1.Anthropology needs to shift how it tells stories. #digitalnatives do not read nor think as earlier generations. This is to be embraced, not feared. This is a Twitter Essay on one way to begin (1/16). @AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies 2. My book From ‘Water to Wine’ is the first “ethnography of a digital native for digital natives”. Growing up in the last gasps of #apartheid #SouthAfrica we had dial-up, and change everywhere (2/16). 3. utorontopress.com/us/from-water-… @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp 3. I learned to think within #multilingualism and #changingdiscourses. My book tracks across #Brazil, #Angola, #Mauritius, #Portugal, #SA, the #USA . It is political. It is about change. It is about beauty in Angola and writing through whiteness (3/16). @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news 4. I hear complaints that young people today read less. Not true. #digitalnatives read much more, but differently. They read for links and connections, and deep-dive when needed. Hyperlinks of imagination and care (4/16). @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC 5. My book has text. It has a comic. It has photo-essays, poetry, recipes, YouTube links. It moves quickly, like we do online. I want readers to explore it whilst streaming kuduro and kizomba. I want their mouths to chew the air imagining spicy peanuts, fried fish, funge (5/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC 6. We just had #LuandaLeaks. This was important, good journalism. It showed what most Angolans already guessed. Important as it is, it is only a tiny fraction of the story. It is like saying Trump is the USA or Bolsonaro is Brazil. Anger can make us blind (6/16). @EstelleMaussion
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion 7. Let us not judge a country by its worst, but by its best. My book highlights beauty. Tenacity. Love. Aspiration. Resilience. A population who have built from the ground while the political class flailed. Curious kids. Kind adults. Forgiving vets. Immigrants. Artists (7/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion 8. The book does not ignore structural violence, sadness, fear, instability. These add a #mentalload that is particularly exhausting, that make life on the margins untenable. But there is ample supporting literature to this narrative already (8/16). @RafaelMdeMorais
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais 9. When I teach, my students want to know why me, why them, why this, why now? What are my politics? What are my ethics? Have I checked my privilege? What is the point? Fair questions in a global context of climate collapse. Why should they listen, why should they care? (9/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais 10. I answer these questions with embodied responses. I draw on the senses. I point them to what you know only by living, to what you cannot get online: smell, touch, immersive sound, friendships based on long walks, laughter, beers on the beach, boy scouts singing. (10/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais 11. My book is not the end goal. It is one grain of rice in a bowl of available knowledge, a bowl that itself is shaped by structures of power, access, and the amplification of some voices over others. Rather, it is to provoke questions, increase curiosity, increase care (11/16)
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais 12 In a world that is replacing #humanrights with tribalism, we must think freshly. Those who can cross borders (real, imagined) have obligations to challenge, disrupt the stereotype in new ways. (12/16). @mscecire @kopalo @JSAS_Editors
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais @mscecire @kopalo @JSAS_Editors 13 Change is frightening. But is already here (13/16).@BjIsabel @Taskeeeners @Africa_Oxford @WardenKiss @drjustinpearce @doboulanger
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais @mscecire @kopalo @JSAS_Editors @BjIsabel @Taskeeeners @Africa_Oxford @WardenKiss @drjustinpearce @doboulanger 14. As the climate breaks, decisions will be made: who lives, who dies: #CycloneIdai and #NotreDame. A natural disaster that affected millions given less help than a fire in one Parisian cathedral. A month apart. Who matters placed in stark relief. A taste of future (14/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais @mscecire @kopalo @JSAS_Editors @BjIsabel @Taskeeeners @Africa_Oxford @WardenKiss @drjustinpearce @doboulanger 15. In the social sciences, we cannot afford to do business as usual. When it comes to #whoseworldmatters we have to now work differently. One mind is too small for the complexity of the solutions needed. There is arrogance in our isolated labour, there is fragility (15/16).
@AmEthno @AmericanAnthro @ASnA_Editors @ASAUK_News @africanstudies @annebracken @TeachingCulture @abenaopp @StanfordAnthro @UCT_news @Nanjala1 @jamesjwan @AminaSoulimani @IZU_MUSIC @EstelleMaussion @RafaelMdeMorais @mscecire @kopalo @JSAS_Editors @BjIsabel @Taskeeeners @Africa_Oxford @WardenKiss @drjustinpearce @doboulanger 16. How do we think differently, write differently, teach in new ways? How do we work with integrity as #digitalnatives, translate into analogue spheres, and still get promoted? Dial-up thinking is now too slow. We need new tools (16/16). @Dori_Danthro @dee_smythe @JJ_Stellies
