These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more short-form essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen
The idea of an Anthropocene has spread with astonishing speed, dislodging familiar terms like nature and environment from their customary preeminence as signs o... More
The Pilbara Crisis: Resource Frontiers in Western Australia
The remote and fragile Pilbara region of Western Australia contains some of Australia’s greatest mineral wealth, as well as some of its richest, most globally s... More
Aftershocked: Reflections on the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal
Beginning at 11:56 a.m. local time on April 25, 2015 and continuing for over two months, a series of large earthquakes and significant aftershocks, numbering mo... More
The Infrastructure Toolbox
Why an infrastructure toolbox? Infrastructure has long been a central conceptual tool—a productive metaphor—for critical theory and the analysis of social life ... More
Queer Futures
This series brings together a cohort of anthropologists to reflect on queer anthropology as a historically situated intellectual formation and research communit... More
#BlackLivesMatter: Anti-Black Racism, Police Violence, and Resistance
Gathered under the umbrella of #BlackLivesMatter, a movement has erupted in the United States and multiple locations across the globe, including the Dominican R... More
The Colombian Peace Process: A Possibility in Spite of Itself
With negotiations between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) in an adva... More
Generating Capitalism
Anthropological and broader social-scientific critiques of capitalism have faced two related analytical puzzles: First, if capitalist relations are generated wi... More
Protests and Polarization in Venezuela After Chávez
February 2014—less than a year after the death of President Hugo Chávez—marked the beginning of a series of protests that raised important questions about the f... More
As Fluid as a Brick Wall
Livia Stone became fascinated with the surfaces of Oaxaca de Juarez’s walls while doing ethnographic research in the city in 2009. She took the images presented... More