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  • How can psychoanalysis support the flourishing of queer and trans life in light of the discipline’s contested history and present? Why is it preferable to understand gender as a process of becoming instead of something that is a preprogrammed part of the self? In this interview from July 2024, Clayton speaks with Dr. Ann Pellegrini and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou about their book Gender Without Identity and how their ideas and their psychoanalytic practice seeks to answer these questions.

    Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, and a member of the faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia from the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press.

    Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen).

    Clayton Jarrard⁠ is a graduate student at New York University's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program and works at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy implementation, and community efforts.

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  • This episode got a little spicy, and is a must listen for anyone who cares about climate change, geoengineering, or collaboration between natural and social scientists.

    If you are confused, check out Cody's piece on geoengineering governance: https://blog.castac.org/2024/09/geoengineering-de-facto-environmental-governance-and-alternative-future-making/

    References:Frank Biermann et al., “Solar Geoengineering:The Case for an International Non‐useAgreement,” WIREs Climate Change13, no. 3 (January 17, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.754.

    Gupta, Aarti, and Ina Möller. 2018. “De Facto Governance: How Authoritative Assessments Construct Climate Engineering as an Object of Governance.” Environmental Politics 28 (3): 480–501. doi:10.1080/09644016.2018.1452373.

    Parson, E. A., Buck, H. J., Jinnah, S., Moreno-Cruz, J., & Nicholson, S. (2024). Toward an evidence-informed, responsible, and inclusive debate on solar geoengineering: A response to the proposed non-use agreement. WIREs Climate Change, e903. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.903

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  • In this episode, Codytalks with Anton Keskinen (Head of Strategy at Operaatio Arktis, and part time Rebel with Extinction Rebellion in Helsinki) and Clara Botto (Director of Youth Engagement Director of Youth Outreach for The Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, UNFCC Fellow, Advisory Board Member, Centre for Climate Repair and American Geophysical Union, among other things) about geoengineering, what Solar geoengineering is,geoengineering advocacy, its controversial nature, youth, climate justice, and Indigenous rights.

    Sources:

    Sapinski, J. P., Holly JeanBuck, and Andreas Malm. Has it come to this?: The promises and perils ofgeoengineering on the Brink. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,2021.

    Conditions for ResponsibleResearch of SRM – Analysis, Co-Creation, and Ethos (Co-CREATE) (Co-CREATE)

    https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/how-to-participate/org-details/999999999/project/101137642/program/43108390/details

  • Human remains scattered on the moon, pollution in the night sky, colonizing outer space—that’s capitalism, baby! In this episode, Clayton, Julia, and Cody discuss the idea of a “lunar anthropocene” and how settler colonialism shapes space exploration.

    SourcesThe case for a lunar anthropocene by Justin Allen Holcomb, Rolfe David Mandel & Karl William Wegmann

    Works of Zoe Todd

    Staying with the Trouble by Donna J. Haraway

    The White House May Condemn Musk, but the Government Is Addicted to Him

    Which animals will be the first to live on the moon and Mars?

    Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House meeting

    A Cosmologist’s Case for Staying Put on Earth

    Becoming Martian by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

    Keep Capitalism Out of Space by Tech Won’t Save Us podcast

    Navajo Nation 'relieved' human remains didn't make it to the moon. Celestis vows to try again

  • Curious about Taylor Swift's Carbon offsets? Well wonder no more. Oxford researcher talks to Cody and Clayton about carbon offsets, Taylor Swift, and what a functioning carbon market could do amidst their mostly catastrophic outcomes.

  • In this conversation, Clayton is joined by Dr. Mimi KhĂșc and Dr. Margaret Price to discuss their new books dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss and Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, both from Duke University Press. The three have a wide-ranging conversation about capitalist mandates for wellness, appropriations of accessibility and cultures of care in the university, the ways race and racism refract experiences of disability and unwellness, and how academe structures the very power imbalances that make crip spacetime and claiming unwellness precarious and often harmful.

    ⁠Interview Transcript⁠

    De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures are made livable and unlivable and how these institutions can participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation.

    Mimi KhĂșc is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the creator of Open in Emergency and the Asian American Tarot. Check out dear elia book tour dates and information.

    Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University, author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, and co-founder of the Transformative Access Project.

    Clayton Jarrard works at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy implementation, and community efforts, and he is an incoming student at NYU's Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    Sources

    Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry by Cathy-Mae Karelse

    “Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness” by Mimi KhĂșc in Crip Authorship: Disability as Method edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez

    Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton

  • Interview Transcript Link

    In this episode, Clayton is joined by members of the Access in the Making (AIM) Lab at Concordia University, Prakash Krishnan, Emery Vanderburgh, and Nicholas Goberdhan to discuss the work of the AIM Lab. The AIM Lab is an anti-colonial, anti-ableist, feminist research lab working on issues of access, disability, environment and care through creative experimentation. We talk about why there is a need for work like that of the AIM Lab to intervene in academic and institutional ableism and how the AIM Lab upholds the tenets of anti-colonialism, anti-ableism, and feminism in their research and practice.

    You can follow the AIM Lab on Twitter/X at @accessmaking and find out more on their website at accesinthemaking.ca.

    If you like ⁠Un/Livable Cultures⁠, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on ⁠Patreon⁠, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter ⁠@UnlivablePod⁠ for updates.

    Sources

    Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci

    Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong

    Reading for Palestine (AIM Project)

    Air, River, Sea, Soil: A History of Exploited Land (AIM Project)

    Mobilizing Disability Survival Skills for the Urgencies of the Anthropocene (AIM Project)

    Audio Description in the Making (AIM Project)

  • The It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby exhibit for the Brooklyn Museum of Art drew crowds and critiques. The multitude of harsh reviews suggest Gadsby should have stayed in their lane of comedy and stand up. But what does such criticism reveal about the art world itself?

    Sources

    It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby by Brooklyn Museum

    Trailer | It's Pablo-matic: Pablo Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby by Brooklyn Museum

    Hannah Gadsby’s Disastrous ‘Pablo-matic’ Show at the Brooklyn Museum Has Some ‘Pablo-ms’ of Its Own by Alex Greenberger

    Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. by Robin Pogrebin

    A guide to the dozens of exhibitions worldwide marking the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death by José de Silva

    Musée Picasso Paris Gives Fashion Designer Paul Smith Carte Blanche to Reinstall Its Permanent Collection to Dazzling Effect by Sarah Belmont

    This is an experiment’: is Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso exhibition really that bad? by Lauren Mechling

    Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Pablo-matic’ Is Not the Feminist Achievement It Wants to Be by Kady Ruth Ashcraft

    The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam

  • How is suicide an issue of justice? How should our care for people experiencing suicidality connect with the Land and Water in which people live? What does it mean to care for the life of Land and Water as well as the lives of people? Special guest Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos joins us for a conversation about how colonialism features in the creation of unlivable conditions, threatening the well-being of Indigenous and First Nations communities in particular.

    Jeffrey Ansloos is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Prof. Ansloos is a community health, social policy, community psychology, and Indigenous studies scholar, with a global reputation for his research on Indigenous health justice and social and environmental dimensions of mental health, suicide, and houselessness. You can follow him on Twitter/X at @jeffreyansloos and find out more on his university profile.

    If you like ⁠Un/Livable Cultures⁠, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on ⁠Patreon⁠, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter ⁠@UnlivablePod⁠ for updates.

    Sources

    “A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations” by Jeffrey Ansloos and Shanna Peltier

    “Hydrocolonial Affects: Suicide and the Somatechnics of Long-term Drinking Water Advisories in First Nations in Canada” by Jeffrey Ansloos

    “Is Suicide a Water Justice Issue? Investigating Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories and Suicide in First Nations in Canada” by Jeffrey Ansloos and Annelies Cooper

    “Grieving geographies, mourning waters: Life, death, and environmental gendered racialized struggles in Mexico” by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

    Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment by David Bond

    Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci

    Experiences of Depression: A Study in Phenomenology by Matthew Radcliffe

  • It’s obvious that some lives are valued over others, and some commodities are valued more than life. How have these determinations been made? In this episode, we talk about how medical care prioritizes some patients over others—even to the extent of taking some people’s personal ventilators to give to others who were considered to have a greater life expectancy or quality of life—how supply chain issues exacerbated this problem during the pandemic, and what a system may look like that prioritizes people over profit.

    If you like ⁠Un/Livable Cultures⁠, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on ⁠Patreon⁠, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter ⁠@UnlivablePod⁠ for updates.

    Sources

    Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant

    Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare

    State policies may send people with disabilities to the back of the line for ventilators

    How the Supply Chain Upheaval Became a Life-or-Death Threat

    Eric Garner’s Death Will Not Lead to Federal Charges for N.Y.P.D. Officer

    Eric Garner died during a 2014 police encounter. An officer involved might lose his job.

  • This is a big election year in the US, and legislative sessions across the country are beginning. It’s important to understand how we got here and recognize the patterns of anti-LGBTQ legislators and decision-makers to be strategic in our fight for livable worlds.Since 2022, we have recorded multiple episodes to discuss LGBTQ+ issues in America, but we kept running into a problem: By the time the episodes were ready for release, there was newer information relevant to discuss. And so we recorded a new conversation. Then another. To disrupt this cycle, this episode is a mash-up of three select recordings we had about the state of LGBTQ+ issues and politics in the US. Hear how--over this almost 2 year period--different problems came to the fore, how our views evolved, and how our feelings changed.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    Selected Sources

    Gender Underground: A Trans History of Do-It-Yourself by Jules Gill-Peterson

    Right to Maim by Jasbir Puar

    The whiteness of ‘coming out’: culture and identity in the disclosure narrative by Asiel Adan Sanchez

    Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

    Behind the Backlash Against Bud Light

    Target says backlash against LGBTQ+ Pride merchandise hurt sales

    Cruz Watch: The Senator Calls for an Investigation Into Bud Light for Some Reason

    Who’s getting hurt most by soaring LGBTQ book bans? Librarians say kids. Harvard Gazette

    Challenges to library books continue at record pace in 2023, American Library Association reports

    Human Rights Campaign Working to Defeat 340 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills at State Level Already, 150 of Which Target Transgender People – Highest Number on Record

    New York Times Open Letter

    Andrzejewski, J., Pampati, S., Steiner, R. J., Boyce, L., & Johns, M. M. (2021). Perspectives of Transgender Youth on Parental Support: Qualitative Findings From the Resilience and Transgender Youth Study. Health Education & Behavior, 48(1), 74–81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120965504

    Chen, D. C., Abrams, M., Clark, L., Ehrensaft, D., Tishelman, A. C., Chan, Y., Hidalgo, M. A. (2021). Psychosocial characteristics of transgender youth seeking gender-affirming medical treatment: Baseline findings from the TYC study. Journal of Adolescent Health, 68(6), 1104-1111.

    Rafferty, J. (2018). Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics (Evanston), 142(4). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2018-2162

    Sobara, J. C., Chinara, L. N., Thompson, S., & Palmert, M. R. (2020). Mental health and timing of gender affirming care. Pediatrics, 146(4).

  • It’s time for Season 2! We’ve been hard at work preparing our lineup of episodes for Season 2, and it’s finally time to go live! Thanks for joining us on this little journey. We hope you enjoy!

    Two quick notes:

    We won’t be following our previous schedule of releasing episodes every other Wednesday.

    We have a YouTube channel! We’re currently uploading Season 1 to YouTube.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

  • With the growing conversations on student debt, the value of higher education, and the need for livable wages, Dr. Elizabeth K. Briody joins Un/Livable Cultures to talk about the need for Anthropology and other social sciences to train students for the world outside of academia. Anthropology needs theory, method, and practice in order to be relevant. And as a discipline, anthropology needs to think about the ethics of only priming students for an ever-shrinking job pool of academic positions.

    De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures are livable and unlivable and how these institutions can participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation.

    Elizabeth K. Briody is a business anthropologist who has been involved in cultural-change efforts for over 30 years -- first first at General Motors Research and later through her own consulting practice, Cultural Keys. She currently leads Anthropology's Career Readiness Commission along with Riall W. Nolan.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

  • Season 6 of Netflix’s Black Mirror is out, and we reflect on the first three episodes of the new season— from the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes to the true crime “obsession” to companies “winking” at social justice. But imagining futures is not a neutral enterprise. Does Black Mirror contribute to the colonizing of the future through Western domination?

    Sources:

    Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Futurity

    José Esteban Muñoz

    No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

    Lee Edelman

    Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Futures Studies

    Ziauddin Sardar

    Colonizing the Future: the ‘Other” Dimension of Futures StudiesZiauddin Sardar

    Feminism's Apocalyptic Futures

    Robyn Wiegman

    The Loneliest Americans

    Jay Caspian Kang

    The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ BĂĄyĂČ AkĂłmolĂĄfĂ©)

    The Emerald

    ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Had ChatGPT Write an Episode and It Was ‘S—‘: ‘There’s Not Any Real Original Thought Here’

    Zack Sharf

    ‘Black Mirror’s “Loch Henry” Episode Draws Tourists to Scotland Proving That Nobody Understands the Show

    Raven Brunner

    ‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Wants Fans to Remember It’s Never Just Been the ‘Tech Is Bad’ Show

    SAMANTHA BERGESON

    Writers Are Not Keeping Up

    WGA

    The 2023 Hollywood Strike for Dummies

    Jason P. Frank

    Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

    Andrew Webster

  • *Content Warning: This episode mentions sensitive topics like suicide, psychological distress, hospitalization, and police violence.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    Sources

    Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

    ALEXANDRA S. LEVINE

    A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relationsJeffrey Ansloos and Shanna Peltier

    On the Verge of Death: Visions of Biological Vulnerability

    Carlo Caduff

    The New Crisis of Increasing All-Cause Mortality in US Children and AdolescentsSteven H. Woolf, MD, MPH; Elizabeth R. Wolf, MD, MPH; Frederick P. Rivara, MD, MPH

    Suicide Hotlines Bill Themselves as Confidential—Even as Some Trace Your CallRob Wipond

    Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

    Ruth Wilson Gilmore

    You’re not so anonymous

    Caroline Perry

    The Burnout Society

    Byung-Chul Han

  • Unlike any other AP course, AP African American Studies is the most complex course the College Board has produced. And it has also faced an unsurprising barrage of attacks unlike any other AP course. Why is there such a fear of Black Studies? Why do Texas textbooks now refer to enslaved folks as “laborers''? In this episode, Dr. Nishani Frazier discusses the value of Black Studies and how it inspires empathy; spotlights power imbalances and racial hierarchies; and provides pathways to solutions for dealing with racism, exploitation, and inequality.

    De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures are livable and unlivable and how these institutions can participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation.

    Nishani Frazier is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at University of Kansas. Her research interests include 1960s freedom movements, oral history, food, digital humanities, and black economic development. You can follow her on Twitter at @SpelmanDiva or her website.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    Sources

    The Backlash: How Slavery Research Came Under Fire

    Samira Shackle

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/01/cotton-capital-legacies-of-slavery-research-backlash-cambridge-university

    Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland and the Rise of Black Power PopulismNishani Frazier

    Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/nikole-hannah-jones-unc.html

    The Newspaper Baron Who Lobbied Against Nikole Hannah-Jones

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/the-newspaper-baron-who-lobbied-against-nikole-hannah-jones.html

    One year later, Walter Hussman still denying involvement in Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure standoff

    https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/one-year-later-walter-hussman-still-denying-involvement-in-nikole-hannah-jones-tenure-standoff/

    Nikole Hannah-Jones Issues Statement on Decision to Decline Tenure Offer at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and to Accept Knight Chair Appointment at Howard University

    https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/nikole-hannah-jones-issues-statement-on-decision-to-decline-tenure-offer-at-university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill-and-to-accept-knight-chair-appointment-at-howard-university/

    The College Board Will Change Its A.P. African American Studies Course

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/ap-african-american-studies-college-board.html

    The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/us/ap-black-studies-course-college-board-desantis.html

    DeSantis says Florida rejected new AP course on African American Studies for imposing ‘political agenda’

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/politics/ron-desantis-florida-ap-african-american-studies/index.html

    The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23583240/ap-african-american-studies-college-board-florida-ron-desantis

    Problems with Names

    Sara Ahmed

    https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/04/25/problems-with-names/

  • If Arthur’s Stone is an important British historical site yet we know very little of its history, why is it only now being excavated for the first time? Could it be that archaeologists knew the damage of excavating spiritually, politically, and/or historically significant sites in other cultures, so they didn’t want to do that at home?

    This episode deals with some of the politics of archaeology as we grapple with these questions and how anglophilia shrouds settler colonialism, imperialism, and racism. We also venture into the issues of the exoticized and eroticized Other in anthropological displays, media, and portrayals.

    If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon, or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    Sources

    A tomb linked to the legend of King Arthur is being excavated for the first time

    Megan Marples, CNN

    https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/arthur-stone-tomb-excavation-scn/index.html

    SAA 86th Annual Conference: An Indigenous Response

    https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ruins/54-5

    Downton Abbey: Anglophilia is Embarrassing

    Katherine Fusco

    Chief Druid King Arthur Pendragon gets court date over Stonehenge parking fees

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2017/jan/11/chief-druid-king-arthur-pendragon-gets-court-date-over-stonehenge-parking-fees

    Celticism, Celtitude, and Celticity: the consumption of the past in the age of globalization.

    Michael Dietler

    https://www.academia.edu/273595/Celticism_Celtitude_and_Celticity_the_consumption_of_the_past_in_the_age_of_globalization

    The Significance of Sara Baartman

    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987
    Stonehenge bones decision backed by humanist association⁠https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-14643203⁠

  • “Museums are a gateway drug” - Cody

    Museums are typically a place of history, but museums have their own histories, which are also tied to cultural histories of imperialism, colonialism, capitalist exploitation, and white supremacy. How should museums care for our past, present, and futures?

    We talk about The Met, Cultural Resource Management archaeology and construction, and The Witness Blanket.

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    Sources

    Should museums return their colonial artefacts?

    Tristram Hunt

    A look into the Met museum’s collection reveals heaps of shady acquisitions

    Miyo McGinn

    ‘The stuff was illegally dug up’: New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practices

    Spencer Woodman, Malia Politzer, Delphine Reuter and Namrata Sharma

    Primitive Art in Civilized Places

    Sally Price

    Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West

    E Cram

    The Witness Blanket, an installation of residential school artifacts, makes Canadian legal history

    Marsha Lederman

    Culture and materialism

    Raymond Williams

    Decolonizing Ethnographic Documentation: A Critical History of the Early Museum Catalogs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

    Hannah Turner

    Geontologies

    Elizabeth Povinelli

  • Citation is reciprocity. Citation is legitimacy. And citations are the bricks that form the walls of academia.

    In conversation with special guest Dr. Jessica Falcone and drawing from the incisive critiques of Sara Ahmed, we discuss how writing culture in academia (specifically in the social sciences) encourages white, patriarchal practices and relations—citing white men. How can we be more reflexive and intentional with both writing and citational practices so as not to perpetuate hierarchies and exclusions?

    De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures and institutions participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation. Dr. Jessica Falcone is Professor of Anthropology at Kansas State University. She specializes in South Asian and religious studies as well as anthropology of diaspora, transnationalism, futurity/temporality, globalization, and material culture and gift exchange. More info about Jess Falcone: https://www.k-state.edu/sasw/anthropology/about_anthropology/people_anthropology/falcone.html

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    Sources

    The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn

    Ryan Cecil Jobson

    Rescuing All Our Futures: The Future of Future Studies

    Ziauddin Sardar

    Life Beside Itself

    Lisa Stevenson

    A Question of Justice: Critically Researching Suicide with Indigenous Studies of Affect, Biosociality, and Land-Based Relations

    Jeffery Ansloos and Shanna Peltier

    Anthropology of Anthropology? Further Reflections on Reflexivity

    Steven Sangren

    Decolonization is Not a Metaphor

    Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

    Meditation on Meditation: The Horizons of Meditative Thinking in Tibetan Monasticism and American Anthropology

    Jessica Marie Falcone

    https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mdia;c=mdia;c=mdiaarchive;idno=0522508.0018.113;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mdiag

    The Hau of Theory: The Kept-Gift of Theory Itself in American Anthropology

    https://www.academia.edu/38820912/The_Hau_of_Theory_The_Kept_Gift_of_Theory_Itself_in_American_Anthropology

    White Men

    Sarah Ahmed, FeministKillJoy blog post

    https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/11/04/white-men/

    Problems with Names

    Sarah Ahmed, FeministKillJoy blog post

    https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/04/25/problems-with-names/

  • We’re talking about Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill,” Netflix’s Stranger Things, and queer theorist Jack Halberstam’s concept of “the wild” and monstrosity. What more is there to say?

    Sources

    Testo Junkie

    Paul Preciado

    Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory

    Deborah M. Withers

    Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire

    Jack Halberstam

    What is Gothic Marxism? A Conversation with The LitCrit Guy

    Acid Horizon Podcast

    Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

    Jack Halberstam

    “Go Gaga: Anarchy, Chaos, and the Wild”

    Jack Halberstam

    https://musicaficionado.blog/2020/09/16/hounds-of-love-by-kate-bush/
    Hounds of Love, by Kate BushThe Music Aficionado