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.

Detention, In Frame

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Detention, In Frame

For a piece on abolition, it might seem counterintuitive to start with a “frame.” A frame typically binds our view of something, rigidly limiting our attention ... 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

Eyes on Florida: Community-centered Anthropology in Tampa Bay

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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