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03/11/11
Anthropologist: "Stop the abuse of migrants at the U.S. - Mexican boder!"
They beat children and adults during apprehensions and in custody, they deny people with life-threatening medical conditions treatment, separate family members and confiscate their belongings.
“We were held with another woman who was coughing so bad… more »
12/10/11
The Cairo massacre and How to invent "religious conflicts"
It is both interesting and disturbing to see how the event has been covered by international mainstream media in comparison to local (social) media. International media has framed the clashes mainly as a religious conflict while they also could have chosen a totally different perspective: instead of “Muslims against Christians”, they could have chosen “the army against the people”. more »
20/09/11
"Similar to the Third World debt crisis" - David Graeber on 'Occupy Wall Street'
While the Guardian is sending an anthropologist on fieldwork among bankers to give us insight in the destructive culture of finance, thousands of people in New York are occupying the Wall Street, “the financial Gomorrah of America” and “… more »
Guardian sends anthropologist on fieldwork among bankers in London
Can you make a complex subject like the world of finance accessible to outsiders? What about sending an anthropologist into the world of bankers in London’s financial district and let him blog his findings? That’s the new project of the G… more »
02/09/11
The misconceptions of slum life
More and more people are living in slums. What can be done about it? A few weeks ago I blogged about Safaa Marafi’s thesis about neoliberal policies, urban segregation and the Egyptian revolution. Now she has published a newspaper article that… more »
27/08/11
13:51:59, by Lorenz 
. Categories: politics, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America, globalisation, medical anthropology / ethnobothany, Northern America, migration Deadly migration: The ignored health crisis on the US-Mexican border
A multi-dimensional public health crisis is unfolding on the U.S.-Mexico border that few seem ready to acknowledge, anthropologists Rachel Stonecipher & Sarah Willen write on the Access Denied blog.
The complexity of this crisis came to light dur… more »
16/08/11
UK Riots: Let's talk about class and oppressive states
The notion that there is democracy in the West, while there is none in the “rest” might be one of the most powerful and dangerous myths of our time. In reality, democracy is a contested concept everywhere in the world, not only in Egypt or Tunesia, but also in Britain. more »
07/08/11
From Tahrir to Israel: "Protest movements inspire greater human understanding"
“Irhal” (=“Leave!”), says the banner in Arabic, a slogan from the Egyptian revolution, directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and below in Hebrew: “Egypt is here!” One of the most interesting things about… more »
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