The JHU Dept of Anthropology is hiring! 2 tenure-track posts:
Open Rank Position in Political and Economic Anthropology
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and
Open Rank Position in Inter-Asian Movements
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Note the short deadline just a few weeks away: December 12
Baltimore needs community led and owned compost infrastructure now! @MayorBMScott@BaltimoreDPW follow the community’s lead and take action now to stop burning and burying food.
The Flash Ethnography series published online last year on the @AmEthno website is now an ebook, complete with an ISBN. All pieces, including my “Expansive Mood”, are downloadable in one file, perfect for teaching and reading as a set.
americanethnologist.org/feat…
Come join a conversation I just opened on the forum of the Ecological Design Collective on repair worlds: the right to repair movement, reparations, repatriation…
forum.ecodesigncollective.or…
Brace yourselves for the false-equivalence arguments comparing the #ReopenAmerica protests to the #BlackLivesMatter protests. They are not the same thing.
"This issue of Open Anthropology examines anthropological perspectives on outbreaks of other infectious diseases. These articles highlight the anthropological knowledge available for enhancing culturally informed responses for the COVID-19 pandemic." bit.ly/2xxdu1f
If you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend HBO's Chernobyl to take your mind off the news. It's about a world superpower whose authorities continue to lie and cover up the truth in the face of a creeping invisible menace that sickens and kills thousands of its own people.
The present predicament is making clearer than ever that capital accumulation and human welfare are at odds with each other. This is a condition that has always existed even in "normal times." The virus has not inverted our reality; it's unmasked it.