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Au Gamin De Paris: Undoing Civilization In A Paris Bar, Catherine Tebaldi
Au Gamin De Paris: Undoing Civilization In A Paris Bar, Catherine Tebaldi
CHESS Student Research Reports
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“Don’T Sell Your Neighbor” Class, Urban Politics, And Grassroots Mobilizations In Old Town Istanbul, Berra Topçu
“Don’T Sell Your Neighbor” Class, Urban Politics, And Grassroots Mobilizations In Old Town Istanbul, Berra Topçu
CHESS Student Research Reports
The city has become the site of global movements and class struggles in the past decade. Since the Gezi uprising in the summer of 2013 in Istanbul, grassroots movements are emerging from the space of the neighborhood and the megacity in response to failures of urban governance at the level of metropolitan and local municipalities. Based on a five-month ethnographic study in a central district of Istanbul, I use participant-observation, semi-structured interviews, and media and document analysis to explore what common ground can be found in the context of: 1) official city assemblies of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality; 2) activist-led …
Activism And Ethnography In The Basque Anti-Fracking Movement, Eleanor Finley
Activism And Ethnography In The Basque Anti-Fracking Movement, Eleanor Finley
CHESS Student Research Reports
With growing concerns in Europe over energy independence and sustainability, hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” has become a recent environmental controversy across Europe. While the wealthiest member states EU such as France and Germany have implemented bans or moratoriums, the pressure to drill concentrates on peripheral debt-burdened countries such as Ireland, Romania, and Spain. Starting in 2011, a globally-networked grassroots movement emerged in response to fracking exploratory permits across the Basque-Spanish border. In the spring and summer of 2015, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Gasteiz, in the Basque Country, just as it became a hub of transnational anti-fracking …
"Growing Together: Cross Pollinating Bio- And Community Food Politics At Czech Gardens”, Cary Speck
"Growing Together: Cross Pollinating Bio- And Community Food Politics At Czech Gardens”, Cary Speck
Presentations based on CHESS-sponsored Research
No abstract provided.
“Cheating History: Blocking A Difficult Past At The Royal Museum For Central Africa.”, Jenny Folsom
“Cheating History: Blocking A Difficult Past At The Royal Museum For Central Africa.”, Jenny Folsom
Presentations based on CHESS-sponsored Research
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Climate And Species Richness Predict The Phylogenetic Structure Of African Mammal Communities, Jason M. Kamilar, Lydia Beaudrot, Kaye E. Reed
Climate And Species Richness Predict The Phylogenetic Structure Of African Mammal Communities, Jason M. Kamilar, Lydia Beaudrot, Kaye E. Reed
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
We have little knowledge of how climatic variation (and by proxy, habitat variation) influences the phylogenetic structure of tropical communities. Here, we quantified the phylogenetic structure of mammal communities in Africa to investigate how community structure varies with respect to climate and species richness variation across the continent. In addition, we investigated how phylogenetic patterns vary across carnivores, primates, and ungulates. We predicted that climate would differentially affect the structure of communities from different clades due to between-clade biological variation. We examined 203 communities using two metrics, the net relatedness (NRI) and nearest taxon (NTI) indices. We used simultaneous autoregressive …
Fistful Of Tears”: Encounters With Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants And Italian Fast Fashion, Elizabeth L. Krause
Fistful Of Tears”: Encounters With Transnational Affect, Chinese Immigrants And Italian Fast Fashion, Elizabeth L. Krause
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
In the made in italy fast-fashion sector, the ultimate flexible workers are Chinese migrants, whose parenting practices include circulating children back to China. This paper draws on collaborative research in Prato, Italy, to grasp how Chinese families and individuals encounter the Italian state and negotiate the terms of transnational capitalism. The project innovates an encounter ethnography framework to guide research. This paper investigates the dialectic between economics and affect. Chinese immigrants’ desires to make money are situated in three structural encounters, each at a different level of scale: the Wenzhou regional model of economic development; a Central Italian small-firm environment …
Toward An Ecology Of Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Brabec, Elizabeth S. Chilton
Toward An Ecology Of Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Brabec, Elizabeth S. Chilton
Anthropology Department Faculty Publication Series
Around the globe, the impacts of climate change are increasing the risk of catastrophic events and the resulting loss of human life and communities. Until now, responses to these events and planning for future occurrences have focused on ecological and social impacts, to the almost total exclusion of the impacts on heritage. Cultural heritage includes archaeological sites, historic buildings, and artifacts, but—more importantly—it also includes the meanings, values, and contemporary social behavior associated with these tangible forms of heritage. Thus, place attachment, sense of place, and associated forms of intangible heritage are major societal factors that must be integrated into …