Poetic Movements

Because I love Sussex Uni and its minds, let's start with ME TOO ANTHROPOLOGY , by MA student Elizabeth Beckmann on Culture and Capitalism (the blog created by the Department of Social Anthropology at Sussex - a great initiative to look up every now and then). Balancing between silence and exposure, Elizabeth is discussing the time needed to move from one state to another and what can be Anthropology's and anthropologists'contribution to that, both in the field and in person. Turning to climate change, a topic that started occupying me daily ever since my own field was deluged a month ago , I much appreciated  Waiting for the tide to turn: Kiribati's fight for survival , Guardian's picture essay by Mike Bowers. Higher sea levels, floods, deserted villages, damaged crops, political priorities and an ominous horizon: climate refuge .  Further, discussing the immediate aftermath of a very recent - deadly - example of climate change, Professor John Sweene...

That was such an interesting week in terms of reading and publications (probably because I fell sick halfway through and got stuck home with my PC to keep me company!), so I decided to include in a short post all the articles I would recommend you to read.  IMAGINE A PUERTO RICO RECOVERY DESIGNED BY PUERTO RICANS , by Naomi Klein and Elizabeth Yeampierre on The Intercept. An insight into Puerto Ricans' historic chance to resist shock doctrine politics, aka privatisation of everything after a natural disaster has hit. Makes me think of my field... What connects rape in war, domestic violence and sexual harassment? Patriarchy , by Suzanne More on The Guardian. From Raqqa to Myanmar to the Balkans to the UK to the #MeToo campaign and the USA. Just read this one! From Macbeth to the Wicker Man: the dark heart of Scotland's witch hunting history , by Karin Goodwin on The Herald Scotland. Re-opening a different kind of (much underrated) crimes against women from the past. A n...