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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Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to the relevant section editor.

In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz

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In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz

Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More

It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood

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It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood

In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More

Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz

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Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz

In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More

The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

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The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

When I wrote an email thanking my mentor for her guidance as I applied to graduate school, she replied with a note of acknowledgement, but ended with the reques... More

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

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The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More

Teaching Ecological Distress

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Teaching Ecological Distress

This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psychological scie... More

What Teaching Economics Taught Me about Teaching Anthropology

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What Teaching Economics Taught Me about Teaching Anthropology

It's normal to be nervous before the first day of classes, especially if it's your first time teaching at a particular institution. It's especially normal to be... More

Abolitionist Pedagogies

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Abolitionist Pedagogies

What might it mean to seriously prioritize anti-carceral liberation from within anthropology classrooms? This is the question that inspired our “Abolitionist Pe... More

Paradoxical Recognition and Solidarity: An Interview with Fiori Berhane

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Paradoxical Recognition and Solidarity: An Interview with Fiori Berhane

In the following author interview, Fiori Berhane reflects on what she calls the “paradox of humanitarian recognition” among the Eritrean community she works wi... More

Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun

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Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun

In her article “Grinding the Souls: Politics of Interspecies Pity and the Labor of Care in a South Korean Animal Shelter,” EuyRyung Jun explores the gendered dy... More