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Precarity and elemental difference: on Butler’s re-writing of Irigarayan difference
(Sage, 2017-06-01)It is widely accepted that Judith Butler’s work represents a fundamental departure from that of Luce Irigaray. However, in a 2001 essay, Butler suggests that Irigaray’s work plays a formative role in her own, and that the ... -
Singularity in Beauvoir's The ethics of ambiguity
(Wiley Blackwell, 2015-03)Though it has gone unnoticed so far in Beauvoir Studies, the term 'singularity' is a technical one for Simone de Beauvoir. In the first half of the essay I discuss two reasons why this term has been obscured. First, as is ... -
Anthropocene and elemental multiplicity
(Duke University Press, 2017-03-01)Our hope in the present essay is to provide a figure for thought in response to what Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer first named "the Anthropocene." Our interest is not in providing a substitute for this concept, but in ... -
Civic Engagement and Gentrification Issues in Metropolitan Baltimore
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2009)Since the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American ... -
Teaching Baltimore Together: Building Thematic Cooperation Between Classes
(Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, 2017-05-17)One year ago, Baltimore citizens took to the streets to protest not only the death of Freddie Grey, but the structural inequalities and structural violence that systematically limit the opportunities for working-class ... -
Suburban Fear, Media and Gated Communities in Durban, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)A disjuncture between the reality of crime and its perception has created a culture of fear within South Africa that bolsters gated community development and an accompanying fear industry that supports media, private ... -
Moral Panics in Suburban Texas
(EASA Media Anthropology Network, 2007-03-06)This paper details portions of an ethnographic study of a moral panic that surrounded the heroin overdose deaths of several teenagers in the American suburb of Plano, Texas. Media ethnography engages numerous individuals ... -
Anthropology By the Wire
(2012)Anthropology by the Wire is a multi-media research project on urban and visual anthropology in Baltimore that is part of a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates grant at Towson University. In ... -
Teaching Somewhat Serious Games
(American Anthropological Association, 2017-11)Durington writes, "I am biased to the awkward moments in ethnography when anthropologists are put into sticky situations and ethical dilemmas. These moments are often the crux of fieldwork and their successful navigation ... -
"The Anthropology of Media" and "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain"
(American Ethnological Society, 2004-02)Book reviews of "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain". Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu‐Lughod, and Brian Larkin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press and "The Anthropology of Media: A Reader". Kelly Askew and ... -
The Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panic
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)This article describes Worth’s notion of ethnographic semiotics as part of an overall strategy employing the anthropology of visual communication in ethnographic research focused on media portrayals of a suburban community ... -
Principles of visual anthropology, review
(Wiley Blackwell, 1997-03)The importance of the original publication in 1975 of Paul Hockings' Principles of Visual Anthropology cannot be underestimated. Along with Karl Heider's Ethnographic Film (1976), Hockings' collection is regarded by people ... -
Dead birds: review
(Wiley Blackwell, 2006-09)Robert Gardner’s many contributions to ethnographic documentary film production are undeniable and problematic. The historical and critical discussions that have surrounded Robert Gardner, and Dead Birds in particular, are ... -
John Marshall's Kalahari family
(American Anthropological Association, 2004)Throughout his career and through his films, John Marshall has embodied many representational debates in anthropology and ethnographic media production. With "A Kalahari Family," Marshall has provided his most reflexive ... -
Gated communities: perspectives on privatized spaces: review essay
(Wiley, 2011-01)Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives (2006) and Gated Communities (2006) continue a trend in urban studies that focus on recent manifestations of these developments in a variety of global locales. As the editors ... -
Introduction
(Modern Language Association, 2007)The articles collected for this issue of Critical Arts provide a number of different entrées into the practice of media anthropology while remaining true to the origins of this particular journal by providing a space where ... -
Introduction: the stakes of whiteness studies
(Wiley Blackwell, 2009-04)An introduction to a series of essays about racism and whiteness in the U.S. Included are information on anthropology's contribution to critical whiteness studies, the complexity by which whiteness in its various manifestations ... -
Conference review: AnthropologyCon 2017
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)AnthropologyCon 2017 transpired across multiple sites at the annual American Anthropology Association meeting in Washington, DC. The first event included a workshop on “Anthropology of/through Games” on Thursday afternoon, ... -
Divergent and similar experiences of 'gating' in South Africa: Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
(Springer Nature, 2008)The last 20 years has witnessed an explosion not only in the growth of private residential territories throughout the world, but also in the literature addressing them. The majority of research is centred on experiences ... -
Picturing addiction: book review of Righteous dopefiend
(Wiley Blackwell, 2012-10)Book review for Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, published by University of California Press in 2009.
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