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Category: cosmopolitanism
28/05/09
03:24:35, by Lorenz 
. Categories: Us and Them, Asia, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, history, cosmopolitanism Interview with Benedict Anderson: Being a cosmopolitan without needing to travel
During my research for the new overview over open access anthropology journals, I made many great discoveries. I'll try to present some of them.
One of the discoveries was Invisible Culture. An electronic journal for visual culture. The most recent is… more »
29/03/09
Earth Hour - The first globalized ritual?
I have to confess I have an ambivalent relation to initiatives like the Earth Hour. But anthropologist Stephen Bede Scharper casts an interesting perspective on this new way to save our planet.
He describes Earth Hour as "the first globalized ritual"… more »
07/09/08
14:51:37, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, books, anthropology (general), persons and theories, history, cosmopolitanism Jack Goody: "The West has never been superior"
Are democracy, capitalism, freedom and the concept of romantic love unique inventions of the West? No. In his new book, anthropologist Jack Goody shows that the superiority of the West is largely unreal, even if we look to the recent past.
In "The T… more »
03/08/08
16:15:59, by Lorenz . Categories: culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, music, Visual Anthropology, cosmopolitanism Anthropologist explores heavy metal in Asia, South America and the Middle East
In 2005 his movie Metal - A Headbanger's journey took the world with storm. Now anthropologist and metal musician Sam Dunn has released "Global Metal" - a film about the global expansion of heavy metal music.
Together with his co-director Scot McFayde… more »
14:13:23, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, development empowerment, globalisation, books, cosmopolitanism Ethnographic study of anti-corporate globalization movements
"I had never seen anything like it. I knew immediately that I wanted to study this phenomenon", says
anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris. In 1999 he participated in the protests against the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Now he ha… more »
10/04/08
00:48:54, by Lorenz . Categories: religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, anthropology (general), interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Interviews about moral cosmopolitanism, India-Pakistan, faith, populism, minoritiy-issues
Recently, several of my interviews with researchers of the interdisciplinary research program Cultural Complexity of the New Norway (Culcom) have been translated into English. Here are the most recent ones:
Does the answer exist in human nature?
What… more »
28/03/08
"Putting Aboriginal languages on the curriculum has improved 'race' relations"
He's not an aboriginal Australian. Nevertheless he has to learn the local indigenous language. He and many other children say it's fun. Teachers, parents and linguists say it is improving self-esteem, literacy and school attendance, rescuing indigenous l… more »
07/09/07
13:00:08, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, gift economy gift giving, Us and Them, journal articles / papers, cyberanthropology, internet, cosmopolitanism Why were they doing this work just to give it away for free? Thesis on Ubuntu Linux hackers
It all started when anthropologist Andreas Lloyd (University of Copenhagen) was browsing on the Internet looking for a new laptop computer and ended up installing the free Windows alternative Linux. Two years later, he finished his master thesis "A syst… more »
03/09/07
00:42:04, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, cosmopolitanism Keith Hart and Thomas Hylland Eriksen: This is 21st century anthropology
What holds humanity together? What are the hidden or unacknowledged features of mainstream society? These are the issues that 21st century anthropology should address, Thomas Hylland Eriksen writes in his paper The perilous identity politics of anthropol… more »
02/04/07
01:24:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, fieldwork / methods, migration, persons and theories, interdisciplinary, cosmopolitanism Five more interviews on cultural complexity!
One of my jobs consists in interviewing researchers in the research program Cultural Complexity in the new Norway. Five of these interviews have been translated into English, I've just put them online:
Traveling to Turkey to Understand Norway
Anthrop… more »
10/02/07
00:19:06, by Lorenz . Categories: globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, cosmopolitanism Book and papers online: Working towards a global community of anthropologists
How many Siberian anthropologists do you know? What are Chinese anthropologists engaged in? The discipline of anthropology is quite ethnocentric. It is dominated by research institutes in the U.S and Britain. Only a small elite interacts on a global leve… more »
09/08/06
00:58:12, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, books, migration, persons and theories, cosmopolitanism Interview with Arjun Appadurai: "An increasing and irrational fear of the minorities"
Fear of Small Numbers, the new book by Mumbai-born anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has received attention across America. He discusses why, in the age of globalisation, opening of markets, free flow of capital and liberal ideas, minorities in many countri… more »
07/07/06
World Cup: Cultural representations and why patriotism is not healthy
Kambiz Kamrani at anthropology.net has made a nice post about national fotballs: How do the different countries represent themselves? Sport is bringing the world closer together, in his opinion. His list of World Cup participants "shows us the color side… more »
26/06/06
"Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist's Blog"
Former professor of anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and peace activist for over 30 years, Jeff Halper has started blogging. In his post "Welcome to an Engaged Anthropologist's Blog" he explains:
My idea for this blog is to to bring… more »
09/06/06
The Kampala Project on Global Citizenship
At Vanderbilt University, students will work with health organizations in Uganda this summer as part of that country’s response to HIV/AIDS. They are part of a project called "The Kampala Project on Global Citizenship" that has a nice website and they wi… more »
30/05/06
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Cosmopolitanism is like respecting the ban on smoking in the public
Thomas Hylland Eriksen didn't make it to the conference Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology (delayed plane), but his paper is now available online. It's called "The cartoon controversy and the possibility of cosmopolitanism". Cosmopolitanism, he explains, i… more »
25/04/06
17:40:03, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism Owen Sichone: Poor African migrants no less cosmopolitan than anthropologists
Anthropologists are citizens of the world because they are able to manoeuvre in and out of different cultures. African migrants display similar competencies when they are away from home. But you can even be cosmopolitan without ever having left your hom… more »
21/04/06
02:50:35, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, globalisation, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism David Graeber: There never was a West! Democracy as Interstitial Cosmopolitanism
Recently, the terms "Western civilisation" or "Western values" have been used in opposition to regimes mainly in the Middle East. But how fruitful is this notion of "the West"? In his keynote speech at the conference Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology, Dav… more »
18/04/06
What's the point of anthropology conferences?
I'm back from the conference Anthropology and Cosmopolitanism at Keele University (1h from Manchester, UK). As I've learned from entries on Savage Minds, job hunting and networking are a main point of anthropology conferences arranged by the AAA (America… more »
07/03/06
23:07:39, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, persons and theories, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism For an Anthropology of Cosmopolitanism
Some days ago I registered for the conference Cosmopolitanism and Anthropology at Keele University (UK). As a preparation, here some notes on anthropology and cosmopolitanism.
After the controversis around the Mohammed-cartoons, media loved talking ab… more »
19/12/05
16:08:06, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, fieldwork / methods, migration, cosmopolitanism New anthropology blog: Fieldwork on cosmopolitism and migrants in Paris
Cicilie Fagerlid, anthropologist at the University on Oslo, has started blogging from her fieldwork in Paris. After the youth protests, she writes, her research question is "more justified than ever": What influences senses of belonging and community mak… more »
20/10/05
12:50:03, by Lorenz . Categories: globalisation, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), cosmopolitanism How can we create a more plural anthropological community?
Interesting article in Anthropology News October by Brasilian antropologist Gustavo Lins Ribeiro on the lacking globalisation of anthropology:
Globalisation in anthropology has mirrored unequal relations existing within larger structural processes.… more »
02/10/05
22:12:29, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, Europe, globalisation, migration, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism “No Pizza without Migrants”: Between the Politics of Identity and Transnationalism
Why are there such different patterns of identity and community formation among second-generation migrants? A transnational perspective with focus on the migrants' relationship to their (or their parents') homeland is neccessary, argues anthropologist S… more »
03/05/05
New Eurozine issue on Politics of border making and (cross-)border identities
Eurozine is a netmagazine that publishes both own texts and articles previously published in European magazines. Their new "focal point" looks very interesting. From their introduction: "Have borders become irrelevant with the project of a united Europe,… more »
25/02/05
Beyond Ethnic Boundaries? Anthropological study on British Asian Cosmopolitans
Anthropologist Cicilie Fagerlid (University of Oslo) has recently published her thesis about young British Asians on the web. In her introduction, she writes:
"Society cannot remain a society if people feel excluded on basis of what characterises them… more »
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