This article suggests that although there is not much of an explicitly defined anthropology of
populism, anthropologists have nevertheless been working for many years on the things we …

This review examines precarity through two foci. First, I focus on related terms of the
lumpenproletariat and informal economy, each of which have left their mark on the notion of …

In this article I consider several emergent trends in anthropology since the 1980s against a
backdrop of the rise of neoliberalism as both an economic and a governmental formation. I …

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens
have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …

Theories and concepts for understanding the political logic of social movements' everyday
activities, particularly those which relate directly to political goals, have been increasingly …

October 15, 2011. When I exited the T-station in downtown Boston on the day of global
actions in support of# Occupy Wall Street and the burgeoning# Occupy Everywhere …

This introduction discusses the hope boom in anthropological studies, suggesting that it
reflects two converging developments: a sense of increasing unpredictability and crisis, and …

What are corporations, and to whom are they responsible? Anthropologist Marina Welker
draws on two years of research at Newmont Mining Corporation's Denver headquarters and …

Markets are artifacts of language—so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched
look at central banks and the people who run them. Working at the intersection of …

This review traces anthropological studies of humanitarianism starting in the late 1980s,
when humanitarianism began to take shape as a particular moral and political project …