Guest Post: To Talk Like Them
[Footnotes is pleased to welcome the following guest post by Tian An Wong, a professor of Mathematics with an affinity for social theory. This post was originally published on the ethnographic methods blog http://www.Fieldworking.net.] ‘This is America, speak English.’ You can probably feel the sting of these words if you live in the US and ...
Guest Post: Is your department’s website #anthrosowhite?
[Footnotes is proud to present the work of Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Hannah Gould. Goodwin-Hawkins is deep hanging out in a geography department, as a postdoctoral researcher at Aberystwyth University in Cymru Wales. Gould is completing her doctorate at the University of Melbourne, Australia.] Amid new scandals, anthropology’s old reputation as a discipline of white heroes in pith helmets ...
Guest Post: Anthropology’s front-lines: Notes on crisis, coloniality, and violence
[The following is a guest post by Proshant Chakraborty. Proshant is an applied anthropologist and research consultant based in Mumbai, India. He obtained his master’s in Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven, Belgium. His current research focuses on front-line workers and violence prevention interventions in urban poor communities.] #HauTalk This essay is an attempt to make ...
Guest Post: An Open Letter from the Former HAU Staff 7
[Footnotes has received the following open letter from "The Former HAU Staff 7."] This open-letter was written in December 2017 by a collective of former HAU staff in the period before HAU was handed over to the University of Chicago Press. It was not released at the time because the authors were unable to secure ...