William Lempert is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He has conducted over two years of ethnographic fieldwork since 2006 in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia with Indigenous media organizations. Through collaboration on production teams, he aims to understand the stakes of Aboriginal self-representation embedded within the dynamic process of filmmaking. His research engages tensions between the production of films that vividly imagine hopeful and diverse Indigenous futures, and the broader defunding of Aboriginal communities and organizations. This ethnographic research informs his current work on how critical engagements with settler-colonial histories and Indigenous futurisms can help to reimagine the current era of outer space colonization.

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Planeterra Nullius: Science Fiction Writing and the Ethnographic Imagination

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Planeterra Nullius: Science Fiction Writing and the Ethnographic Imagination

January 18, 2388 They are back, and this time they are here to stay. It’s Tuesday and I am running predictably behind. I click accept, paying three thousand cr... More

Pedagogical Soundings: Teaching Sovereignty

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Pedagogical Soundings: Teaching Sovereignty

This installment of Pedagogical Soundings, a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website, provides supp... More

Outer Space Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture

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Outer Space Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture

This is the third and final episode in a special AnthroPod trilogy highlighting three anthropologists of outer space and coauthors of “Relational Space: An Eart... More

Outer Space Trilogy 2: Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics

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Outer Space Trilogy 2: Moon Dust and Cosmo/politics

This is the second episode in a special AnthroPod trilogy highlighting three anthropologists of outer space and coauthors of “Relational Space: An Earthly Insta... More

John Hartigan

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John Hartigan

John Hartigan’s Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit (1999) engages Whiteness in a prescient way that is directly relevant to the curre... More

Outer Space Trilogy 1: Haircuts and Billionaires

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Outer Space Trilogy 1: Haircuts and Billionaires

This is the first episode in a special AnthroPod trilogy highlighting three anthropologists of outer space and coauthors of “Relational Space: An Earthly Instal... More