Public anthropology engages a wide range of audiences beyond academia, and directly addresses pressing contemporary debates and issues of public concern. In this series compiled by Catherine Trundle, we showcase a range of public anthropologists and their work in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Announcing the 2016 SITES postgraduate student essay competition
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 20/05/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
With the constant pressure to do the ‘right’ thing. I have chosen to use this week's digest to explore the importance and validation of sometimes doing what is deemed to be ‘wrong’. Whether it be overly coddling the youth of today, defining a meaning, trial and error in the workplace or how you choose to present yourself to the world, the wrong can sometimes teach as many valuable and important lessons as the right.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 13/05/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Congratulations to Kākano Award recipients
Innovations and Funding Opportunities in Public Anthropology
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 6/05/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Community environmental action - Carrying our Future
Buddhism, Humanities, and Ethnographic Methods Conference, 29-30 April 2016, by Keziah Wallis
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 29/04/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Texas of the South? Economic Development, Petroleum and Environmental Conflict in New Zealand - Public Presentation by Dr Terrence Loomis
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 22/04/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
New Trajectories in the Study of Development Workshop, 24 May 2016
Ethical Review of Research Proposals
Interview with Dr Barbara Andersen, Social Anthropology, Massey University (Auckland)
On Wednesday 9 March 2016 Dr Barbara Andersen gave an ethnographically rich seminar titled "Gender, Infrastructure, and Health Care in Papua New Guinea" at Victoria University of Wellington. Harriet Lane-Tobin took the opportunity to interview Barbara, the newest permanent staff member in Social Anthropology at Massey University (Albany), about her research.
What’s Up in the World? - Weekly Digest 15/04/2016 Written by Harriet Lane-Tobin
Call for presentations: Social Movements, Resistance and Social Change III
The third Annual Conference and Social Change Forum is taking place at Victoria University of Wellington from 1-3 September 2016. This is an interdisciplinary conference that will be of interest to anthropologists working in the areas of democracy, citizenship, activism, social media, refugee narratives, climate change, food security, protest, poverty, inequality, and social justice. The call for presentations is now open.
