In their Anthropology News May article Urban Violence and Civil Rights in Postcolonial France, Paul A Silverstein
and Chantal Tetreault analyse the riots in France in november 2005.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced a “state of e… more »
Category: "Us and Them"
by lorenz on May 11, 2006 in indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Latin- and Central America
Read this (we've had many stories like this before, but this one here is extremly "funny" - or let's rather say ethnocentric. The people are escaping from the Colombian drugs war, but this article reads more like an explorers account 200 years ago):
S… more »
In my previous post, I've quoted anthropologist Owen Sichone about the concept of "Global apartheid": Whatever the advantages of apartness are (more economic than cultural), the South African system came to an end just as the rest of the world was r… more »
by lorenz on Apr 25, 2006 in Us and Them, globalisation, migration, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism
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 »
Security has come to be the overriding issue in every debate about development and immigration issues - and it's part of a worldwide trend which in fact does the complete opposite and helps to create insecurity. That's according to anthropologist Rema H… more »
by lorenz on Apr 21, 2006 in politics, Us and Them, globalisation, journal articles / papers, cosmopolitanism • 2 comments »
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 »
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 »
Four interviews that I've conducted for the research program "Cultural Complexity in the new Norway" have been translated into English:
The sacred space between Christians and Muslims - Interview with Oddbjørn Leirvik
Leirvik has been involved in int… more »
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