Magic and Enchantment in Post-Communist Europe The anthropological literature dealing with problems of “transition” out of socialism has shed little light on the accelerating revitalization of “magical practices,”occurring throughout all the former socialist orders in Europe. This is in part
AAA 2014 CFP: Reframing Europe’s South: Anthropologies across “P.I.G.S.”
CFP: Reframing Europe’s South: Anthropologies across “P.I.G.S.” This panel ethnographically and theoretically takes Europe’s South as its object. Against the backdrop of centuries of entrenched North/South dynamics and histories of anthropology of and in Europe’s South, we attend to forms
CFP: AAA 2014 panel on “Protest and Resistance in an Era of Austerity: Lessons from Europe”
Protest and Resistance in an Era of Austerity: Lessons from Europe The prolonged crisis of neoliberal capitalism in Europe has been marked by policies of austerity. These include dramatic reductions in social safety nets; cutbacks in a broad range of
Book Review of “Participatory Digital Research Methods”
Just learned that my book with Aline Gubrium, Participatory Digital Research Methods (Left Coast 2013), has been is featured in a book review in The Qualitative Review‘s latest issue. Glad to see it reaching readers!
Launching my grad course on “Participatory Visual and Digital Methods”
Well, it’s really happening–in fact, we are officially one month into my new grad course on “Participatory Visual and Digital Methods” at UMass. This Fall, I am team-teaching the course with Gretchen Gano of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society
A visit to HEAT Ethnographic Field School
Last week I had the pleasure of spending two days at the HEAT Summer Ethnographic Field School in Tallahassee. This NSF-supported field school is a partnership between Prof. Lance Gravlee and the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT) to investigate
Photovoice exhibition in Lisbon!
I have been doing a Photovoice project with AVAAL, an urban gardeners’ association in Lisbon, Portugal. AVAAL worked with Prof. Ana Isabel Afonso and graduate student Marta Carvalho (both of Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and me throughout the spring. On
Diving into the academic Twitterverse
This was the spring that I entered the Twitterverse. When I got my new smartphone a year ago, I set up a Twitter account and followed about three people. Boring! I never used it because there wasn’t much content. Instead,
Participatory Visual and Digital Methods launch party!
Aline Gubrium and I are please to announce our new book, Participatory Visual and Digital Methods, published by Left Coast Press. It should be rolling off the presses any day now–if all goes well, before the book launch party that will be hosted by
Kanban Style!
Last week, after reading about Kanban boards after indulging in a little “productivity porn” (ie, reading academic/professional mother/geek productivity blogs), I decided to take the plunge. “Kanban” is a term from Japanese management that simply means “signboard,” and it is simple a simple idea: