Financial Times’ Gillian Tett reviews Karen Ho’s Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street By Karen Ho Duke Press £16.99, 392 pages When I first started covering finance for the FT, I used to get embarrassed when asked about my academic past. Before I became a journalist, I did a… Read More »
1. Is economics as a subject of study still attractive? 2. Is there a role for industrial policy in the developing world? 3. A collection of links to articles on What’s Wrong with Macroeconomics? 4. Financial crisis in Africa? Dr. Okonjo Iweala of the World Bank presents an analysis 5. Joseph Stiglitz on GDP fetishism… Read More »
The rapid development of global communications today contains within its movement a far-reaching transformation of world society. ‘Anthropology’ in some form is one of the intellectual traditions best suited to make sense of it. The academic seclusion of the discipline, its passive acquiescence to bureaucracy, is the chief obstacle preventing us from grasping this historical… Read More »
At the blog of the Association of Social Anthropologists. The full announcement: The ASA blog’s attempt to discuss the financial crisis currently occurring around us seeks to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, who work on the cultural political economy, anthropology of money, class, labour, industry, economic anthropology, informal economy, wall street as an ethnographic site, micro… Read More »
A new blog by anthropologist Barbara Miller. In its About page: This blog is a project of the Culture in Global Affairs (CIGA) research and policy program of the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Along with several colleagues at GW and anthropological professionals working in the Washington area, I founded… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column that borrowed a bit from Hernando de Soto. Today, I read this from Peter Schaefer at the Foreign Policy website. The concluding paragraph: Yunus and de Soto offer us real insights into how the poor can, finally, work themselves out of poverty: Yunus shows they need… Read More »
Not long after I got to Germany – close to three years ago – someone called me and, among other things, we talked a bit about what I was doing in Germany. This is a rough presentation of an interesting part of the conversation. The Other Person aka TOP: So, what exactly are you studying?… Read More »
… a new blog hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Check out my friend Boris’s post on gaining fieldwork access to a public administration office in Stuttgart, Germany. Each field site has its own peculiarities. But they all have one thing in common: waiting.
First things: For those who don’t know – and I would expect that that is a large chunk of the readership – until recently, I used to have another blog called Native Anthropologist.It is a blog where I discussed my research as an anthropologist. I have decided to close that down and move the content… Read More »
The advert: Applications are invited for 4 full time three year PhD studentships available in Law, Politics and Justice, including in the area of Gender, Sexuality and Law, at Keele University from 2009-10. Further details are available at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/gradschool/funding/keelefunding.htm The deadline for applications is 27th February and the funding support pays UK/EU fees plus a… Read More »