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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

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User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

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There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. What is solidarity?

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

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As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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Anthropology against Behavioral Science

Anthropology News

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

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First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

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But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.