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.
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
Eyes on Florida: Community-centered Anthropology in Tampa Bay
Recently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marginalized m... More
AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part Two: Anthropologists
The second episode of our two-part mini-series, showcases a roundtable discussion held at the 2023 American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Annual meeting i... More
AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part One: Migrant Workers
A discussion featuring Harsha Walia, alongside community organizers and migrant workers representing Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), took place at t... More
Circling Up—In the Classroom
Desiree Rosas is a Program Coordinator at MILPA; George Villa is a Program and Research Manager at MILPA; and Megan Raschig is an Associate Professor at Sacrame... More
Abolitionist Pedagogies: Introduction to the Series
This week, just after International Prisoners’ Justice Day, we take this opportunity to introduce a series that will be coming out over the course of the 2024–2... More
Anthropology and Algorithms
In recent years, developments around algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked widespread interest and debate. But anthropologists have been expl... More
The Environmental Wayfarer Project: Problem Solving with an Eco-Anxious Generation
Many environmental problems in the twenty-first century seem practically unsolvable—pollution, corporate monopolies, climate change. Part of our responsibility,... More
Gaining Voice through Injury: An Interview with Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes’s “Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” explores the relationship be... More
Learning to Teach
With my first teaching appointment in 2017, I moved to Richmond, a new town where I didn’t know anyone. Almost as soon as I got there, I enrolled in the YMCA sw... More