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MUSINGS ON TEACHING SOCIAL SCIENCE TO ART AND DESIGN STUDENTS

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April 11, 2023

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 1.  Writing Publics
     
     
     A CASE OF CULTURAL MISUNDERSTANDING: FRENCH ANTHROPOLOGY IN A COMPARATIVE
     PERSPECTIVE
     
     By Vincent Debaene
     
     November 2013
     
     This paper offers a study of French anthropological tradition in a
     comparative perspective. It focuses on French anthropologists' writing
     practices and, in ... More

 2.  Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     "XENOPHOBIA" IN SOUTH AFRICA: ORDER, CHAOS, AND THE MORAL ECONOMY OF
     WITCHCRAFT
     
     By Jason Hickel
     
     February 2014
     
     This article explores the violent, anti-immigrant riots that swept through
     informal settlements in South Africa in 2008, during which more than sixty
     foreigners... More

 3.  Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     HOMEOWNERSHIP IN ISRAEL: THE SOCIAL COSTS OF MIDDLE-CLASS DEBT
     
     By Hadas Weiss
     
     February 2014
     
     What motivates people to make home purchases that seem imprudent in
     narrowly economic terms, and how does the salience of homeownership debt
     shape political str... More

 4.  Articles
     
     
     WRITING THE IMPLOSION: TEACHING THE WORLD ONE THING AT A TIME
     
     By Joseph Dumit
     
     May 2014
     
     This article puts a reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 2 in dialogue with
     Donna Haraway’s works and methods. Working through the former helps me
     unpack the proc... More

 5.  Race Theory/Anthropology Today
     
     
     SITTING AT THE KITCHEN TABLE: FIELDNOTES FROM WOMEN OF COLOR IN
     ANTHROPOLOGY
     
     By Tami Navarro, Bianca Williams, Attiya Ahmad
     
     June 2017
     
     This text explores the difficulties faced by faculty of color, particularly
     women of color, in the academy. Building on existing literature on these
     issues, the... More

 6.  Writing Publics
     
     
     ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE WAY OF THEORY
     
     By João Biehl
     
     November 2013
     
     In this article, I return to my engagements with people in the field not
     only to address the specific circumstances and trajectories I encountered
     there, but to... More

 7.  Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     CAST ASIDE: BOREDOM, DOWNWARD MOBILITY, AND HOMELESSNESS IN POST-COMMUNIST
     BUCHAREST
     
     By Bruce O'Neill
     
     February 2014
     
     The homeless, in post-Communist Bucharest, Romania, are bored. They
     describe themselves as bored all of the time. Drawing upon nearly three
     years of ethnographi... More

 8.  Articles
     
     
     GOVERNING DISASTER: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE ENVIRONMENT DURING THE BP OIL
     SPILL
     
     By David Bond
     
     November 2013
     
     This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal
     officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of
     Mexico. Tak... More

 9.  Articles
     
     
     PERFORMING ROYALTY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
     
     By Susan Cook, Rebecca Hardin
     
     June 2017
     
     Sovereignty and governance in contemporary Africa are hotly contested
     issues with important—even dire—consequences for all those interested in
     the continent'... More

 10. Cityscapes
     
     
     TOKYO'S COMMUTER TRAIN SUICIDES AND THE SOCIETY OF EMERGENCE
     
     By Michael Fisch
     
     June 2017
     
     This article considers the treatment of commuter train suicides in Tokyo's
     commuter train network in an effort to think critically about the lived
     experienc... More

 11. Articles
     
     
     HUMAN RIGHTS AS MORAL PROGRESS? A CRITIQUE
     
     By Jarrett Zigon
     
     November 2013
     
     In this article I critically engage the view that the enactment of human
     rights is the enactment of moral and political progress. Drawing on my
     research of inte... More

 12. Articles
     
     
     TRAVELING TECHNOLOGIES: INFRASTRUCTURE, ETHICAL REGIMES, AND THE
     MATERIALITY OF POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
     
     By Antina von Schnitzler
     
     November 2013
     
     In this article, I explore the politics of infrastructure in South Africa
     by focusing on the "travels" of a small technical device. Since the end of
     a... More

 13. Race Theory/Anthropology Today
     
     
     T/RACING BELONGING THROUGH CUBAN TOURISM
     
     By L. Kaifa Roland
     
     June 2017
     
     Because Cuban "race" operates on a flexible black–white continuum, with
     performance and social markers like class and foreign-ness affecting racial
     as... More

 14. Cityscapes
     
     
     POST/SOCIALIST AFFECT: RUINATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NATION IN URBAN
     VIETNAM
     
     By Christina Schwenkel
     
     June 2017
     
     This article explores the engineering of affect in socialist urban design
     and subsequent changes in the affective register of a rapidly growing city
     in late soc... More

 15. Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     ASCERTAINING DEADLY HARMS: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF GLOBAL EVIDENCE
     
     By Saida Hodžić
     
     June 2017
     
     This article asks what anthropology can contribute to public and scholarly
     debates about politics of knowledge in global governance and argues that
     bringing tog... More

 16. Articles
     
     
     DISCIPLINARY ADAPTATION AND UNDERGRADUATE DESIRE: ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL
     DEVELOPMENT STUDIES IN THE LIBERAL ARTS CURRICULUM
     
     By Richard Handler
     
     June 2017
     
     Like most disciplinary scholars, anthropologists have been reluctant to
     reorganize their undergraduate programs to speak directly to student
     concerns. Yet, stud... More

 17. Race Theory/Anthropology Today
     
     
     MEXICAN GENOMICS AND THE ROOTS OF RACIAL THINKING
     
     By John Hartigan
     
     June 2017
     
     This article confronts the cultural limitation of critical race work in the
     United States by examining genomic practices at two national institutes in
     Mexico—on... More

 18. Articles
     
     
     SPECULATIVE MATTER: SECULAR BODIES, MINDS, AND PERSONS
     
     By Abou Farman
     
     November 2013
     
     The relationship between life, death, and personhood is articulated by the
     body, without which there would be no such relationship to begin with. How
     do secular... More

 19. Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     WRAPPED IN PLASTIC: TRANSFORMATION AND ALIENATION IN THE NEW FINNISH
     ECONOMY
     
     By Daena Aki Funahashi
     
     June 2017
     
     Coming out from the shadow of the economic crisis of the 1990s, the
     neoliberalizing Finnish state identified another emergent threat:
     "burnout," a men... More

 20. Futures of Neoliberalism
     
     
     EXISTENTIAL DAMAGES: THE INJURY OF PRECARITY GOES TO COURT
     
     By Noelle J. Molé
     
     June 2017
     
     Psychological workplace harassment, called "mobbing," can include vicious
     bullying but also practices normative within neoliberal labor regimes. It
     ha... More

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