Tariq Rahman

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Teaching Storytelling and Financial Crisis

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Teaching Storytelling and Financial Crisis

Summary Each author in the Openings and Retrospectives collection, "After 2008," published in the November 2008 issue of Cultural Anthropology tells a particula... More

What is Finance? A Conversation with Keith Hart, Daromir Rudnyckyj, and Caitlin Zaloom

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What is Finance? A Conversation with Keith Hart, Daromir Rudnyckyj, and Caitlin Zaloom

Jen Hughes and Tariq Rahman: Collectively, these essays span vastly different parts of the world. However, one of the concepts that holds them together is finan... More

Survival as Development: An Interview with Jason Cons

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Survival as Development: An Interview with Jason Cons

Tariq Rahman: I very much enjoyed your inversion of Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia in this article. As Michelle Murphy (2017) has argued, it is helpfu... More

Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner

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Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner

In this episode AnthroPod travels to the Southern California Library to speak with Damien Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cal... More

The Precarity of Academic Work, The Work of Academic Precarity

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The Precarity of Academic Work, The Work of Academic Precarity

Ethan and I were sitting on the gaudy red carpet of the Marriott, waiting for a panel to begin. “I just used to be so confident,” he blurted out, as if he had b... More

National Economies, Performativity, and Failure: An Interview with Hannah Appel

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National Economies, Performativity, and Failure: An Interview with Hannah Appel

Tariq Rahman: What initially drew you to the social studies of finance literature, and particularly to ideas around performativity? What analytical and/or polit... More

Ethnography and Design 3: Labor in the Gig Economy

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Ethnography and Design 3: Labor in the Gig Economy

This AnthroPod episode is the last in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference “Ethnography ... More

Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes

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Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes

This AnthroPod episode is the second in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference “Ethnograph... More

Ethnography and Design 1: Disability, Design, and Performance

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Ethnography and Design 1: Disability, Design, and Performance

This AnthroPod episode is the first in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design, based on the conference “Ethnography and Design: Mutua... More

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Anthropologists Reflect on What Just Happened

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The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Anthropologists Reflect on What Just Happened

In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a recording of an invited session organized by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for the Anthropology... More