Launched in 2012, Fieldsights has helped to catalyze the growth of nonjournal digital publishing in anthropology. Today, its various sections address diverse audiences in both textual and nontextual formats.
Fieldsights posts should not be described as “published in Cultural Anthropology.” The two publications have different tempos, review processes, and forms of credit associated with their output.
Editors’ Forum
These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
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Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo, la teorizació... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
Settler Colonialism: Unsettling Exceptionalisms with and through Israel-Palestine
This forum focuses on the urgent necessity of understanding settler colonialism as an analytic, especially given the recent political assaults on the concept th... More
Contributed Content
While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. Many of them are written by early-career scholars in the SCA's Contributing Editors Program.
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On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read part one here. They are there all right, but the narrative of their presen... More
Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read the epilogue here. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has profoundly affecte... More
Collaboration Studio
The Collaboration Studio draws together content previously published in different sections of Fieldsights. It also anchors a yearlong seminar that allows Contributing Editors to work together for a fixed period of time on a topic of shared interest. Currently, the Archive of these Studios can be found under Fieldsights, "Collaborative Topics (Archive)."
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