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.
Refugees and the Crisis of Europe
Since the beginning of 2015, an unprecedented number of people from Middle Eastern and African countries—many of them fleeing war, persecution, and unrelenting ... More
Greece is Burning
At last judged adequately modern, Greece won the privilege of hosting the summer Olympic Games in 2004. Many analysts have pointed to the national deficit that ... More
Digital Ontology
It might be argued that anthropology has come late to the question of whether there is an ontology to the digital. Although scholars in software and media studi... More
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
Generating Capitalism
Anthropological and broader social-scientific critiques of capitalism have faced two related analytical puzzles: First, if capitalist relations are generated wi... More