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.
When Words Are Not Enough: Teaching Anthropology with Zines and Scrapbooks
“I learned that you had spent a lifetime equally devoted to the conviction that words are not good enough. Not only not good enough, but corrosive to all that i... More
Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia
In this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conversation wi... More
Sugarcane Heterotopias: Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's film "A Future Buried in the Past"
Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's A Future Buried in the Past (2023) explores the overlooked history of Cuban cultural colonization in Sincerín, Colombia, between 1909 ... More
Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat
In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More
In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz
Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More
It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood
In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More
Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz
In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More
The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints
When I wrote an email thanking my mentor for her guidance as I applied to graduate school, she replied with a note of acknowledgement, but ended with the reques... More
The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin
Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More
Teaching Ecological Distress
This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psychological scie... More
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