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Dear AAA: Sink or Swim?

August 31, 2012 by Eliza Jane Darling

This statement, written by Ryan Anderson, Jason Antrosio, Sarah Kendzior and myself, is a response to a post on the American Anthropological Association blog that discusses our recent writings about adjuncts, anthropology, and academia. We are gratified that the American Anthropological Association has taken note of our critical commentary on the vagaries of the academic […]

Less Than Zero Anthropology

August 21, 2012 by Eliza Jane Darling

“Sometimes,” remarked a wise colleague of mine many years ago, “It seems all I know how to do is critique.” We were postgraduate students, I in anthropology, she in sociology, but our paths crossed several times in the classes of a VFM whose task it was to bathe us in the critical light of dialectics. […]

Zero Anthropology Resumes Publishing

July 23, 2012 by Maximilian Forte

Zero Anthropology is actively publishing once again. This week we will be publishing essays and reports on "securitization" with reference to research funding for Canadian academics; race and security, the shootings in Colorado; and essays on Afghanistan.

The Big Society Bites Back

January 16, 2011 by Eliza Jane Darling

“Move along folks, you’re blocking a cash point.” This pithy synopsis of the neoliberal logic driving the policing of student protest was delivered unironically by one of London Met’s Finest to the milling crowd at a recent demonstration at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, whose inmates gazed down apprehensively from their glass cubicles […]

Welcome to Our Newest Blogger: Eliza Jane Darling

November 16, 2010 by Maximilian Forte

And then there were four. It is great to have Eliza Jane Darling join us at ZA, and she has started with her first essay dealing with the UK budget cuts, neoliberalism, the political economy of academia, and the transformation of higher education in Britain. As the days pass changes will be made to the […]

Deepwater Uni

November 14, 2010 by Eliza Jane Darling

The evangelical neoliberalism which erupted in the US House of Representatives in 2008 and spread like the mange to the UK House of Commons is coming soon to an English university near you. The free market rapture comes courtesy of a man so dreadfully incompetent he couldn’t even be trusted to run BP: Edmund John […]