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Becoming Fungal
Full text linkDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork and the work of Joanna Steinhardt, this paper explores the relationship between fungi and humans in the DIY mycology movement. While taking seriously the transformative potential of interspecies engagement, Hillenkamp analyses the community of the 2018 Radical Mycology Convergence with an eye towards forms of mutual relationality. Resisting oversimplified readings of anthropomorphism as unidirectional projection, the paper argues for the equal metamorphic potential of a ``"mycomorphism.
Projections
No full textReferring to the accompanying short film Projections, this piece interrogates meanings of “remediation”. The film is a compilation of short clips, music, and narrative working to create a multi-sensory experience to challenge the perceptions we have of ourselves and others in a media-centered view. Through the incorporation of theoretical anthropological texts, this piece touches on co-occurring capitalist and poetic remediation. The former creates an imagined depiction of what a product is, utilizing the screen to do so; the latter suggests a form of poetry is invented by using media.
 
The Drums of Winter (Uksuum Cauyai): An Analysis of Bakhtinian Dialogism and Intersubjectivity
Full text linkThis paper utilizes Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism and heteroglossia in order to argue that the makers of the film, The Drums of Winter, produce an ultimately monologic presentation of Yup’ik dance, despite their intentions to create a collaborative ethnographic film. Tang further argues that through their conversations with one another, the three Yup’ik community interlocutors featured in the film reframe and contest this monologic presentation of Yup’ik dance. In order to illuminate this further, Tang draws from Charles Briggs’ analysis of the interview setting as problematized by power relations and communicative hegemony
The Biopolitical State’s Seizure of Psychiatric Medicine
Full text linkIn this piece of first-person ethnography, Freda employs Foucault’s theories of medicalization and biopolitics to investigate how a psychiatric patient experiences the biopolitical state. Drawing on Lisa Stevenson’s work on “biopolitical regimes of anonymous care” and Arthur Kleinman’s studies of decision-making by medical professionals, Freda examines the limits and misalignments present in the practices of urgent care and psychiatry
Sex, Gender, and Violent Care: An Analysis of Intersexuality and Medical Treatment
No full textDrawing upon the theories of Lisa Stevenson, Pidgeon Pagonis, and Michel Foucault, this paper examines medical jurisdiction, understandings of sex and gender, intersex conditions, and the intersex liberation movement. Gomez-Lacayo demonstrates how these concepts relate to Foucault’s theory of biopolitics and Stevenson’s conception of care. By analyzing specific cases of sexual reassignment such as that of Herculine Barbin, the author argues that treatment of intersex conditions often constitutes a violent form of care made possible through increasing medical intervention and jurisdiction. Gomez-Lacayo further analyzes medicine as a vehicle for the expression and recreation of cultural and social pluralities
Bare Life at the Border: The Complexities of Power, Violence, and Resistance in Nogales, Sonora
Full text linkIn this paper, Maskarinec examines the U.S.-Mexico border fence as a site where sovereign power is produced and maintained by the spectacle of cross-border violence. By examining the 2012 shooting of sixteen-year-old Jose Rodriguez by border agents, and the competing narratives of the event produced by politicians, artists, protestors, and Rodriguez’s family members, Markarinec urges us to rethink Agamben’s conceptualization of “bare life” in light of the ever-present complexities of power, resistance, and contestation that disappear when we take for granted “the self-reifying myth of the sovereign state”.2017 Undergraduate Honorable Mention for the Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropolog
Pollution and Purity along the Ganga River
Full text linkThis paper contrasts how religious practitioners in Varanasi and the Indian state rely on the categories of pollution and purity to make claims about the proper relationships and responsibilities between humans and the river. These divergent claims have led to conflict between the state and those who use the river water in religious practices. Marten utilizes two strands of anthropological theory to analyze these conflicts: ontological critiques of the nature/culture divide, and theorizations of the connections between the supposedly separate realms of the religious and the secular
Alternative Globalities in Mexico City: The Santa Fe Megaproject versus the “Rescue” of Downtown
Full text linkThrough a comparison of two neighborhoods in Mexico City, Hayman analyzes the variegated nature of processes often labeled as "globalization," "development," or "modernization." Despite the common ideological assumption of a unified telos acting within the movements of so-called global capital, the methods, practices, and social effects of "development" take shape according to prior social configurations. The material and symbolic histories of space shape the subsequent methods of state and market actors intending to reconfigure the social world in line with global capital. Comparison of the neighborhoods of Santa Fe and downtown reveals a diverse array of "channels" and registers through which space is made global
Witnessing as Challenge to Bare Life
Full text linkThis paper utilizes Anna Tsing's theory of globalisms to analyze the protests surrounding the 2012 sales of land in the Colón Free Zone (CFZ) in Panama to import-export businesses. It contends that the act of witnessing protests such as the one that broke out in Colón provides a challenge to Agamben's theory of bare life
The Creation of Criminality in DACA and DAPA Beneficiaries
Full text linkThis paper analyzes how the 2012 Texas v. United States lawsuit filed against the implementation of DAPA/DACA 2.0 creates and reinforces the "criminality" of immigrant populations. It further shows that behind the plaintiff states' rhetoric of morality and economic impact, they stand to lose white hegemonic economic, cultural, and social standing