Biden-Harris: Unity Over Division
Endorsing Biden-Harris from anthropology: Tribal Nations, immigration, racial equity, global community, and the climate emergency.
Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility
These blog-posts are about the intersection between anthropology and politics. They are often guided by the wisdom of Michel-Rolph Trouillot in Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World.
Many people believe anthropology should have nothing to do with politics or that anthropology can only analyze political configurations but not contribute to them. Others believe that their academic anthropology job is their politics. Trouillot pushed for a middle ground, an academia that was not explicitly political while insisting that anthropologists should have academic projects outside of academia. As Trouillot once commented in a seminar, an academic anthropology job is not activism: “You can’t have your job and eat it too.”
Here are some classroom resources that might be helpful:
Endorsing Biden-Harris from anthropology: Tribal Nations, immigration, racial equity, global community, and the climate emergency.
“Black lives do not actually matter to anthropology, so far as I can see: and if they did, I could be speaking out freely from within the borders of the United States.”
Reconsidering the purpose of Living Anthropologically and adjusting to global convulsions. We need to document history, interconnection, & power. We need to care for others as we attempt to build a world together
Academia should be at the forefront of imagining more radical possibilities for going beyond our current coronavirus crisis.
Please share your thoughts on the best anthropological readings on trade and exchange! The December issue of Open Anthropology will feature 15 articles on trade.
From anthropology, the reasons for Trump’s immediate impeachment include treatment of migrants, international destabilization, and the climate crisis.
Human history is marked by migration, cooperation, group permeability, & interconnection. Recent efforts to build walls harms human potential.
In NY-19 we elected Antonio Delgado as a representative to do the job of providing oversight. In 2019, that oversight should include supporting impeachment.
There is a lot of great anthropology studying immigration in the United States. Immigration is central to the study of anthropology and to humanity.
Anthropology has studied immigration and stands with immigrants against mass human rights violations.
Anthropology reveals that racial identities are not biologically given but a social process. Racism is crucial to becoming white and policing whiteness.
With the Venezuela elections, questions of “Will Venezuela recover?” or “Will Venezuela collapse?” arise. Anthropological resources for longer-term perspective.
Anthropology condemns the revival of biological race. Some join against racist calls to police black people. But what about race & racism within anthropology?
We seem to be living through a process of declining US hegemony. However, if the United States collapses as an event rather than a process, what’s the plan?
The United States is running nearly one trillion dollar annual deficits, piling onto a mountain of existing debt. What happens if people stop funding the U.S.?
The US Executive & Legislative branches are non-functioning institutions. Even scarier, they risk authoritarian takeover in a political or economic crisis.
The first indicator we could be headed for a collapse in the United States may be a US stock market collapse. Translating from CNBC, it does look dire.
In historical perspective, what seem like lived events become identifiable as processes. However, recent rumblings indicate a US collapse could be swift.
Open Anthropology highlights anthropological research for understanding and teaching about gun violence & the #MarchForOurLives for gun reform
The October 2017 issue of Open Anthropology promotes material linked to the #AmAnth17 meetings, Anthropology Matters (November 29-December 3).
Sponsored by the Hardy Chair Lecture Series, a public lecture by Dr. David H. Price: “Tracing Funding, Tracing Impacts: The CIA and Anthropology.”
What Would Sid Do? Reflections on the Sidney Mintz legacy in anthropology. Teaching Introduction to Anthropology as Global History & Interconnection.
In 2016, the Electoral College should have stopped Trump from becoming president. In 2019, blocking Trump depends on impeachment.
In November 2018, we can assemble the “coalition of the diverse” that almost came together in 2016: A racially mixed crowd in the November Rain.
The BDS Movement merits support, but an anthropology boycott of Israeli academic institutions by the AAA is a too easy “take a stand” moment from academe.