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Contemporary art from Africa is branching out in radical ways

Published on January 23, 2005 by lorenz Posted in Africa, anthropology in the news, art, migration

Daily Telegraph

The biggest exhibition of contemporary African art ever held in Europe, Africa Remix (Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London) is a dizzying testimony to the variety of artistic expression throughout this vast continent – from Nigerian junk sculpture to Egyptian video installation, from South African sculptor Jane Alexander’s haunting animal-headed figures to the obsessive fantasy cities of Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez. Perhaps the biggest departure from previous showings is the fact that many of the artists don’t live or work in Africa. >> continue

Daily Telegraph

Student Conference on Forced Migration – Papers available online

Published on December 16, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, journal articles / papers, migration, Us and Them

SEEKING REFUGE, SEEKING RIGHTS, SEEKING A FUTURE 3rd Annual International Forced Migration Student Conference will take place 13-14 May 2005, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK) >> continue

Four of this year’s conference papers are available online

Liana Lewis (Nottingham Trent University):
“What is to be a Refugee (and) Child in the Island? How do Refugee Children experience their lives in the 21st Century England.”

Anastasia Dimitriadou (The Institute of Education, London):
“An exploration of refugees’ experiences as English language students in Further education colleges.”

Nida Bikmen (University of New York):
“Memories of homeland, residues of ethnic violence. How different discourses about the history of ethnic relations in Bosnia affect interethnic attitudes and contacts in exile.”

Alexander Betts (Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University):
“The International Relations of the ‘New’ Extra-Territorial Approaches to Refugee Protection: Explaining the Policy Initiatives of the UK Government and UNHCR.”

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SEEKING REFUGE, SEEKING RIGHTS, SEEKING A FUTURE 3rd Annual International Forced Migration Student Conference will take place 13-14 May 2005, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK) >> continue

Four of this year's conference papers are available online

Liana Lewis (Nottingham Trent University):
“What is…

Cultural complexity in Norway – Turning away from ethnicity as explanatory model

Published on December 3, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, Europe, interdisciplinary, migration, Us and Them

University of Oslo

Cultural complexity in the new Norway, represents a large commitment by the University of Oslo towards research on cultural diversity. This is the first time in the history of the University of Oslo that it is being worked cross-disciplinary to such an extent.

Through interdisciplinary cooperation, the research project will be able to present new perspectives on Norway as a multicultural society, project manager Professor in Social Anthropology Thomas Hylland Eriksen promised. It is not immigrants alone who will be studied; Norwegians will be studied, too. One will look at ways of being Norwegian, and relations between them. It is of great importance to focus on other identities than ethnic ones. >> continue

University of Oslo

Germans as Indians: Ethnographic images explore an unsettling cultural exchange

Published on November 12, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, art, Europe, indigenous people / minorities, migration, Native American, Us and Them

Boston Globe

Photographers Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, who have work up at the Bernard Toale Gallery, are anthropologists of a sort. They document explosions of one culture within another, which occur through migration, colonialism, but also through odder means, such as appropriation.

They’ve photographed a town in Washington that sells itself as Bavarian, with chalet-style architecture, signage in a Germanic font, and lederhosen worn during parades — even though the town has no historic ties to Germany. Their work examines the strange gaps and attractions between societies with a cool, deadpan eye.

That particular interest in German culture shows up in the pair’s exhibition at Toale, ”German Indians.” Certain people in Germany enjoy dressing up in traditional Native American garb. >> continue

Boston Globe

Forget suburbia, this is ethnourbia!

Published on November 12, 2004 by lorenz Posted in anthropology in the news, culture traditions, migration

space and culture has collected links to a newer phenomenon called “ethnourbia”, a term coined in the 1990s by geographer Wei Li:

“Suburbs are bland, right? They’re boring, monotonous, devoid of life and culture: homogeneous. Nope. Suburbia is becoming increasingly diverse. More and more middle-class immigrants are skipping traditional ethnic enclaves and heading straight for the boonies, where strip malls are now filled with ethnic businesses, bubble-tea parlours dot the landscape and schools fill up with kids from any number of different backgrounds. Forget suburbia; this is ethnoburbia.”

“Unlike traditional ethnic neighbourhoods, ethnoburbs are affluent and diverse, home to a wide variety of ethnic groups and income levels. Instead of diluting the ethnic presence, the rise of the ethnoburb has actually made ethnic minorities more visible.”

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space and culture has collected links to a newer phenomenon called "ethnourbia", a term coined in the 1990s by geographer Wei Li:

"Suburbs are bland, right? They’re boring, monotonous, devoid of life and culture: homogeneous. Nope. Suburbia is becoming increasingly diverse.…