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
Update! Some might say this is anthropology in the 'salvage' tradition, so we should be clear that the culture of @AmericanAnthro’s Communities listserv is surviving and thriving. Some recent data
but there is the possibility for multimodal work, like a museum or art exhibition, that could use the traditions of these people as a mode of educating others.
Like with all ethnography, it'll focus on unclear boundaries, like that which separates event from structure, or nightmares from reality, or bad apples from orchards,
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!
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
This webinar, Anthropology of Policing: The Persistence of Racialized Police Brutality and Community Responses, is about to start! We'll tweet what we can, but please show up!
Webinar kicking off now! Moderator Ramona Perez laying groundwork, logistics, and introducing panel. Tune in now if you haven't yet
Shanti Parikh speaking first, referencing her research on policing in St. Louis, the urgency of Black death in police violence and in the COVID—19 pandemic and the symbolism of "I can't breathe," whether it is the knee to the neck, respiratory illness, or societal problems.