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.
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
Our Amphibians, Ourselves: An Interview with Emily Wanderer
Ashley Elizabeth Drake and Lachlan Summers: Axolotls are, as you note, exceptionally charismatic creatures that have captured the attention of restoration ecolo... More
The Claims of Kinship: An Interview with Alyssa Miller
Ola Galal: In this article, you argue that Tunisian families employ kinship, both as genealogy and as an affective relationship, to make political claims on beh... More
(W)Rap on Gender/Sexuality
“(W)Rap on: Gender/Sexuality” is the second episode of the (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with artists, activists... More
An Open Letter to President Trump
Mr. President, I am a Mayan-K’iche’ woman from western Guatemala, one of five women of approximately nine million indigenous people in my country who hold a PhD... More
Correspondence
Intellectual currents such as actor-network theory, environmental philosophy, speculative realism, and new (or neo-)materialism have challenged common-sense und... More
Refusing “Undocumented”: Imagining Survival Beyond the Gift of Papers
Audra Simpson (2014, 22) has described how accepting the supposed gift of citizenship from the U.S. or Canadian governments is an impossible project for the Ind... More