anthronow:: Archives: 2011 March

Minding Arab Fundamentalism

Tags: Anthropology, Fundamentalism, Islam, Middle East, Uprisings

Added on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Gabriele Marranci, an anthropologist based at the National University of Singapore, writes at his blog on the revolts in Arab Countries and on how anthropologists have helped to perpetuate the myth of a fundamentalist Arab-Muslim mind: Although…

Nuclear Allergy?

Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, radiation

Added on Monday, March 28th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

In the wake of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese often proclaimed their society to be “allergic” to nuclear technology—particularly nuclear weapons. What has been far less acknowledged in Japan is a persistent pattern of…

Yemen’s Uprising

Tags: Anthropology, Media, protest, Uprisings, Yemen

Added on Thursday, March 24th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Daniel Martin Varisco, Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University writes at CNN about the uprising in Yemen: While the world focuses on bombing raids in Libya, a different scenario has been unfolding in Yemen, which would be the first country…

What Might The Media’s Short Term Attention to Disasters Tell Us About Ourselves?

Tags: disaster, earthquake, haiti, japan, Libya, Media, Nuclear power plant

Added on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

One of the most interesting turn of events during the current nuclear crisis in Japan is how by Thursday, March 17, 2011 the ongoing drama of the catastrophe was displaced from the headlines by stories about the rebellion in Libya. Just as it…

Nuclear Lessons

Tags: disaster, japan, Nuclear culture, nuclear energy, radiation

Added on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Barbara Rose Johnston and Hugh Gusterson ponder nuclear realities at the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences Barbara Rose Johnston: Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce…

The War in Libya

Tags: Anthropology, Foreign Policy, Libya, Media, Uprisings, war

Added on Monday, March 21st, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

“The Libyan Revolution is Dead” declares Maximilian Forte in his Zero Anthropology Blog. …this is an autopsy, identifying the weapons used, and the criminals responsible for killing the Libyan revolution. This is no longer a Libyan…

Nuclear Power, Fears and the Limits of Democracy

Tags: Anthropology, disaster, japan, Media, Nuclear power plant, radiation

Added on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

Keibo Oiwa, a Japanese cultural anthropologist and environmentalist, speaks to Democracy Now about the current nuclear crisis: And I’m really realizing again that, you know, democracy is so hollow now. I mean, we don’t have power. This is not…

CFP: MEDIA, ENGAGEMENT AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Added on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 to Calls for Papers sections.

Dear all: Simone Abram and I are developing a proposal for a new edited book with the working title of MEDIA, ENGAGEMENT AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE: CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP. The book seeks to recognise and explore the increasing…

On Japanese Suffering

Tags: disaster, earthquake, japan, Nuclear power plant, suffering

Added on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 to Press Watch sections.

“In Japanese culture, there’s a sort of nobility in suffering with a stiff upper lip, in mustering the spiritual, psychological resources internally,” said John Nelson, a cultural anthropologist and chairman of the department of theology and…

Highway 60 Visited: Part 2

Tags: Highway 60, Israel, Palestine, Price Tag, West Bank

Added on Monday, March 14th, 2011 to Articles and Featured sections.

This continues our special essay by our new editor, Assaf H. Part 1 was posted on Thur, March 3rd, please click here to read Part 1. Two units of security forces remained in the area. Partly police partly military unit, the notorious Border…

ON STANDS

all articles published in March, 2011