Check out Xavier Smalls' review of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada
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Check out Xavier Smalls' review of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football, by Tracie Canada
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Check out Avdhesh Kumar's review of The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office, by Ilana Gershon
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2. Christopher Lingelbach's review of Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia, by Marina Welker
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Check two recent book reviews by SAW (Post 1/2)
1. Proshant Chakraborty's review of The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism, by Jathan Sadowski
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Check out this book review in Exertions (SAWβs short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.
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If you are an undergraduate or graduate student looking to begin your academic publishing journey, a book review with Exertions is an excellent way to do this π
If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAWβs web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review.
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).
Experimental Times is a beautifully written and ambitious ethnography that captures the everyday aspirations and struggles of IT workers in Bengaluru while tracing the layered complexities of Indiaβs startup economy, from entrepreneurs to outsourced labor.
Moving across the Mexico/U.S. border and with Mexican hackers, Hector Beltranβs Code Work is a critical ethnography of how hacking functions not simply as a source of disruption, but as an affirmative entry point for those historically denied access to high technology.
Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize
Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.
Honorable Mention
Hemangini Guptaβs Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "Chinaβs Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
A bouquet of orange roses
Congratulations to the five early-career scholars of work who were awarded small grants by SAW for their research.
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Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025.
Please email your submissions to (lirani+wolf@ucsd.edu).
See the cfp below!
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Call for Submissions! We are delighted to invite submissions for the 2025 SAW Book Prize which will be awarded to a monograph with a publication date of 2023 or later.
Deadline is June 5, 2025.
We look forward to your submissions!
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We are excited to announce two grant opportunities for current grad students and post-PhD scholars who do not hold a tenure-track faculty position. The maximum amount across both grant programs is $6000. Apply by May 15, 2025. Link for more info.
The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to welcome Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Societyβs peer-reviewed journal!
Read more about our new editors here:
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SAW is delighted to announce the release of our December 2024 AWR special issue on Organizing Domestic Work: The Limits of Regulations in the Wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention, co-edited by Guest editors Alana Glaser and Cati Coe.
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New post up on the SAW Website Teaching Tools Section!
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Starting now til 5:45 Eastern at #aaa2023 Racialization and the Gig Economy with Shreya Subramani, Christien Tompkins, Maga Miranda, and Roxana Dobson with @gleemie.bsky.social and Sareeta Amrute as discussants: conferencedirect.zoom.us/j/8125565772...
βRevisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobsβ www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...
βAnthropologist David Graeberβs celebrated theory of βbullshit jobsβ continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd.β #AnthroSky #Anthropology #DavidGraeber
Inforgraphic displaying information about Making As Ethnogrphric Praxis panel at #AAATAMPA2024. The panel is occurring on WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20th from 4:15 PM-5:45 PM in TCC 120
Hi #anthrosky. Is anyone going to Tampa this week for #AAA2024? If you are, I'd love to see you at my panel: Making as Ethnographic Praxis. We'll be sharing papers on craft-making as ethnographic practice and are delighted to have Cristina Grasseni as our discussant.
Watch SAW online at #AAA2024:
βThe Promise and Perils of Evolving North American Temporary Labor Programs,β organized by Tristan Call and James Daria and scheduled for Saturday, November 23 from 12:45β2:15pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.
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Watch SAW sessions at #aaa2024 online:
βMaking as Ethnographic Praxis,β organized by Juliet Glazer and Jimil Ataman and scheduled for Wednesday, November 20 from 4:15β5:45pm Eastern Time, will be livestreamed on the SAW Facebook page.
Livestream: www.facebook.com/anthrowork/
Wednesday 11:45am-12:45pm Eastern, on zoom! Join our Society for the Anthropology of Work Business Meeting to hear about our resources, initiatives, and meet other anthropologists committed to broadening the study of work and labor. #aaa2024
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Hello, world! We are building the Society for the Anthropology of Work on this open, social network. Can we replace parts of our infrastructure, layer by layer, and end up with a different one aligned with our values? Let's see.
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