A Random Walk
Journal of Business Anthropology
Extreme Users
Qualitative segmentation is a blend of art and science. There are a variety of sampling methods researchers use to guarantee a pool of participants that is representative of their target market. But for innovation research, we suggest ignoring those sq…
Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
Reviewed by Dylan Lackey, Global Center for Advanced Studies Jack Halberstam. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 219 pages. On the other side of interpellation, where the hail does not reach, where the call is unh…
Review of Twelve Weeks to Change a Life: At-Risk Youth in a Fractured State by Max Greenberg
This is a book review of Max Geenberg’s book, which focuses on at-risk youth in violence prevention programs. The review offers an overview of the ethnographic book, which provides critical insight of youth youth programs, but also about the relationsh…
Monstrous Transformations
According to Ulrich Beck, the breakdown of nation-state power and the migration of people, culture and ideas through neoliberalism provides us with a unique historical moment that simultaneously holds the potential for unparalleled cosmopolitanism and …
Work, Life, and Identity Negotiation in a Foreign Land: A Study of Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers in Belgium
This study examined the living and working experiences of 14 Taiwanese working holiday makers (WHMs) in Belgium as they negotiate their identity and social lives while they live overseas, using both participant observation and semi-structured interview…
Surviving the Survival Narrative Part 1: Internalised Racism and the Limits of Resistance
The concept of internalised racism (IR) has been criticised for its potential utilisation to perpetuate ‘victim blaming’. In describing the racialised subject’s indoctrination to racist beliefs about themselves and/or their group, the concept of IR has…
The Donor-Driven Model and Financial Sustainability: A Case Study from Palestinian Non-Government Organizations
This study presents factors that encourage Palestinian NGOs to embrace financial sustainability employing modern ideologies that encompass community engagement, voluntarism, collaboration, and business-like practices in order to meet societal challenge…
Meaningful Evaluation: a holistic and systemic approach to understanding and assessing outcomes
The concept and practice of Social Impact and Social Impact assessment has developed and matured over the last decade. Despite this growth, confusion still exists with respect to definitions of social impact as well as which tools and frameworks are mo…
Call for Papers: Issue 33, After Douglas Crimp
For its thirty-third issue, InVisible Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that engage with the legacy of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019). Douglas was foundational to InVisible Culture and its institutional home, the Graduate Program in Visu…
“I Am not Here for Fun”: The Satirical Facebook Group Royalists Marketplace, Queer TikToking, and the New Democracy Movement in Thailand
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. He has published extensively on Thailand and Southeast Asian politics. He is also politically active and does not shy away from discussing a…
Book Review: Cooking Data: Culture & Politics in an African Research World
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Front Matters
Anthropology Matters
Out of the Ordinary
This article challenges the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign ‘monsters’ the status of the radical Other: of that which we are not. This widespread inclination to understand monsters as agencies breaking into the ordinary ignores what…
Ressoar a antropologia: uma <em>jam session</em> com Steven Feld
Resumo O artigo discute a condição ética dos cães nos sertões cearenses tomando como foco de atenção os ataques de alguns deles aos rebanhos ovinos. Geralmente levando à morte dos cães, tais episódios produzem uma espécie de curto-circuito moral nas co…
Herding, Government and the Limits of Understanding: on the Ethical Condition of Dogs in Ceará’s Hinterland
Resumo O artigo discute a condição ética dos cães nos sertões cearenses tomando como foco de atenção os ataques de alguns deles aos rebanhos ovinos. Geralmente levando à morte dos cães, tais episódios produzem uma espécie de curto-circuito moral nas co…
Occupying the law: “piracy”, streaming, and intellectual property rights
Resumo Este artigo aborda as leis de propriedade intelectual como um conjunto de regulações constituído por relações porosas estabelecidas entre o legal/ilegal. Para além de uma configuração permeada por normas e comportamentos alinhados a uma racional…
Of mothers, ships and <em>cachaça</em>: Career, crisis and disillusion in a Brazilian company portrayed as “national heritage”
Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é destrinchar alguns contornos sociais e simbólicos do mundo da aviação comercial brasileira nas últimas décadas do século XX, a partir de três metáforas que impregnam os imaginários de antigos funcionários da extinta Var…
The limits of the divergence between popular knowledge and experts: The debate around the conservation of the franciscana dolphin and the sustainable fishing practices
Resumen En este trabajo analizamos los equívocos entre expertos en conservación y pescadores artesanales en el marco de un taller sobre identificación de prácticas pesqueras sustentables. Allí se discutieron acciones de mitigación centradas en reducir …
Introduction / Issue 31: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
Jump to Table of Contents by Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker Featured image: Ellen Gallagher, Bird in Hand, 2006. © Ellen Gallagher. Image © Tate. She was dismayed when she realized that what she wanted to imagine, what she was s…
Table of Contents / Issue 31: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker, “Introduction: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby” Hazel V. Carby, “Black Futurities: Shape-Shifting beyond the Limits of the Human” Alanna Prince and Alisa V. Prince, “What’…
Contributors / Issue 31: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby
Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His fi…
Black Futurities: Shape-Shifting beyond the Limits of the Human
by Hazel V. Carby Please follow each link to images, videos or sound as they occur because they are integral to the narrative. They thought they were tasting the future (which for some peopletasted like cardboard and for other people tasted like sugar)…
What’s Haunting Black Feminism?
by Alanna Prince and Alisa V. Prince Two Black Feminists Go For A Walk On a Wednesday afternoon, we walked down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, our hometown. We saw the center aisle of the street lined with older white people holding signs for Black…
Athazagoraphilia: On the End(s) of Dreaming
By Jerome P. Dent, Jr. In the introductory chapter of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, entitled “When History Sleeps,” scholar and activist Robin D.G. Kelley ties his own political engagement with his mother’s “dream of a new world,” an i…