's her biography: “I am a writer. I am best known for my critical take on the “prestige economy”, my reporting on St. Louis, my coverage of the 2016 election, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. My best-selling essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, was published in 2015. “I am currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail, where I focus on US politics. I also am the US correspondent for the Dutch news outlet De Correspondent. Previously I was an op-ed columnist for Al Jazeera English, where I wrote about exploitation, particularly in higher education, the diminishing opportunities of America's youth, and gentrification. I have also covered internet privacy, political repression, and how the media shape public perception. My April 2013 article “The wrong kind of Caucasian” is the most popular AJE op-ed of all time. “I have also written for POLITICO, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Quartz, Slate, The Atlantic, Medium, Radio Free Europe, Opinio Juris, Alternet, HRDCVR, POLITICO Europe, The Chicago Tribune, The Baffler, Blue Nation Review, Alive Magazine, Ethnography Matters, Registan.net, The Common Reader, The New York Daily News, La Stampa, World Policy Journal, The Brooklyn Quarterly, The Diplomat, Marie Claire, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Teen Vogue, City AM, World Politics Review and The New York Times. “In August 2013, Foreign Policy named me one of “the 100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events”. In October 2013, St. Louis Magazine profiled me as one of 15 inspirational people under 35 in St. Louis. In September 2014, The Riverfront Times named me the best online journalist in St. Louis. In June 2017, St Louis Magazine named me the best journalist in St. Louis. “In addition to working as a journalist, I am a researcher and consultant. I have a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in Saint Louis and an MA in Central Eurasian Studies from Indiana University. Most of my work focuses on the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and how the internet affects political mobilization, self-expression, and trust. “My research has been published in American Ethnologist, Problems of Post-Communism, Central Asian Survey, Demokratizatsiya, Nationalities Papers, Social Analysis, and the Journal of Communication. I am a program associate for the Central Asia Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, and a research associate at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “I am frequently interviewed by the media and have been a guest on NPR, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, CBC News, BBC World Service and other broadcast outlets, and am a recurring guest on the MSNBC show “AM Joy”. I have given talks all over the world as an invited speaker at academic conferences and forums on foreign policy, politics, education and technology. “I occasionally serve as an expert witness in asylum cases involving applicants from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.” If you enjoy this podcast, there are several ways to support it. I have a Patreon account, which can be found at www.patreon.com/robburgessshowpatreon. I hope you'll consider supporting in any amount. Also please make sure to comment, follow, like, subscribe, share, rate and review everywhere the podcast is available, including iTunes, YouTube, SoundCloud, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Facebook, Twitter, Internet Archive, TuneIn and RSS. The official website for the podcast is www.therobburgessshow.com. You can find more about me by visiting my website, www.thisburgess.com. Until next time.