"As governments, politicians, university administrators, school directors, sororities, social media gatekeepers, and the mainstream media silence critical voices and prohibit demonstrations against Israel’s actions, we must refuse to be cowed. This is our time to stand up, together with others, and find ways to clear the smog of propaganda and intimidation. Historians of fascism have much to teach us about the disastrous complicity of the silent majority."

https://allegralaboratory.net/now-is-our-moment-to-act/

#anthropology #gaza #israel #Israel-Palestineconflict

Now is Our Moment to Act

As anthropologists, scholars, and teachers, now is our moment to act. It has always been our responsibility, as academics and citizens, to defend and

^{Lori Allen (Allegra Lab)}

Today, while looking for more positive input, I had to think of a lecture by #Anthropologist Jeremy MacClancy:

We forget that most people are not much interested in identity politics. Indeed, the very opposite is true: Most people strive daily to uphold equality, commonality, and a notion of humanity which usually tends towards the universal. They wish to connect, not to divide.”
But this commonality is not always as easy to spot as flag-waving activists who proclaim their identity, be it Norwegians, Islamists, Protestants, #Israeli or #Palestinian.

https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/overheating/news/2017/macclancy.html

#Gaza #israel #Israel-Palestineconflict #Anthropology

"Start with the commonalities!" - Department of Social Anthropology

“Anthropologists tend to exaggerate differences and to downplay commonalities. It is our moral duty to correct this distorted picture,” said Jeremy MacClancy at the first international workshop of the Overheating project.

^{www.sv.uio.no}

In #Chemnitz nichts Neues. Hier beschützt man die #Nazis: Wie die Freie Presse schreibt:

Das hatten sich die Organisatoren einer Kundgebung vor dem Chemnitzer Rathaus sicher anders vorgestellt. Ihre Veranstaltung in Erinnerung an #MarwaElSherbini, einer Ägypterin, die 2009 aus islam- und ausländerfeindlichen Motiven in einem Gerichtsgebäude in Dresden umgebracht worden war, hatte kaum begonnen, schon gab es Ärger mit der Polizei. Stein des Anstoßes: Ein großes Transparent mit der Aufschrift „Björn Höcke ist ein Nazi“.

Nach Einschätzung der Beamten vor Ort soll das Plakat "den Anfangsverdacht einer Straftat" beinhalten, nämlich den einer „gegen Personen des politischen Lebens gerichteten Beleidigung, üble Nachrede und Verleumdung“. Die Polizei hat den Banner deshalb beschlagnahmt und nahm Personalien auf.

Am Montag kam laut Freie Presse die Kehrtwende. „Nach Prüfung seitens der Staatsanwaltschaft Chemnitz wurde der Verdacht einer Straftat nicht bejaht“, heißt es:

Die Veranstalter hatten bereits vorab auf juristische Entscheidungen verwiesen, die die bemängelte Aussage über den AfD-Politiker als zulässig einschätzten. So habe die Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt/Main erst vor wenigen Wochen Ermittlungen dazu eingestellt. Ein Thüringer Gericht sei zudem bereits 2019 zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass „in ausreichendem Umfang glaubhaft gemacht“ werden konnte, dass das Werturteil über Höcke „nicht aus der Luft gegriffen“ sei, sondern „auf einer überprüfbaren Tatsachengrundlage beruhe“. Höcke ist derzeit wegen öffentlicher Nutzung von NS-Vokabular angeklagt.

https://www.freiepresse.de/chemnitz/afd-hoecke-ein-nazi-polizei-beschlagnahmt-in-chemnitz-transparent-amp12949329

#Rassimsus #afd #Sachsen

AfD-Höcke ein Nazi? Polizei beschlagnahmt in Chemnitz Transparent

^{Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG (Freiepresse.de, Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG)}

Women are moving away from “traditional” marital arrangements. "What made it interesting to me is that these women were really saying, “Look, we’d rather figure out how to get by day-to-day than deal with the kinds of things that we know come with #marriage,” says #anthropologist Joanna Davidson in this interview. Instead, women are opting into other kinds of relationships that get deprioritized in the process of marriage. "Also, in opting out of marriage, in absolutely none of these cases does that automatically mean opting out of motherhood too", she adds. #anthropology #books #book

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/why-are-women-around-the-world-opting-out-of-marriage/

Another new #book by #anthropologist #DavidGraeber who died two years ago. In this book as well, according to this #review, "his overall project is to argue that what we think of as the European Enlightenment drew much of its inspiration from now forgotten non-European thinkers and social practices." #anthropology #democracy #history

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/27/pirate-enlightenment-or-the-real-libertalia-by-david-graeber-review-utopia-by-the-sea

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber review – utopia by the sea

The late anthropologist on how an 18th-century Madagascan microstate provides a model for egalitarian living

^{Fara Dabhoiwala (The Guardian)}

Deutscher #Kolonialismus in #China! Stimmt! Habe auch noch nichts davon gehört. Wenig bekannte #Geschichte. Das Tsingtao Bier habe ich natürlich getrunken, unwissend über die Verbindung zu #Deutschland. Sehr interessanter Text in der #taz .

https://taz.de/!5908989/

Spennende eksperiment! Minner meg samtidig om forskjellene mellom Norge og #Tyskland. Her - i Tyskland - ville det vært omvendt. Trøbbel venter på deg når du skal betale med kredittkort! #kontanter ruler her fortsatt. #NorskTut

https://journalisten.no/a-magasinet-aftenposten-featurejournalistikk/levde-utelukkende-pa-kontanter-i-to-uker-det-far-en-til-a-fole-seg-litt-skitten-litt-kriminell/527918

Levde utelukkende på kontanter i to uker: – Det får en til å føle seg litt skitten, litt kriminell

Aftenpostens Philip Johannesborg var forsøkskanin i eget prosjekt da han hverken brukte nettbank, Vipps eller kredittkort på 14 dager.

^{Morgane Fauconnier (Journalisten)}

Very good advice by #anthropologist Elizabeth Keating, I think! My wife and me have been talking a lot about this topic recently: So much we don't know about our #parents and #relatives, so much we didn't see in their lives, because we never stepped out of our customary roles.

https://theconversation.com/over-the-holidays-try-talking-to-your-relatives-like-an-anthropologist-195637

#anthropology #christmas

Over the holidays, try talking to your relatives like an anthropologist

If you skirt the small talk and dig a little deeper, you’ll be surprised at what you might learn.

^{The Conversation}

My favorite #radio station. I found out that I was able to discover much more new #music by listening to non-commercial online radio stations than by Spotify - and most music by this #worldmusic station in Lithuania

https://pmr.lt/en

World Music Radio

^PMR

Anthropologist Mimi Ito:

Teachers don’t have to be experts to have a big impact. (...) When we talk to students about the things that really influence their life choices and school achievement, often they will mention these very small conversations, where an educator showed a genuine curiosity in their interest. (...) The play part is huge too—just having fun together, playing a game on the playground. They're the things that sit in a deeper spot with young people long after they've forgotten their math facts.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-12-05-how-gaming-creates-opportunities-for-learning-that-endures

#anthropology #teaching #education #gaming

How Gaming Creates Opportunities for Learning That Endures

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade ...

^{Sam Peterson (EdSurge)}