Thursday, July 2, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: the Internet’s role in gay marriage… “British government did spy on Amnesty International…

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It’s official: Same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states, and the tech world is overjoyed.
Supreme-courtFew technology companies needed to wait for the Supreme Court to approve gay marriage to put policies in place that are friendly to gay employees
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LONDON — Human rights group Amnesty International has been informed that it was being spied on by the UK government’s intelligence agency GCHQ

 

The Saudi Cables: Buying Silence: How the Saudi Foreign Ministry controls Arab media

The Saudi Cables: Buying Silence: How the Saudi Foreign Ministry controls Arab media

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Anthropology roundup: ” the 2015 Sapir Prize Entries

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Announcing the 2015 Sapir Prize Entries

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The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Beginning in 2012, the Sapir Prize has been awarded annually. The following 12 books have been submitted and are now being considered for the Edward Sapir Book Award. Winner(s) will be announced to the SLA membership at the SLA Business Meeting, held during the AAA Annual Meeting in Denver (November 18–22).

Committing Crimes during Fieldwork: Ethics, Ethnography, and “On The Run”

At this point the debate about Alice Goffman’s book On The Run looks something like this:

  1. Goffman writes a successful ethnography.
  2. Journalists are peeved that Goffman followed social science protocols and not journalistic ones.
  3. Journalist verify that Goffman’s book is accurate.
  4. Journalists remain peeved that Goffman followed social science protocols and not journalistic ones.

The Problem With Transgender Generality
Huffington Post
More important than a lesson in identities, Jenner’s announcement and the media frenzy that followed has provided an important diagnostic tool, a moment to pause and do what weanthropologists love to do: pull back from the tight focus on Jenner’s ..

Jeremy Boissevain, anthropologist who made Malta home, dies
MaltaToday
In a collection of essays, ‘Factions, Friends and Feasts:Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean’, Boissevain publically acknowledges that his 1965 prediction about Maltese festi was wrong-headed. His cautionary note to fellow

Food Studies at SOAS
SOAS Food Studies Chair, Professor Harry West

SOAS Food Studies Chair, Professor Harry West

Welcome to the inaugural post of SAFN’s new Food Anthropology Program series. We will feature an undergraduate or graduate food anthropology program in each post. If you would like to participate, or would like to nominate a food anthropology program for the series, please email the series coordinator, M. Ruth Dike.

Book: Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change – Yale News

Book: Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change

Prominent anthropologists join academic boycott of Israel – The Electronic Intifada (blog)

…ycott of IsraelThe Electronic Intifada (blog)The essays, all by figures eminent within the field of anthropology and archaeology, combine personal, political and philosophical reflection on why each of the writers believes an academic
Twitter Anthropology: Your Data&Mined 2016 Presidential Candidate Portraits – Fast Company
Fast CompanyTwitter Anthropology: Your Data&Mined 2016 Presidential Candidate PortraitsFast CompanyDigital-media firm Essence broke down the profiles of followers of 2016 presidential candidates. Here’s what they found

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Cengiz Aktar: Cezasızlığın meşruiyeti

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Cezasızlığın meşruiyeti

 

Burası bir hesapvermezlik diyarı mâlum. Hesapvermezlik, cezasızlık ve cürmün yanına kâr kalması memleketin genlerine işlemiş. Bu sefer büyük resmi sade kendileri görebilen sorumluluk sahibi zevat 17/25 Aralık 2013 soruşturmasını “net hata noksan” hanesine yazmak üzere kolları sıvamış görünüyor. Adına rövanş dedikleri hesaplaşma olmasın, unutalım gitsin der gibiler. Gerekçeleri, seçmen 7 Haziran’da güya “öpüşüp koklaşın, barışın, bi hükümet kurun işte, millî huzuru tesis edin” demişmiş. Tayyip Erdoğan’ın son 5-6 yıldır gergef gibi gerdiği, hep infilâk etme raddesinde bir insan topluluğunun huzur arayışında olması gayet doğal. Ancak ne pahasına olursa olsun mu acaba? Huzura erişmenin yolu kamuya verilen zararı, hukuk sisteminde yapılan tahribatı, zedelenen toplum vicdanını görmezden gelmek mi? Yoksa o mumla aranıp da bulunamayan huzurun sebebi, bir türlü iflah olamamamızın nedeni tam da bu görmezden gelme ve dolayısıyla yapanın yanına kâr bırakma âdeti olmasın sakın? Ahlâksızlığın, pişkinliğin ve yüzsüzlüğün daima yüzleşmeye tercih edildiği, hatta bu davranışların birer kamusal hayat tarzı hâline geldiği bir diyar değil mi burası? 1915’den bu yana… Soykırım gibi devasa bir suçla yüzleşilemeyen, aksine suçun üstü utanmazca örtülen yerde yolsuzluğun lafı mı olur.

 

Bugünkü meşrulaştırma çabası toplumsal feryadın marazî bir okumasıdır. Demokrasinin de öyle. Türkiye gibi az gelişmiş ülkelerde demokrasi uzlaşma ve çatışmasızlık sistemi sanılır. Hasımlıkları unutalım, aklıselim sahibi olalım ve bu hedeflere ulaşmak için özellikle geçmişle hesaplaşmayalım. Çünkü belki kimse temiz değil…1915’ten itibaren sayarsak üst üste yığılan yüz yıllık bir hesaplaşamama tarihidir bu. Ve o ölçüde çürümenin tarihi. Yunanistan’la nüfus mübadelesi, Nesturî ayaklanması, namütenahi inkılâp dayatmaları, art arda Kürt isyanları, Anadolu’da Gayrimüslim ibadet ve eğitim kurumlarının kapatılması, Trakya-Çanakkale pogromları, Dersim Tertelesi, 6-7 Eylül pogromu, 27 Mayıs askerî darbesi, 1964 Rum sürgünü, 12 Mart askerî darbesi,  Kıbrıs’ın işgâli, 12 Eylül askerî darbesi, Kürdistan içsavaşı ve bunlara ilâveten daha nice hesabı verilmemiş ekonomik, sosyal, ekolojik cürüm… “Halkımızın sağduyusu” namına geçiştirilmiş, “net hata noksana” yazılmış dünyalar kadar ihlâl ve dünyalar kadar adalet beklentisi.

 

Sistemin nimetlerinden istifade etmek uğruna hukuku ayaklar altına alarak unutmak,  suçortaklığı demek olan uzlaşmalar aramak, sorunları ötelemekten ve onları biriktirmekten başka bir şey değildir. Bugün dönüp dolaşıp dayandığımız duvar yine bu “hukuksuzluğa meşruiyet kılıfı arama” duvarıdır. Ağlama ya da yüzleşme duvarı değil… Diğer tarafta gerçek bir demokraside maharet, doğal olarak siyasete taşınan ihtilafları azdırmamak, normalleşmelerine zemin hazırlamak, onları doğru yöneterek bunların çatışmaya ve kutuplaşmaya dönüşmesini engellemektedir. Bugünlerde işittiğimiz gibi istikrar adına bunları reddetmekte değil. Zira huzur arayışı, itidal ve üslupta sükûnet başka, illa ki uzlaşma başka.

 

CHP/MHP muhalefeti ve istikrar adına “unutalım gitsin” demeye getirenler ormana bakmaktan ağaçları göremez durumda. Siyasetçilerin devasa hukuksuzluk ağaçlarını göremiyor olmaları hesapvermezlik kültüründen, diğerlerinin istikrar, huzur, uzlaşma sevdası ise sakat bir demokrasi okumasından… Sonuç: ileriye bakmaktan önünü görmeyen bir siyaset ve sesini bir türlü duyuramayan bir toplum…

 

Bu yazı ilk olarak Taraf’ta yayınlandı. Yazarın izniyle burada da yayınlanıyor. 

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Libgen.in seems to have gone, alternatives exist or will emerge…

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Most of the top academic articles are published in journals that can only be accessed legally through expensive paywalls….

Some alternatives or mirrors: 

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
http://bookfi.org/
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http://bookzz.org/

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Eurosphere agenda: As Greece misses IMF payment deadline, Thousands join crowdfunding campaign to fund bailout…

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independent.co.uk – Jun 30 – Thousands of people have contributed to a crowdfunding campaign to fund the Greek bailout. The campaign, which was started by Thom Feeney, promises contributors rewards such as a ‘Postcard of Alex (sic) Tsipras’, ‘Greek Feta and Olive
Greece misses IMF payment deadline
Greece misses a deadline for a €1.5bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund, as eurozone ministers refuse to extend its bailout.
The best Internet memes about Greece‘s financial meltdown
European Union leaders may be struggling to reach an agreement that prevents Greece from having a total financial implosion that could unsettle other markets But don’t worry, the Internet, as always, has a solution: crowdfunding. Thom Feeney, an enterprising individual from the UK, launched a crowdfunding campaign called the Greek Bailout Fund on Indiegogo this weekend. “Decided to solve the Greek Debt Crisis via crowdfund,” Feeney boldly declared in a tweet for

Greece’s last-minute overtures to international creditors for financial aid yesterday (30 June) were not enough to save it from becoming the first developed economy to default on a loan with the International Monetary Fund. The situation remains so uncertain that even the Sunday referendum, on whether to accept the aid, hangs in doubt.

Greece to lose €16.3 billion at midnight

Assuming that there is no last-minute deal between Athens and its creditors,Greece will lose €16.3 billion of financing at midnight Washington time today (30 June), EU officials told the press in Brussels. As the chance of a last-minute deal to save Greece from default becomes ever more elusive, EU officials provided ample details about the stakes. Greece, which has received nearly €240 billion in two bailouts from the EU and International Monetary Fund since 2010, is set

The leader of the National Front participated in her first Conference of the Presidents of the European Parliament this Monday (29 June). The meeting was marked by a heated exchange between Marine Le Pen and Juncker. EurActiv France reports.

Phil England interviews Gunnar Grimsson and Robert Bjarnson of the Citizens Foundation, pioneers of an open-source software platform, Your Priorities, which allows citizens to develop ideas to improve their areas and take more control of public spending.

Why I will be voting YES in Sunday’s Greek referendum

I would vote yes as I do not want my objections to the way the crisis has been managed at home and in Brussels to be usurped by politicians that dream that they can give the Union a bloody nose by destroying the Eurozone.

Pro-government rally in Syntagma Square, February 2015.

In an unusual move that underlined frustration with the Greek government, the European Commission published on Sunday (28 June) what it said were the last proposals creditors made to Athens before Greece broke off funding talks. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will speak to the press today at noon.

 

Europe as a republic: the story of Europe in the twenty first century

We all are Europe! Europe is now almost completely integrated in terms of economic and monetary policy. European integration is thus yesterday’s word; tomorrow’s is European democracy. Deutsch. (8,907 words)

This text is an adopted version of my speech at the German fashion lifestyle & web community conference RE:PUBLICA, on May 6, 2015 in Berlin. The speech comes together with a series of images and charts and cannot be understood without. To get the spirit of the presentation in German, there is a YouTube video clip which isavailable here. 

Europe: a new version is available

We are outraged. We see Europe falling apart in front of our very eyes. Europe is in dire need of radical change in social, financial and energy policies and more. Join us.

 

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