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CONCEPTUAL Challenges of Multi-Sited Ethnography
(Thanks again to Lorenz Khazaleh and his blog for notification of the release of the current issue of Anthropology News.) In a short commentary titled, “Practical Challenges of Multi-Sited...
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Humour, Obscenity, and Localized Globalization(s)
The previous post, meant as a humorous educational exercise caused me to reflect on some of the conflicted tendencies contained within it, both on my part and the part of Trinidadians with different...
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Globalization, Democracy, and Canada versus the People of Haiti
In Canada, with its imperial adventure in Afghanistan, its aid workers who speak in suspiciously counterinsurgent terms of “restoring peace and stability” and achieving “progress,” and its continuing...
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Globalization, Democracy, and Canada versus the People of Haiti
In Canada, with its imperial adventure in Afghanistan, its aid workers who speak in suspiciously counterinsurgent terms of “restoring peace and stability” and achieving “progress,” and its continuing...
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The World is Flat? by Aronica & Ramdoo (Book website and readings)
Thanks to Ms. Susan Ashcroft, Research Associate at Meghan-Kiffer Press, for the notification that the website for the book by Ronald Aronica and Mtetwa Ramdoo, The World is Flat? A Critical Analysis...
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A Minor Bun Engine Made Benny Lava, May He Poop on My Knee: Cross-Cultural...
After an absence of more than three months, it is time for another installment of Monday Morning Madness. The idea of “translating” another language into your own, by assuming that words that sound...
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Thoughtful, Respectful, and Progressive: Regarding the “Responsibility to...
Some of this has already been raised, in my recent interview with Phil Taylor, plus in an excellent article by Ken Stone, “UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay: ‘Pretext-maker’ for Western...
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The Ultimate Proletarian and the Neoliberal Condition
“Proletarian” has acquired many layers of meaning over the centuries, possibly in part because the many, historically changing situations of proletarians became more complex. Since the advent of...
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101 Things We Learned from WikiLeaks’ Podesta Emails
US voters have been given a rare, even unprecedented opportunity to look at the machinery inside an electoral campaign and a foundation, as presented by the insiders themselves. Being afforded this...
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