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PodQueueEpisode 32: Anna TsingHello, anthro-enthusiasts! In this episode, we present a pre-COVID conversation that David Giles recorded with the esteemed anthropologist Anna Tsing, a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene at Aarhus University. Dr Tsing likely needs little introduction, as someone whose research and writing on globalisation and capitalism has travelled far outside of anthropology and academia. She is the author several books including 'In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place' (1993)and 'Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection' (2004), both based on...2022-12-1139 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #47: Jessica CattelinoFor this episode, Cameo and Tim caught up with Professor Jessica Cattelino of the University of California Los Angeles. Jessica is a sociocultural anthropologist who has worked extensively with Seminole people of Florida in the United States. Her first book High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty (Duke, 2008), explores sovereignty and the politicisation of gaming, while her soon to be released second book, follows water in the Florida Everglades. Both works develop critical approaches to recognition politics, settler colonialism and Indigeneity, with relevance across settler states. The conversation also covers Jessica’s approach to service and governance within the academy, an...2022-02-161h 06
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #44: Fred Myers and Jason GibsonCameo Dalley talks to Fred Myers (Silver Professor at New York University) and Jason Gibson (Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellow at Deakin University), both of whom work on Aboriginal Australian ceremony and material culture. The conversation roams over reflections on happenstance in their careers, the making of and reception of their work, and the evolving role of the anthropologist and anthropological knowledge in Indigenous communities.
https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/jason-gibson
https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/fred-myers.html
Works Mentioned
Gibson, Jason M (2020) Ceremony Men Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection, SUNY Press...2021-08-1759 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #42: Hugh RafflesWe are delighted to bring you a conversation between Matt, Tim, and Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought at The New School, Hugh Raffles. Raffles is the author of three books. The first of which, In Amazonia: A Natural History, is an ethnography about how rivers and humans co-constitute one another in the east Amazon of Brazil. Raffles’ second book, Insectopedia, is a collection of tales about humans and insects that takes us from the discovery of language among bees to artistic representations of contaminated butterfly wings in Chernobyl. His most re...2021-05-301h 08
Welcome?Beyond Kokoda II: Welcome to KokodaSince the early 1990s Kokoda, in Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province, has become a site of intense national feeling for many Australians. Thousands travel to Oro each year to complete the 96km track that runs from Kokoda Station to Port Moresby, in an act of remembrance of the conflict waged there in 1942 between Australian and Japanese forces. More than 45 years after the end of Australian colonial administration of PNG, the Kokoda Track is one of the few spaces when ordinary Papua New Guineans and Australians have much to do with one another.In this episode, we...2021-03-0532 minWelcome?Beyond Kokoda I: KapurakamboCommunities across Papua New Guinea’s Oro Province were profoundly affected by the Second World War, and the fighting between Australia, American, and Japanese forces that was waged on their lands. In the years since, the Kokoda Track has become a focal point for many Australian tourists looking to commemorate the war. But there are many other communities across PNG whose wartime experiences don’t attract that same kind of attention or recognition.In this episode we travel to one of these lesser-known places, a small village called Kapurakambo in PNG’s Oro Province. The co...2021-03-0530 minWelcome?Nubian Nostalgia: Part 2This is part two of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part one.Kenya’s Nubians are an ethnic minority who found themselves in the country after having served the British as soldiers during the colonial period and in both World wars. They were originally from Sudan, but over many generations have come to see themselves as Kenyan, even though the Kenyan government has only recently recognised them as citizens.The story of Kenya’s Nubians illustrates the impossible positions that so many people were put in by Imperial powers: brou...2021-03-0523 minWelcome?Nubian Nostalgia: Part 1This is part one of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part two.Kenya’s Nubians are an ethnic minority who found themselves in the country after having served the British as soldiers during the colonial period and in both World wars. They were originally from Sudan, but over many generations have come to see themselves as Kenyan, even though the Kenyan government has only recently recognised them as citizens.The story of Kenya’s Nubians illustrates the impossible positions that so many people were put in by Imperial powers: brou...2021-03-0528 minWelcome?Radical Poetics: Writing Forward, Writing BlakThe English language is an import to this country. As with the foreign flora and fauna brought by the boats to the shores, language spread where the speakers settled; thrown over like a blanket on the same bed where the pillows of the ‘dying race’ were being smoothed.And yet, we survived.Indigenous poets who have been published since owe a lot to the landmark publication of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s 1964 collection We are Going, the first published collection of poetry from an Aboriginal person in this country. In the time since...2021-03-0529 minWelcome?On the RoadListeners are warned that the episode includes the name of an Aboriginal person that has died. His name is used with permission.Native title in Australia is sometimes celebrated as a successful form of recognition for Indigenous people. But the way the law works means the rights of Indigenous people are required to co-exist with those of settlers and their descendants. This is the case in Wilinggin in the Kimberley region of North West Australia. Here, Ngarinyin people who never ceded their land live alongside cattle station owners, tourism operators and other Aboriginal people, and though...2021-03-0550 minWelcome?The Longing of Like Souls: Part 2This is part two of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part one.In this episode, we explore Africa as not some out of the way place riddled with poverty and conflict, but as a more ordinary place that is home to ordinary people, and the place from which they welcome – or not – their many and varied visitors. We explore the human connections that are possible, and those that have been made more difficult by traumatic colonial pasts. But we also talk about Africa, and Africans, as inherently worldly, both bigger and older than...2021-03-0424 minWelcome?The Longing of Like Souls: Part 1This is part one of a two part episode. Head to our feed for part two.In this episode, we explore Africa as not some out of the way place riddled with poverty and conflict, but as a more ordinary place that is home to ordinary people, and the place from which they welcome – or not – their many and varied visitors. We explore the human connections that are possible, and those that have been made more difficult by traumatic colonial pasts. But we also talk about Africa, and Africans, as inherently worldly, both bigger and older than...2021-03-0427 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #39: Alex Blanchette and Catie GressierHello anthro-enthusiasts, we are back for 2021 with a conversation convened by Cameo Dalley on animals, industrialisation, eating and all the manifold issues that unfold at their intersections, featuring special guests Alex Blanchette and Catie Gressier.
Dr Blanchette is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and has published widely on the politics of industrial labor and life in a post-industrial United States. His books include 'Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm' (Duke University Press, 2020) and the collection 'How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet', edited with Sarah Besky(University of New Mexico Press, 2019). Dr Gressier...2021-02-011h 01
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #38: Radhika GovindrajanCruising towards the end of 2020, we are back with a new conversation between Matt, Tim and Radhika Govindrajan about relatedness, lives with other species, and the changing context for doing ethnography today. Dr Gonvindrajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington whose research spans the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology. Their outstanding first book 'Animal Intimacies' (University of Chicago Press, 2018) is an ethnography of relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India, and the book has since been was awarded the 2017 American Institute of...2020-12-0949 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #37: Davydd Greenwood, Melinda Hinkson and Cris ShoreIn this episode, David Giles fires up the international teleconference machine to convene a conversation between Davydd Greenwood, Melinda Hinkson and Cris Shore about austerity, anthropology and the contemporary university. Greenwood is Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University, Hinkson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Deakin University, and Cris Shore is Professor of Anthropology and Head of Department at Goldsmiths University of London.
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Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #36: Nick Seaver and Thao PhanAlgorithms and artificial intelligence are on the menu for our 36th adventure in anthropology! In this episode, we present two conversations with two great Science and Technology Studies scholars: Dr Nick Seaver and Dr Thao Phan. Dr Seaver, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, examines themes of taste and attention in his research, drawing on his ethnographic research with US-based developers of algorithmic music recommender systems. Dr Phan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, where her research who focuses on gender, AI, and algorithmic cultures.
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Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #35: Catherine BestemanThe crew have logged on for another episode - live from lockdown - to talk life, the universe and anthropology. In this episode, Tim and Mythily speak with Dr Catherine Besteman, an anthropologist who has spent their career analyzing the power dynamics that produce and maintain inequality, racism and violence. Dr Besteman holds the position of Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College and is the author of several books, including the forthcoming 'Militarized Global Apartheid' (Duke University Press, 2020), and several edited collections, including the recent 'Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our...2020-09-0251 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #34: Anne PollockIn this episode, we continue to explore the outer limits of collegiality during a pandemic and bring you a conversation with Professor Anne Pollock and special guest host Professor Emma Kowal (Deakin University). Dr Pollock is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Kings College London, and her research focuses on biomedicine and culture, theories of race and gender, and the ways in which science and medicine are mobilised in social justice projects. Dr Pollock's books include 'Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference' (Duke University Press, 2012), 'Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge and Place in South African Drug...2020-08-0556 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode 33: Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Risa CromerWe at 'Conversations in Anthropology' hope you are all surviving and thriving as we bring you another episode, recorded by our very own David Boarder Giles during a (pre-pandemic) trip to Turtle Island (aka North America) and the American Anthropological Association annual meeting. In this episode, we hear from Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Risa Cromer, three anthropologists who have each made major contributions to our understandings of gender, reproduction and disability. Rapp and Ginsburg are both Professors of Anthropology at New York University, where Ginsburg is also the Director of the Graduate Program in Culture and Media. Cromer is...2020-07-0655 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode 32: Anna TsingHello, anthro-enthusiasts! In this episode, we present a pre-COVID conversation that David Giles recorded with the esteemed anthropologist Anna Tsing, a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and director of the AURA: Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene at Aarhus University. Dr Tsing likely needs little introduction, as someone whose research and writing on globalisation and capitalism has travelled far outside of anthropology and academia. She is the author several books including 'In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place' (1993)and 'Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection' (2004), both based on...2020-06-0739 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode 31.4: Jolynna SinananHere, in the last of our mini-podcasts on crisis and digital research, Mythily is in conversation with anthropologist Jolynna Sinanan (Research Fellow in Digital Media and Ethnography at the University of Sydney). Jolynna's research focusses on digital media practices in relation to family relationships, work and gender. She has written on these themes in Social Media in Trinidad (UCL Press, 2017), Visualising Facebook (Miller and Sinanan, UCL Press, 2017), Webcam (Miller and Sinanan, Polity, 2014) and How the World Changed Social Media (Miller et. al. 2016, UCL Press).
Most recently, Jolynna has been developing this work in two projects: on mobile mining work in...2020-05-2819 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode 31.3: Susan WardellThis conversation is the third in our mini-pod series on crisis and the digital. In it, Mythily Meher speaks to Susan Wardell while they are in lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand. They talk about the shape of work, life, distress and future research in this pandemic, and—reflecting on Susan’s work with an online climate change ‘doomer’ community—on the kinds of meaning-making people engage in crisis. Susan is a lecturer of Social Anthropology at the University of Ōtākou / Otago in Aotearoa. Her ethnographic work deals with emotion and affect, care, religion and spirituality, mental health and wellbeing, and digital...2020-05-1522 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode 31.2: Jonah LiptonNumber 2 in our series of mini-episodes featuring conversations with anthropologists about crisis and the digital. This episode, Timothy Neale speaks to Jonah Lipton, a post-doctoral researcher based at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and the ESRC Centre for Public Authority and International Development at the London School of Economics. A specialist in the anthropology of West Africa, Lipton conducted fieldwork in Sierra Leone immediately before and during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and in this conversation he reflects on that work and how it is shaping his interpretation of the current COVID-19 pandemic. For more on Lipton's work visit: http://www...2020-05-0823 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #30: Rick Smith and Megan WarinHello friends, how are you? Are you running out of listening content? We are back with a new episode, featuring a conversation recorded by Matt Barlow (in the days before physical distancing) with Rick Smith and Megan Warin. Rick is a biocultural anthropologist who is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth, and Megan is a professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. In this episode, they discuss epigenetics - its origins, politics, promise and potential risks - and what anthropology can contribute to...2020-04-0856 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #29: Jason De León and Teresa MaresWe’ve got a roving mic on the loose. In this episode, that mic is in the hands of David Giles, as he roamed the halls of the 2019 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society in Tkaronto/Toronto. There, David caught up with two bright minds of migration studies, namely Jason De León and Teresa Mares. What does an anthropological framework bring to the study of borders? How do you do an ethnography of borders? This episode covers some big contemporary questions. Jason is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and Director of...2020-03-0952 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #28: Michael M.J. FischerWe are back for 2020 with a new episode, a new name and a new and larger collective to bring you further conversations about the state of anthropology and what it has to tell us in the twenty-first century. In this episode, we present a conversation between Timothy and Michael M.J. Fischer recorded at the Society for the Social Studies of Science 2019 conference in New Orleans. Dr Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of several books including 'Anthropological Futures' (Duke University Press, 2009) and, most recently, 'Anthropology in the...2020-02-1043 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #25: Tess LeaIt's our 25th excursion! In this episode, Tim and David are in conversation with Associate Professor Tess Lea (University of Sydney) to talk about the anthropology of policymaking, cultures of remedialism and much more. Tess is an anthropologist with a fundamental interest in with issues of (dys)function: how it occurs and to what, whom and how it is ascribed. Looking at extraction industries, everyday militarisation, houses, infrastructure, schools, and efforts to create culturally congruent forms of employment and enterprise from multiple perspectives, her work asks why the path to realising seemingly straightforward ambitions is so dense with obstacles. Tess...2019-10-131h 03
?????????????????????Episode #7: Cameo DalleyIn this seventh episode of the Anthropology@Deakin podcast, David Giles and Timothy Neale are joined by Lara Fullenweider to discuss belonging, pastoralism and the intercultural with Cameo Dalley (University of Melbourne). Cameo is the McArthur Postdoctoral Fellow in anthropology at the University of Melbourne. Her current research project has investigated the multiple realms in which kardiya and Ngarinyin Aboriginal belonging is manifest in the Kimberley region. She has published on topics of identity, indigeneity and the intercultural and her most recent publication examines education-driven mobility for Indigenous youth.2017-12-1138 min
Conversations in AnthropologyEpisode #7: Cameo DalleyIn this seventh episode of the Anthropology@Deakin podcast, David Giles and Timothy Neale are joined by Lara Fullenweider to discuss belonging, pastoralism and the intercultural with Cameo Dalley (University of Melbourne). Cameo is the McArthur Postdoctoral Fellow in anthropology at the University of Melbourne. Her current research project has investigated the multiple realms in which kardiya and Ngarinyin Aboriginal belonging is manifest in the Kimberley region. She has published on topics of identity, indigeneity and the intercultural and her most recent publication examines education-driven mobility for Indigenous youth.2017-12-1138 min