Photographs and video of a woman who took a pineapple for a walk on Ankara’s metro on Jan. 30 have gone viral on social media.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Gov’t downplays rating cuts by Fitch and Standard & Poor for Turkey’s economy…
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Positive or negative decisions by ratings agencies regarding the economy should not be taken too seriously, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said, calling for a smooth process following downgrades both by Fitch and Standard & Poor’s on the Turkish economy.
Revising its outlook for Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to negative from stable on January 27, rating agency Standart&Poor’s has now also downgraded the rating of four Turkish banks; İş Bank, Vakıflar Bank, Yapı ve Kredi Bank and Garanti Bank.
Ratings agency Fitch downgraded Turkey’s sovereign debt to “junk” late on Jan. 27, snuffing out its last remaining investment grade by underlining deepening concerns over the country’s political and security developments
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#Anthropology roundup: Actions taken by the AAA… “The Anthropology of Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration…
What follows is a list of actions and resources AAA has been developing in the wake of the 2016 national elections, an effort that began immediately upon our return from the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. We need your help to ensure our collective voice is heard and that we have the most up-to-date, accurate information.
Actions taken by the AAA
On November 30, 2016, AAA issued an important resolution rejecting hostilities that threaten personal and intellectual diversity, reaffirming commitment to free inquiry, urging members to stand in solidarity with those threatened or attacked, encouraging members to engage local organizations for positive ends, promising to work in cooperation with organizations on these issues, and committing to advocating for policies that uphold our core values.
Since then, AAA has:
- Called for the immediate reversal of the US President’s executive order banning immigrants (January 29, 2017)
- Denounced the move to advance the Dakota Access Pipeline (January 26, 2017)
- Issued a resolution against torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment (January 25, 2017)
- Announced AAA actions to protect academic freedom (January 23, 2017)
- Launched the AAA Rapid Response Network on Academic Freedom (January 23, 2017)
- Reaffirmed AAA commitment to academic freedom (January 5, 2017)
Resources available from the AAA
AAA is working with multiple organizations and individuals to make available reliable information and resources so that members can take action on the issues as they see fit. These resources include:
- #AnthroForward Post-Election Resources posted since December 15, 2016 and designed to receive new, updated information on the collective actions anthropologists can undertake and the resources available to anthropologists.
- Selected Information Resources Regarding January 27, 2017 Executive Order Banning Immigrants and Refugees (January 29, 2017)
- Information from the National Humanities Alliance (January 26 2017)
- List of actions anthropologists can take now (January 24, 2017)
- List of resources for museum advocacy (January 21, 2017)
- Steps to take to help preserve humanities funding (December 20, 2016)
What you can do
We need your help. Please:
- Keep informed of our efforts on the AAA Advocacy Page
- Check the AAA homepage daily for Trending news
- Follow AAA on Twitter (@AmericanAnthro) and Facebook. You can also follow @anthroprez and Executive Director Ed Liebow, @Liebow4.
- Contribute to #AnthroForward Post-Election Resources
Ever since the pioneering work of Mary Douglas on risk back in 1992, anthropologists have understood that there is a difference between what is actually dangerous and what people think is dangerous. Scientists can measure the probability of you being struck by a bolt of lightning or getting hit by a car. But our fears are not based on extensive scientific study, nor are they the results of our own idiosyncratic psychology. They are shaped by the culture we live in and the history we’ve collectively experienced. The sad thing, anthropologically, about Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration is that it does not make Americans safer, just makes some Americans feel safer. The tragic thing about the order is that forces others to suffer for the sake of our own false sense of security.
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A helpful set of media and digital anthropology resources for teaching and learning.
This is a selection of resourceson digital visual anthropology & digital ethnography, collected via the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Visual Anthropology Network’s & Media Anthropology Network’s mailing lists.
Digital Visual Anthropology
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science – Book Review
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The focus of Marc Flandreau’s Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science is to unearth and explore the links between the development of early circles of anthropologists and the use of science in British imperial
By: JC Salyer and Paige West
On January 20, over one thousand anthropologists came together to read Michel Foucault’s lecture eleven in “Society Must Be Defended.” What began as a simple blog post became a global showing of scholarly solidarity and transnational anthropological community building in the wake of the disastrous presidential election in the United States. Groups in sixteen countries convened to both read aloud and discuss Foucault’s analysis of biopower, racism, and the state. Some of these groups were based in university settings but many were not. We had readers in pubs, museums, living rooms, on a live radio broadcast, and in front of Trump Tower in New York City. After the events on January 20 people contacted us through e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter, to describe the sense of collective scholarly engagement that this event provided. Many said that the feeling of anthropological community in the face of this disastrous political change grounded them.
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#Cyberculture agenda: “#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app…
Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held strike over Trump’s ban on Muslim travellers.
The Trump administration’s immigration ban has prompted a fast response from two of the bigger names in the world of video games: Vlambeer and Playdots.
We all might agree that the web has become an open space for everyone to express his opinions, thoughts and experience without any borders or constraints. While this is incredibly powerful, it leads to some problems; one of them is an Information Overload where we have got an enormous amount of content out there but limited time and resources to process and make sense of it all.
Apple joins Amazon, Google and Facebook in AI research group
Apple published its first paper on AI last month and now the company is set to join five others in a newly-formed research group. The Partnership on AI announced today that Apple would become its sixth founding member, adding to a lineup that already.
Twitter is joining in the recent trend of tech companies disclosing FBI data requests after gag orders have lifted… and the news isn’t exactly comforting. The social network has revealed that two National Security Letters sent in 2015 and 2016 ask…
The President’s latest executive order could spell bad news for the tech industry that’s known for hiring overseas talents under a working visa. In fact, Google chief Sundar Pichai has just issued a memo to employees overseas, urging them to fly back…
President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” is causing fear and chaos among immigrants everywhere — even at Google.
Amnesty International has published a damning report on the organized networks of Mexican Twitter trolls and botmasters for hire who orchestrate massive harassment campaigns against investigative journalists, including death threats and misinformation/slander; they also hawk products and fake out Twitter’s trending topic algorithm, operating with relative impunity — thanks, in part, to Twitter’s underinvestment in Spanish-speaking anti-harassment staff.
But what kind of web are the newly connected finding when they come online? A glance at recent reports of privacy and data breaches across the Global South shows that it may be a web where the citizens of these countries do not enjoy as safe an online environment as their western counterparts.
Revolution Messaging’s White House Inc is a tool that connects your phone to the main switchboard of a random Trump property somewhere in the world, because “Until Trump steps away from his businesses for real, their property is no different from the Oval Office.”
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New photo from Facebook February 01, 2017 at 11:16AM
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Monday, February 1, 2016
“İstanbul’s alternative photography spots”… Istanbul news roundup…
Pierre Loti hill (Photo: Kürşat Bayhan)
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Today’s Zaman
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İstanbul’s alternative photography spots
Within the general panorama of Turkey, there’s little question that İstanbul occupies a special spot in people’s lenses. But the shots taken of İstanbul .
Metin Akdemir is a filmmaker based in Istanbul. In 2011 he made a short film about street vendors in the city. The film, “Ben Geldim Gidiyorum” (“I’ve Come and I’m Gone”), won several awards in Turkish and international film festivals, and we think it’s a very valuable piece of work that captures a side of Istanbul’s culture that is slowly disappearing. We caught up with Metin to talk about the film.
Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak: Istanbul, city of dreams and nightmares
In reality, there is no such thing as Istanbul. There are only Istanbuls – competing, clashing and somehow coexisting within the same congested space
Discovering a Family History in Istanbul
Professor Erdağ Göknar became a scholar of Middle Eastern and Turkish studies after tracing his own family history to Istanbul during World War I
11th German victim of Istanbul attack dies
Berlin (AFP) – An 11th German victim has died of her injuries from a suicide bombing this month in the heart of Istanbul blamed on the Islamic State
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New photo from Facebook February 01, 2016 at 03:28PM
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In case you missed- “Erdoğan transplants Turkey’s oldest olive tree for ‘green life expo’…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken part in a ceremony to replant the country’s oldest olive tree, which was uprooted after 945 years, at the site of a “green life expo” in Antalya
Mustafa Vehbi Koc, chairman of Turkey’s biggest group of companies, died[1] at a hospital in Istanbul on Thursday after a heart attack. He was 55. Koç Holding said in a statement that funeral prayers for Koç would be performed at Teşvikiye Mosque on Jan. 24 and that he would be laid to rest in the family grave at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
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Restoration of Narmanlı Inn has begun with heavy equipment entering the inn, Beyoğlu Urban Defense and Archeologists Association İstanbul Branch has submitted a petition of complaint to Protection Region Directorate.
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- Social fabric roundup: thousands of students placed in religious schools ‘against their will’
- EFD Rights Watch: Turkey now BANS Wikipedia Turkish entries on Vagina and Human Penis…
- Erdoğan ‘closely following’ judicial process against Gülen movement, shows off with Putin and Qatar leaders…
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Eurosphere agenda: In case you missed- “‘Hundreds’ of masked men rampage through Stockholm station beating up refugee children…
Hundreds of men were part of the mob, which marched through Stockholm’s main train station, reportedly targeted refugees via Aftonbladet
independent.co.uk – Jan 30, 5:14 AM
Hundreds of masked men marched through Stockholm’s main train station on Friday evening, reportedly beating up refugees and anyone who didn’t appear to be ethnically Swedish. Wearing all-black balaclavas and armbands, the men ‘gathered with the
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Davos chief Klaus Schwab
The annual Davos meeting, which opens today (20 January) in the Swiss Alps, will look into whether the forthcoming technological revolution can bring renewed prosperity in times of overwhelming challenge and mounting gloom
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela is the author of State-Building in Kosov
Angela Merkel, Germany’s conservative chancellor, has become the unlikely guardian of liberalism in Europe.
The Notara squat houses more than 100 refugees and migrants passing through Athens each night.
In the last two months, Poland has emerged as the latest European battleground in a contest between two models of democracy – liberal and illiberal. But while Poland is the largest EU country to embrace illiberalism, it is not the first, indicating a trend that must be combated.
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- Eurosphere agenda: Clashes before a possible Ukraine truce…
- Eurosphere agenda: “Row over Syria policy
- Eurosphere agenda: “Podemos mobilises the masses in Spain
- Eurosphere agenda: “Bosnia marks Srebrenica massacre anniversary…. “Athens presents new reform proposals
- Eurosphere agenda: “EU votes down net neutrality protection…
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