G20 – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Review of 2018, Part 4 (October–December): Nationalism, Deglobalization, plus the US exit from Syria

OCTOBER Where US–Canada relations were concerned, as well as Trump’s trade strategy, NAFTA was the leading event opening the month of October. The US–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) On Monday, October 1st, came the striking news that at the last minute the US and Canada signed a new agreement which, together with Mexico, would replace NAFTA. While […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Ethnographies of Resistance Movements: Legible to the Authorities

About 739 posts ago, I published “Exposing the Network,” wherein I expressed my worries about making data on resistance movements and anarchist networks available to open source intelligence gathering by the authorities. The value of such research may be great for discussions internal to anthropology, but the data on which the discussions are based are […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

University of East London Shuts Down Alternative G20 Summit

Thanks to Lorenz Khazaleh at antropologi.info for alerting me to this news yesterday, “University Cancels Alternative G20 Summit – Academics Occupy University of East London.” (Also see Lorenz’s posts: “Financial crisis: Anthropologists lead mass demonstration against G20 summit,” and ” ‘Intolerant Universities’: Anthropology professor Chris Knight suspended over G20-activism.”) ••••••• ••••••• ••••••• ••••••• ••••••• The […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Anthropologist Under Attack: University of East London Punishes Chris Knight Over His Public Speech

Chris Knight The latest assault against the freedom of academics as public citizens in alleged “liberal democracies” comes from the U.K., in the form of the University of East London‘s decision to suspend Dr. Chris Knight, an anthropologist and member of the Radical Anthropology Group, over observations he made on BBC Radio 4 concerning the […]