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.
States, Elections, and The Promise of Newness: Thinking with Pakistan’s 2018 General Election
In the winter of 2017, as villagers in Pakistan’s Punjab region discussed an irrigation canal breach, one of them, Shahab baba, reflected: “Ayub da time changa ... More
Black Availability: Antimigrant Policies in Africa and the Exploitation of Black Migrants
Restricting African migration to Europe has proved to be good politics for both European and North African leaders. As “tough on crime” strategies of blocking b... More
Walking amid Wonder: Tulasi Srinivas and Namita Dharia in Conversation
In this episode of AnthroPod, guests Namita Dharia and Tulasi Srinivas discuss the possibilities for an anthropology of wonder. Their conversation builds out fr... More
Review: I’ve got a little problem
I’ve got a little problem (2018) Directed by Ren Hang Documentary film, 44 min. * * *... More
What is the Midwest Thinking? U.S. Regionalism and Nationalism
The Midwest region has become a bellwether of American national politics. Media discourses often presume that Midwestern attributes or plights manifest themselv... More
Teaching Ontologies and Activism with Sophie Chao
The pedagogical approaches presented in this post and the author interview with which it concludes highlight the article’s contributions to two important conver... More
When Fieldwork Breaks Your Heart
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest producer Aisha Sultan considers the question: what do you do when fieldwork threatens to break your heart? While graduate se... More
Teaching Horizoning and Responding to Climate Change with Adriana Petryna
This post is designed as a resource for use with Petryna’s article to explore the temporal politics and ethics of climate change and emergency response with adv... More
Letting Stories Speak: A Review of Dead Souls
Dead Souls (2018) begins with this still. It is all the context that the documentarist, Wang Bing, provides for the viewer. Then, for almost eight hours, surv... More
Searches for Livability: An Interview with Adriana Petryna
Pablo Seward Delaporte and Sonia Grant: You write that American fire managers have inherited an image of controllable wildfire, which contrasts with both how we... More