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The University as Finishing School for the New Imperialists?
“As scholars, we must work harder to illuminate the complex interconnections and complicities between them [that constitute contemporary imperialism], and bring those findings to the broadest possible...
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Deepwater Uni
The evangelical neoliberalism which erupted in the US House of Representatives in 2008 and spread like the mange to the UK House of Commons is coming soon to an English university near you. The free...
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The Big Society Bites Back
“Move along folks, you’re blocking a cash point.” This pithy synopsis of the neoliberal logic driving the policing of student protest was delivered unironically by one of London Met’s Finest to the...
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The Goat Caught in Bushkazi: Personal Effects of One’s Role in the Great Game
The beginning of this story, for me, was in the spring of 1969. I had applied for funding to do a cutting edge project combining methods and techniques of visual anthropology that I had learned from...
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Less Than Zero Anthropology
“Sometimes,” remarked a wise colleague of mine many years ago, “It seems all I know how to do is critique.” We were postgraduate students, I in anthropology, she in sociology, but our paths crossed...
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The End of Debates About the Human Terrain System?
The End of Debates? Having been asked (and declined) to write commentaries, or respond to one or another essay on the Human Terrain System (HTS) over the past 18 months, I realized that I had enough,...
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John’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part I: The Training and...
Peeping through a Keyhole, Down upon My Knees We are virtually here to discuss with you something that I would call InTRADOCtrination: Intelligent Design for Retraining the Masses The Mission?: We...
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John’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part II: The Training and...
The New Intelligent Design of Human Society and Anthropology Nobody in the USA or in the UN has proposed a bill – that I am aware of – for The People to vote on the fundamental topics of our era. We...
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Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response
By David Wiley [First published as: Wiley, David. (2012). "Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response." African Studies Review, 24(2) September, pp. 147-161.] There was...
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Military Capitalism
Security for US Capitalists: The State Department and its Global Partners Very much in line in with the idea of “connected capitalism,” the US State Department created the office of advisor for global...
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US Anthropology is Imperial, not Universal
Part Two of: “Canadian Anthropology or Cultural Imperialism?” Read Part One “today numerous topics directly issuing from the intellectual confrontations relating to the social particularity of...
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Canadian Anthropology or US Cultural Imperialism?
Read Part One Read Part Two Download the complete paper Importing Empire, Exporting Capital: Canadian Universities as Retail Outlets for US Anthropology The “Americanist tradition” has been reproduced...
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This Does Not Represent the Views of the University
I know that I am not the first person to ask this, but when did universities start having “views”? When some professors indulge their rights to free speech or put academic freedom into practice, they...
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Publicity or Marginality? On the Question of Academic “Silencing” in...
Abstract What is “silencing” and is it out of place in the contemporary North American university? How do “silencing” and “public anthropology” intersect? What are the roles of academic power and...
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If this was a good time for Canadian academia, you would not be able to tell from the blanket of almost absolute silence that has been pulled over universities. There is no euphoria, no celebratory...
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