Second screening is happening ow! Alongside an object of observation, "narco-aesthetics [narco estética]" is a critical ethnographic approach to the citizen subjectivities often rendered invisible by journalist and scholarly accounts of drug trafficking.
And by "ow!", i'm (@backup_sandwich) referring to being struck by the hard-hitting anthropology papers at the panel! definitely wasn't a typo!
Narcoaesthetics lay in the landscape as a palimpsest, argues Sydney Silverstein - this path was once a runway, for the planes that collected coca paste
Narco power can be opaque, argues Marcos Mendoza, with distrust, uncertainty and intimidation being critical structures of feeling that build themselves into the environment.
Jorge Núñez and Miller Rivera are now talking about researching incarcerality in Penal García Moreno, a prison in Quito, Ecuador - while Miller Rivera was imprisoned there for drug trafficking.
@yarimarbonilla asks Jorge Nuñéz about how the legalisation of marijuana in Ecuador can avoid the US model, where those imprisoned for drugs are denied participation its legal economy, and Jorge Nuñéz describes new research into coalitions of ex-incarcerated peoples and growers
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We're off! @savannahshange begins by clarifying the difference between revolution and abolition: Revolution seeks to win control of the state and its resources, while abolition wants to quit playing and raze the stadium of settler-slaver society for good
Abolition is a messy break-up with the state, a rending; as a methodology, abolitionist anthropology is principally a genre of Black study
A (belated) James Baldwin thread from the CA archives 💐. The (W) Rap On series— loosely inspired by James Baldwin & Margaret Mead’s 1971 conversation Rap on Race— attempts to identify and confront some of the problems that their conversation embodied.
Here's the link to the 1971 conversation between Baldwin and Mead:
On Race and the Good Liberal by Atreyee Majumder who follows Baldwin’s lead in rethinking what an acceptable tone for intellectual discourse is. culanth.org/fieldsights/ra…
Here's a thread of some articles surrounding these topics from the @culanth archives! All free and open access! Any other ideas, #AnthroTwitter, #ClimateTwitter?
This 2017 article by Sarah Vaughn details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
In this article from 2018, Jason Cons explores recent development projects that seek to instill resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
🌱🌿🌳🌀 "Becoming Sensor is about figuring out a way for settler allies to de-tune the colonial common sense that shapes how we understand the living world..."
Read on in this very exciting interview with Natasha Myers (@plantstudies) by @mgbevans!
While #anthrotwitter isn't always rosy, we have to ask: what's happening in @AmericanAnthro's Communities listserv? As anthropologists, we can examine peoples' practices and explore their broader meanings; pls add ethnographic data to this thread so we can understand these people
Setting things off is @Laurence_Ralph, who notes that for every dollar the Chicago Police Department receives, the department overseeing youth development and houselessness receives five cents, housing receives 12 cents and the Department of Health receives two cents
The country spends $100b per year on policing and $80b on prisons. The call to defund police is a call to reprioritise public resources in the name of radical transformation - @Laurence_Ralph