ON STANDS
all articles published in October, 2009
Part II: So Many Interviewees, How Shall I Choose?
Tags: Journalism, Media, Palestine, refugees, U.S. news
Added on Friday, October 30th, 2009 to Fieldnotes sections.
This summer I’m doing interviews with Palestinian journalists and refugees in which I ask them to interpret and critique U.S. news articles. Why, you might ask, did I choose journalists and refugees as my commentators? Why didn’t I try to…
Hugh Raffles Wins Whiting Award
Tags: books
Added on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 to Press Watch sections.
Hugh Raffles has won one of ten Whiting Awards given to emerging writers. His new book Illustrated Insectopedia is due out in March 2010. From the Whiting website: “Since 1985, the Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting…
Karen Ho Helpful in Making Sense of Financial Crisis
Added on Thursday, October 29th, 2009 to Press Watch sections.
Karen Ho’s newish book Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street continues to get positive press: today, in The Guardian. This in addition to an interview in Time in July, a mention in the NYTimes Economix blog, and a review in the Financial Times….
Findings, Part 4: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: diversity, Education, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, race, silence, tourism
Added on Monday, October 26th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlight emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
McFate one of Atlantic’s “Brave Thinkers”
Added on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 to Press Watch sections.
The November issue of Atlantic magazine features “27 Brave Thinkers Who Are Shaping Our Future.” There, along with Freeman Dyson, Ben Bernanke, Steve Jobs, Ralph Nader, and the creators of South Park, is Montgomery McFate, anthropology’s enfant…
Life Underground: Building a Bunker Society
Tags: America, NORAD, Nuclear culture, psychology
Added on Monday, October 19th, 2009 to In Print sections.
House in the Middle: Duck and Cover: Related to the the infamous ‘Duck and Cover’ video, click here for a great website detailing it’s production history Download pdf Do-it-yourself shelter instructions and more here North American…
Findings, Part 3: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: accountability, informal work, torture, trash, unemployment
Added on Monday, October 19th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlight emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
Findings, Part 2: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: capitalism, global economy, justice, production of knowledge, social movements
Added on Monday, October 12th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlight emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
Sneaking Across the Israeli Palestinian Border
Tags: borders, Israel, palestinian, structural violence, violence
Added on Monday, October 5th, 2009 to Audio & Video sections.
Avram Bornstein, anthropologist at John Jay college in New York City, discusses his fieldwork with Palestinian day-laborers, the experiencing of circumventing Israeli checkpoints at dawn, the concept of structural violence, and impossibility of…
Findings, Part 1: sample from Issue #2 of Anthropology Now
Tags: caring, emerging anthropology research, medical anthropology, race, tourism
Added on Sunday, October 4th, 2009 to Findings sections.
Findings is a new, regular column contribution appearing in the magazine, Anthropology Now. Each column highlights emerging anthropological research through a series of short reviews co-authored and co-edited by a diverse student collective from The…
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