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.
Race-ing Fargo
On July 25, 2017, what started as a parking dispute in Fargo, North Dakota turned into a verbal altercation between Amber Hensley, a white woman from the small ... More
The Household
How are the worlds in which we live shaped by the ways that households are thought and made? How does the scale of the household shape the spatial and temporal ... More
Teaching Uncertainty: Disrupting Nativism with Anneeth Kaur Hundle
In March 2017, I interviewed Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, on her two-part article entitled ... More
Activist Mobilities and the Viacrucis Migrant Caravan
As we arrive at the first checkpoint in Huehuetan, Chiapas, everyone seems to hold their breath, uncertain of how the authorities are going to respond when a gr... More
Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart
Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: When you began your academic career, attention to affective intensities was arguably not yet as prevalent in anthropology o... More
Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes
This AnthroPod episode is the second in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference “Ethnograph... More
On Affect, Aesthetics, and Mass Mediation: An Interview with William Mazzarella
Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: In this article, you work through a genealogy of thought on affective relations that diverges from the usual line from Baru... More
Ecologies and Expertise: Teaching Climate Adaptation with Sarah E. Vaughn
Sarah E. Vaughn is the James and Mary Pinchot Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2016–2017) and Assistant Professor in the Departm... More
Teaching with Hope: Anand Pandian on Cultivating Possibility in the Classroom
“Why are we so interested in other ways of being human, if not to put those into practice as ways of pluralizing both what we can be and what the world we inhab... More
Fieldnote as Political Weapon: James Comey’s Ethnographic Turn?
Watching the testimony of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey live on television, I came to realize—one more time and with politic... More