Challenges of the 21st century
summaries
,Inhoud
Making sense of violence – Scheper-Hughes & Bourgois, 2004.............................................................6
Anthropology’s Heart of Darkness.....................................................................................................6
The modernity of Genocide – The Holocaust.....................................................................................6
The politics of communal violece.......................................................................................................6
What makes genocide possible?........................................................................................................6
Why do people kill?...........................................................................................................................7
The state Amok – Dirty wars..............................................................................................................7
Revolutionary violence......................................................................................................................7
Peacetimes crimes.............................................................................................................................7
Gendered viloence.............................................................................................................................8
Torture and modernity......................................................................................................................8
Ethnographic witnessing....................................................................................................................8
Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon, 1952......................................................................................8
Voorwoord 2008 editie – Ziouddin Sardar.........................................................................................8
Chapter 4 – The so called dependency complex of peoples..............................................................9
Hunger in the land of plenty – Eva van Roekel & Marjo de Theije.......................................................10
The disunity of finance – Bill Maurer...................................................................................................10
Poor people’s finance......................................................................................................................10
Faith and finance.............................................................................................................................11
Philantrophy or the State? Modern Feudalism................................................................................11
In plain sight....................................................................................................................................11
Debt, 1971- The beginning of something yet to be determined - Graeber..........................................11
Stone Age Economics – Sahlins............................................................................................................13
Seeing like a state – James Scott..........................................................................................................15
The creation of surnames................................................................................................................16
The Directive for a Standard, Official Language...............................................................................16
The centralization of traffic patterns...............................................................................................16
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................16
The crisis before the crisis: Violence and Urban Neoliberalization in Athens – Dimitris Dalakoglou,
2013.....................................................................................................................................................18
Growth and poverty.........................................................................................................................18
Urban (Re)Development..................................................................................................................18
Changing values...............................................................................................................................18
The virtues and sweepers of Athens................................................................................................19
, The revolt of december...................................................................................................................19
Crisis as intensified Violence............................................................................................................19
Crisis as a Generalized State of Exception........................................................................................20
The Right to the City – David Harvey, 2008.........................................................................................20
Urban revolutions............................................................................................................................20
Girding the Globe.............................................................................................................................21
Property and pacification.................................................................................................................21
Dispossessions.................................................................................................................................21
Formulating demands......................................................................................................................22
What should an anthropology of algorithms do? – Seaver, 2018........................................................22
Algorithmic drama...........................................................................................................................22
Against the analog slot....................................................................................................................23
When things strike back: a possible contribution of ‘science studies’ to the social sciences – Latour,
2000.....................................................................................................................................................24
Culture on the Ground – Ingold, 2004.................................................................................................25
Introduction: On the rise of head over heels...................................................................................25
Boots and Shoes..............................................................................................................................26
Leaving the ground..........................................................................................................................26
Walking the Streets..........................................................................................................................27
Environment, Technology, Landscape.............................................................................................27
Conclusion: on the evolution of human anatomy............................................................................28
Anthropocene anthropology: Reconceptualizing contemporary global change – Amelia Moore, 2015
.............................................................................................................................................................29
The Anthropocene idea...................................................................................................................29
Anthropology and Global Change....................................................................................................30
Anthropocene anthropology...........................................................................................................30
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................31
‘Eating Mountains’ and ‘Eating Eachother’: Disjunctive modernization, infrastructural imaginaries
and crisis in Greece – Dalakoglou & Kallianos, 2018............................................................................31
Consenting infrastructures..............................................................................................................32
Scandalizing infrastructures.............................................................................................................32
Contesting infrastructures...............................................................................................................33
‘One eats the other’: Rethinking Athens..........................................................................................34
Conclusion: ‘eating mountains’........................................................................................................34
Anthropological contributions to the study of climate: past, present, future.....................................35
Planetary imageries: the climate of enlightenment.........................................................................35
, Environment, race and culture: 19th century perceptions..............................................................36
Cultural holism and climate: the modernist moment......................................................................36
Ethnographies of global connection: climates of friction.................................................................37
Conclusion: A watershed in athropology?.......................................................................................38
The ethnography of resistance then and now: On thickness and activist engagement in the Twenty-
First century – Urla & Helepololei, 2014..............................................................................................38
The ethnography of resistance: take one........................................................................................38
The pursuit of thickness...................................................................................................................39
(Activist)#Ethnography of Resistance: take two..............................................................................40
Fieldwork Dilemmas: When “informants” resis thick description....................................................40
Paths of thick resistance..................................................................................................................41
Conclusie..........................................................................................................................................41
The Primacy of the Ethical, Propositions for a militant anthropology – Scheper-Hughes, 1995..........42
Framing the issue and calling the bluff............................................................................................42
Anthropologists and Companheira..................................................................................................42
Who’s the killer?..............................................................................................................................42
Waiting: the anthropologist as spectator........................................................................................43
Moral accountability and anthropology in extreme situations........................................................43
The politics of representation..........................................................................................................43
Anthropology without borders: the postmodern critique...............................................................44
The primacy of the ethical...............................................................................................................44
Witnessing: toward a barefoot anthropology..................................................................................44
Comments.......................................................................................................................................45
Vincent Crapanzano.....................................................................................................................45
Jonathan Friedman......................................................................................................................45
Marvin Harris...............................................................................................................................45
Adam Kuper.................................................................................................................................45
Tim O’Meara................................................................................................................................46
Aiwha Ong....................................................................................................................................46
Paul Rabinow...............................................................................................................................47
Reply................................................................................................................................................47
Nancy Scheper-Hughes................................................................................................................47
The art of not being governed, Chapter 4: Civilization and the unruly – James Scott, 2009................47
Valley states, highland peoples: dark twins.....................................................................................48
The economic need for barbarians..................................................................................................48
The invention of barbarians.............................................................................................................49
summaries
,Inhoud
Making sense of violence – Scheper-Hughes & Bourgois, 2004.............................................................6
Anthropology’s Heart of Darkness.....................................................................................................6
The modernity of Genocide – The Holocaust.....................................................................................6
The politics of communal violece.......................................................................................................6
What makes genocide possible?........................................................................................................6
Why do people kill?...........................................................................................................................7
The state Amok – Dirty wars..............................................................................................................7
Revolutionary violence......................................................................................................................7
Peacetimes crimes.............................................................................................................................7
Gendered viloence.............................................................................................................................8
Torture and modernity......................................................................................................................8
Ethnographic witnessing....................................................................................................................8
Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon, 1952......................................................................................8
Voorwoord 2008 editie – Ziouddin Sardar.........................................................................................8
Chapter 4 – The so called dependency complex of peoples..............................................................9
Hunger in the land of plenty – Eva van Roekel & Marjo de Theije.......................................................10
The disunity of finance – Bill Maurer...................................................................................................10
Poor people’s finance......................................................................................................................10
Faith and finance.............................................................................................................................11
Philantrophy or the State? Modern Feudalism................................................................................11
In plain sight....................................................................................................................................11
Debt, 1971- The beginning of something yet to be determined - Graeber..........................................11
Stone Age Economics – Sahlins............................................................................................................13
Seeing like a state – James Scott..........................................................................................................15
The creation of surnames................................................................................................................16
The Directive for a Standard, Official Language...............................................................................16
The centralization of traffic patterns...............................................................................................16
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................16
The crisis before the crisis: Violence and Urban Neoliberalization in Athens – Dimitris Dalakoglou,
2013.....................................................................................................................................................18
Growth and poverty.........................................................................................................................18
Urban (Re)Development..................................................................................................................18
Changing values...............................................................................................................................18
The virtues and sweepers of Athens................................................................................................19
, The revolt of december...................................................................................................................19
Crisis as intensified Violence............................................................................................................19
Crisis as a Generalized State of Exception........................................................................................20
The Right to the City – David Harvey, 2008.........................................................................................20
Urban revolutions............................................................................................................................20
Girding the Globe.............................................................................................................................21
Property and pacification.................................................................................................................21
Dispossessions.................................................................................................................................21
Formulating demands......................................................................................................................22
What should an anthropology of algorithms do? – Seaver, 2018........................................................22
Algorithmic drama...........................................................................................................................22
Against the analog slot....................................................................................................................23
When things strike back: a possible contribution of ‘science studies’ to the social sciences – Latour,
2000.....................................................................................................................................................24
Culture on the Ground – Ingold, 2004.................................................................................................25
Introduction: On the rise of head over heels...................................................................................25
Boots and Shoes..............................................................................................................................26
Leaving the ground..........................................................................................................................26
Walking the Streets..........................................................................................................................27
Environment, Technology, Landscape.............................................................................................27
Conclusion: on the evolution of human anatomy............................................................................28
Anthropocene anthropology: Reconceptualizing contemporary global change – Amelia Moore, 2015
.............................................................................................................................................................29
The Anthropocene idea...................................................................................................................29
Anthropology and Global Change....................................................................................................30
Anthropocene anthropology...........................................................................................................30
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................31
‘Eating Mountains’ and ‘Eating Eachother’: Disjunctive modernization, infrastructural imaginaries
and crisis in Greece – Dalakoglou & Kallianos, 2018............................................................................31
Consenting infrastructures..............................................................................................................32
Scandalizing infrastructures.............................................................................................................32
Contesting infrastructures...............................................................................................................33
‘One eats the other’: Rethinking Athens..........................................................................................34
Conclusion: ‘eating mountains’........................................................................................................34
Anthropological contributions to the study of climate: past, present, future.....................................35
Planetary imageries: the climate of enlightenment.........................................................................35
, Environment, race and culture: 19th century perceptions..............................................................36
Cultural holism and climate: the modernist moment......................................................................36
Ethnographies of global connection: climates of friction.................................................................37
Conclusion: A watershed in athropology?.......................................................................................38
The ethnography of resistance then and now: On thickness and activist engagement in the Twenty-
First century – Urla & Helepololei, 2014..............................................................................................38
The ethnography of resistance: take one........................................................................................38
The pursuit of thickness...................................................................................................................39
(Activist)#Ethnography of Resistance: take two..............................................................................40
Fieldwork Dilemmas: When “informants” resis thick description....................................................40
Paths of thick resistance..................................................................................................................41
Conclusie..........................................................................................................................................41
The Primacy of the Ethical, Propositions for a militant anthropology – Scheper-Hughes, 1995..........42
Framing the issue and calling the bluff............................................................................................42
Anthropologists and Companheira..................................................................................................42
Who’s the killer?..............................................................................................................................42
Waiting: the anthropologist as spectator........................................................................................43
Moral accountability and anthropology in extreme situations........................................................43
The politics of representation..........................................................................................................43
Anthropology without borders: the postmodern critique...............................................................44
The primacy of the ethical...............................................................................................................44
Witnessing: toward a barefoot anthropology..................................................................................44
Comments.......................................................................................................................................45
Vincent Crapanzano.....................................................................................................................45
Jonathan Friedman......................................................................................................................45
Marvin Harris...............................................................................................................................45
Adam Kuper.................................................................................................................................45
Tim O’Meara................................................................................................................................46
Aiwha Ong....................................................................................................................................46
Paul Rabinow...............................................................................................................................47
Reply................................................................................................................................................47
Nancy Scheper-Hughes................................................................................................................47
The art of not being governed, Chapter 4: Civilization and the unruly – James Scott, 2009................47
Valley states, highland peoples: dark twins.....................................................................................48
The economic need for barbarians..................................................................................................48
The invention of barbarians.............................................................................................................49
