Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This paper focuses on the global presence in the local processes of place-making in a rural area in Sweden. As a result of increased competition – fueled by a reorganization of global capitalism – between places, symbolic strategies (i.e. place marketi…
Based mostly on evidence from the UK, this paper challenges the rural’s usual association with predominantly conservative politics and practices. It advocates showing awareness of ambiguity in how representations, and specifically in this paper rural r…
Most analyses of the role of the media in shaping and reproducing popular discourses of rurality have focused on film, television drama and literature. Comparatively little attention has been directed towards the role of the news media in framing perce…
Contemporary city cultures are often defined in relation to the processes of late-capitalism and commodification. Today, in various parts of the world, the previously dominant industrial cities have been replaced by cities of consumption (Urry 1995: 12…
In 1979, Australia’s then-Communication Minister Tony Staley commented that the introduction of satellite communications to the bush would “dispel the distance – mental as well as geographical – between urban and regional dwellers, between the haves an…
The article discusses recent developments in media culture through one case study: The L-word, the first television series narratively centered around lesbian and bisexual characters. The business discourse surrounding the series’ production is examine…
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Michigan Discussions in Anthropology (vols. 15-) Vol 18 Issue 1, 2010-03-18
Published: February 2002.
Published: February 2002.
Published: September 2003.
Published: September 2003.
Joan Copjec accuses orthodox film theory of misrepresenting the Lacanian gaze by assimilating it to Foucauldian panopticon (Copjec 1994: 18–19). Although Copjec is correct that orthodox film theory misrepresents the Lacanian gaze, she, in turn, misrepr…