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.
The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-legal institutio... More
On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read part one here. They are there all right, but the narrative of their presen... More
Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read the epilogue here. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has profoundly affecte... More
Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore
Baltimore’s residents of color are twice as likely as white residents to develop cancer from toxic exposure, and suffer some of the highest asthma hospitalizati... More
Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers
In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More
On ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi Davé
Naisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, the Society for... More
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More
A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and poli... More
Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More