Anthropolitan

20/07/2023

📣 Check out the summer's latest Anthropolitan blog post:

🫧 Shaping Bubbles of Time: Crossing Temporalities through VHS, DVDs, and Gigabytes

⌲ by Damian Andres Sabatini (MA Material and Visual Culture)

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By Damian Andres Sabatini MA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 As a child who grew up during the 1990s and 2000s, I have witnessed the artificial operation that propels the rhetoric of renewal

06/07/2023

🌞 Enjoy the summer break with the latest Anthropolitan post:

The Wonderful Everyday: An Anthropological Investigation into IKEA Showrooms

⌲ by Jess Jones (MA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23)

To read on, follow the link below!

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By Jess Jones MA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 It is important to appreciate that IKEA are constructing consumers imagined lives through encouraging their engagement with the environment aro…

29/06/2023

📣 New Anthropolitan post is up!

⚗️ Toward a Happy Lab: Biology Neophytes’ Adaptation to Research Logic

⌲ by Qiyuan Liang (MSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology)

* Content notice: This article contains descriptions and images of animal dissection in a laboratory setting

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By Qiyuan Liang MSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology, 2022-23 When mice show up as living beings, we find it challenging to engage in the rational production of knowledge.

31/05/2023

📣 New Anthropolitan post is up!

👟 The Tale of the Travelling Sneaker: From Western Rejects to Nairobi’s Mtumba Hustle

⌲ by Gabriella Santini (PhD Anthropology)

"I met Esther, a bit by chance, as I was exploring Nairobi’s streets after a Kiswahili class. Esther is a 24-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur. She owns three shops at Adam’s Arcade—an outdoor market just north of Kibera, in Nairobi."

☕ To read the article in full, follow the link below!

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By Gabriella Santini PhD Anthropology My intrigue for the origin of these shoes grew each time I visited Esther. “Where do these shoes come from? How do they get to your shop?”

03/05/2023

📣 Launch of Anthropolitan special issue about the history of UCL Anthropology

🥂 We cordially invite you to a launch party for our new special anniversary edition: “Anth75+ - a departmental history since 1945”

When: 4pm, Thursday, 4th of May
Where: Student Common Room

🌳🏛️ All welcome!

28/04/2023

📣 The first Anthropolitan blog post of the summer term is up!

⌲ The Oxymoron of Sustainable Aviation: Do we really want green solutions? ✈️

– by Luna Kvarnstrøm Melgaard (Anthropology, Environment, and Development MSc)

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https://anthropolitan.org/2023/04/25/the-oxymoron-of-sustainable-aviation-do-we-really-want-green-solutions/

01/03/2023

📣 We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2022/23 edition of Anthropolitan magazine – a special issue on the theme of Race, Racism, and Decolonisation. A huge thanks to the editors and contributors for making this important and timely issue possible. Pick up a hard copy in the department, or read the online version via the link below!

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/news-and-events/anthropolitan

16/02/2023

Check out our latest blog post by PhD Anthropology student Gabriella Santini about the tale of the travelling sneaker! 👟

By Gabriella Santini PhD Anthropology My intrigue for the origin of these shoes grew each time I visited Esther. “Where do these shoes come from? How do they get to your shop?”

30/12/2022

https://anthropolitan.org/2022/12/16/cites-cop19-combatting-species-extinction-through-wildlife-trade-regulation/

By Sonia Dhanda PhD Anthropology In what often appears a divided world, it is remarkable to see worldviews entwine in the CoP bubble and dialogues come to a consensus.

02/12/2022

Check out the latest Anthropolitan blog post - 'Object Project', by Jihai Li (BSc Anthropology). To read on, follow the link below!

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By Jihai Li BSc Anthropology, 2021–24 An archaeology student, Alex, had asked her grandfather for ideas for her presentation on early 21st-century craftsmanship. She saw the tricycle through her AR…

04/11/2022

Check out the latest Anthropolitan blog post - on planetary boundaries, climate change, and the Anthropocene - by AED MSc student Sara Mahdi. To read on, follow the link below!

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By Sara Mahdi Anthropology, Environment, and Development MSc, 2022-23 As of 2022, six of the nine planetary boundaries have been crossed. Climate and biodiversity boundaries are core thresholds tha…

20/10/2022

Check out this week's Anthropolitan blog post - 'Discovering Wellbeing Traditions in the Czech Republic', by Josephine Platt (MSc Social Anthropology)

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By Josephine Platt MSc Social and Cultural Anthropology As my feet tingle and I snap selfies over the 20-minute treatment, I think about past fellow wellness seekers who likely found themselves in …

07/10/2022

Attention all! Check out the first blog post of the new academic year! 📝☕️

“On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine is impacting everyday lives, politics, and relationships”

Anonymous Panel Discussion On 6 June 2022, activists and researchers working in and from the former Soviet sphere met at UCL Anthropology to discuss ways in which Russia’s war on Ukraine is impacti…

23/06/2022

📷 Anthropolitan | Call for Photographs 2022

Attention all UCL Anthropology students and staff! We are delighted to announce a new Photography Initiative open to all members of the department – run by Anthropolitan in association with the Anti-Racisms Committee (ARC). Submit your photos for a chance to be exhibited in the department and featured on the Anthropolitan blog. Follow the link below for further details!

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https://anthropolitan.org/2022/06/22/anthropolitan-call-for-photographs-2022/

Dear students and staff, We are delighted to write with news of a new departmental photography initiative. We warmly invite submissions from all members of the department—students and staff alike. …

07/04/2022

Check out the last Anthropolitan blog post of the spring term:

'Quarandream With Me: The World After Covid' – by Pepe Weischer (BSc Anthropology) 📝☕️



https://anthropolitan.org/2022/03/03/quarandream-with-me-the-world-after-covid/

By Pepe Weischer BSc Anthropology The surreality of quarantining, day in day out in the same monotonous space, resembles that of a strange dream – a quarandream.

24/02/2022

📝 New Anthropolitan post is up! Check out 'Spiritual Aliens, DJ Shamans, and Us' – about experiences of liminality and communitas within the psytrance rave scene – by Izzy Davies (BSc Anthro) 👽

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To read on, follow the link in our bio, or this URL:

https://anthropolitan.org/2022/02/10/spiritual-aliens-dj-shamans-and-us-experiences-of-liminality-and-communitas-within-the-psytrance-rave/

By Izzy Davies BSc Anthropology The psytrance community ‘neo-tribe’ then, is characterised by shared utopian ideals of childlike playfulness, love for all, and egalitarianism.

19/11/2021

💡 End the week with the latest Anthropolitan blog post:

🌲 Reconceived Values and Debilitating Village Forest Councils in Himalayan India – by Sahib Singh (PhD Anthropology, 2nd year)

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📝 To read on, follow the link below:

https://anthropolitan.org/2021/11/19/reconceived-values-and-debilitating-village-forest-councils-in-himalayan-india/

By Sahib Singh PhD Anthropology The van panchayats (village forest councils) in Kumaon, Uttarakhand, created in 1931, are probably the oldest surviving examples of formal collaboration between comm…