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Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Theory as Reproduction: Histories of Doing Feminist Anthropology in Australia(2025-05-06) Hegarty, Benjamin; Schuster, Caroline; Shakuto, ShioriThe relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at the American Anthropological Association, may be one indicator of the consolidation of the field. However, only a few decades earlier, significant political, institutional, and intellectual struggles were waged to make this possible. A relationship between feminism and anthropology was not a natural alliance but was forged through contested debates such as those over the universality of women’s oppression (Ortner 1972), the incompatibility of a relativism and feminism (Strathern 1988), and through the “sex wars” in the United States (Rubin 2011). Feminist anthropologists have also pioneered new possibilities for representation in the ethnographic genre (Visweswaran 1994). In this moment of intensifying attacks on feminist thought globally, on women’s and trans people’s reproductive rights and in universities, it is crucial for anthropology to reflect on feminist histories of the discipline and what they can tell us about reproducing knowledge in the present momentItem type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , The Future of Food is on Instagram: and no, you can't eat it(2020) Herrington, JessicaItem type: Publication , Access status: Open Access , Blue-sky thinking about pronunciation research and teaching(2026) Thomson, Ron; Derwing, Tracey; Cebrian, Juli; Crowther, Dustin; Darcy, Isabelle; Fouz-González, Jonás; Huensch, Amanda; Inceoglu, Solene; Jones, Johnathan; Kang, Okim; Karas, Michael; Levis, John; Martin, Ines; Mora, Joan-Carles; Nagle, Charlie; Uchihara, Takumi; Yates, Lynda; Zielinski, BethItem type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Anthropology of Disasters(2025-10-23) Schuster, Caroline; V, ChitraThe statement “there is nothing ‘natural’ about disasters” has achieved foundational status in disaster studies, as noted in Roberto E. Barrios’s 2017 Annual Review of Anthropology article, “What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom?” By re-embedding catastrophes in their social contexts, anthropologists throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century have asked, What constitutes a disaster? And what are the socio-environmental geographies that give rise to, and are shaped by, these events? This framing has allowed scholars to move away from the seeming “eventedness” of disasters, toward distinctively anthropological approaches that examine how catastrophes emerge from and reshape temporalities, technologies, political formations, economic systems, and human-environment relations. This article focuses primarily on the anthropology of disasters, while drawing from the broader interdisciplinary field of disaster studies. Following a view into important works that ground disaster’s multiplicities, the bibliography surveys the vulnerabilities framework. The vulnerabilities framework widened the aperture for social analysis to consider preexisting and enduring inequities that shape disaster outcomes. It gave rise to an important research agenda spotlighting what we might call “designed disasters,” where the conditions of possibility for catastrophe are engineered out of imperial, racial, and gendered projects of domination and violence. Drawing on biopolitical and postcolonial theories, this scholarship reveals how disasters are not aberrations, but rather predictable outcomes of systems designed to concentrate risk among marginalized populations while insulating others. While emphasizing ethnographic approaches, this article also highlights international scholarship that has been particularly influential within anthropological circles. This understanding of disasters as designed systems leads this article to consider ethnographic scholarship in the field of science and technology studies (STS) focused on disaster science itself. These projects, which have shaped our understanding of disasters over the last two decades, explore regimes of governance, projects of calculation, language/knowledge systems in fields such as engineering, disaster finance, and technopolitics. Many of these anthropologists would not classify themselves as disaster experts per se. However, their ethnographic research reveals how disasters are constituted through scale-making projects within wider planetary environments marked by ecological crisis, positioning anthropology of disaster at the forefront of disciplinary innovation. A social justice and applied agenda has remained central to the anthropology of disasters, including both early works exploring the social effects of catastrophes as well as contemporary research on disaster vulnerabilities. Building on this long tradition of contributing to applied research and policy around disaster risk management, the final section reviews public-facing work that communicates anthropology of disasters to wider publics beyond technocrats and policymakers. Most notably, this includes graphic ethnographies that leverage sequential art (i.e., comics) to interrogate the complex spatiotemporal dimensions of disasters in ways that make anthropological analysis accessible to broader publics.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Medicine and the making of a sexual body(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2016-01-01) Roberts, CeliaSex and sexuality are inextricably bound up with medicine in the West today. Sexual desires, sexual health, and sexual identities are both subjects for medical practice and objects of extensive scientific study. This is evident in multiple ways. As a discipline, medicine has developed a detailed language to describe and discuss sexual issues, and has established numerous professional journals and societies to support the scientific and medical study of sex. The medical knowledge produced in these journals and relevant textbooks and clinical guidelines understands some sexual behaviors and identities as illnesses and produces treatments to address these. These treatments, including pharmaceutical and behavioral interventions, are offered to patients presenting with sexual problems in general practitioners’ offices and specialized clinics. In public health campaigns around sexually transmitted diseases, members of the general population and specific targeted groups are given medical information and encouraged to change their sexual behaviors in order to protect their physical health. In all of these cases, particular versions of sex and sexuality are produced or performed in interactions amongst medical professionals, scientists, patients, and members of populations. Sex and sexuality, in other words, are not “natural” objects worked on or taken up by medicine, but are produced in these interactions in particular ways.